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Man Utd pull off shock coup as striker Ighalo signs on loan
Date published: Friday 31st January 2020 10:26
Manchester United have signed striker Odion Ighalo from Shanghai Shenhua on a six-month loan deal – but the transfer does not contain any option to make the move permanent in the summer.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s desperate search to land a new centre forward on deadline day finally paid dividends with minutes to spare when it was announced a deal for Ighalo had been reached.
ESPN’s Manchester United reporter Rob Dawson claims the player will fly to the UK over the weekend where he will be formally presented as a United player.
I see Haaland has 7 goals in 3 games for Dortmund.
Lukaku got two to make it 11 goals in 11 away games.
Fuck off Cyrille
You gonna mention Smalling next?
That fkin Martial is pissing me off.
Again.
I should have stuck to my vow to stay away after rage transferring Rashford out.
Oh sorry, wrong thread.
Utd making good players bad. .
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And still no glimmer of a focused approach to signings and Director of Football.
It's amazing that a problem can be so obvious for so long and not be addressed.
Braved Hurricane Ciara the other day to show our resident exchange student some of the footballing sights of Manchester and Trafford.
Sure a few of the old school Utd supporters will appreciate these couple of pictures...
Blaney memorial(read his book-Grafters)
Busby Babes memorial
Yep, Fergies a wanker.
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^ Have you trod in a dog shit there?
Manchester United's potential suitors are being PUT OFF by the state of Old Trafford with club's creaking stadium in desperate need of an upgrade... but it would cost investors £200m
- Manchester United owners, the Glazers, would require £2.4billion to sell the club
- Financiers believe only 20 people in the world have a enough net worth to bid
- It would take the sovereign wealth of a Middle East state to buy the Glazers out
- An estimated £200million would be needed to overhaul the Old Trafford stadium
The dreadful state of Old Trafford is an impediment to anyone buying Manchester United from the Glazer family.
That is the view of corporate financiers who have detailed knowledge of the club.
The Glazers, who prize United as one of the few parts of their business empire that makes them money, would require a staggering offer of more than £2.4billion to sell.
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Heavy rain pours off the roof of Old Trafford during a football match at the London Olympics
Financers believe an estimated £200million would be required to overhaul the stadium
Manchester United's potential suitors are being PUT OFF by the state of Old Trafford with club's creaking stadium in desperate need of an upgrade... but it would cost investors £200m
- Manchester United owners, the Glazers, would require £2.4billion to sell the club
- Financiers believe only 20 people in the world have a enough net worth to bid
- It would take the sovereign wealth of a Middle East state to buy the Glazers out
- An estimated £200million would be needed to overhaul the Old Trafford stadium
The dreadful state of Old Trafford is an impediment to anyone buying Manchester United from the Glazer family.
That is the view of corporate financiers who have detailed knowledge of the club.
The Glazers, who prize United as one of the few parts of their business empire that makes them money, would require a staggering offer of more than £2.4billion .
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Former United executive vice-chairman David Gill (L) talking to Avram (C) and Joel (R) Glazer
THE GLAZER BROTHERS
United would also require an alternative stadium while the work was done.
One of the reasons Manchester City were so attractive to Abu Dhabi in 2009 was the purpose-built stadium they could move into, with capacity to expand. But there is already evidence that investors consider United a less attractive proposition than City now.
Financiers believe it was significant that private equity giant Silver Lake invested £380m in City, rather than United, when they moved into the Premier League in November.
That investment values the City group at nearly £3.8billion.
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Tottenham's new stadium has made United's Old Trafford ground look outdated in comparison
The Saudis have expressed interest in United. One well-placed source suggested that there has been contact on two occasions. But the sticking point is the Glazers’ refusal to contemplate selling more than a 20 per cent stake, while the Saudis would want to take the club over — lock, stock and barrel.
With the Premier League TV rights market showing no sign of cooling off, the club’s on-field struggles are an insignificance to the Glazers. But financiers point out that prospective buyers would not want to feel they are paying over the odds.
Aside from sovereign wealth funds of Saudi magnitude, there are simply not the buyers out there. The sums currently under discussion for clubs are well below £500m — as the £340m Saudi interest in Newcastle United shows.
Approaching the 15th anniversary of the purchase of United, the Glazers show no sign of attempting to improve the governance of the club, who are currently 38 points behind Premier League leaders Liverpool after 25 games.
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In the last year of Sir Alex Ferguson’s management, Gill also stepped down as chief executive
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Arsenal moved to the Emirates in 2006 after knocking down their old Highbury stadium
In the last year of Sir Alex Ferguson’s management, when executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward’s predecessor David Gill also stepped down, they won the Premier League by 11 points — overturning the popular belief that reigning champions City would eclipse them.
Woodward said in November that he did not think the Glazer family were looking to sell.
He told the magazine United We Stand: ‘Based on what I see, they’re in it for the long-term. My understanding is that there have been no discussions for a price for the club or anything like that.
‘Every conversation we have is based on the long term.’
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Ed Woodward said in November that he did not think the Glazer family were looking to sell
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R.I.P Harry Gregg.
A true hero
Harry Gregg obituary | Football | The Guardian
Kept missing out on medals but the mark of the man is that he'll be remembered for way more than just what he did on the pitch, yep RIP.
^ Get that 8 ringgit ready son
Arguably the most famous football competition in the world has moved so far away from its' grass roots the supporters may as well be barracking for Glaxo smith Klyne, united technologies or Siemens. They are now just corporate entities and the by product is football. Most players would need a GPS to find the football ground and that's the English players let alone the plethora of foreigners. That combined with insane transfer fees and salaries hinders the development of other clubs in lower devisions. they should have a sane salary cap which applies to all players and coaching staff that allows a reasonable salary without the current insanity. I am far from any sort of expert on Soccer so just my take on it.
As a comparison my Oz football team has at least 12 players that I know of that were born and bred in the area my football team is named after and it is not a franchise that can be bought and sold. The salary cap allows for players to be paid between about $275K to $1 mil from the bottom to the top players. Low by EPL standards but enough that they can retire from the game comfortably rather than retire ridiculously wealthy.
I think that generates a much greater sense of "belonging and ownership" and a greter afinity with the players by the fans/supporters. Again, my opinion only.
Martial's header was Ronaldo-esque.
^^ Makes a lot of sense but how much revenue is there in Aussie footy? English football is an entertainment industry and it's the agents, who are the biggest coonts nowadays.ie Raiola.
As for most of your players being local, English footy wasn't as good without the foreigners.
We do have one team in the EPL who mainly use English players and that's Burnley whose style is to largely hoof it long and up in the air and bully the fuck out of the opposition. None of their players are in England's national team
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