15 G+A from 24 starts at CM is ridiculous figures. I don’t know how we’d replace that, plus everything else he delivers, on and off the pitch, for £100m.
Then there’s what it means in terms of recruitment and wider optics when you sell your captain and your best (by an absolute country mile, let’s not kid ourselves) player.
I think that if we are at the point where there are meetings taking place, we have likely already agreed the fee with them.
And we are selling our best player. We just have to hope that we invest the money in players that can make us better as a team.
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I think this is where it’s at too.
However I have no faith at all in the club that we will be able to replace him in any meaningful way.
More money wasted. Team and club are being run towards relegation and financial ruin.
comment by Diafol Coch 77 🏴 JA606 Class Act (U2462)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 5 minutes ago
For example if I were Gyokeres would I want to see my most probably source of supply leave?
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Not sure he will care when he’s at arsenal
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He's OT bound!
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he won’t be
I do think we should become less reliant on Bruno if the horrific amount of salary tied up in players who aren't even at the club was spent efficiently on quality about the pitch. It's always safer having quality throughout the squad than relying on a single talent. E.g. Arsenal don't have a single player who contributes as much attacking value as Bruno, but they're obviously galaxies ahead of us as a team. The issue is that £100m doesn't buy us Arsenal's squad.
I’d rather sell mainoo than Bruno if we could find someone insane enough to pay 100m, which is highly unlikely
Reminds if a struggling Southampton with le tissier. Reminds me of Ruud leaving. "Who will score for us?" If we need one player to keep us in the oren then we should be relegated. Many players lose Thier best players everyday. Make sure you go out and buy 4 of the best talents from that money and make sure one sticks. Cannot be relying on a player who has led us to regularly deteriorating football.
No way rat face is turning down 100 mill and 300k a week off the wages no matter what it does to the team.
Perhaps this will be Bruno's last, and greatest gift, to United.
Either be sold for a high sum or, by his actions even considering leaving, force the owners/board etc into doing something.
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 2 minutes ago
I’d rather sell mainoo than Bruno if we could find someone insane enough to pay 100m, which is highly unlikely
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This is psychotic. Literally no club with goals of success thinks like this. Players on Thier way down are sold to get some value.
*If* (massive) we can shift Garna, Rashford, Sancho and Antony for even half decent figures, with Eriksen, Lof and Malacia (a few quid there, too) going, along with getting all of their wages off the books, we shouldn’t *need* to sell Bruno given that collectively those players didn’t contribute all that much this season in terms of minutes on the pitch (Garna aside), and the fact that we’ll need a smaller squad next season.
Cunha, the right striker, a goalkeeper, a RWB and another CM option and we could be in pretty decent shape. We don’t need to spend hundreds of millions to do that.
comment by Redastomatoes- Feels very Moyesian...cleverson forever!If he is good enough he is ready! (U12026)
posted 2 minutes ago
Reminds if a struggling Southampton with le tissier. Reminds me of Ruud leaving. "Who will score for us?" If we need one player to keep us in the oren then we should be relegated. Many players lose Thier best players everyday. Make sure you go out and buy 4 of the best talents from that money and make sure one sticks. Cannot be relying on a player who has led us to regularly deteriorating football.
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When we sold Ruud, we had a squad full of quality players elsewhere, and a top manager capable of building a squad.
Now we have a squad that has, arguably, about 2 or three quality players in it (the best one people seem happy to sell).
We are owned by complete morons who have drained our club of all its money.
We are being managed by an amateur, who refuses to be tactically flexible, then falls out with all our players, and ends up wanting to sell them.
Not looking great really.
comment by Redastomatoes- Feels very Moyesian...cleverson forever!If he is good enough he is ready! (U12026)
posted 31 seconds ago
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 2 minutes ago
I’d rather sell mainoo than Bruno if we could find someone insane enough to pay 100m, which is highly unlikely
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This is psychotic. Literally no club with goals of success thinks like this. Players on Thier way down are sold to get some value.
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He may be 31 soon but he’s still been our best player consistently. No one is insane enough to pay 100m for mainoo anyway so it’s not likely to happen.
Tell Al Hilal that the player they really want is Casemiro, and we’ll let them have him for half the price.
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 53 seconds ago
*If* (massive) we can shift Garna, Rashford, Sancho and Antony for even half decent figures, with Eriksen, Lof and Malacia (a few quid there, too) going, along with getting all of their wages off the books, we shouldn’t *need* to sell Bruno given that collectively those players didn’t contribute all that much this season in terms of minutes on the pitch (Garna aside), and the fact that we’ll need a smaller squad next season.
Cunha, the right striker, a goalkeeper, a RWB and another CM option and we could be in pretty decent shape. We don’t need to spend hundreds of millions to do that.
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It's not a need. It's good business practice. We have not had that for a few years now. Our normal practise was to buy high and sell for peanuts. In fact we built our reputation on it and it led to us signing 30+ players from ibrahimovic to Ronaldo with an overwhelming sense of self overriding real need for team growth.
We need to start being run like a good English powerhouse, not pretending to be some galactico team.
comment by Redastomatoes- Feels very Moyesian...cleverson forever!If he is good enough he is ready! (U12026)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 53 seconds ago
*If* (massive) we can shift Garna, Rashford, Sancho and Antony for even half decent figures, with Eriksen, Lof and Malacia (a few quid there, too) going, along with getting all of their wages off the books, we shouldn’t *need* to sell Bruno given that collectively those players didn’t contribute all that much this season in terms of minutes on the pitch (Garna aside), and the fact that we’ll need a smaller squad next season.
Cunha, the right striker, a goalkeeper, a RWB and another CM option and we could be in pretty decent shape. We don’t need to spend hundreds of millions to do that.
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It's not a need. It's good business practice. We have not had that for a few years now. Our normal practise was to buy high and sell for peanuts. In fact we built our reputation on it and it led to us signing 30+ players from ibrahimovic to Ronaldo with an overwhelming sense of self overriding real need for team growth.
We need to start being run like a good English powerhouse, not pretending to be some galactico team.
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Liverpool have fought hard to keep Salah and VVD, and City have let De Bruyne's contract run down.
Sometimes doing whatever you need to do to keep your very best player is more important than worrying about cashing in when they're at peak value.
The squad shaping mistakes the club has made haven't been in failing to sell our best players. They have been in forking out the transfer funds we have had on the wrong players.
We are being managed by an amateur, who refuses to be tactically flexible, then falls out with all our players, and ends up wanting to sell them.
-------------------------------------------------------
Amorim has made a lot of tactical changes and experiments already at United. He won't compromise on his basic principles, and he hasn't changed having three at the back. Remember that the last guy we sacked came in with a defined system, but then realised he'd lose too many points in the short term while trying to teach the players, so he leant back into the strengths of the squad and as a result he couldn't raise our ceiling and he left the team in just as bad a place as Solskjaer-Rangnick had. Personally, the last thing I want is a manager who will get *this* squad to do what it finds easiest without finally teaching them to play modern, dominant football. I'm sick of 12 years of short-termism. Sick of the laziness of thinking there's a short cut to being good again. There isn't.
As for falling out with players, I don't think Amorim fell out with Rashford. He was ruthless about a player whose head clearly hadn't been in the right place for a year, who the Board viewed as a problematic case of high wages with poor output and a priority for shipping out, and who was obviously bad for the culture. As for Garnacho, he's another player who the Board signalled as long ago as January that they'd like to cash in on. He's evidently not been great for the culture of togetherness, but Amorim has waited until the last game of the season before swinging the axe.
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Redastomatoes- Feels very Moyesian...cleverson forever!If he is good enough he is ready! (U12026)
posted 31 seconds ago
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 2 minutes ago
I’d rather sell mainoo than Bruno if we could find someone insane enough to pay 100m, which is highly unlikely
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This is psychotic. Literally no club with goals of success thinks like this. Players on Thier way down are sold to get some value.
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He may be 31 soon but he’s still been our best player consistently. No one is insane enough to pay 100m for mainoo anyway so it’s not likely to happen.
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He's not the first 30 year old who drops the next year and you are wondering what happens. We are watching KDB leave City, saw Rooney drop literally months after leaving. Examples are too many. That's what happens, it's why you sell early because 2 to 3 years at best of "good in a bad team" performance won't save us. That last 2 seasons are clear examples.
We've got all we can from Bruno. Sadly we sacked the manager who got the best from him in Ole, these other managers sadly see him as who can save thier jobs rather play the type of football they want to play. We've been stuck with him and everyone is scared if losing him. That's not the United I know.
£100-120m Transfer fee plus 300k a week off the books is a deal we can't really afford to turn down.
Mbeumo being touted for £50m and Eze has a £68m release fee. There are options out there for us. I'm sure we won't be the only interested parties for some of these players though but Bruno and Garnacho leaving does give us plenty of cash to play with.
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Redastomatoes- Feels very Moyesian...cleverson forever!If he is good enough he is ready! (U12026)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 53 seconds ago
*If* (massive) we can shift Garna, Rashford, Sancho and Antony for even half decent figures, with Eriksen, Lof and Malacia (a few quid there, too) going, along with getting all of their wages off the books, we shouldn’t *need* to sell Bruno given that collectively those players didn’t contribute all that much this season in terms of minutes on the pitch (Garna aside), and the fact that we’ll need a smaller squad next season.
Cunha, the right striker, a goalkeeper, a RWB and another CM option and we could be in pretty decent shape. We don’t need to spend hundreds of millions to do that.
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It's not a need. It's good business practice. We have not had that for a few years now. Our normal practise was to buy high and sell for peanuts. In fact we built our reputation on it and it led to us signing 30+ players from ibrahimovic to Ronaldo with an overwhelming sense of self overriding real need for team growth.
We need to start being run like a good English powerhouse, not pretending to be some galactico team.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Liverpool have fought hard to keep Salah and VVD, and City have let De Bruyne's contract run down.
Sometimes doing whatever you need to do to keep your very best player is more important than worrying about cashing in when they're at peak value.
The squad shaping mistakes the club has made haven't been in failing to sell our best players. They have been in forking out the transfer funds we have had on the wrong players.
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When you have players capable of winning a title for you then you fight to keep them. The last time I thought it was remotely possible (it wasn't close) was with Ole 4 years ago? And Liverpool took real offers from team for Salah, he didn't really want to leave, just to get paid.
We cannot be fighting to be a mid team. The best we really can be next year is above average and if we do better than that it is most likely a fluke. Even if we had the finances we should not be letting Bruno's value drop for mediocrity sake. It's not good business. If we were close to a title maybe... Not struggling from relegation and trying to overhaul one of the mistakes in transfer history by a club in a decade.
Tomatoes would be more credible on Bruno if he had a modicum of consistency in his arguments. One week it's "never chooses the simple pass, no discipline, gives the ball away unbearably often". Next week it's "it's bad for a team to rely too much on one supreme talent". Now it's "he's been an amazing player but he's about to drop off the physical cliff edge". Everyone is allowed to irrationally hate someone, Tomatoes. I can't stand Kevin Costner, and I've never really understood why. It's OK to acknowledge this.
Can't believe there are still folk wanting to hang onto the past instead of making a tidy profit on a player the wrong side of 30 and trusting the manager to construct a new team. Not to mention head in the sand about the lure of filthy lucre to Bruno as he stares at his career coming to an end in the distant horizon.
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 2 minutes ago
Tomatoes would be more credible on Bruno if he had a modicum of consistency in his arguments. One week it's "never chooses the simple pass, no discipline, gives the ball away unbearably often". Next week it's "it's bad for a team to rely too much on one supreme talent". Now it's "he's been an amazing player but he's about to drop off the physical cliff edge". Everyone is allowed to irrationally hate someone, Tomatoes. I can't stand Kevin Costner, and I've never really understood why. It's OK to acknowledge this.
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I'm trying to win your argument because you guys cannot see him for who he is. I had this argument with Rooney only for 2 years later he was washed. Our legends blind us from realities we should accept. Players fade away. Holding on too tightly has helped no one and nothing in this world. Adapt and move on.
My stance holds on him, his style of play is not attractive to top managers. A player with his numbers who have been drawing a great team before he came to us and definitely now in our current situation. Only "top"club who adores him is us. I hate when we are the only ones who really want a player joining us. Not everyone is that blind.
More worried Amorim has picked Rasmus to start up front against Hong Kong, just why oh Why
Can’t wait for our relegation battle next season.
he did say catagorically not long ago that he would stay at United this summer to play for the club next season,
But of course, money talks.
He deserves a lot better. Hes a very good player too. Even though there are lots of United fans who cant see that.
Good luck to him. We have been lucky to have him, no matter what happens
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posted on 30/5/25
15 G+A from 24 starts at CM is ridiculous figures. I don’t know how we’d replace that, plus everything else he delivers, on and off the pitch, for £100m.
Then there’s what it means in terms of recruitment and wider optics when you sell your captain and your best (by an absolute country mile, let’s not kid ourselves) player.
posted on 30/5/25
I think that if we are at the point where there are meetings taking place, we have likely already agreed the fee with them.
And we are selling our best player. We just have to hope that we invest the money in players that can make us better as a team.
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I think this is where it’s at too.
However I have no faith at all in the club that we will be able to replace him in any meaningful way.
More money wasted. Team and club are being run towards relegation and financial ruin.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Diafol Coch 77 🏴 JA606 Class Act (U2462)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 5 minutes ago
For example if I were Gyokeres would I want to see my most probably source of supply leave?
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Not sure he will care when he’s at arsenal
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He's OT bound!
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he won’t be
posted on 30/5/25
I do think we should become less reliant on Bruno if the horrific amount of salary tied up in players who aren't even at the club was spent efficiently on quality about the pitch. It's always safer having quality throughout the squad than relying on a single talent. E.g. Arsenal don't have a single player who contributes as much attacking value as Bruno, but they're obviously galaxies ahead of us as a team. The issue is that £100m doesn't buy us Arsenal's squad.
posted on 30/5/25
I’d rather sell mainoo than Bruno if we could find someone insane enough to pay 100m, which is highly unlikely
posted on 30/5/25
Reminds if a struggling Southampton with le tissier. Reminds me of Ruud leaving. "Who will score for us?" If we need one player to keep us in the oren then we should be relegated. Many players lose Thier best players everyday. Make sure you go out and buy 4 of the best talents from that money and make sure one sticks. Cannot be relying on a player who has led us to regularly deteriorating football.
posted on 30/5/25
No way rat face is turning down 100 mill and 300k a week off the wages no matter what it does to the team.
posted on 30/5/25
Perhaps this will be Bruno's last, and greatest gift, to United.
Either be sold for a high sum or, by his actions even considering leaving, force the owners/board etc into doing something.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 2 minutes ago
I’d rather sell mainoo than Bruno if we could find someone insane enough to pay 100m, which is highly unlikely
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This is psychotic. Literally no club with goals of success thinks like this. Players on Thier way down are sold to get some value.
posted on 30/5/25
*If* (massive) we can shift Garna, Rashford, Sancho and Antony for even half decent figures, with Eriksen, Lof and Malacia (a few quid there, too) going, along with getting all of their wages off the books, we shouldn’t *need* to sell Bruno given that collectively those players didn’t contribute all that much this season in terms of minutes on the pitch (Garna aside), and the fact that we’ll need a smaller squad next season.
Cunha, the right striker, a goalkeeper, a RWB and another CM option and we could be in pretty decent shape. We don’t need to spend hundreds of millions to do that.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Redastomatoes- Feels very Moyesian...cleverson forever!If he is good enough he is ready! (U12026)
posted 2 minutes ago
Reminds if a struggling Southampton with le tissier. Reminds me of Ruud leaving. "Who will score for us?" If we need one player to keep us in the oren then we should be relegated. Many players lose Thier best players everyday. Make sure you go out and buy 4 of the best talents from that money and make sure one sticks. Cannot be relying on a player who has led us to regularly deteriorating football.
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When we sold Ruud, we had a squad full of quality players elsewhere, and a top manager capable of building a squad.
Now we have a squad that has, arguably, about 2 or three quality players in it (the best one people seem happy to sell).
We are owned by complete morons who have drained our club of all its money.
We are being managed by an amateur, who refuses to be tactically flexible, then falls out with all our players, and ends up wanting to sell them.
Not looking great really.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Redastomatoes- Feels very Moyesian...cleverson forever!If he is good enough he is ready! (U12026)
posted 31 seconds ago
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 2 minutes ago
I’d rather sell mainoo than Bruno if we could find someone insane enough to pay 100m, which is highly unlikely
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This is psychotic. Literally no club with goals of success thinks like this. Players on Thier way down are sold to get some value.
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He may be 31 soon but he’s still been our best player consistently. No one is insane enough to pay 100m for mainoo anyway so it’s not likely to happen.
posted on 30/5/25
Tell Al Hilal that the player they really want is Casemiro, and we’ll let them have him for half the price.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 53 seconds ago
*If* (massive) we can shift Garna, Rashford, Sancho and Antony for even half decent figures, with Eriksen, Lof and Malacia (a few quid there, too) going, along with getting all of their wages off the books, we shouldn’t *need* to sell Bruno given that collectively those players didn’t contribute all that much this season in terms of minutes on the pitch (Garna aside), and the fact that we’ll need a smaller squad next season.
Cunha, the right striker, a goalkeeper, a RWB and another CM option and we could be in pretty decent shape. We don’t need to spend hundreds of millions to do that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It's not a need. It's good business practice. We have not had that for a few years now. Our normal practise was to buy high and sell for peanuts. In fact we built our reputation on it and it led to us signing 30+ players from ibrahimovic to Ronaldo with an overwhelming sense of self overriding real need for team growth.
We need to start being run like a good English powerhouse, not pretending to be some galactico team.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Redastomatoes- Feels very Moyesian...cleverson forever!If he is good enough he is ready! (U12026)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 53 seconds ago
*If* (massive) we can shift Garna, Rashford, Sancho and Antony for even half decent figures, with Eriksen, Lof and Malacia (a few quid there, too) going, along with getting all of their wages off the books, we shouldn’t *need* to sell Bruno given that collectively those players didn’t contribute all that much this season in terms of minutes on the pitch (Garna aside), and the fact that we’ll need a smaller squad next season.
Cunha, the right striker, a goalkeeper, a RWB and another CM option and we could be in pretty decent shape. We don’t need to spend hundreds of millions to do that.
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It's not a need. It's good business practice. We have not had that for a few years now. Our normal practise was to buy high and sell for peanuts. In fact we built our reputation on it and it led to us signing 30+ players from ibrahimovic to Ronaldo with an overwhelming sense of self overriding real need for team growth.
We need to start being run like a good English powerhouse, not pretending to be some galactico team.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Liverpool have fought hard to keep Salah and VVD, and City have let De Bruyne's contract run down.
Sometimes doing whatever you need to do to keep your very best player is more important than worrying about cashing in when they're at peak value.
The squad shaping mistakes the club has made haven't been in failing to sell our best players. They have been in forking out the transfer funds we have had on the wrong players.
posted on 30/5/25
We are being managed by an amateur, who refuses to be tactically flexible, then falls out with all our players, and ends up wanting to sell them.
-------------------------------------------------------
Amorim has made a lot of tactical changes and experiments already at United. He won't compromise on his basic principles, and he hasn't changed having three at the back. Remember that the last guy we sacked came in with a defined system, but then realised he'd lose too many points in the short term while trying to teach the players, so he leant back into the strengths of the squad and as a result he couldn't raise our ceiling and he left the team in just as bad a place as Solskjaer-Rangnick had. Personally, the last thing I want is a manager who will get *this* squad to do what it finds easiest without finally teaching them to play modern, dominant football. I'm sick of 12 years of short-termism. Sick of the laziness of thinking there's a short cut to being good again. There isn't.
As for falling out with players, I don't think Amorim fell out with Rashford. He was ruthless about a player whose head clearly hadn't been in the right place for a year, who the Board viewed as a problematic case of high wages with poor output and a priority for shipping out, and who was obviously bad for the culture. As for Garnacho, he's another player who the Board signalled as long ago as January that they'd like to cash in on. He's evidently not been great for the culture of togetherness, but Amorim has waited until the last game of the season before swinging the axe.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Redastomatoes- Feels very Moyesian...cleverson forever!If he is good enough he is ready! (U12026)
posted 31 seconds ago
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 2 minutes ago
I’d rather sell mainoo than Bruno if we could find someone insane enough to pay 100m, which is highly unlikely
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This is psychotic. Literally no club with goals of success thinks like this. Players on Thier way down are sold to get some value.
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He may be 31 soon but he’s still been our best player consistently. No one is insane enough to pay 100m for mainoo anyway so it’s not likely to happen.
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He's not the first 30 year old who drops the next year and you are wondering what happens. We are watching KDB leave City, saw Rooney drop literally months after leaving. Examples are too many. That's what happens, it's why you sell early because 2 to 3 years at best of "good in a bad team" performance won't save us. That last 2 seasons are clear examples.
We've got all we can from Bruno. Sadly we sacked the manager who got the best from him in Ole, these other managers sadly see him as who can save thier jobs rather play the type of football they want to play. We've been stuck with him and everyone is scared if losing him. That's not the United I know.
posted on 30/5/25
£100-120m Transfer fee plus 300k a week off the books is a deal we can't really afford to turn down.
Mbeumo being touted for £50m and Eze has a £68m release fee. There are options out there for us. I'm sure we won't be the only interested parties for some of these players though but Bruno and Garnacho leaving does give us plenty of cash to play with.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Redastomatoes- Feels very Moyesian...cleverson forever!If he is good enough he is ready! (U12026)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 53 seconds ago
*If* (massive) we can shift Garna, Rashford, Sancho and Antony for even half decent figures, with Eriksen, Lof and Malacia (a few quid there, too) going, along with getting all of their wages off the books, we shouldn’t *need* to sell Bruno given that collectively those players didn’t contribute all that much this season in terms of minutes on the pitch (Garna aside), and the fact that we’ll need a smaller squad next season.
Cunha, the right striker, a goalkeeper, a RWB and another CM option and we could be in pretty decent shape. We don’t need to spend hundreds of millions to do that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It's not a need. It's good business practice. We have not had that for a few years now. Our normal practise was to buy high and sell for peanuts. In fact we built our reputation on it and it led to us signing 30+ players from ibrahimovic to Ronaldo with an overwhelming sense of self overriding real need for team growth.
We need to start being run like a good English powerhouse, not pretending to be some galactico team.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Liverpool have fought hard to keep Salah and VVD, and City have let De Bruyne's contract run down.
Sometimes doing whatever you need to do to keep your very best player is more important than worrying about cashing in when they're at peak value.
The squad shaping mistakes the club has made haven't been in failing to sell our best players. They have been in forking out the transfer funds we have had on the wrong players.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
When you have players capable of winning a title for you then you fight to keep them. The last time I thought it was remotely possible (it wasn't close) was with Ole 4 years ago? And Liverpool took real offers from team for Salah, he didn't really want to leave, just to get paid.
We cannot be fighting to be a mid team. The best we really can be next year is above average and if we do better than that it is most likely a fluke. Even if we had the finances we should not be letting Bruno's value drop for mediocrity sake. It's not good business. If we were close to a title maybe... Not struggling from relegation and trying to overhaul one of the mistakes in transfer history by a club in a decade.
posted on 30/5/25
Tomatoes would be more credible on Bruno if he had a modicum of consistency in his arguments. One week it's "never chooses the simple pass, no discipline, gives the ball away unbearably often". Next week it's "it's bad for a team to rely too much on one supreme talent". Now it's "he's been an amazing player but he's about to drop off the physical cliff edge". Everyone is allowed to irrationally hate someone, Tomatoes. I can't stand Kevin Costner, and I've never really understood why. It's OK to acknowledge this.
posted on 30/5/25
Can't believe there are still folk wanting to hang onto the past instead of making a tidy profit on a player the wrong side of 30 and trusting the manager to construct a new team. Not to mention head in the sand about the lure of filthy lucre to Bruno as he stares at his career coming to an end in the distant horizon.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 2 minutes ago
Tomatoes would be more credible on Bruno if he had a modicum of consistency in his arguments. One week it's "never chooses the simple pass, no discipline, gives the ball away unbearably often". Next week it's "it's bad for a team to rely too much on one supreme talent". Now it's "he's been an amazing player but he's about to drop off the physical cliff edge". Everyone is allowed to irrationally hate someone, Tomatoes. I can't stand Kevin Costner, and I've never really understood why. It's OK to acknowledge this.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm trying to win your argument because you guys cannot see him for who he is. I had this argument with Rooney only for 2 years later he was washed. Our legends blind us from realities we should accept. Players fade away. Holding on too tightly has helped no one and nothing in this world. Adapt and move on.
My stance holds on him, his style of play is not attractive to top managers. A player with his numbers who have been drawing a great team before he came to us and definitely now in our current situation. Only "top"club who adores him is us. I hate when we are the only ones who really want a player joining us. Not everyone is that blind.
posted on 30/5/25
More worried Amorim has picked Rasmus to start up front against Hong Kong, just why oh Why
posted on 30/5/25
Can’t wait for our relegation battle next season.
posted on 30/5/25
he did say catagorically not long ago that he would stay at United this summer to play for the club next season,
But of course, money talks.
He deserves a lot better. Hes a very good player too. Even though there are lots of United fans who cant see that.
Good luck to him. We have been lucky to have him, no matter what happens
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