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

But there is an alternative he threw down the gauntlet to rashford and garnacho early on, one did an interview saying he wanted a new challenge the other was brought back into the first team and used until he lost the plot near the end and in the summer.

There is nothing to be done with garnacho now he was so far out of order he has to be moved on.

Hojund is hardly the first player who has a potential move coming up that has been removed from injury risk. He has been told the situation about game time but if he stays the manger will use him if needed or there is big improvement. Also hojund was used alternatively in preseason until a replacement came in, if we didn't get sesko he would probably be playing right now

The biggest thing the manager should be is consistent with ten hagg he went hard on some players like Ronaldo but then let rashford waltz around now pressing and start every game even though there was obviously issues with him a manager sending a mixed message like that is worse then anything

Which for a RB might be fine, for a RWB, nowhere close imo

Zero surprise that Sancho is dragging things out.

What's his salary? £225k/week after the 25% cut for no CL?

He will only get a max of £100k/week from most clubs if they have to pay a transfer fee to get him, so every week he delays moving is worth ~£125k to him.

He's not creating war with Højlund, don't be so melodramatic ffs. According to the latest Talk Of The Devils podast Højlund said he wants to stay. If you continue to pick him for squads then he just thinks there might be a way back, dropping him helps convince him and his agent to start looking elsewhere.

I was delighted we signed him and thought he could be immense for us.

Surely the best thing is to payoff his final year to him secretly in the hope he'll sign for Roma or Juventus this year.

From a purely financial perspective he's heavily incentivised to sit out this year on his big contract and land big signing on fee next summer. It's sad for all concerned really.

We can't really set the precedent for buying him out and releasing him now either or there'd be a queue out the door for that option with Rashford, Antony and Garnacho all delighted with that outcome.

What an absolute sh1t show we've been for so long. At leat the transition has started and things are being cleaned up but the fallout is massive and far reaching.

I've no idea where this talk of big signing on fee for Sancho as free agent is coming from.

Hes pricing himself out of moves to surprisingly big clubs who are banking on a player who has done nothing for 4-5 years. I doubt they'll be banging down his door as a free agent unless he has a magnificent season, which he isn't arsed having because he wants his United wage as a priority.

At least Lingard put in a shift at West Ham to mean he'd attract himself offers, Sancho won't even do that.

We would have been offering him some of that to cover his wages anyway. Genuinely believe he doesn't want United to get a penny of any transfer move this summer. That he wants to walk on a free.

He will get what they are offering to buy him for this summer essentially, it's naive to think otherwise.

Turkey, Saudi will always hold an interest. He still has admirers in Germany and Italy too.

He will be getting a big chunk next summer whether we like it or not!

If he turns down Juventus and Roma over wages do you think they'll be queing up next year to offer him big money if hes spends the next year playing on his xbox?

Can there be any question remaining that he's our worst signing ever?

The initial fee, the poor performance, the petulance and now the sheer greed preventing any kind of fee to mitigate the damage meaning that he'll milk us dry and then walk on a free.

Ten Hag may have made mistakes and I know he has few supporters around here anymore.

But he was 101% correct about this guy all along.

Mad take on Pogba. Similar fee to Sancho. Made the PFA team of the year in 2018-19. Europa League team of the year twice. A significant amount of man of the matches. 40 goals from midfield. He was uniteds best outfield player for long stretches of his time.

Doesn’t belong in the same breath as Sancho. Factoring in wages Sanchez and then general dislikeability Di Maria are the only ones in Sancho’s league.
For just outright worst footballer relative to fee it’s probably Hojlund, but his lowish wage spare him.

I think we'll see fewer penalties this season with referees increasingly unwilling to make decisions and VAR increasingly unwilling to interfere.