Winter 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[Toronto Villa]

The worst thing wrong with the rashford deal is that it allows man utd to go and buy a new striker. Why are we helping them out of their own mess.

You don’t think they could have done that without us taking Rashford?

[Tom_Mc9?]

The worst thing wrong with the rashford deal is that it allows man utd to go and buy a new striker. Why are we helping them out of their own mess.

I think we should just focus on our own house to be honest. Manchester United a/. Would’ve bought somebody anyway and b/. Haven’t exactly flourished in the transfer market of late so who cares?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The worst thing wrong with the rashford deal is that it allows man utd to go and buy a new striker. Why are we helping them out of their own mess.

Taking £160k a week off their wage bill (assuming they will cover half) isn't going to solve their financial problems. Despite making a fortune it all goes to paying off the Glazier's debt. They haven't a pot to piss in.

[enigma]

The worst thing wrong with the rashford deal is that it allows man utd to go and buy a new striker. Why are we helping them out of their own mess.

You don’t think they could have done that without us taking Rashford?

They've got their own PSR problems too. That's why they're willing to sell Mainoo, Garnacho etc.

[Tuscans]

The worst thing wrong with the rashford deal is that it allows man utd to go and buy a new striker. Why are we helping them out of their own mess.

Taking £160k a week off their wage bill (assuming they will cover half) isn't going to solve their financial problems. Despite making a fortune it all goes to paying off the Glazier's debt. They haven't a pot to piss in.

Reports say covering the lot, approx £5-£6 million over the 4 month loan.

[Tuscans]

🚨🧨 This morning, there was also new contact between Aston Villa & Mathys Tel‘s management.
@Plettigoal

[Villatillidie25]

This would be exciting

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The worst thing wrong with the rashford deal is that it allows man utd to go and buy a new striker. Why are we helping them out of their own mess.

Taking £160k a week off their wage bill (assuming they will cover half) isn't going to solve their financial problems. Despite making a fortune it all goes to paying off the Glazier's debt. They haven't a pot to piss in.

Reports say covering the lot, approx £5-£6 million over the 4 month loan.

Last week they were prepared to cover 50% of his wages. £325k a week? Nobody can be that stupid.

[AV84]

Wherever Rashford moves next I’d imagine what he wants/needs most is a good environment, a great coach and a club who don’t hang him out to dry in front of the media at every opportunity. That might end up being us, it might not but there’s a good player there somewhere and his next move is probably his last chance to prove it at this level.

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I feel like he got a lot of criticism when he was just feeding kids,   even from his own team's fans? A lot of people were just waiting for him to fall off so they could say told you so. Obviously he hasn't helped himself by partying and flying off when he shouldn't and what not, but I can't imagine what it would be like to attract that much criticism and vitriol for just doing some good. You can say the criticism of him now us warranted but you know a lot of it is coming from people who just hate him for no good reason.

It started around that time, I think you are right. The media scrutiny seemed to go up a notch and because he’d got credit for a great initiative it was a tabloid vendetta to bring him down, as they do.

Most recently, having your coach tell the world he’d rather play the goalkeeping coach than you isn’t particularly helpful either.

But surely those comments from the manager reflect how bad his performance and attitude must have been?

I'm not saying his attitude or situation now doesn't warrant the criticism he's got from Amorim. I'm just questioning how he got to this position.

There was an almost gleeful reaction from some corners when he did start to drop off professionally, and if you've just spent a year being slated by even your own fans for essentially doing a good thing, and then your form slips and the reaction is more vitriol, then I dunno, that's bound to mess with your head a bit.

I said it earlier too, by all accounts there's a very negative atmosphere at Man Utd, so if you're dealing with something mentally and you go to work and it's just more shit, it would be very easy to lose interest. Obviously because these people get paid silly money there's often a consensus that they should just suck it up and stop being soft babies.

It's entirely possible he is just a lazy waster and we're about to make a massive mistake. I'm just saying we don't know exactly what's led to him being where he is now. And if we look at the Duran situation, we seem to have put a lot of effort, as a club, into helping him settle and progress. It didn't work for him, but maybe it's the kind of environment Rashford needs to be in to start moving forward again.

[Tuscans]

The worst thing wrong with the rashford deal is that it allows man utd to go and buy a new striker. Why are we helping them out of their own mess.

Taking £160k a week off their wage bill (assuming they will cover half) isn't going to solve their financial problems. Despite making a fortune it all goes to paying off the Glazier's debt. They haven't a pot to piss in.

Reports say covering the lot, approx £5-£6 million over the 4 month loan.

Last week they were prepared to cover 50% of his wages. £325k a week? Nobody can be that stupid.

Todays posts from Ornstein and Romano say the lost. But still, if it's only salary then it is only say £6M give or take...if it doesn't work out it's not a massive dent.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The worst thing wrong with the rashford deal is that it allows man utd to go and buy a new striker. Why are we helping them out of their own mess.

Taking £160k a week off their wage bill (assuming they will cover half) isn't going to solve their financial problems. Despite making a fortune it all goes to paying off the Glazier's debt. They haven't a pot to piss in.

Reports say covering the lot, approx £5-£6 million over the 4 month loan.

Last week they were prepared to cover 50% of his wages. £325k a week? Nobody can be that stupid.

Todays posts from Ornstein and Romano say the lost. But still, if it's only salary then it is only say £6M give or take...if it doesn't work out it's not a massive dent.

A million less than the fee to buy that centre half from Le Havre. No big deal, it's only money.

[Demitri_C]

Rashford up front is shit. I hope thats not where  unai intends to play him. He is better on the left

[Dante Lavelli]

The worst thing wrong with the rashford deal is that it allows man utd to go and buy a new striker. Why are we helping them out of their own mess.

You don’t think they could have done that without us taking Rashford?

They've got their own PSR problems too. That's why they're willing to sell Mainoo, Garnacho etc.

Rashford is also homegrown so would be an attractive sale for the bean counters.

[cdbearsfan]

The worst thing wrong with the rashford deal is that it allows man utd to go and buy a new striker. Why are we helping them out of their own mess.

Taking £160k a week off their wage bill (assuming they will cover half) isn't going to solve their financial problems. Despite making a fortune it all goes to paying off the Glazier's debt. They haven't a pot to piss in.

The only way it works out for Man United is if Rashford plays so brilliantly that a team is persuaded to take on his salary and give them a fee for his services. If that happens, it will have been great for us, too.

If Rashford doesn't play well for us, he's back at Man U, still with his huge contract that runs until 2028, and presumably fewer potential suitors.

It only "helps them out" if it helps us out.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The worst thing wrong with the rashford deal is that it allows man utd to go and buy a new striker. Why are we helping them out of their own mess.

Taking £160k a week off their wage bill (assuming they will cover half) isn't going to solve their financial problems. Despite making a fortune it all goes to paying off the Glazier's debt. They haven't a pot to piss in.

The only way it works out for Man United is if Rashford plays so brilliantly that a team is persuaded to take on his salary and give them a fee for his services. If that happens, it will have been great for us, too.

If Rashford doesn't play well for us, he's back at Man U, still with his huge contract that runs until 2028, and presumably fewer potential suitors.

It only "helps them out" if it helps us out.

Just getting him away from Old Trafford is massively helping them out. He'll be back there in the summer. I just hope he doesn't cause too much damage whilst he's here.