So let's see Ramsay go to Chelski and piss the fans off by rushing forward and giving the ball away all the time, it'll be just like Sanchez, Moan Ure fans thought they'd got a good player but realised he has a very big downside
The problem with Alexis is Utd are not set up to get the best out of him. He needs to be the main guy in the frontline, the one the team is feeding. But he has Lukaku there who is the priority. Even when we had Giroud up front he was second fiddle to Alexis. The frontline needs to be set up around him, he can’t play a single role in front three. Long may it continue at Utd.
Trouble is he only has 1 year left on his contract (yes we've done it again), which impacts his value a lot. Also with him not having signing yet and being just over a week until the close of the transfer window I don't know why we haven't just set a deadline and then pursued a replacement, it's not looking good with him signing on now.
It's a pretty simple procedure, ask him if he wants to stay, ask him (or his agent) how what he wants, decide if you're willing to pay it, if not sell him.
A lot of these companies are operating off debt but their stock market value stays sky high because people continue to flock to their services. But that's another story.
It's all based on viewers and how much can be squeezed from consumers. I don't know how many more times they can carve up the same cake and ask viewers to pay extra to watch the same thing but on a different platform.
Its pretty clear that the club want to keep him but not at any price. His attempting to get wage parity with Ozil is laughable IMO. We made a mistake giving Ozil that monstrous wage, especially since he was not really our marquee player and no one was really contending to sign him. The player we should have kept at all costs was Sanchez as we were completely reliant on him for goals these last 3 seasons. The club simply panicked as they did not want to lose 2 senior players at a crucial time in the life of the club. I am sure if Gazidis had been able to assure Sanchez that Wenger would be leaving at the end of the season, he might have signed on. however at the time Ivan had not gained the upper hand and it was until the fans deserted the stadium that Stan pulled the trigger.
As it is Ozil should have been signed on at least 100kpw less and Ramsey is stretching it to even turn down 150k
Fk Ramsey, let him take his no discipline, crocked half a season arse to Chelsea. They have plenty of space on the bench and physio`s aplenty to keep his bank account happy.
Make 2mrw better than 2day
Whether we want to keep him but not at any price doesn't matter too much, we should just tell him that's what's on the table, please give us an answer by this day and if not we'll have to look for a replacement, we shouldn't be sitting around aimlessly for months waiting for someone to sign on, either the want to or they don't and if they don't then we should move on and sign someone else and sell them.
We do seem to dither a lot when it comes to contracts, well that's excluding contracts for players who are useless and noone wants of course, with those we seem quite happy to hand them longer contracts well ahead of time.