Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 12.02.26

Camavinga might be for sale this summer. He’s been poor for a while but I really think there’s a player there.

“One of the negative names of Real Madrid's season finale has been Eduardo Camavinga. The midfielder has gone through tough times in recent weeks, especially after the sending-off he suffered against Bayern Munich for a double yellow card. This is a confession made by the footballer himself during an interview with Canal+.

"It is a bad memory. I think it is an incident that I did not expect at all and that affected me, but it is part of a footballer's life," explains the midfielder. "I'm not lying to you, after that I disconnected from everything. I think we live better without social media. You see that football is ungrateful; you can have ten good games, you'll have one bad one, one mistake, and people will forget the ten good ones," he adds.

Additionally, during the interview, Camavinga also revealed how his teammates reacted in the dressing room: "They came directly to support me in the dressing room. They came to tell me it wasn't my fault, that it was a refereeing error. I took it as my own mistake. The next day, even the club sent me messages telling me it wasn't my fault."

Among the most understanding with the Whites' '6' was his compatriot Kylian Mbappé. "We didn't necessarily talk about it, but he was affected (by the criticism Camavinga received) because he saw me in the morning and gave me a big hug. We always hug, all the time. On Monday morning, Mbappé saw me and said: we are surviving. I felt he had empathy, he had experience."

Camavinga's errors against Mallorca, Girona, and Bayern Munich have placed him in a delicate position. His progression over the last few years has not been as expected, and there are even symptoms of regression. He has not started a match since April 10 and has only come on to play the final minutes of each game since then.

His lapses in concentration throughout matches have even positioned him as a possible sale this summer. As far as the footballer is concerned, his only idea is to stay at Real Madrid and fulfill his contract, which ends in June 2029.”

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Nobody batters them though, they drag teams into a muckfest and usually win these days

apparently there is £150m for the midfield rebuild - which is odd to me in that why ringfence x% of the budget to the midfield.

but just to look at 150m:

tonali 80m with 2 years left? or Tchoumeni for 80? 2 years left also.

fernandes maybe 40m if they get relegated.

ederson with 1 year left, or gomes should be available for the remaining 30m.

then there is also baleba, alex scott, stiller. lots of options available, though i'd avoid ederson and baleba, and camavinga.

the bulk needs to be on the cas replacement, not a mainoo upgrade imo - which apparently wharton has been profiled as.

extra funds with CL qualification assuming quarter final exit after playoff.

not included is replacement for tezos training kit sponsor expiring - worth 24m per year.

sleeve sponsor also expires in the summer - worth 20m per year.

carrington naming rights - AON was worth 15m per year.

players salary increase will dig into this also.