Okay, we can be doing this all day.
- Ruben Amorim wanted Emi Martinez and Ollie Watkins. He insisted on them both but INEOS team in Christopher Vivell and Tony Coton both advocated for Benjamin Sesko and Senne Lammens respectively. That was all INEOS, not Ruben Amorim.
- Bryan Mbeumo. Brentford increased their initial price 3 times. And their final offer, they wanted £71M paid upfront but INEOS agreed £65M and spread the remaining fee in add ons. And I say this with full confidence that should Bryan Mbeumo not have said he wanted to join Manchester United desperately, INEOS would have walked away.
- Mateus Cunha. Should INEOS have waited till the start of the window before completion his signing, it would have been a mess.
- Remember Jarrad Branthwaite? Should I remind you what happened when we entered negotiation with Everton?
- Ruben Amorim called both Mbeumo and Cunha? Is he not the coach? Should he have waited until they are a done deal before presenting the project to them?
If you think last summer wasn't down to INEOS smart recruitment data strategy and negotiation, you can as well stick to hating Marcus Rashford.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe when the takeover was completed:
"Some players are not good enough, and some are probably overpaid".
"I would rather find the next Mbappé than spend a fortune trying to buy success."
"It’s not clever buying Mbappé. Anyone could figure that one out. More challenging is to find the next Mbappé, the next Bellingham or the next Roy Keane."
"Buying one superstar will not prove the answer."
Everyone applauded the man. They cheered that the days of been bullied in the window is so over. 2 years later, the so called fanbase who loved the project blueprint are now crying that the board refused to pay £85M and offer £250K to a player who would have been Kobbie Mainoo's understudy.
Just last season, we were all cheering that we did the right thing not bending to Everton's demand for Jarrad Branthwaite.
Like I said, y'all just enjoy the talk of a rebuild. You are never patient to oversee it.
£100m in transfer fees. Upwards of £90m (£93.6m) in base salary of £300k per week across six years, not including any kind of bonuses. That is an eye watering, staggering amount of money to pay.
Wage structure matters. Massively overpaying Alexis Sanchez in 2018 meant when David de Gea needed his extension, Jorge Mendes used this figure to justify De Gea's salary which also became an issue for the club.
Take away Tottenham transfer fees for Mateus Fernandes & Sandro Tonali & just consider the salaries. If you pay Fernandes & Tonali the amounts they took to join Spurs, what happens in the dressing room?
How do Matheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo & Benjamin Sesko respond? Harry Maguire who just took a pay cut or Lisandro Martinez who needs a new contract soon? All that work to fix the wage bill & structure blown up.
The dressing room culture has just been fixed & they're still working to get other bloated salaries out. You can't just have all the mistakes of this past decade only to instantly start making them again now.
Playing hard ball with West ham will not make other clubs reduce their player valuation when we approach them. It has zero effect on other club’s asking price especially when it’s a player multiple clubs fancy.
Just saying.
Tottenham hotspur didn’t over paid for Sandro Tonali.
Newcastle signed Tonali from Ac milian for £70m, so you expect them to sell him for £50m or what?
Manchester city signed Omar marmoush from Frankfurt for over £70 + add ons and he’s earning £290k per week as a back up striker.
Saying Tottenham hotspur overpaid for Tonali is stup!d, Brighton just signed an unknown player from Tottenham for over £50m, Chelsea also signed an unknown player from Italy for £50m.
Manchester United club record signing is Paul pogba since 2016, for £96m, and some clue!ess United fans will come to my comment section and say “United has been spending big on transfers before”
Arsenal, Manchester city, Chelsea and Liverpool has signed players that’s more expensive than pogba, but some Manchester United fans will turn financial experts and praise INEOS for not signing quality players because of the fees.