Sanchez - 450k a week.
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I love how little Moutinho gives a fuck about player development. He’s got two of the best prospects in world football in Martial and Rashford and he’s now limiting their game time in a season where they are already likely to secure top 4. I suspect Martial will want out in the summer.
In the short term it will definitely be a decent upgrade for United. The plus side for us is that it makes Arsenal a lot less competitive which will be useful in securing top four over the next few years.
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In the short term it will definitely be a decent upgrade for United. The plus side for us is that it makes Arsenal a lot less competitive which will be useful in securing top four over the next few years.
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Yep they finally have that maverick guy they have needed
Yup. And they will probably continue rotating Martial and Rashford to play with Sanchez’ Lingard and Lukaku, with Juan Mata being the one to lose out. Which is no great loss.
Martial will get games, but rashford not so much. Martial has been in a good run of form lately. But tbh if manure start winning things mourinho can justify his lack of youth development with trophys and the board won't give a shit.
I think United’s board know that the fans always expect some youth talent to come through and be given a chance, and Mourinho does too, so he will certainly keep Rashford and Lingard involved, to keep that box as ticked as required
Much as it doesn’t interest him
A couple of arsenal Players are on their way out of a contract but it doesn't seem like there is a dressing room rift with them, just Sanchez and that's likely cos he was a tear in the dressing room.
Hopefully that rubs off at united
Or he fells like he's sorted with a million a fortnight and loses focus
Or he tears his hamstring chasing back
Or picks a fight with lukaku and zlatan when we play them next
Hopefully that rubs off at united
Or he fells like he's sorted with a million a fortnight and loses focus
Or he tears his hamstring chasing back
Or picks a fight with lukaku and zlatan when we play them next
Yeah he'll bring them on as subs or play them in the cups and say he's doing it to protect them so they can develop at their own pace or some bollox like that.
Apparently Stelling, after his on-screen demand last season for the manager to be sacked -
- did indeed help to hasten his way (and ensured that the club hurtled out of the league - nice one, Jeff), Stelling is now 'listening' to potential financial saviours, which is nice of the hairy-handed geek. Next on Sky, Jim White decides who manages Scotland, and Charlie Nicholas calls for the head of Arsene Wenger.
Footballers at a 110-year-old club have been playing this weekend, worried that they might not be paid.
After a troubled few years Hartlepool United is on the brink of administration with debts of £1.8m and immediate bills of £200,000.
Fans of the North East club organised a sell-out for the Saturday home game against Wrexham alongside an online fundraising campaign that raised £67,000, meaning players will be paid next week.
The club's tough time has been compounded by a 0-2 loss to Wrexham.
Among those at the match were coachloads of Middlesbrough fans who turned out to help, acknowledging Hartlepool's support for their club when it was under threat in the mid-1980s.
Before the match, Hartlepool's chair and chief executive Pam Duxbury, who has been holding the fort since the beginning of last year, is hopeful someone will buy the club and pump in the £1m a year it takes to keep it afloat.
"I’m reviewing it on a daily basis," she said. Her message to potential buyers is simple: "If you’ve got £1m, I want you to come."
If the club slips into administration it will automatically lose 10 points and could drop out of the National League and down to the sixth tier; a world away from the big money of top-flight football.
I probably will be convinced, but at the moment I remain to be.
I remember Di Maria and hope for similar.
I remember Di Maria and hope for similar.
Hahahaha
Just in case everyone doesn't know the story to which Macca alludes....
The Hanging of the Hartlepool Monkey
Legend has it that during the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century, a shipwrecked monkey was hanged by the people of Hartlepool, believing him to be a French spy! To this day, people from Hartlepool are affectionately known as ‘monkey hangers’.
A French ship was spotted floundering and sinking off the Hartlepool coast. Suspicious of enemy ships and nervous of possible invasion, the good folk of Hartlepool rushed down to the beach, where amongst the wreckage of the ship they found the only survivor, the ship’s monkey which was apparently dressed in a miniature military-style uniform.
Hartlepool is a long way from France and most of the populace had never met, or even seen, a Frenchman. Some satirical cartoons of the time pictured the French as monkey-like creatures with tails and claws, so perhaps the locals could be forgiven for deciding that the monkey, in its uniform, must be a Frenchman, and a French spy at that. There was a trial to ascertain whether the monkey was guilty of spying or not; however, not unsurprisingly, the monkey was unable to answer any of the court’s questions and was found guilty. The townsfolk then dragged him into the town square and hanged him.
So is the legend true? Did the good folk of Hartlepool REALLY hang a poor defenceless monkey?
There could perhaps be a darker side to the tale – maybe they didn’t actually hang a ‘monkey’ but a small boy or ‘powder-monkey’. Small boys were employed on warships of this time to prime the canons with gunpowder and were known as ‘powder-monkeys’.
Over the centuries the legend has been used to taunt the residents of Hartlepool; indeed still today, at football matches between local rivals Darlington and Hartlepool United the chant, “Who hung the monkey” can often be heard. Most Hartlepudlians however love this story. Hartlepool United’s mascot is a monkey called H’Angus the Monkey, and the local Rugby Union team Hartlepool Rovers are known as the Monkeyhangers.
The successful mayoral candidate in the 2002 local elections, Stuart Drummond, campaigned dressed in the costume of H’Angus the Monkey, using the election slogan “free bananas for schoolchildren”, a promise he was unfortunately unable to keep. However this appears not to have dented his popularity, as he went on to be re-elected two more times.
Whatever the truth, the legend of Hartlepool and the hanged monkey has endured for over 200 years.
I love the fact a mayoral candidate was successfully elected on the promise of free bananas!
I was gonna say something along these lines but expected you may have. Sanchez is a quality player and they are twice the team with him in it. Delude yourselves all you want but this is a move we could’ve done without. If he had gone to Chelsea or City I’d have been fine with it but he has just made the scum into title challengers.
I wouldn’t dismiss them this season either albeit it would take a monumental fuck up from City, but we have seen it happen before.
This one's for @Dreambeliever, obviously
Judging from the look on his face in these, I am starting to think that it was actually one of his demands for moving in the first place.. to live out the Hollywood dream, in Manchester.
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