If Ugarte is out for 12 months, Utd are due £5.78m in compensation from FIFA.
FIFA’s Club Protection Programme pays clubs the daily salary of injured players (after 28 days), capped at £120k/week.
Ugarte earns exactly £120k/week so they’d get the maximum compensation offered
I’m not even the biggest fan of Trent Alexander-Arnold. But to be behind Burn, Quansah and Chalobah is mad. To not have Luke Shaw as a backup at left back is also so odd when you’re starting a right back there.
Manchester United & Tottenham in an even race isn't a choice. You, I & everyone knows it. Jorge Mendes is doing what Jorge Mendes does. Every update causes temper tantrum turbo tweeting.. for some. It is a complex negotiation, taking patience & time.
If Tottenham were willing to offer crazy money for Mateus Fernandes & blow West Ham out of the water, if they were willing to offer him vastly inflated wages - at least by comparison, wouldn't the deal be done, if that's what the player wanted? Almost as if he doesn't.
sentiment is correct
but i do think people underestimate the value of social media in the modern game. if social media was what it is now, some corner of the internet would’ve heard of Vidic, Ronaldo, Solskjaer etc i think the days of signing some completely unknown gem are gone
1. He understands space so cuts passing lanes
2. Physicality is a skill he mastered
3. Always in the right positions to sweep up second balls
Yet because he doesn’t run around like a headless chicken he’s poor OOP. Englands only cultured midfielder amongst a bunch of handymen.
Neymar fee nobody has come anywhere near and that transfer is almost a decade old. Neymar is one of the best ever
Pogba was one of the best in the world at the time of purchase
Rice Caicedo Enzo is when it got real spooky