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

[kippaxvilla2]

But didn’t big Jim say they were close to breaching PSR?

[ChicagoLion]

But didn’t big Jim say they were close to breaching PSR?

He said they were close to bankruptcy which was a total load of bollox.

[PaulWinch again]

I understand that an information vacuum is unsettling, but I’m fairly relaxed. This could be entirely because I’m misremembering the timelines, but it felt manic at this time because we knew we had to cover a sizeable PSR gap and were fairly frantically trying to deal with that. That suggests to me a few potential possibilities:

- We don’t have a gap to fill this time
- We have a small gap to fill and it’s being managed
- We know that the Club World Cup window is going to push through anything we need to happen
- We’re asleep at the wheel


I doubt it’s option 4, so the fact it feels a little less frantic is probably more indicative that we don’t have a big issue, and time is less pressing, rather than we’ve got no scope to bring players in.

I could of course be entirely wrong.

[Beard82]

I can’t think for a minute we’re asleep at the wheel.

The people we have in charge don’t do that.  I’m sure the plans are underway.

[Drummond]

I saw something last night suggesting Bailey off to Saudi for £25m by the end of the week. If that were to happen, the hole, it will be filleth.

[Dante Lavelli]

Correct me if I’m wrong but, I thought Manure were heavily in debt so, how come they’ve already splashed the cash on Cunha and Mbuemo? I take it PSR doesn’t apply to them!!

Spurs are in a similar boat.  The debt for the stadium increased from £770m to £870m in their last accounts.  The way that £100m loss is treated, compared to player acquisitions/wages, is vastly different.  Infrastructure investments should be treated differently, but spurs aren't even on an interest only loan as the debt is increasing.

[Clampy]

It's only been 9 days since the Man Utd game. Possibly they've all take a deserved short break for a few days (phones close by, I doubt they ever totally switch off) and now it's back to work.

[kippaxvilla2]

There have been plenty of questions asked about United’s financial situation as they remain more than £1billion in debt despite announcing plans to build a new 100,000-seater stadium.

Old Trafford chiefs sent a letter to fan groups in January warning them the club are at risk of breaking the profit and sustainability rules (PSR), with top-flight sides only permitted to make £105million of losses over a rolling three-year period.

United posted a club-record revenue of £661.8million in 2023-24, but they recorded a net loss of £113.2million.

[Dave]

It's only been 9 days since the Man Utd game.

Yeah, I'm not sure what anyone was expecting to have happened by now that hasn't.

[brontebilly]

Is our biggest issue that our revenue is nowhere near the mark for what a regular club playing European football should be? Like every club, we have some non performing "assets" like Coutinho but in the main ourselves or even Newcastle haven't gone crazy signing players like Robinho back in the day.

[frank black]

I saw something last night suggesting Bailey off to Saudi for £25m by the end of the week. If that were to happen, the hole, it will be filleth.

Sadly it was the Sun reporting though

[Drummond]

It's only been 9 days since the Man Utd game.

Yeah, I'm not sure what anyone was expecting to have happened by now that hasn't.

I think it's just a natural reaction to wanting things to get better quickly. It was such a flat ending to a brilliant season, that any lift will be positive. The other side is that we're all concerned about losing our better players, and are preparing for that eventuality so want to have a positive to look forward to as well.

[AV82EC]

There have been plenty of questions asked about United’s financial situation as they remain more than £1billion in debt despite announcing plans to build a new 100,000-seater stadium.

Old Trafford chiefs sent a letter to fan groups in January warning them the club are at risk of breaking the profit and sustainability rules (PSR), with top-flight sides only permitted to make £105million of losses over a rolling three-year period.

United posted a club-record revenue of £661.8million in 2023-24, but they recorded a net loss of £113.2million.

I don’t care, and neither should you. Ultimately their massive turnover gives them room to move on transfers and wages that we, currently and potentially may never have, so I see no gain in worrying about it. I’d be much more happy to compare us to Newcastle as we have similar turnovers and are ploughing a similar furrow in trying to make the big 6 into the big 8.

[Brazilian Villain]

Tanswell piece on our summer window. https://archive.ph/uAvnn

[Sexual Ealing]

Read it earlier. Still none the wiser.