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Not even that advanced....Looks more like the resort in Carry on Camping

That's beyond disgraceful....nearly 10 times less anyone in the league?? 200k, so probably just enough to pay the gas and electric if that

Only £5 million this season though

No matter which way you spin it, Man U have still outspent most this season buying players most wouldn't be able to afford regardless if it's up front or spread over years.

Better get Dortmund told when they come looking for 54m for nothing. Also hide behind the curtains when Madrid come looking for Varane cash.

This is all classic Makem....relying on loans to scrape by in the league....when they don't come in it's basically a 12 point deduction. They did their circling before being flushed, can't be more than a season or two before we do the same as we don't have an owner who'll actually make a change before it's too late

We tried

Still better than Shelvey....the pork sausage that is

Have some sympathy...it's only 200 million. How are they expected to compete with such a restricted budget? After all that fine they got for claiming poverty and trying to ruin football will have seriously dented their warchest.

London is good as long as you have money. Objectively though...what can you do in London that you couldn't do in any other largish city?

No it's not their usual method, just don't see who's place he could consistently take unless they don't see Foden being a short/medium term option. Think there's an element of saving face because of Sancho to Man U in there too

Grealish to City is plain and simply them taking a player to show that they can... and to stop any competitor having him. They don't need him as they already have several better options for where he plays

Sling enough s**t some sticks....this is certainly enough by association alone to cast doubts on his integrity

But where's your sympathy for the 6.....they're so skint they can only get one nine figure signing, and have to tolerate the rest being between 30-50m. I'm tempted to set up a Justgiving page for them

Lua Lua to Portsmouth

Black/gold....probably the same as ours with the red changed for blue

It's a move straight out of the Ashley play book. Available, free, cheap, grateful to have a job. Won't happen unless Bruce develops a moral compass and quits though

Barring Will Grigg, I've now quite literally never heard of any of their players

Bruce doing a favour to his club....loan only if he does well, purchase if useless

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In retail it's a good strategy, it just doesn't work with football currently where spending money makes money if done under competent management. From a business standpoint it looks good to stay in the black, but given that almost every other 'competitor' sees this as irrelevant, it's simply tying our own hands behind our back, meaning we get further and further behind. This current method is already seeing championship teams being able to outbid us on average players...how many years till League one teams can do it to?

We still have an average to low wage bill compared the rest of the league

Presume the "we have no money" line is due to the odd policy we alone follow by paying up front for players, including their wages in the fee and accepting installments when selling players. Consider we've also not sold anyone substantial since Perez.

It's this exact strategy that contributed directly to the mackems ultimate downfall...relying on loans being their best players season after season until the luck ran out