Greenwood

[JoelfuckingGlazer]

Another factor in why we may have started slowly - City. Them winning the treble and us failing in our chance to stop it. I think the players do care, at least on some level. And perhaps more strikingly, they may sense/see that the gap is only widening. We're truly cemented as the poor relation now, and it could be their our footballing balls have shrunk. Maybe they realise that a continual battle for top 4 is as good as its going to get and they feel demotivated.

[Felwin]

I think the takeover - definitely. The players will know the Glazers are shit for the club. Everybody else does. Even Hag has more than hinted at it in press conferences.

Players want to win and play good football, and they'll see the historic mismanagement and incompetence that has plagued United for over a decade. They'll see the batshit signings, penny pinching and ill-fitting managers that have resulted in stagnant shitness for way too long.

And from a purely selfish perspective, they'll want Qatar so they get paid a shitload more. They'll see what City players are getting paid via bogus sponsors and undisclosed bank accounts, and want the same. Varane, Rashford etc have had Saudi clubs on the phone offering them 2/3m a week compared to 3/400k. That's the new standard and they'll want a bit of it.

Love/hate sometimes reading your posts, Sid. I think you're spot on but you remind me how fucking depressing the situation is. For all the green shoots we're seeing under Ten Hag, we're going to have two options in the near future. Take the blood money or become irrelevant.

Honestly the fact that I lean towards "becoming irrelevant" is depressing in itself.

[bman2]

With the outcome of the Greenwood situation now confirmed as a big financial hit to United in addition to the loss of one of our very few goal scorers, I think the likelihood of a sale moves closer again. Look how much the club is straining just to manage the signing of a midfielder rated at something like £30M (Amrabat) — and the signing might not even happen.

ETH did well last season, but there’s no denying the club has taken a step backwards again this summer. This is what the endgame looks like: United is now clearly unable to financially sustain a top four squad, and there doesn’t seem any ability in the senior management to try to at least get to the point of top four quality on a smaller budget (like Liverpool, Spurs tax have managed for sustained periods in recent history).

Still just a bloated, financially irresponsible dying club.

[Fuck the Glazers]

He's left on loan to Getafe who paid no fee and are only contributing a small amount to his 75k a week wages

Are we actually getting rid?

[Jason]

He's left on loan to Getafe who paid no fee and are only contributing a small amount to his 75k a week wages

Are we actually getting rid?

Kicks the can down the road.

Club probably thinking if he tears it up, and there is no route back to the club next year, they can then command a decent fee for him.

[swampash]

I thought his contract had been terminated by mutual agreement? Surely that means we're no longer paying his salary? If we are then he is still under contract, which doesn't fit with the public announcements.

[Fuck the Glazers]

I thought his contract had been terminated by mutual agreement? Surely that means we're no longer paying his salary? If we are then he is still under contract, which doesn't fit with the public announcements.

I thought that too. But according to this Getafe are making a "small contribution to his salary" - so whose paying the rest? It must be us.

If it's a loan, he must still have a contract with us.

Surprised the guardian have not highlighted this and tried to hold United to account.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... adline-day

[Jason]

https://www.manutd.com/en/news/detail/m ... ugust-2023

That's the statement, it doesn't state they were terminating, its ambigous, and was clearly meant to be so.

Basically just states his comeback will be away from old Trafford.

He's still under contract.

[swampash]

Unbelievable

[FuB]

There was no way on earth they were going to let an asset that was worth a fortune prior to the charges go for nothing when they could potentially get a return by putting him back on the field away from Old Trafford. Welcome to Manchester United the business that plays a bit of football on the side.