If Rashy cant find his way in this team/formation this season, they need to ship him at the end. Great player in bursts for us, lots of good memories, thanks for the service. All the best.
As on famous Norwegian manager once said. Defenders and midfielders is the academy's jobb to get through to first team and mold. Goalscorers you get from other clubs.
There was a key sentence there from Joe that I thought sums it up right now
’Bruno and Marcus are the faces of Man United right now, Bruno was away for internationals and Marcus was free because he can’t get into the England squad right now’
This sums it up, Marcus is a huge part of the club wether you’re a fan of his or not but it’s a bad sign when someone who doesn’t even make their national squad is one of our biggest players, or supposed to be at least. Tough times at the club, been a rough couple of years and it ain’t getting fixed over night.
Modern sport is not supposed to be an every week/other week experience for the common man, that is just a fact. Is is a blow to traditional football culture but it is not a cultural shift caused by one single club.
They are competing with other types of live entertainment such as concerts, where the prices are even higher. The demand is there, a price hike will not change that fact.
I feel sorry for the local fans being the backbone of the fan culture around the club and I hope the leadership makes sure the local culture does not completely erode.
As an overseas fan I hope this change will help the club moving in the right direction competitively cause the fact is, in modern football, that a competitive club is a financially sustainable club.
Greed is absolutely destroying football. It could still be a tenner for a ticket if the greed wasn't sucking the life out of the game.
We turn over £140m (ish) for all match day revenue. You could cover half of that by not paying stupid transfer fees for average players and then paying them 200k+ every week.
It doesn't even have to negatively affect the team on the pitch. How much have they wasted just in the last 5 years?
Mount £60m - £250k+
Antony £90m - £200k+
Sancho £75m - £300k+
Van De Beek £40m - £120k+
Harry Maguire £80m - £180k+
Thats 1 signing for each season up until this one. (Looks like we might have a Zirkzee shaped bundle of 50s to cover this year).
Could anybody seriously argue that not making any of those signings would have made us any worse than we have been over that period?
So if match day revenue was £600m over the last 5 years(inflation and that), and I just saved us £345m just on transfer fees, then ive just cut the ticket prices in half without negatively affecting the squad.
Add the wages saved over that period,
Mount £13m x1 = £13m
Antony £10m x2 = £20m
Sancho £15m x3 = £45m
Van De Beek £6m x4 = £24m
Maguire £9m x5 = £45m
Thats another £147m saved, so we're heading towards £500m, just on 5 players who have either contributed nothing(mount, sancho, Donny), or could have easily had their roles filled for a third of what we paid (Antony and Maguire).
That doesn't take account of Casemiro and Rashford's huge wages, or the likes of Martial, jones and Shaw getting a half million a week between them to keep the medical staff on their toes, or leech owners draining 100s of millions.
So i don't believe them when they say they have to raise prices to be competitive. Its bullshit. Stop paying Barcelona level wages to Brighton level players and we could all go to the match for nowt.
The year that Moyes came, i remember working it out at the time on an old message board(remember those? Lol), and you could have cut the ticket prices in half for the cost of one whole Marouan Fellaini. Imagine how terrible that season would have been if we'd not done that deal! Moyes mightve really struggled to keep us competitive... 😐
Honest question, I’m ready to sell Rashford. But was his trip to US and Basketball game a sponsorship event? I did see him meeting Jalen Brunson after the game. Are they both sponsored by a brand that arranged it?
"Got his bling on" "with your entourage" good grief. It's Rashford, not Lil Wayne. Was he supposed to be a friendless hobo? British media is weird.
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If Rashy cant find his way in this team/formation this season, they need to ship him at the end. Great player in bursts for us, lots of good memories, thanks for the service. All the best.
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As on famous Norwegian manager once said. Defenders and midfielders is the academy's jobb to get through to first team and mold. Goalscorers you get from other clubs.
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There was a key sentence there from Joe that I thought sums it up right now
’Bruno and Marcus are the faces of Man United right now, Bruno was away for internationals and Marcus was free because he can’t get into the England squad right now’
This sums it up, Marcus is a huge part of the club wether you’re a fan of his or not but it’s a bad sign when someone who doesn’t even make their national squad is one of our biggest players, or supposed to be at least. Tough times at the club, been a rough couple of years and it ain’t getting fixed over night.
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Modern sport is not supposed to be an every week/other week experience for the common man, that is just a fact. Is is a blow to traditional football culture but it is not a cultural shift caused by one single club.
They are competing with other types of live entertainment such as concerts, where the prices are even higher. The demand is there, a price hike will not change that fact.
I feel sorry for the local fans being the backbone of the fan culture around the club and I hope the leadership makes sure the local culture does not completely erode.
As an overseas fan I hope this change will help the club moving in the right direction competitively cause the fact is, in modern football, that a competitive club is a financially sustainable club.
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Greed is absolutely destroying football. It could still be a tenner for a ticket if the greed wasn't sucking the life out of the game.
We turn over £140m (ish) for all match day revenue. You could cover half of that by not paying stupid transfer fees for average players and then paying them 200k+ every week.
It doesn't even have to negatively affect the team on the pitch. How much have they wasted just in the last 5 years?
Mount £60m - £250k+
Antony £90m - £200k+
Sancho £75m - £300k+
Van De Beek £40m - £120k+
Harry Maguire £80m - £180k+
Thats 1 signing for each season up until this one. (Looks like we might have a Zirkzee shaped bundle of 50s to cover this year).
Could anybody seriously argue that not making any of those signings would have made us any worse than we have been over that period?
So if match day revenue was £600m over the last 5 years(inflation and that), and I just saved us £345m just on transfer fees, then ive just cut the ticket prices in half without negatively affecting the squad.
Add the wages saved over that period,
Mount £13m x1 = £13m
Antony £10m x2 = £20m
Sancho £15m x3 = £45m
Van De Beek £6m x4 = £24m
Maguire £9m x5 = £45m
Thats another £147m saved, so we're heading towards £500m, just on 5 players who have either contributed nothing(mount, sancho, Donny), or could have easily had their roles filled for a third of what we paid (Antony and Maguire).
That doesn't take account of Casemiro and Rashford's huge wages, or the likes of Martial, jones and Shaw getting a half million a week between them to keep the medical staff on their toes, or leech owners draining 100s of millions.
So i don't believe them when they say they have to raise prices to be competitive. Its bullshit. Stop paying Barcelona level wages to Brighton level players and we could all go to the match for nowt.
The year that Moyes came, i remember working it out at the time on an old message board(remember those? Lol), and you could have cut the ticket prices in half for the cost of one whole Marouan Fellaini. Imagine how terrible that season would have been if we'd not done that deal! Moyes mightve really struggled to keep us competitive... 😐
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Why are you asking a journalist all these questions? They don’t have the answers!
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That's the issue with Rashford, he's NEVER been the player we want or hope he can be, it's another example of overhyping
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The amount of ads on this channel now is unbelievable
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Honest question, I’m ready to sell Rashford. But was his trip to US and Basketball game a sponsorship event? I did see him meeting Jalen Brunson after the game. Are they both sponsored by a brand that arranged it?
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"Got his bling on" "with your entourage" good grief. It's Rashford, not Lil Wayne. Was he supposed to be a friendless hobo? British media is weird.
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