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Circus ManUnitus - Nobody's At The Wheel

A bonus is a gesture so having one makes a statement, even if it is only a token one. The £100 might have been set years ago.

However, cutting it and replacing it with a voucher such an obvious PR mistake. Radcliffe looks like he wants to surpass Mike Ashley in the successful businessmen who become clowns in football stakes.
 
How about not giving average footballers insane contracts that they wouldn't get anywhere else? You could save more in a week than years of this kind of cost cutting.
 
Jordinho said:
How about not giving average footballers insane contracts that they wouldn't get anywhere else? You could save more in a week than years of this kind of cost cutting.
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Do what Chelsea do, just snitch on your druggy player you want rid of. Even 50K a week is on another level to £100 for every steward.
 
SteveAWOL said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1870853066209345630
https://twitter.com/x/status/1870861463998628110
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Honestly, don't know why Amorim took that job, I fudging get it's United but

- Back line is nowhere what you need for 5 at the back
- Midfield has no fudging legs
- There are no goals in that team

And while they have spent in the past heavily, if you are cutting 100 quid bonuses I'm not sure you have another 300M in the kitty for players and that's assuming you can get rid of the deadwood on huge salaries and somehow stay in PSR range.
 
Raziel said:
Honestly, don't know why Amorim took that job, I fudging get it's United but

- Back line is nowhere what you need for 5 at the back
- Midfield has no fudging legs
- There are no goals in that team

And while they have spent in the past heavily, if you are cutting 100 quid bonuses I'm not sure you have another 300M in the kitty for players and that's assuming you can get rid of the deadwood on huge salaries and somehow stay in PSR range.
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They trippled his salary.
 
To think growing up this was the club everyone was envious of. Arguably the biggest club in the world dominating English football. Oh how things have changed.
 
Yiddo said:
To think growing up this was the club everyone was envious of. Arguably the biggest club in the world dominating English football. Oh how things have changed.
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Long may it continue… I got mates who chased the glory years and are now middle aged men who look sad and pathetic. Can’t get their heads around it all … it’s wonderful. When you have followed a average to brick club since the beginning… you have experience in rebuttals and expectations… love it
 
A warning to the fact you cannot get complacent in football and that it's an ever-evolving industry.

Tbf, it's mainly a warning that if you treat a club as simply an investment cash-cow, then the rot that can set in is the difficult to treat...
 
glorygloryeze said:
A warning to the fact you cannot get complacent in football and that it's an ever-evolving industry.

Tbf, it's mainly a warning that if you treat a club as simply an investment cash-cow, then the rot that can set in is the difficult to treat...
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United are bizarre, it's taken 10-15 years of total mismanagement to get them here

- Infrastructure is fudged (Ratcliffe is trying to grift money out of government)
- Squad is awful with huge un-shiftable deadwood problem (age/wages/just brick players)
- Debt at bad rates plus owners constantly taking dividends

The fact that they are still relevant in some way to the PL highlights the absurd advantage that first 20 years of PL gave to sides like United, Arsenal & Liverpool
 
Baleforce said:
their finances must be really fudged if they are cutting stuff like this

I wonder what their player wage to turnover ratio is...
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Supposedly it isn't bad, last numbers were ~65% (pre some recent nonsense)

Think the issue is
- Debt is still ~900M+ at not ideal interest rates
- Owners constantly take money out of club (dividends)
- Ton of infrastructure costs outstanding (leaking roof, no screens, rats, etc.)
- Players like Rashford, Casimiro, etc on >$300K/week or like Anthony that they paid so much for, will result in huge book loss when sold (if anyone will actually take them)
- All of this when supposedly operating on the edge of PSR for some time now

Probably worse owners in league by some margin.
 
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