Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 26.09.24

If no striker incoming, praying that Hojlund's form turns around with a lot more creativity now in behind, with Cunha/Bruno/Mbuemo. Such a massive upgrade

Ben Jacobs reporting that United consider this the final offer, open to tweaking terms but no increase in value.

They also want it done and dusted in time for Mbeumo to travel to the US on Tuesday.

Jacobs also said that Mbeumo has again told Brentford that he wants it sorted. How strongly that was worded is anyone's guess, as is how much weight it would carry.

Hopefully they don't try and drag it out until they sort out his replacement.

Yeah but they didn't want to meet his release clause in full and now that's passed Ipswich could drag out that transfer. I don't think it should given we're offering over £60M fixed fee. They've also confirmed new minority shareholder investment so hopefully now things speed along with that deal and we get a confirmation by the weekend.

Craig Norwood tweeted this, he's the club photographer and always does this when a signing is about to be announced.

He's no longer officially the club photographer, he's a freelance photographer these days but still seems to have excellent connections at OT.

Deal looks like it's done.

I stand corrected

Christ we've a few weeks before we confirm the signing, never mind giving him his number!

Brentford said from day one they wanted similar to Cunha which was a fixed fee of 62.5M. Believe our first bid was £45M fixed fee and then bid £55M fixed fee. Putting the tinfoil hat on it's like big Jim was wanting to save himself a few bob on not paying the wages 😂

With no European football you'd imagine it's going to be two players per position. If Mbeumo gets over the line Bruno plays in that midfield two and you've also got Casemiro, Ugarte, Collyer, and Mainoo that can play there.

Surely would mean no CM is going to come in. Yeah Mainoo can be a back up 10 but if we push for CF next you'd imagine Zirkzee would play more as a 10 if Hojlund is insisting on staying.

Would it be worth finding Collyer a loan? Get him some solid minutes as a starter to either come back a better player for us or maybe get some decent bids for him next summer.

Waiting to have the cash possibly? Money has just come in from the Alvaro to Madrid deal. They’ve spent a long time working out the deal, maybe intentionally to buy time. Mbuemo only wanting United meant they didn’t need to rush it - it will hopefully be done before the team fly out for the pre-season. What use would he have been if it was done a few months ago? A few extra days of training. I don’t think that’s enough for people (not you) to describe it as a ‘masterclass in how not to do transfers’.

Thats the budget gone the rest will be dependent on sales except for maybe a cheap GK.

We've made 15m from clauses I've no idea how that helps PSR and cash flow wise.

Isn't the Cunha deal spread over 3 years, so only 20mil spent this summer on that transfer? Or have i got that wrong

Vast majority of deals are spread over 3-4 years in terms of payments (no impact on psr which is spread over contract term (up to 5 years) regardless of payment terms). I’m sure Mbemo will be too, as will any outgoings.

Sometimes when hitting a buyout clause, selling team will say its only effective if paid upfront, but thats not the norm.

Well Cunha was spread over 3,we asked for 5 and were denied. Presumably we wanted a big spread for Mbeumo but that's probably one of the reasons it was such a hard negotiation.