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Well he is since the cuts are from London offices. He's saying Mancunians for effect. His agenda against Ratcliffe is fairly annoying when his financial reporting is top class.

Kieran Maguire hates Ratcliffe almost as much as Disco hates Thomas Frank.

A no brainer when you think of it like that. Basically get De Ligt for free.

Exactly, so he's not comparable at all to Ratcliffe is he. This is my point. He's reducing his salary as he wants to come to us. Good fee, good wages, good player. In a position we desperately need someone. There's zero negatives about the transfer. Just hope we can reach an acceptable payment structure with Bayern.

Ratcliffe has investment more in the club in his first day than the Glazer's have their whole time here. The Glazer's taking a breath is met with anger, and the green and gold movement never went away.

You're talking about Brainthwaite, which has now been confirmed to be £35m+10m in add ons. That's not a lowball offer for someone who's played one season IMO and certainly not an offer not worth of negotiation. Move on to De Ligt. I see nothing wrong. Why wouldn't we? Look at Savio and Man City? £60-70m player and they're signing him for £26m from a City owned club. You're kidding yourself if you think PIF wouldn't do the same thing. Not the best thing for staff but a very common request from many business owners. Even my own employer wants us in the office all the time but they made the mistake of putting hybrid working in our contracts or they'd have forced us all back in. Agreed. He needs to be quiet in public interviews. If he thinks he can make it happen, why wouldn't he?

It absolutely has. Something else that needs addressed and seems like it already has been based on how the Branthwaite deal went.

Didn't Ratcliffe invest more in us in his first month than Ashley did in 14 years at Newcastle? I know everyone is trying to compare the two with the desperate hope we'll get worse, but they aren't comparable. If we have nearly double the staff of our rivals, surely that's something that needs looked at? Or does nobody want to admit that's what good business owners do?

"At 1,112 as of June 30 last year, United had by far the biggest staff of any club in the Premier League. That number is considerably higher than all of their Big Six rivals, with Liverpool having around 1,005 employees, Chelsea 788, Tottenham 719, Arsenal 649 and Manchester City 520, according to each club’s latest figures." Wew.

We have 592 more staff than Man City. Sounds like this is badly needed.

Aye I've a few mates in Munich and they sent me this. Got me a bit worried, but financially them bringing in Tah and selling De Ligt makes a lot of sense so hopefully the deal goes ahead. They were unanimous in that they'd rather Upamecano left than De Ligt, but Upamecano is on €120k less a week and on a shorter contract so is less of a financial burden.

It's purely financial. He's one of their highest earners and they can get £40m for him. He'll be replaced by Tah who's quality, and will be on much lower wages. It's a good deal for both clubs if it goes through.

Graeme Bailey. Shit stirrer. Pay no attention.

Entirely untrue. He was Bayern's best defender in his first season, and got injured at the start of this season. It was him and Dier that were favoured over Upamecano and Kim Min-Jae. De Ligt wasn't dropped for Dier. When De Ligt was on the bench it was usually because there was a CL game midweek, which he played in. Bayern fans love De Ligt, which should tell you enough.

There ain't no way you've let him go for £2m.

Man City's third is Scott Carson to be fair.

Why are we acting like this is the first time? You think we wanted to sign Wout Weghorst on loan last year?

SkySports report positively about us? First I've heard. If they're spinning it as good for us, it's great for us.

The Athletic did an indepth article of what he's done for you. The guy is clearly quality at his job.

3 points was the difference in European football this season and a lot more money. I doubt they'd even want to lose a point.

I doubt it's anywhere near £20m, but can't see it being less than £10m either.

Cheers mate.

It's definitely the former.

So it was very clear this was a PSR issue. As soon as the new financial year came into play we wrapped this up immediately. So Berrada, Ashworth and Wilcox are all in place for the summer window. Unexpected, good news.

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