Besides which Willian is an untrustworthy oily little oik!Willan and Giroud, forget it. Too much in wages, Godin is 34 and never played in the prem, makes no sense at all.
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Besides which Willian is an untrustworthy oily little oik!Willan and Giroud, forget it. Too much in wages, Godin is 34 and never played in the prem, makes no sense at all.
Klopp has apparently been on the phone to M'bappe's dad. That's going to involve very big spending.So Man U are not going to be spending much either then and Woodward has said similar to Levy.
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Manchester United's summer spending may be limited, warns Ed Woodward
Ed Woodward says that spending hundreds of millions of pounds on a single player could ignore the financial impact of coronaviruswww.theguardian.com
It's a great achievement even if we didn't win. Success is not only measured by victories. Give the team and Poch the kudos they deserve. That was a huge struggle to get there and we probably only lost because Sissoko is an idiot and Mane is a cheat.All I can take from this is that the players are disappointed because they didn’t get a pay rise for finishing SECOND. Why would we award failure? It hardly sparks a mindset of success. That bothers me a hell of a lot more than players feeling undervalued as it shows the mindset of the player isn’t exactly one you’d want in your team. Players satisfied at finishing second. Triffic.
Did you not believe me? Google it.Pleat left Spurs for non footballing reasons. He was caught kerb crawling and cautioned by the Police and had to go.
Not sure of your point, he came back to the club (as I've already mentioned) and was caretaker manager for a while.Did you not believe me? Google it.
Pleat's employment as manager of Tottenham came to an end in October 1987 when he was dismissed due to disclosures about his private life. Newspaper revelations that Pleat had been cautioned by police three times for kerb-crawling created publicity that forced him to leave Spurs. Wikipedia.
That is what big clubs with aspirations of CL and EPL dominance do.Klopp has apparently been on the phone to M'bappe's dad. That's going to involve very big spending.
Alex Ferguson used to do the same or similar I think.That is what big clubs with aspirations of CL and EPL dominance do.
From memory he did reasonably well
Yes your right, our recruitment process is shite..have to agree with everything else you say tooYou're forgetting agents fees, signing on bonuses and signing on bonuses for new contracts signed by existing players.
@ 40m in sales is about right.
We have spent, despite Levy being a tight bald cunt who's only interested in profits.
Should we spend more? Of course we should, our team is desperately short in certain areas, but we can only spend in the TW and we can only spend the profits we make. Unless of course we want to go into debt.
It's our recruitment process that needs looking at.
Not only that, but his Dad got a phonecall too. 'Personal touch'.Levy now has no ambition because some bellend on twitter has said Liverpool are in for Mbappe and we aren’t. Fuck me.
The klopp factorNot only that, but his Dad got a phonecall too. 'Personal touch'.
My memory of those times isn't reliable. I was working 36 hour shifts and didn't have much free time. But I'm sure they were playing well under pleat and then Venables came in because he was a celebrity manager and that was that.
Not aimed at you but Spaniel who gave me a ha ha when I was being serious and certainly at the time was disappointed he was being sacked for non footballing reasons. Thought he did not believe it was true and was a joke.Not sure of your point, he came back to the club (as I've already mentioned) and was caretaker manager for a while.
He’s going to MadridKlopp has apparently been on the phone to M'bappe's dad. That's going to involve very big spending.
Well - he got the man they needed in Jan including a temporary striker replacement and we got some bargain-bin specials as usual instead of spending that money on single quality player in a key area - i.e. DMSo Man U are not going to be spending much either then and Woodward has said similar to Levy.
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Manchester United's summer spending may be limited, warns Ed Woodward
Ed Woodward says that spending hundreds of millions of pounds on a single player could ignore the financial impact of coronaviruswww.theguardian.com
Let me ask you this - would you rather spend 75m on 3 average players which would cost 50k in wages over 4 years plus agents fees etc, or spend that 75m on a single first-class player and 100k wages and one agent’s fee? Latter also works out cheaper in the long run.You're forgetting agents fees, signing on bonuses and signing on bonuses for new contracts signed by existing players.
@ 40m in sales is about right.
We have spent, despite Levy being a tight bald cunt who's only interested in profits.
Should we spend more? Of course we should, our team is desperately short in certain areas, but we can only spend in the TW and we can only spend the profits we make. Unless of course we want to go into debt.
It's our recruitment process that needs looking at.
I agree with you.Let me ask you this - would you rather spend 75m on 3 average players which would cost 50k in wages over 4 years plus agents fees etc, or spend that 75m on a single first-class player and 100k wages and one agent’s fee? Latter also works out cheaper in the long run.
For me it’s a no brainer and struggle to understand Levy’s ideas on this
Let me ask you this - would you rather spend 75m on 3 average players which would cost 50k in wages over 4 years plus agents fees etc, or spend that 75m on a single first-class player and 100k wages and one agent’s fee? Latter also works out cheaper in the long run.
For me it’s a no brainer and struggle to understand Levy’s ideas on this