The Footie Thread

[road2ruin]

Looks like Liverpool are closing in on Ekitike for £90m ish. That will take their spending to over £300m this window and the media report it as improving a title winning side and it’s all positive.

United sign Mbeumo for £65m and the main reports over that period are that he’s getting £450k a week and that we’ve been held to ransom and overpaid.

Huge difference in how these things are reported especially by Sky etc.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Looks like Liverpool are closing in on Ekitike for £90m ish. That will take their spending to over £300m this window and the media report it as improving a title winning side and it’s all positive.

United sign Mbeumo for £65m and the main reports over that period are that he’s getting £450k a week and that we’ve been held to ransom and overpaid.

Huge difference in how these things are reported especially by Sky etc.

If he is getting £450k a week that’s very much paying over the odds

Guess the issue is United have now had about 10 years of bad spending on top of no league or CL etc

Before that United spent very well and won everything in sight

The media will always keep putting the knife in when things aren’t going well

 

[road2ruin]

If he is getting £450k a week that’s very much paying over the odds

Guess the issue is United have now had about 10 years of bad spending on top of no league or CL etc

Before that United spent very well and won everything in sight

The media will always keep putting the knife in when things aren’t going well

Sorry, my point was that he’s not however if you believed the media he started off with a wage offer of £140k and it steadily increased to anything north of £500k a week and they were obsessed with it. In reality he’ll be around the £200k a week mark but that doesn’t sell papers.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Sorry, my point was that he’s not however if you believed the media he started off with a wage offer of £140k and it steadily increased to anything north of £500k a week and they were obsessed with it. In reality he’ll be around the £200k a week mark but that doesn’t sell papers.

It’s the same reasoning - £150k doesn’t make headlines

I still see reports saying Wirtz cost us £150mil

Figures always embellished

Just pick your sources on who to believe - there wlll always be click bait that will lie

 

[Billysboots]

His wages off the books this season is around £11m which almost covers the first years instalment for Mbeumo. Apparently the fee to buy is £30m so will be interesting to see what happens in the next 12 months at Barca.

I must say I agree wholeheartedly with Teddy Sheringham regarding this move. Rashford has done nothing to earn it. He’s being rewarded for throwing his teddy out of the pram and putting in woeful performances for way too long with a move most footballers can only dream about. It just doesn’t seem right.

But if it solves a massive problem for us then I can live with it.

 

[Billysboots]

Pre season begins. 0-0 versus Leeds. Exciting.

However, Cunha's ability to drive between the lines is definitely nice to see, not something Utd have had. Will be interesting to see how the new young Paraguayan left back develops.

Just noticed Celtic had an eye opening 4-0 win against Newcastle

It’s like Groundhog Day in certain sections of the press and media, who are largely ignoring Newcastle getting thumped, and Villa losing 3-1 to a third tier German side, choosing to focus instead on United drawing with another Premier League side, and using that as fuel for their argument that the club is finished.

The obsession, it seems, still knows no bounds.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

It’s like Groundhog Day in certain sections of the press and media, who are largely ignoring Newcastle getting thumped, and Villa losing 3-1 to a third tier German side, choosing to focus instead on United drawing with another Premier League side, and using that as fuel for their argument that the club is finished.

The obsession, it seems, still knows no bounds.

Whats more amusing, is that all of the games are pre-season warmups/workouts.
People get so worked up about what is really just a training excersize.

Oh, that and the endless streams of transfer gossip to generate media sales and turn players heads.

 

[Billysboots]

Whats more amusing, is that all of the games are pre-season warmups/workouts.
People get so worked up about what is really just a training excersize.

Oh, that and the endless streams of transfer gossip to generate media sales and turn players heads.

I really try to ignore as much of it as I can. I read somewhere yesterday that, last summer alone, United were “strongly” linked in the press/media with moves for over 120 players. Seriously.

My lad sends me all the links to rumours, and I tell him repeatedly to believe it when it actually happens.

Time for me to heed my own advice, methinks.

 

[road2ruin]

It’s like Groundhog Day in certain sections of the press and media, who are largely ignoring Newcastle getting thumped, and Villa losing 3-1 to a third tier German side, choosing to focus instead on United drawing with another Premier League side, and using that as fuel for their argument that the club is finished.

The obsession, it seems, still knows no bounds.

If United lose/draw vs Leeds it’s a case of same old thing and Amorim out. If we hump them then it’s just a pre-season friendly and has no bearing on the season ahead. As you said, almost nothing mentioned about the results of Newcastle or Villa.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

It’s like Groundhog Day in certain sections of the press and media, who are largely ignoring Newcastle getting thumped, and Villa losing 3-1 to a third tier German side, choosing to focus instead on United drawing with another Premier League side, and using that as fuel for their argument that the club is finished.

The obsession, it seems, still knows no bounds.

Unfortunately that’s what comes with being one of the biggest clubs in the world - the media will have constant eyes on and negativity sells

 

[Arthur Wedge]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1946857051520376856

Well that was quick

Time for some to leave now and a CB

 

[road2ruin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1946857051520376856

Well that was quick

Time for some to leave now and a CB

Great bit of business for Frankfurt who paid €17m for him 12 months ago!

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Great bit of business for Frankfurt who paid €17m for him 12 months ago!

It also shows the lack of decent strikers available right now

 

[Pin-seeker]

Great bit of business for Frankfurt who paid €17m for him 12 months ago!

Seems like a lot of money for someone whose goal record is bang average.

 

[Swango1980]

It’s like Groundhog Day in certain sections of the press and media, who are largely ignoring Newcastle getting thumped, and Villa losing 3-1 to a third tier German side, choosing to focus instead on United drawing with another Premier League side, and using that as fuel for their argument that the club is finished.

The obsession, it seems, still knows no bounds.

I wonder if they felt City were finished after losing to a Saudia Arabian side in a "competitive" game?

 

[Swango1980]

Chelsea will have an interesting pre season.

It starts 9 days before their first league game. It consists of 2 games only, 2 days apart.

Will be interesting to see if that has any impact on how they start the league campaign

 

[Billysboots]

Chelsea will have an interesting pre season.

It starts 9 days before their first league game. It consists of 2 games only, 2 days apart.

Will be interesting to see if that has any impact on how they start the league campaign

To be fair, though, now they are officially the best in the world, they don’t need to work as hard as the rest

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Im surprised there has been no mention of FIFA making the players end of season break only 3 weeks now...

 

[Voyager EMH]

Also, why does the inner child in me keep laughing when I see the German girl called Minge?

Because your subconscious is recalling Stefan Kuntz scoring against England in Euros 1996.

 

[Slime]

Because your subconscious is recalling Stefan Kuntz scoring against England in Euros 1996.

Not forgetting the German skier that Bradley Walsh made even more famous!