Erikse

Generally I wonder how much sales really affects the budget? I don't think the club will maximize the amortization for the coming season with those money. Maybe it's something in between, like sell a player for £10m and then add £20m into the budget? The healthiest thing long term would generally be to not spend more than the money you get, but this is a pretty important window, and finishing higher can also generate so much more anyways. It just depends on how much of a gamble you would want to do for the near future.

Yes, and I've said many times that he probably wants to leave anyways, so I'm not saying that I think he stays. Ofcourse I wouldn't be crying if he leaves, I'm just wondering about the squad depth if he does. Luckily Tonali and Bruno has been very reliable in terms of injuries. Joelinton and Willock not so much. If we avoid long term injuries on Tonali and Bruno, we're probably fine with just replacing Longstaff.

We better hope Willock stays fit if we need him to start every week (which would probably happen). I'm not convinced that it's more worth it to keep him rather than Longstaff, especially given his injury record and how he also has fallen so much in performances anyways, but he does have a higher ceiling if he can get anywhere near what he was a couple of years ago.

I don't think we're looking to put us in the same position as we did before in coming windows by spending the maximum that we can on a short term basis. We already need a midfielder. If we sell Longstaff we need 2 of them. Athough we were unlucky that season, last time we were in CL we had to use our 7th choice in every game for months. If we sell Longstaff and buy 1 midfielder, I really hope we're lucky with injuries, or that Miley will have a breakthrough season. I was on about 2 midfielders in my first post aswell.

In short term finances, yes. Not if you think long term finances. But again, are we now going to buy 2 midfielders who are ready to start games in the PL?

You're not answering my question, though. Which of those 6 listed would you ditch? Or do you think we will buy 6 players who are ready to start games? Because getting 2-3 injuries in midfield isn't that unlikely given the amount of games, so again, even buying just 1 midfielder would leave us short in this case. This is the exact reason why we've kept "deadwood" before btw.

I just doubt that we will buy 6 players who are ready this season, so I am curious to hear which of the ones I listed that people would ditch if we sell Longstaff.

Okay, so then we need to spend more than what we get for Longstaff. So we need a starter RW, a starter CB, a new goalie, a CM that can challenge for the starting spot, a backup striker, AND a new backup/rotation midfielder who will also cost us a bit. If we sell Longstaff we will probably need 2 midfielders. Then all of these players will have to get used to their team mates, all at once.

My issue is we sell Longstaff, and then what? We sold Anderson last summer, Willock is injury prone, and Miley may not be ready yet. Are we going to buy a better 10m backup who is ready to start games right away, which Eddie is often hesitant to do, especially with younger players? 10m doesn't get you far in todays market, unless you are really creative. As bad as Sean Longstaff has been at times, getting a cheap replacement may not work out any better for this season with lots of games coming. That said if the club does sell him, I trust them to have a plan behind it. Or he just really wanted to go, which would be understandable.

I agree, but there's a link in my post. It was more about the state of todays football media (read the article to waste some minutes of your life).

Absolutely mind boggling news. Can't believe he did this.

I think Howe treats each signing differently based on certain factors. He must have seen something that made him think Tonali would be ready for the league right from the start. He does have a high bar when it comes to it though, more often than not players have to wait.

Has a player in the top leagues even been sold the same summer as they signed for that club?

Sanchez was such a weird signing. They had already spent loads on other goalkeepers, and he had lost his place to Jason Steele at Brighton. They even paid a decent amount for him..

Be nice to him. He just wants the average pay at Man Utd. Offering him your minimum wage would be disrespectful.

Players who failed at Man Utd are not very popular around here. I don't mind this one that much. As allways Howe will train him well.

Except for player of the season in Serie A.

I think there was one international break where we scored 9 goals in 2 games and he created or scored like 6-7 of them (don't remember the exact number). I probably made 4 posts about it back then since I got so excited. Some of his moves just reminds me of Ben Arfa.

Now you guys know why I keep going on about Nusa most of the games when Norway plays. He creates so much for us every game, even more than Ødegaard. Motm in most of the games he has played so far.

Nusa man. Carrying us again. Sørloth also very very good. Who is Haaland?

Yeah I have no faith in that happening. Standard selling scare stories stuff from the media, getting clicks from making it seem like a probable scenario by leaving out some relevant context.

Huh?

Under Ashley. Rescued a point from 4-0 down vs Arsenal

11 goals and 10 assists in a PL season when he was 22. He was considered to have a massive potensial back then, as he was already very good.

Oooh I see! It all makes sense now! Bring it on.