The Day Ed Woodward stood up and declared to the world the Man Utd could do things in the transfer market other clubs could only dream of, is the day everything started going very wrong!
You've missed the biggest point. The high wages were all part of the strategy of overinflating the value of the club and its assets in order to favourably service the Glazer's debt
This video is probably one of your best videos EVER made at this channel, its actually depressing but also very informative of WHY United are the way they are, its no wonder we haven't been successful in last 10 years
The wage structure should be based on whether youd get the same wage elsewhere. We have players that wouldnt start for another "big 6" team but are on more than almost all their players. If you cant earn 150k elsewhere, you should be delighted with 175k at United... 200+ is insane.
The talk you guys are having about Casemiro is the exact conversation we had about Fabinho at the end of last season. The drop off just becomes massive, like you don't want to risk another year on them incase they are gone cause they just keep getting worse.
1) Choosing a manager every 2-3 years that is vastly different from the previous manager. A different system requires new players to play that system. The Glazers spend a lot of money but never go fully in on the system (not selling players from old system and not buying all the players needed for the new system).
2) Developing a culture of overpaying on transfer fees and salaries. Clubs know that Man Utd will pay silly money if they want a player enough. High wages also impact ability to sell if the player fails.
3) Decisions are sometimes made for reasons other than football. Ronaldo’s return shouldn’t have happened according to Solskjaer but City were in for him… Sanchez was not needed at the time but his stock was high at the time.
Glazers/Woodward broke the wage structure completely...as an hypothetical example, if we signed Sancho on £350k per week, in 3 or 4 years when we want him to sign a new deal, we have to offer to increase on that wage and there's no way we can expect him to say "yes" to a reduced wage...
Antony was on 20k per week at Ajax, now we're paying him £200k per week that he's done nothing so far to earn...
The ridiculous contracts United have been handing out for a long time now are yet another reason I don't want us to sign players for over 50 million transfer fees.
You can't justify giving an 80 million signing a normal 100K salary when other big signings are on double and triple that.
So only by signing 30/40 million players can we naturally reduce our wages.
We didn’t double Casemiros wage at all. They said on talk of the devils it was basically the same weekly wage, it was the length of contact that was the enticing part for case.
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The Day Ed Woodward stood up and declared to the world the Man Utd could do things in the transfer market other clubs could only dream of, is the day everything started going very wrong!
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You've missed the biggest point. The high wages were all part of the strategy of overinflating the value of the club and its assets in order to favourably service the Glazer's debt
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This video is probably one of your best videos EVER made at this channel, its actually depressing but also very informative of WHY United are the way they are, its no wonder we haven't been successful in last 10 years
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The wage structure should be based on whether youd get the same wage elsewhere. We have players that wouldnt start for another "big 6" team but are on more than almost all their players. If you cant earn 150k elsewhere, you should be delighted with 175k at United... 200+ is insane.
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The talk you guys are having about Casemiro is the exact conversation we had about Fabinho at the end of last season. The drop off just becomes massive, like you don't want to risk another year on them incase they are gone cause they just keep getting worse.
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It’s a lot of things but the main points are:
1) Choosing a manager every 2-3 years that is vastly different from the previous manager. A different system requires new players to play that system. The Glazers spend a lot of money but never go fully in on the system (not selling players from old system and not buying all the players needed for the new system).
2) Developing a culture of overpaying on transfer fees and salaries. Clubs know that Man Utd will pay silly money if they want a player enough. High wages also impact ability to sell if the player fails.
3) Decisions are sometimes made for reasons other than football. Ronaldo’s return shouldn’t have happened according to Solskjaer but City were in for him… Sanchez was not needed at the time but his stock was high at the time.
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Glazers/Woodward broke the wage structure completely...as an hypothetical example, if we signed Sancho on £350k per week, in 3 or 4 years when we want him to sign a new deal, we have to offer to increase on that wage and there's no way we can expect him to say "yes" to a reduced wage...
Antony was on 20k per week at Ajax, now we're paying him £200k per week that he's done nothing so far to earn...
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The ridiculous contracts United have been handing out for a long time now are yet another reason I don't want us to sign players for over 50 million transfer fees.
You can't justify giving an 80 million signing a normal 100K salary when other big signings are on double and triple that.
So only by signing 30/40 million players can we naturally reduce our wages.
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We didn’t double Casemiros wage at all. They said on talk of the devils it was basically the same weekly wage, it was the length of contact that was the enticing part for case.
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