Free up some wages, not a bad thing. Hopefully Rojo, Darmian are getting ideas.
Ander Herrera to PSG? | Gone.
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Freeing up wages means nothing if you don’t spend the money wisely, or worse not spend it at all. We are setting ourselves a huge mountain to climb in the summer.
You'd think someone like Ander, who utterly gets the club, we'd have tied down a long time ago.
fecking state of this club
fecking state of this club
De Gea and possibly Pogba next...
Gonna be a fun summer
Yeah gonna be great to see two of our best players leaving. Yay!
This would be utterly idiotic, especially given the Jones and Young extensions
To be fair the whole “getting the club” means nothing to me when he’ll no doubt been offered a deal by us and is turning it down to go to PSG. He wants out.
Free up wages. He is on peanuts compared to what a replacement would want, plus transfer fee on top of it. If you want to free up wages, get rid of Sanchez.
Exactly. The freeing up the wages talk when it’s someone like Herrera is naive and daft. Him leaving will cost us badly.
He'll probably get PSG just as much
saying that though he's probably been offered much higher wages, and maybe he wants to go there and win a few guaranteed trophies. Can't say I blame him as he's really not had much in his career so far. It will be gutting though as he's very important to us on his best day.
When they got embarrassed in the champions league they take a player of the adversary club as revenge.
Aye, I'll be gutted. Always liked him. Hope this is all BS. Or else...pass me the kleenex.
Hopefully he'll tweet something soon to squash the rumours.
We should be going in for Verratti
If he doesn't have an offer on the table from United then I doubt that.
Hope we have good replacements coming in if true, he's very important. Fred doesn't look up to much so far.
We desperately need 2 CM's now in the summer. I wanted 2 even if Herrera stayed but we won't be getting 3.
Very very unlikely that we haven’t offered him a deal.
He would have extended a while ago if he was going to stay. He would only stay if we gave him a better offer, which we wont. So he is likely off. 4 year contract with higher wages no club will offer him. You must really be naive and surprised. I said a few months ago he wont renew, his interviews said as much. No player keeps it this late to resign if he really wants to.
Don't leave contract extensions until the players only have one season left of their contracts. Certainly not for our most important players. Incompetent. Praying he stays.
Im sure you'll get over it when we use the wages freed up to sign someone like Sancho.
I tought he loved the club not like Pogba the mercenary...
Our next captain huh...
Our next captain huh...
Don't get why people are bashing the club and Woodward. If reports are to be believed, he's being offered 150k 4 year contract. No way are we offering that especially considering the fact that he relies on his energy and aggression, which will diminish with age. He'll be a bench warmer within 2 years on 150k!
Also don't get the Young and Jones comparison. Both wanted to sign new contracts / didn't have other offers on the table and so it was way easier for the club to get them to sign a new contract.
If you ask me, the club is now being very careful with handing over lengthy contracts to 30+ year Olds. Matic who was signed when he was 28/29 was given only a 3 year contract IIRC, Mata has been offered a one year contract and IIRC the club was very reluctant to give a two year contract to Fellaini but had to when Mou insisted. I feel Ander wanted a longer contract (3-4 year) but we were willing to give him only 2 years. And personally, as much as I love Ander, I don't think he's the best we can do and also I feel a 3-4 year contract for him at 125-150k would have been excessive
Also don't get the Young and Jones comparison. Both wanted to sign new contracts / didn't have other offers on the table and so it was way easier for the club to get them to sign a new contract.
If you ask me, the club is now being very careful with handing over lengthy contracts to 30+ year Olds. Matic who was signed when he was 28/29 was given only a 3 year contract IIRC, Mata has been offered a one year contract and IIRC the club was very reluctant to give a two year contract to Fellaini but had to when Mou insisted. I feel Ander wanted a longer contract (3-4 year) but we were willing to give him only 2 years. And personally, as much as I love Ander, I don't think he's the best we can do and also I feel a 3-4 year contract for him at 125-150k would have been excessive
You're not good at mathematics?
When a player has less than 6 months left on their deal something is up. Maybe its the length on contract offered on the table. I should have said 'good deal on the table' instead of deal
Oh it's he's 29 brigade!
Agreed this looks likely to bite us on the ass repeatedly if they don't change their ways. Would be really bad business to have him go for free.
Timing is relevant mate. If you run a player’s contract down (that was Uniteds doing, he wanted to stay but Mourinho didn’t fancy him) then you invite others to offer him a contract. Which you then have to match if you want to keep the player.
Herrera would have accepted a contract renewal any time in the last 2 years, he has been very vocal about that. It was us who were stalling, so we can’t play the card “oh he wants to leave” when other clubs offer better money to a player we didn’t tie down.
Yeah, cannot wait to repalce a central midfielder, one of our hardest working ones, with a winger.
Those who were getting into Woodward's ass recently (for not buying player X because he's old, because we'll surely hire a DOF, because he 'stood up' to Mourinho, etc., etc.) are looking more and more silly with each passing day. Surely we're leaving it all for the summer though when we sign a DOF, plenty of young players, etc., etc. Just like the last summer.
What does this mean for Ole? Herrera has been a guaranteed starter for him, Ole has been here since December. Does that mean the club have ignored his recommendation?
It seems the club is enforcing the Logan's Run law. Any player over 30 (or turns 30 in their new contract) will be told to feck off apparently.
I don't buy the idea that Herrera was offered a good contract and turned us down. More likely we tried to play hardball, then when his value increased under Ole and he had already got offers from other clubs, we maybe tried to offer him a slightly increased contract, but it was too late.
Pathetic if true.
It seems the club is enforcing the Logan's Run law. Any player over 30 (or turns 30 in their new contract) will be told to feck off apparently.
I don't buy the idea that Herrera was offered a good contract and turned us down. More likely we tried to play hardball, then when his value increased under Ole and he had already got offers from other clubs, we maybe tried to offer him a slightly increased contract, but it was too late.
Pathetic if true.
Given we don't have many midfield options we can trust. I would suggest securing Herrera is a must before the summer. We still need to figure out what to do with Fred.
Letting Herrera go would mean replacing him (and we have work to do with our squad as it is)
Herrera isn't starter quality. Fred does similar things and having both seems redundant. If anything we might actually sign a midfielder who offers different qualities.
In Eds world we already have replacements for Fellaini and Herrera in Garner and Mcctominay, Glazernomics folks.
The rest of the league will be celebrating, one of our toughest to play against gone for nothing.
Fred can’t be compared to Herrera until we see him actually perform to Herreras level, hasn’t come close yet. He might, but it’s clearly far from guaranteed.
Letting a character like Herrera go for free so we can bring in an utter cock like Rabiot would be a travesty. Herrera should retire at United, preferrably as captain.
I doubt it mate.
Well, we'll need to then purchase a CM as well, having let go of both Fellaini and Herrera?
Because if we had offered him a 4 year contract 2 years ago when he started asking for it (at the 3 year mark of his current deal, after we won the EL) with improved terms, he would have signed for less than 150k. And he would be tied down for a couple more years but not till 34. Instead we signed Matic, consigned him to the bench and didn't offer him a deal.
We chose to run the contract down and now we either lose him on a free or we overpay/overextend for a new one. Yep, totally nothing to blame the club for
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PSG wouldn't be offering him more money, if his contract wouldn't be expiring which is only happening because we bumbled around for so long.
Not a hard player to replace.
A gap filler in the first team with a strong heart. Meh.
A gap filler in the first team with a strong heart. Meh.
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