Quote from: tygeade on Today at 02:59:51 PM

Quote from: blomen on July 22, 2025, 12:34:26 PM

manchester united is a world brand in raising expectations and making fiasco transfers. in the past they have bought players for that kind of money, sometimes even more, and the player didn't deliver what they wanted. pogba, lukaku, maguire and many more examples.

i think they will never change their transfer policy because i don't think they have a financial problem. if they did they wouldn't be so comfortable paying more than 70 million pounds for a player.

there are also some players who have paid a lot of money and have been successful. for instance bruno fernandes or casemiro are examples. but i think manchester united's success rate in high cost transfers is very low.

I am starting to think, as soon as United asks for a player, other teams start to ask for more. Like for example, in this case, Mbuemo was from Brentford, and lets say some smaller team, like for example Aston Villa, approached them and asked for him, maybe they would have let him go for 40-50 million, I mean he was still too good to sell for 10-20 or whatever, but 40-50 could have happened but when teams hear United ring them up for a player, they start to charge more? Maybe that is the case?

Like there is a tax for being United and rich and made same mistakes before? You do not ask from other rich clubs the same thing, because if you do, they just leave the table, but when you do that to United, they accept, so people take advantage of their situation maybe?

yeah make sense to me. In past Man United made some expensive signings that didn’t work out like Pogba, Maguire, or Lukaku. At the same time, players like Bruno or Casemiro did well. But overall, their success rate turns out pretty low. Also, the idea that other clubs increase prices when United shows interest makes sense. Probably because of their history of overpaying. Smaller clubs know United will likely pay more, so they push it. Until United continues this attitude, this trend might continue.