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20 minutes ago, Vesper said:

They have actually extracted hundreds of millions out of the club tbf

Old Trafford is going to pot, it needs massive rehab

lets look at the biggest transfers

Lukaku and Di Maria were sold off at a negligible loss (only £15m total)

 

that leaves (£50m or more)

Pogba £94m

Maguire £78m

Martial $54m

Fred (bust) £53m

 

two more at £40m to £50m

Bruno

AWB

 

all the rest were under £40m (two are at £40m (barely, like 200K) now when adjusted for inflation, Matic and Mata)

 

for comparison

Barca spent

£400m (around £700m when salaries are added in)

on just 3 players, all busts

Coutinho

Dembele

Griezmann

 

 

 

United have spent loads mate since Ferguson retired, yes the glazers are like leeches, they have huge debt but they have also spent alot of cash in those 8 years. The highest salaries too if im not mistaken, or at least it was so 2 years ago or there abouts.

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Just now, Atomiswave said:

United have spent loads mate since Ferguson retired, yes the glazers are like leeches, they have huge debt but they have also spent alot of cash in those 8 years. The highest salaries too if im not mistaken, or at least it was so 2 years ago or there abouts.

you have to look at their revenues though

they jostle back and forth with Barca and Real for highest in the world the past 15 plus years

Manure is a

 

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2 minutes ago, Vesper said:

did you see Souness (of all people) defend the fuck out of Roman earlier?

Missed that - saw Neville doing the same couple of weeks ago though , saying at least he actually goes to games😜

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26 minutes ago, Vesper said:

They have actually extracted hundreds of millions out of the club tbf

Old Trafford is going to pot, it needs massive rehab

lets look at the biggest transfers

Lukaku and Di Maria were sold off at a negligible loss (only £15m total)

 

that leaves (£50m or more)

Pogba £94m

Maguire £78m

Martial $54m

Fred (bust) £53m

 

two more at £40m to £50m

Bruno

AWB

 

all the rest were under £40m (two are at £40m (barely, like 200K) now when adjusted for inflation, Matic and Mata)

 

for comparison

Barca spent

£400m (around £700m when salaries are added in)

on just 3 players, all busts

Coutinho

Dembele

Griezmann

 

 

 

1 fucking Billion spent since 2013........Four managers. 36 signings. From Moyes to Ole, Fellaini to Cavani.

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25 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

If we are worried about Spurs and more worryingly Bale we have problems.

We have City, Arse, and Leicester all on the bounce. It’s not totally inconceivable at all that we could lose all 3. Spuds meanwhile have a few teams that may already be on the beach. 
 

I trust our boys in the biggest matches of our season, but strange things can happen.

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Glazers bought Manchester United with money borrowed against the club they were buying. They spend over 50 million a year just paying the interest of that debt, syphoned from the club,  and they still take huge dividends to line there own pockets. I'm with the mancs on this. 

Its a disgrace that this was approved by the FA. They need to take a look at themselves with their 'only fit and proper persons can own clubs; mantra, when that obviously doesnt include financial parasites. 

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8 hours ago, Pizy said:

We have City, Arse, and Leicester all on the bounce. It’s not totally inconceivable at all that we could lose all 3. Spuds meanwhile have a few teams that may already be on the beach. 
 

I trust our boys in the biggest matches of our season, but strange things can happen.

Why are Arsenal still being spoken about like a top team? Not saying it's a guaranteed 3 points but the table doesn't lie Everton or West Ham would be a harder game. I would argue 3 of Tottenham's final 4 fixtures are harder than this Arsenal at home and even the one that isn't is a fixture they've lost the last two season's.

Furthermore i still don't get why we keep banging on about easy/hard games, firstly if our top 4 chasing rivals were making the most of these games they wouldn't be our top 4 rivals they would be close to City and secondly we've had the "hardest" run in last two season's and made it on both occasions.

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13 hours ago, Special Juan said:

If we are worried about Spurs and more worryingly Bale we have problems.

Spurs are a worry because they have enough firepower to comfortably win those last four games. But, if they did that it would mean they won their last 6 on the bounce, which is some ask. 

Top four might easily go down to the last day with 5 teams still in with a chance. 

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