25 Jan 2024 13:23:02
Hi Ed002, any truth in the Callum Wilson to Utd for £18 million rumours I'm reading?

Apparently he has 86 goals and 23 assists in 215 appearances which is a pretty decent record especially considering he played for Bournemouth and a very poor Newcastle pre-Howe.

{Ed002's Note - Not that I am aware.}

1.) 25 Jan 2024
25 Jan 2024 14:06:09
He is very injury prone aswell. Avoid.

2.) 25 Jan 2024
25 Jan 2024 14:57:49
Good point that Mad Hatter. I was wondering why so few appearances for a 31 year old.

3.) 25 Jan 2024
25 Jan 2024 16:14:15
It doesn’t make sense replacing an injury prone player with another injury prone one.

4.) 25 Jan 2024
25 Jan 2024 17:21:59
Plus he’s a to€€er that falls over more easily than Bruno ?.

5.) 25 Jan 2024
25 Jan 2024 16:15:27
Thanks for the response Ed002.

6.) 25 Jan 2024
25 Jan 2024 17:59:22
I think the club should have a policy of not signing full time podcasters who play football in their spare time.

7.) 25 Jan 2024
25 Jan 2024 19:38:38
I’m hoping with the new structure we might start seeing some sensible due diligence in signing new players moving forward. The above is not a smart signing in the slightest.

8.) 25 Jan 2024
25 Jan 2024 20:01:59
Wow, I never thought I’d see a rumour that would make Shappy’s Solanke suggestion not look that silly but here it is! ?.

9.) 27 Jan 2024
27 Jan 2024 00:43:17
Recall Greenwood?

10.) 27 Jan 2024
27 Jan 2024 09:28:18
Greenwood will be sold for several reasons.

11.) 27 Jan 2024
27 Jan 2024 09:56:42
He ain’t coming back to the club Utd Road.

12.) 27 Jan 2024
27 Jan 2024 11:29:13
Spot on Eric. By all accounts he's loving life in Spain, why would he want to come back to the media scrutiny and backlash he and his young family would get in England when playing for Manchester United. Why would INEOS and SJR want to potentially create a negative media storm right at the start of their involvement with the club. Finally, selling Greenwood for a good fee makes a massive difference to what we can do in terms of transfers with regard to FFP as all of his fee would be considered as "profit" on the accounts as there is no remaining transfer fee to offset.

We could see players like Greenwood, McTominay, Hannibal and Alvaro Fernandez leave this summer as all technically count as academy players and all of the fee received counts as profit in the eyes of FFP.

Much like we will see several high earners like Varane, Casemiro, Sancho, Maguire and Martial leave as getting their wages off the balance sheets also make a big difference and frees up space for the club to make moves to bring players in this summer.

While we will likely see the likes of Donny, Pellistri and AWB leave on permanent deals, the fact that whatever fees are still to be amortised from their signings would be deducted from any fees we receive for FFP.

FFP will make a big impact on what we do this summer, as we need to shift players to be able to make signings and stay within the rules. Which when we see punishments being dished out to Everton and Forest and City's 118 charges hanging over them, it's probably wise to make sure we don't fall foul of these rules.