GeordieT

If you are the club though - and we can argue the rights and wrongs of this as a fan base, they’ll be looking at price elasticity with respect of demand. And a lot of the survey seemed to be teasing that out ‘would you pay more for xx’. If there’s an additional 15k general ballot tickets can we sell those at the existing pricing? A lot depends on what’s happening on the pitch. But let’s wait and see, assume they’ll announce something close season as it gets towards planning.

“Expected to be a very modest transfer budget… United would effectively be operating a “sell-to-buy” policy if the club missed out on Europe entirely, so restricted are their finances after a £555 million spend over the previous three summers and the limits imposed by the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules”. No wonder they are are lowballing the Ashworth fee. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/04/29/manchester-united-prepared-to-sell-most-of-their-squad/

There has to be concurrency with UEFA as I’ve understood it.

https://x.com/skysportsnews/status/1783789880964784542

The timing aligned to the FFP year end is a work of genius.

I suspect it’s not as interesting as it could be, as much as it would be hilarious for him to be trucking mad, I know his family are massively into equestrian and I wonder if it might be to transport their horses.

Not great reading, we would be in breach if it applied now - not withstanding last years accounts are a poor point in time reference to judge our off the field progress.

One of the worst cameos I’ve ever seen, if - and I hope we do - we release him in the summer, he will struggle to get a contract above League One.

Is that not fairly inconsequential though? My reading of it is that it would be advantageous for Everton - e.g. if they knew it was a CB pairing of Krath and Burn. Hopefully BS anyway.

Southampton “annoyed at manner and timing of [Man] United's approach” with the latter also deeming Southampton’s demands “unrealistic”. Sounds familiar. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/13106078/jason-wilcox-manchester-united-make-approach-for-southampton-director-of-football

It would help them for the current accounting period yes. But the structural issues persist - these accounts already are mitigated in part by the sale of Gordon. Incidentally, and I’ve posted on here previously about this, I work for a company which is often approached either directly by clubs or brand intermediaries with regards to front of shirt sponsorship / other opportunities. About six months ago we were asked as to our interest for headline naming rights for their new stadium - and they were asking for an absolute pittance (c. £6-8m). Reeked of desperation.

That’ll be Dummett signing a one year extension Monday.

An alleged 50 bets between August and October 2023.

Absolutely criminal from the medical team. Verging on professional negligence.

Far from encouraging from Mark Douglas this morning. Hope we hold firm.

One year extension for Ritchie and Dummett incoming.

Struggling to find it - can’t recall which piece it was in. But it wasn’t the Ornstein Q&A, albeit that does further insinuate the power dynamic at play.

Jack Ross is a new name, but the idea that Howe wants the DOF position to have less sway in first team recruitment was in the Athletic over the weekend too.

Louise Taylor in the Guardian, not a quote that inspires confidence.

Interesting, for what I believe is the first time ever the quotes this morning would suggest it’s not guaranteed and could be appearance based?

Douglas in the Independent seems to be suggesting we won’t replace like for like, or at least his successor will have a slightly different remit. Which I’d hope wouldn’t be the case.

£20m would be fantastic business. I’d drive him there myself.

As much as I’d like to try and rationalise this in my head, it would be a major set back.

And this shows just how stacked the deck is. Estimate that our CL participation has earned around €34m in TV money with the coefficient model largely to blame. Benefits the traditional elite, while clubs that have only recently qualified are effectively penalised. And this brought a wry smile. PIF’s £27m outlay in the last two years is nearly four times as much as Ashley spent in preceding 12 years. Should say you can sign-up to him on substack for a month and cancel. But there’s excellent analysis across the board and worth a few quid.