Looks like there's starting to be some progress made.
Alex Telles is being linked with a £15m move to Ronaldo's Al-Nassr, with Flamengo also interested in the player. £15m would see United pretty much recoup their outlay on the player (when does that ever happen?!). Edit: Now done for reported £4m plus add-ons.
Dean Henderson is surely on his way to Forest. The only question seems to be the fee. Various outlets suggesting the deal will be somewhere between £20m and £30m and should be more or less ready to sign off once the Onana transfer is signed and sealed. Edit: On his way to Palace for £20m plus add-ons.
Scott McTominay is now reportedly being hunted by all of Brighton, Everton and Roma. West Ham also sniffing around and will be looking for a replacement for Rice. The £50m price tag which supposedly put Newcastle off I assume has been revised Suggestions from various commentators that ETH might have pivoted from shifting Fredjy and VdB, to McT and one of the other two, as McT will command a larger fee to help invest in his squad building.
Fredjy has already seen an undisclosed bid from Galatasaray rejected by United. Fulham, who may be resigned to losing Joao Palhinha, are reportedly interested, as are undisclosed clubs in the Saudi Pro League. Anywhere upwards of £15m you'd think would be a decent result and useful. Edit: On his way to Fenerbahce for £13m.
If McT (in particular) and Fred both leave, surely we'll be looking at bringing in cover for Casemiro, whether Mainoo is deemed ready to step up or otherwise.
Slabberz has been heavily linked with West Ham, and also with Chelsea the last couple of days. United need to be trying to move him on on a permanent rather than loan basis, IMO, and if Chelsea might be useful there, that'd be very welcome, but surely West Ham is more likely. Edit: West Ham bid of £30m accepted but player and clubs fail to agree personal terms.
Anthony Elanga is still being strongly linked with Everton, although there doesn't seem to be any news of a bid yet. Has also been linked with Leipzig and (just plain weirdly) Barcelona. Edit: Has moved to Forest for £15m.
Eric Bailly has an appointment at the glue factory.
Could we prospectively be looking at £100m plus to funnel back into the transfer kitty/the Glazers' corporate jet fuel allowance?
So far:
Dean Henderson (Crystal Palace) - £20m plus add-ons
Anthony Elanga (Notts Forest) - £15m
Fred (Fenerbahce) - £12.9m (inc. add-ons)
Matej Kovar (Bayer Leverkusen) - £7.7m
Alex Telles (Al-Nassr) - undisclosed (reported £4m plus add-ons)
Zidane Iqbal (Utrecht) - £1m
Ethan Laird (Birmingham) - £875k
Noam Emeran (FC Groningen) - undisclosed (reported £600k plus add-ons)
Charlie Savage (Reading) - undisclosed
Nathan Bishop (Sunderland) - undisclosed
Bjorn Hardley (Utrecht) - undisclosed
Total in so far - £61.9m
Williams (Ipswich - loan)
Fish (Hibernian - loan)
David de Gea (released)
Axel Tuanzebe (released)
Phil Jones (released)
Ethan Galbraith (released)
Di'Shon Bernard (released)
Charlie Wellens (released)
Marcel Sabitzer (end of loan)
Wout Weghorst (end of loan)
Jack Butland (end of loan)
Outgoings
posted on 19/7/23
Rumours today that Chelsea are interested in Harry due to the fact Fofana has done his ACL. That would be lovely.
posted on 19/7/23
comment by Elvis (U7425)
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Rumours today that Chelsea are interested in Harry due to the fact Fofana has done his ACL. That would be lovely.
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Maybe they’d only want him on loan though. That’s my worry with Chelsea.
I think there’s probably about £32m to amortise off his transfer fee and he’s reportedly still due about £16m in wages over the next two seasons.
So a transfer fee of £30m would pretty much wipe the amortisation off the accounts and wipe £8m per season off the wage bill. That has to be the target IMO.
Might pop over to the Chelsea board to see how excited they are about the rumours
posted on 23/7/23
Telles deal done with Al-Nassr.
£15m fee reportedly agreed with Forest for Elanga, who is scheduled to have a medical on Monday.
posted on 23/7/23
Also murmurings that Forest want to take Henderson on loan again rather than a permanent deal
posted on 25/7/23
Elanga deal done with Forest. Reportedly £15m, which seems sensible for both clubs, and a good move for the player.
posted on 10/8/23
Reports that Kovar is on the verge of a move to Bayer Leverkusen for €9m (£7.8m), with a buyback clause included.
posted on 14/8/23
I've been trying to track down this article but there appear to be very few links around.
Rumours over the weekend that Donny's transfer to Real Sociedad has broken down. And that West Ham are interested in Martial (!).
posted on 14/8/23
Looks like Bailly's move to Besiktas may be off too.
posted on 14/8/23
Something to do with his teeths?
posted on 14/8/23
Kovar and Fred deals are now inked apparently, so we’re waiting on Maguire (which is worrying me a bit tbh - his agents seem to be leaning on West Ham quite a bit), and crossing fingers on Donny and Bailly.
The Henderson deal looks pretty dead in the water to me. Maybe he’ll end up benchwarming for us this season after all.