06 Dec 2025 21:35:29
I wonder how close United are to breaching PSR rules over the rest of this season/financial year. If forking out £100m on a £10-15m a year salary player in January - adding around £17.5m to our expenses in 2025/6 does not puts over the threshold, and the wanted player's club can be persuaded to cash in mid season (a big if), then it really needs to be done now rather than waiting for summer. Given the way things are going in the EPL this year we should absolutely be setting our sights on qualifying for at least the Europa.
United currently spends around 57% of its revenues on squad cost. UEFA's limit is 70%. The new EPL limit is 85%. When summer comes around and the old PSR system is superseded by the squad cost system, United will have much more scope to spend, maybe between £225-£300m.
I saw a video that claimed that the reason ETH was to fired at the end of the season was that we were literally only £2m within PSR requirements and that the cost of doing so would have put us in breach.
07 Dec 2025 07:55:53
We agree on something!
Spend the cash NOW.
Offload anyone who is surplus, especially once signings come in.
Play the right players in the right position.
Build the team around Mainoo .
07 Dec 2025 10:07:31
‘Build the team around Mainoo’ Sorry Jimbo but that is symptomatic of uniteds biggest problem. Player assessment. since before Fergy left and there was no value in the market we’ve been buying lesser players and marketing them as superstars. We got away with it for a while whilst we still had the cloak of invincibility. Tell a lie often enough etc. I feel sorry for Kobbie he will never be able to live up to the hype.
When he’s crap he’ll get hammered when he does ok but we get hammered people will say he’s the clubs saviour much like they do with Bruno (been awful for two years) Shaw Cas the same, apparently still fabulous players just don’t rush them and we can swap them out at half time for even worse players such an advantage. Hideous Frankenstein team. Is there a single fan who isn’t worried about Wolves?
07 Dec 2025 22:35:36
Sorry one-third, but I'll use a recent clip I saw comparing Scholes to Bruno to emphasise my point.
Apparently Bruno has overtaken Scholes for assists. That is because Bruno plays the game to be the one who assists or scores, Scholes played the right pass to the right player, time and again.
Mainoo does what Scholes did. Plays the game and licks the right pass to unlock defences.
We are building the team around Bruno, yet we should be building it around Mainoo, IMO.
I love Bruno for dragging is through this last few years of hell. But it is time to move on from him and look to the future.