Manchester United

[ChesterDave]

Thursday Night FC back to being ****

[Scratch]

Starting Maguire and Ronaldo, what did they expect?

[S-RED]

Starting Maguire and Ronaldo, what did they expect?

What you think there is a poossible link!!!hahahahaha

[frank the tank]

European referrees arent bent as **** for them either

[Scratch]

European referrees arent bent as **** for them either

Almost the opposite it seems....commentators last night were apoplectic that the penalty wasn't overturned by VAR

Must say, I don't really understand the handball rules, regarding deflecting on the arm and all.

[Kenneth]

Yeah, very dodgy penalty.

[Cormack74]

The least surprising piece of news you'll hear this year

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/09/19/manchester-united-overpaid-200m-transfers-last-decade/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

Manchester United have done more to inflate player transfer fees than any club across Europe’s big five leagues over the past decade, according to a study by a respected football research group.

The CIES Football Observatory claims United have overspent by £209 million on players since July 2012.

According to the study, United lavished £1.4 billion on 33 players over the 10-year period when their market value was estimated at £1.19bn.

Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain were cited as the two next worst culprits for overpaying, with the Italian club estimated to have paid £204m over the odds for players in the past decade and the French champions £142m too much.

United have come in for criticism for some of the fees they have shelled out on players in recent seasons, notably the £85m they committed to sign Harry Maguire from Leicester and the £50m paid to Crystal Palace for Aaron Wan-Bissaka in 2019.

Wan-Bissaka has played just four minutes of football under Erik ten Hag this season and appears to be surplus to requirements while Maguire, the United captain, has lost his starting place in the team under the new manager.

United’s £227m expenditure on six new signings this summer was their biggest-ever close season outlay and saw them pay significantly more than their original valuations of some targets.

Having had an initial €60m (£53m) bid for Antony rejected by Ajax, United ended up paying €100m (£85.5m) for the Brazil forward, a month after coughing up £57m to sign Argentina defender Lisandro Martinez from the Dutch club, almost £20m more than their opening offer.

CIES listed Aston Villa as the second worst Premier League club for overspending since 2012, with the Midlands club accused of paying £131m too much on players.

Wolverhampton Wanderers, Tottenham and Brighton were the only three Premier League sides from 36 clubs that managed to invest less money than expected to conclude the transfer deals assessed, according to the study.

CIES cited this as confirmation of the “key role” the Premier League has played in “driving up inflation on the transfer market”.

The CIES Football Observatory is a research group within the International Centre for Sports Studies and specialises in the statistical analysis of football.

[SB]

Villa 2nd is a bit of surprise though

[ChesterDave]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63012264

Make the decision to charge him 5 months later when he isn't getting a game

Nothing whiffy about that

[Le Chef]

With the £ crashing UTD's debt repayments are getting more expensive lol

[Le Chef]

https://twitter.com/SwissRamble/status/1569207798487216129?s=20&t=GPVgqaHt9pym0S_OlftftA

[Le Chef]

£92m loss last year

[Irishnev]

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[Bender]

https://twitter.com/kieranmaguire/st...88426907717633

[spud_gun]

Countries ****ed but on the plus side Man U's debt has increased