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Just playing devil's advocate and speculating.
The fee for the West Ham stuff was decided in March(?) this year. Since then, we have brought in (from Soccerbase, so blame them if they're wrong!):
Lee Williamson (undisclosed)
Kyel Reid (free)
Leigh Bromby (undisclosed... we had to buy out his contract at Watford I think?)
Ryan France (free)
Andy Taylor (undisclosed)
Ched Evans (apparently anywhere between £750k to £3 million)
Glen Little (free)
Jordan Steward (swap)
Henri Camara (free)
And the deals of Cresswell and Harper if they go through.
Apart from the wages, which looking at most of the above you'd hope to be in the middle range at most for what United pay players, we don't appear to have spent a great deal.
But looking at before we had that money (or were told we were getting that money)... we were signing people like Beattie, Ehiogu, Sun, Speed, Hendrie even up to Brian Howard in January and actually spending money and paying reasonably big wage earners.
Now we've got Matt Kilgallon reportedly turning down £20k a week because he's "worth more".
I don't pay a great deal of attention to other clubs and their rumoured signings, so I was just interested in your opinions.
Do you think we are being held to ransom with transfer fees, wages and signing on fees by agents and other clubs due to winning this money?
Do you think it's made McCabe and co. more aware of the purse strings, to be seen as not rich enough to afford certain players because it'd send a message out to agents etc?
The fee for the West Ham stuff was decided in March(?) this year. Since then, we have brought in (from Soccerbase, so blame them if they're wrong!):
Lee Williamson (undisclosed)
Kyel Reid (free)
Leigh Bromby (undisclosed... we had to buy out his contract at Watford I think?)
Ryan France (free)
Andy Taylor (undisclosed)
Ched Evans (apparently anywhere between £750k to £3 million)
Glen Little (free)
Jordan Steward (swap)
Henri Camara (free)
And the deals of Cresswell and Harper if they go through.
Apart from the wages, which looking at most of the above you'd hope to be in the middle range at most for what United pay players, we don't appear to have spent a great deal.
But looking at before we had that money (or were told we were getting that money)... we were signing people like Beattie, Ehiogu, Sun, Speed, Hendrie even up to Brian Howard in January and actually spending money and paying reasonably big wage earners.
Now we've got Matt Kilgallon reportedly turning down £20k a week because he's "worth more".
I don't pay a great deal of attention to other clubs and their rumoured signings, so I was just interested in your opinions.
Do you think we are being held to ransom with transfer fees, wages and signing on fees by agents and other clubs due to winning this money?
Do you think it's made McCabe and co. more aware of the purse strings, to be seen as not rich enough to afford certain players because it'd send a message out to agents etc?