I know it is Man U, but surely PSR is out of sync surely the object should be for teams to produce their own talent for their team.
I know we are a well run club compared to others, especially Man U with their waste of money buys, but could you imagine us having to sell Trent when he was at his best for PSR rules.
I just don’t like how PSR works it seems to punish fans wanting to see home grown talent
That’s not the objective at all. The goal is to have teams invest in their academies to support local talent development. The PL doesn’t give a shit if they end up playing in the league just that teams support their communities and development of the youth game in England.
Which in turn incentivizes teams to do the develop and sell model. We do it quite well as an example
Goldbridge is currently apoplectic that United have briefed trusted journos that Mainoo is for sale if an offer comes in.
Yeah I don’t think the set up is quite right at the moment - maybe there could be some sort of offset earned by playing minutes for homegrown players. Something to actually incentivize young players being allowed to come through at their clubs.
The only reason they’d be forced to sell Mainoo is because they spaffed a billion £s up the wall on over the hill and/or utter shite players from abroad.
Same with City losing Palmer and Chelsea selling their prospects.
No sympathy for any of them. A relatively well run club would never have to face this issue
I understand that, but we are all supporters and it isn’t best for the game IMO
Agreed, we all love to see academy players come through and be a part of the 1st team.
Wasting millions so you “win” the transfer window isn’t best for the game either.
Well United fans are always proud of the fact that they always have at least one academy produced player in their starting lineup, and justifiably so.
If they are asset stripping that side of the club, that really is their identity going down the drain.
80m for the Kobbster is an ‘absolute bargain’ apparently.
And it’s early, but we’ve already had the quote of 2025…
‘80m over 10 years is not even 8m a year!’
Anyone else getting the feeling that they actually signed a competent guy looking at his game management against Liverpool and Arsenal?
I think he is competent and he has now had them fight for two results within a week. He is clearly better at builidng ‘spirit’ than Erik the Fraud. They were soft and lazy and weak as piss just a few weeks ago.
However, as I once said to my students in the Lyceum, ‘one swallow does not a summer make…’
The squad is still chock full of dross, they’ll do well to finish 8th.
As an amusing aside, apparently they’re now aiming for the Europa League and the FA Cup.
Bless.
They will finish much higher than they are sitting currently but I agree that there’s a fair bit of dross in their squad. He’s getting the likes of Ugarte and De Ligt to perform, though, and that is the hallmark of a competent manager.
I think that their early troubles have passed and that they are on the way up but he’ll need a few transfer windows to build the side to his liking.
Im not entirely convinced as there are still too many snake oil salesmen in the club to allow any manager to prove themselves competent
Yeah he’s a good coach. Will take him a few years to sort that squad out and hopefully before then he’ll have fallen out with the INEOS scum bags and quit
Erik also got them up for the odd big game, FA cup final and against us last year
Did you se De Ligt for Arsenals goal, he was running around with his hands behind his back may have blocked it if he used them for balance, then he could have reacted
True but that tackle that he made to prevent Trossard from scoring a clear goal was something that I didn’t think he had in him.
I only saw the highlights, but remember that he was also at fault forboth our goals, when Cody sat him down and the handball