Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[Holte L2]

Ideally, I'd just offer a decent amount of our budget for him (£30-40m) and try to get it done, but move on quickly if it's clearly a non-starter.

Barcelona's option to buy is £26m, so I'd imagine if we offered that they'd have no reason not to accept it.

We might be a be able to afford the transfer fee, but his wages?

I think his rumoured £325k a week might be a bit beyond us!

[Mister E]

I have never thought Rashford would be a permanent option for us; too much of the wage bill on one player.
As for Asensio's run of form, how strong is the Turkish League compared to the EPL?

[chrisw1]

He's generationally wealthy now.  I guess it depends what he wants next in life, but either way he won't be getting £300k + from anyone in his next contract.

[TheToffnar]

Wasn't it reported by the Athletic that he took a pay cut to play for Barca, putting him closer to 10m a year? Still an extortionate amount of money, but when we paid Disassi 5m, everything starts to look sensible...

[Dave]

Ideally, I'd just offer a decent amount of our budget for him (£30-40m) and try to get it done, but move on quickly if it's clearly a non-starter.

Barcelona's option to buy is £26m, so I'd imagine if we offered that they'd have no reason not to accept it.

We might be a be able to afford the transfer fee, but his wages?

There must be a way that we thought we could make it work - we had an option to make his transfer permanent last summer (which we all said at the time was obviously predicated on Champions League qualification).

But to even have that option in the deal, we needed Rashford and his people and our money people to all have been happy with the terms for the potential permanent deal when it was all agreed in January.

[Dante Lavelli]

Any Rashford deal would be a saga.  Not sure it is wise to save all our money, flirting with Rashford, and risk him joining Barca anyway.  By which time we'll have missed out on more getable targets.

[SaddVillan]

In the next 2 summer transfer windiws6 and the January window next year, we're going to have to bring in/replace about 8-9 players.

We should be looking at players with a price range of £35-45m if we're really  going to build the overall quality of the squad.

With an average of £40m each, that's, £320m

This can be reduced if a couple of kids come through the ranks - unlikely given our recent history, or if we can unearth a couple of Morgan Rogers ( @ £12-15m apiece), and even if we can play the free transfer/loans market, it'll still need a spend of £200m-£250m?

We definitely won't have that amount of money available

So, we'll have to raise something in the transfer market - the question is - who can we ship out for decent fees without weakening the squad ?

[Somniloquism]

Wasn't it reported by the Athletic that he took a pay cut to play for Barca, putting him closer to 10m a year? Still an extortionate amount of money, but when we paid Disassi 5m, everything starts to look sensible...

Not sure how he took a paycut as his contract with ManU is he gets paid that amount, and between Barca/Manu, he would be paid that unless he altered his contract.

[TheToffnar]

Wasn't it reported by the Athletic that he took a pay cut to play for Barca, putting him closer to 10m a year? Still an extortionate amount of money, but when we paid Disassi 5m, everything starts to look sensible...

Not sure how he took a paycut as his contract with ManU is he gets paid that amount, and between Barca/Manu, he would be paid that unless he altered his contract.

Apologies, just located the article. States that the wage reduction came about as a result of failing to qualify for UCL with United.

[SaddVillan]

Wasn't it reported by the Athletic that he took a pay cut to play for Barca, putting him closer to 10m a year? Still an extortionate amount of money, but when we paid Disassi 5m, everything starts to look

Not sure how he took a paycut as his contract with ManU is he gets paid that amount, and between Barca/Manu, he would be paid that unless he altered his contract.

Apologies, just located the article. States that the wage reduction came about as a result of failing to qualify for UCL with United.

Don't imagine he needs to sell his medal collection just yet?

Guessing thst as ManU will be back in the Champs League next season his wages will rebound?

Failing that, and if he's a bit short, then he can pull some dividends from his investment, image rights and property companies.

[andyh]

I’m not sure about Rashford at all.
I was ok with the last loan, and he was ok, bordering on good for much of his time, but he wasnt scintillating.

Personally I’d go for Johnny Rowe. Still only 22, has shown he has it, and Unai would harness it and improve him.

[Dave]

I’m not sure about Rashford at all.
I was ok with the last loan, and he was ok, bordering on good for much of his time, but he wasnt scintillating.

Personally I’d go for Johnny Rowe. Still only 22, has shown he has it, and Unai would harness it and improve him.

Would you still have been going for him had you not seen one really game that he just so happened to play against us?

[LeeS]

If we sell Rogers we can afford Rashford. Rogers didn’t thrive when Rashford was in the team either, so it makes footballing sense.