|
|||
|
|||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
|
|
||||
|
||||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Unfortunately we all know how this is going to end.
The Glazers/United (it's the same thing now) are going to get deeper and deeper into financial trouble. They can raise cash in the short term by selling Carrington, Rooney or even Old Trafford, but in the end the debts will drag United down because every bit of selling off devalues the club further. The Glazers will have to sell the club, but any buyer with any sense will wait until things are desperate and the price has dropped as low as it is likely to go. Once the Glazers have to sell because the club isn't generating any money any more, a new buyer will buy a cheaper United with fewer star players, maybe a rented ground and training facilities. Only then will it be worth their while to buy the club for a song and invest in new players to rebuild the club and restore it's value. It's going to hurt, but we're going to have to fall a lot further before it's worth someone's while to rescue us. |
|
||||
|
||||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
|
|
||||
|
||||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
Made more irritating because everyone knew this is what would happen |
|
|||
|
|||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
|
|
|||
|
|||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
Signing a faded Liverpool striker and selling a star performer for a record transfer fee were some of the first outward signs that something was wrong. We are all still thinking that something will turn up to balance the books and sort itself out despite United various companies failing to make an overall profit in the last few years. Fingers crossed our optimism and boredom is more justified than Leeds fans' optimism and boredom with the subject. Fingers crossed that the surprise move in January 2010 to attempt to attract bond traders around the world to stump up cash does not become a bulletpoint on a wikipedia page about the signposts to our own demise. |
|
||||
|
||||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
Signing Owen essentially for free wasn't a sign of anything other than a good financial deal in my opinion. It's who we haven't signed that is the indicator of any trouble. |
|
||||
|
||||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
|
|
||||
|
||||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
Since then, we've been fobbed off about us 'bidding' for players and about the whole financial situation by our manager (who I have the upmost respect for) and I honestly believe we're in a Leeds type situation. Bottom line - if there was no financial 'crisis' as Ferguson keeps saying, the Carrington sale/lease back issue would have never been raised.We're right in the shit. |
|
||||
|
||||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
|
|
||||
|
||||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
We weren't on the verge of selling our training ground etc.We were able to pay top fees in 2005. Alright, the Glazers came in and saddled us with the debt but it's now that it's obviously uncontrollable/unsustainable. |
|
||||
|
||||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
Didn't mean it to sound quite so upity |
|
|||
|
|||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
Any resemblance to the current Manchester United situation was merely coincidental. Though while we are talking, signing Owen may indeed be a good financial deal for a club that knows it cannot spend significant money on either transfer fees or salaries. Of all the players who would accept whatever kind of pay-as-you-play deal he is on, would cost nothing in transfer fees and would be willing to come to Old Trafford on a short term contract, Owen may well represent a very good value financial deal. I'm not sure who else was on that shortlist though. I'm not sure if Henrik Laarson was available this time around. |
|
||||
|
||||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
|
|
|||
|
|||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
You wonder how they plan to continue - we can't get a great deal better than the past two seasons from a playing point, and they must be maximizing every available avenue possible income wise - and yet still it's nowhere near enough to break even? Weakening the team to the point where it fails to qualify for the CL would be suicidal, so hopefully that will rule out the sale of Rooney - although I'm not entirely confident about that. Saying that, I think other players are almost certain to go - selling Rooney may get the most money but it's still only one wage - I'd imagine they'd rather raise the same money by shifting 6 or 7 others (e.g. Foster, Vidic, Gibson, Nani, Tosic, Berbatov, Owen etc) whilst at the same time getting all their wages of the payroll. As we have a huge squad we could probably cope with that, and they wouldn't cause anything like the controversy of selling Rooney - he's probably a last resort. What a £#%&!ing mess, it's a total disgrace that this has been allowed to happen. It's hard to believe anyone can borrow a ridiculous amount of money to buy a perfectly well run and profitable club, then legally transfer that debt to the club and get that club to pay the money back ... we're literally buying ourselves! As for the main debt, £#%&! me we can't even cope with the interest payments never mind that ... |
|
||||
|
||||
Re: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments
Quote:
|
Similar Threads for: Do you think that selling Rooney at the end of the season will cover the interest payments | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Manchester United earn millions from World Cup as FIFA player payments list confirmed | fred tissue | Football Auto-Threads | 0 | 15-12-2022 04:00 PM |
Manchester United 'will pay Ajax £56,000 in bonus payments EVERY time Lisandro Martinez plays' | fred tissue | Football Auto-Threads | 0 | 29-07-2022 08:20 PM |
Wayne Rooney believes Man United have still NOT recovered from selling Ronaldo and Tevez | fred tissue | Football Auto-Threads | 0 | 10-02-2022 03:20 PM |
Has there been a better goal so far this season than Rooney's? | wiganste | Football | 33 | 05-10-2008 03:58 PM |