Mason Greenwood - AM R - Manchester United (1 Viewer)

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mjromeo81

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Aug 29, 2022
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I don't care what he did at Getafe under 0 expectations. Can he handle the pressure of playing for the biggest club in Italy?

What's his resell value if he shits the bed here? There's no market for this guy. Furthermore why should we take the risk, this isn't a free transfer?

Too many fucking decisions these days are based on analytics and "potential economic benefit" when a simple eye test and optics tell you this one is a hard NO.
 
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Bjerknes

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Mar 16, 2004
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Why can't we just keep Chiesa or Soule? I feel like these rumors are generated by EA Sports where clubs sell their best players and buy random tards because the game engine said so. Greenwood has way too many problems to be taken seriously.
 

s4tch

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Mar 23, 2015
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Why can't we just keep Chiesa or Soule?...
we need some plusvalenza. it has nothing to do with the quality of the players. (i'd also keep both of them.) it's just that the wage structure is unsustainable, we'll need to repay like 800m of debt, the losses are close to half a billion since covid, etc. so selling some players and replacing them with cheaper players of (hopefully) similar quality makes sense from sustainability pov

the next few years will hurt. we can laugh at inda and their finances, but ours are only slightly less worrying. and unlike suning, our owners didn't stop financing the club, those capital raises with a total value of 700m prove that. and it still wasn't enough.

tl;dr: aa's/tici's jj was a huge unsustainable mess
 

Bjerknes

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Mar 16, 2004
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we need some plusvalenza. it has nothing to do with the quality of the players. (i'd also keep both of them.) it's just that the wage structure is unsustainable, we'll need to repay like 800m of debt, the losses are close to half a billion since covid, etc. so selling some players and replacing them with cheaper players of (hopefully) similar quality makes sense from sustainability pov

the next few years will hurt. we can laugh at inda and their finances, but ours are only slightly less worrying. and unlike suning, our owners didn't stop financing the club, those capital raises with a total value of 700m prove that. and it still wasn't enough.

tl;dr: aa's/tici's jj was a huge unsustainable mess
I understand we need plusvalenza while also eliminating some of the stale wages, but it doesn't make sense to me to sell Chiesa for 30M and buy Sancho for 40M just to save 2M on wages. :boh:

If there are pure arbitrage opportunities like selling a player and replacing the player with someone on a bosman with equal ability and also reducing the wages, then sure, that makes a lot of sense. But I don't see it happening with names like Sancho.
 
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