What a lot of you are forgetting is, we actually have a wage structure and City do not... That's why 115% of their profits went on wages last year and only 40% of our profits went on wages... If you start giving players the wages they want, everyone would be on £250,000 a week, we need to sign smart and get bargains so when the FFP comes in, we're ahead of the rest, I for one don't like seeing 30/40 Million pound players, I'd rather we spend 8M on a player and if he becomes a flop, what have we lost, look at Veron, pretty sure he was the last real world class player we bought in to the team, look how that panned out, how much money was that wasted?... Just because they have a big price tag and are brandished world class does not mean they'll fit in to our system. We buy smart, we buy low and we build talent, with 2/3 more additions to this squad of players 20/24 we won't have to buy anyone again for another 4/5 years, personally I perfer that scenario than buying 3 28 year old world class players for 30/40 million a pop and then having to buy again in 2 years time when they have passed it

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89cruefan2:

Wow its an idiot fest in here.

Depends if the targets are 1) For sale 2) Want to come to United

please stop being naive!!! im not a plastic fan but every1 is pretty much for sale at the right price!! also most players would come to utd if we paid the going rates of what CITY AND CHELSEA AND REAL have done. IM not happy about the inflated prices and wages but its the reality and this is sports not business and if we want to remain number1 we have to step it up abit --- --- im not saying sign ten 40M players but we should be spending BIG in midfield atleast ---- GIGGS SCHOLES KEANE BECKHAM -- were our midfield 4 and they were all WORLD CLASS in their positions ----- fast forward to 2012 which of our midfielders are world class??? ---- valencia very good, nani and young good too -- but real weakness lies in the centre -- CARRICK ANDERSON GIBSON FLETCHER CLEVERLEY were our centre midfielders we started the season with ------

true!

Zishan:

BREAKING NEWS OLE AND BECKS GONNA RETURNED TO OT THE FORMER IN A PLAYER/ASSISTANT MANAGER ROLE AND BECKS PLAYER/AMBASSADOR ROLE. Both are willing to sign a contract worth 20 pound pa.... Big deal 2 more stars to share their experience to the youth... We will surely win UCL next year.... Good blend..... CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS OE... OE...

If I remember rightly, you lot on here all wanted Becks back not too long ago.

nick carter:

stretford77:

I hate the title 'world class', what SAF has said is right, City have a bottomless pit and they can spend what they like. We can give players reasonable wages but we aren't going to pay the stupid amounts City do to get them interested, they don't deserve these wages in the first place. Again like SAF has said if its for footballing reasons, at the end of the day its up to the players what they want to do, do they want higher wages, do they want game time, do they want to be blue or red, its up to the player and theirs not alot you can do if they prefer somewhere else.

There are a lot of talented players out their who aren't the finished product but yet are very special players and won't cost a bomb who want to play for this club, I'd take a bunch a 11 talented players who gel together than a bunch of overpaid individuals any day.

This in my eyes is the difference between us and city, we are a team and a family and they are individuals with their own goals.

We paid 16m for Young in the final year of his contract. He earns 130k a week. The irony...It's acceptable that we refuse to pay massive fees for players but complaining about wages is just ridiculous and hypocritical

What I meant was for their age, experience etc Young to be fair is well established in the EPL, has the best stats behind Fabregas and is experienced enough, in ways he has earned that sort of wage. Other clubs were also interested in Young so maybe that had some impact on it idk but City pay about 200k upwards for some players.

Nasri is on like 173k apparently and others even more which is frankly stupid, we should keep our structure to the wage scheme.

stretford77:

I hate the title 'world class', what SAF has said is right, City have a bottomless pit and they can spend what they like. We can give players reasonable wages but we aren't going to pay the stupid amounts City do to get them interested, they don't deserve these wages in the first place. Again like SAF has said if its for footballing reasons, at the end of the day its up to the players what they want to do, do they want higher wages, do they want game time, do they want to be blue or red, its up to the player and theirs not alot you can do if they prefer somewhere else.

There are a lot of talented players out their who aren't the finished product but yet are very special players and won't cost a bomb who want to play for this club, I'd take a bunch a 11 talented players who gel together than a bunch of overpaid individuals any day.

This in my eyes is the difference between us and city, we are a team and a family and they are individuals with their own goals.

We paid 16m for Young in the final year of his contract. He earns 130k a week. The irony...It's acceptable that we refuse to pay massive fees for players but complaining about wages is just ridiculous and hypocritical

I hate the title 'world class', what SAF has said is right, City have a bottomless pit and they can spend what they like. We can give players reasonable wages but we aren't going to pay the stupid amounts City do to get them interested, they don't deserve these wages in the first place. Again like SAF has said if its for footballing reasons, at the end of the day its up to the players what they want to do, do they want higher wages, do they want game time, do they want to be blue or red, its up to the player and theirs not alot you can do if they prefer somewhere else.

There are a lot of talented players out their who aren't the finished product but yet are very special players and won't cost a bomb who want to play for this club, I'd take a bunch a 11 talented players who gel together than a bunch of overpaid individuals any day.

This in my eyes is the difference between us and city, we are a team and a family and they are individuals with their own goals.

Have we ever? No. SAF gets potential 'world class signings' like Ronaldo, Rooney, Vidic, etc. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

89cruefan2:

Wow its an idiot fest in here.

Depends if the targets are 1) For sale 2) Want to come to United

please stop being naive!!! im not a plastic fan but every1 is pretty much for sale at the right price!! also most players would come to utd if we paid the going rates of what CITY AND CHELSEA AND REAL have done. IM not happy about the inflated prices and wages but its the reality and this is sports not business and if we want to remain number1 we have to step it up abit --- --- im not saying sign ten 40M players but we should be spending BIG in midfield atleast ---- GIGGS SCHOLES KEANE BECKHAM -- were our midfield 4 and they were all WORLD CLASS in their positions ----- fast forward to 2012 which of our midfielders are world class??? ---- valencia very good, nani and young good too -- but real weakness lies in the centre -- CARRICK ANDERSON GIBSON FLETCHER CLEVERLEY were our centre midfielders we started the season with ------

I think City are looking a lot at the Napoli players, and Hazard. So i would love for us to look at the Bilbao team and Dortmund. Apparently we're close to this guy, Kagawa. Never seen him in action, so don't know how to rate him. If i were in charge, i would buy a descent RB (WHO IS A RB), two midfielders (creative ones) and one more attacker. But we also need a cleanout - send off Berbatov, Owen, Park, Kuzchack and perhapse Anderson - seriously deadwood, and not contributing enough.So if we have bought Kagawa who is a creative midfielder, i would look at Munain or Martinez for the second place in midfield. The attacker should be the world class player - either Cavani, Falcao, Llorente or Higuain.

Wow its an idiot fest in here.

Depends if the targets are 1) For sale 2) Want to come to United

Name the last world class player we signed?

BREAKING NEWS OLE AND BECKS GONNA RETURNED TO OT THE FORMER IN A PLAYER/ASSISTANT MANAGER ROLE AND BECKS PLAYER/AMBASSADOR ROLE. Both are willing to sign a contract worth 20 pound pa.... Big deal 2 more stars to share their experience to the youth... We will surely win UCL next year.... Good blend..... CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS OE... OE...

Pubstars:

Apparently were looking at Joe Cole, he's within our budget.

I hope this is a joke ! :P

Sneijder.18:

MagicalWade:

I mean today i have this sick gut feeling seeing City beat Newcastle and now i feel we can't sign anyone thats gunna compete with the big spenders...

what do you mean? isnt Bebe and Obertan World Class Singnings? LOL

I think you forgot THE ONE :P