Summer Transfer Misery and Recriminations.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Get Varane in, Fekir if we wAnt to be cheap and a bloody forward. Just any forward will do at this point!

[Niall_Quinn]

Apparently Utd have banked £76mill in Ibrahimovich shirt sales in one week. I don't know if that's true or not, but that's the claim. If true then Ibrahimovich is effectively free and it's demonstration of how thinking big and going big can be cheaper than being a skinflint, plus of course you get an energised fan base and one investment feeds on another until the process becomes self funding. I wonder how much of Pogba's fee will be covered in the same way?

Meanwhile, Sanogo, Welbeck, Giroud and Theo shirts sales. Anyone know how they are doing?

[Munchies]

Apparently Utd have banked £76mill in Ibrahimovich shirt sales in one week. I don't know if that's true or not, but that's the claim. If true then Ibrahimovich is effectively free and it's demonstration of how thinking big and going big can be cheaper than being a skinflint, plus of course you get an energised fan base and one investment feeds on another until the process becomes self funding. I wonder how much of Pogba's fee will be covered in the same way?

Meanwhile, Sanogo, Welbeck, Giroud and Theo shirts sales. Anyone know how they are doing?

Yeah I saw that too. I imagine adidas take the majority, but then again, that's why adidas pay United a ton. Far trumps our shit Puma deal.

I'd burn Walcott and Sanogo's shirt (good guy, but has no business even being in our squad)

Last time we had genuine buzz was for Ozil. Those pictures of all the fans in Ozil shirts were all over the place.

[Munchies]

If Wenger put another £27m for Higuain in the same Summer, we'd have won the league 2 times by now

[fakeyank]

Apparently Utd have banked £76mill in Ibrahimovich shirt sales in one week. I don't know if that's true or not, but that's the claim. If true then Ibrahimovich is effectively free and it's demonstration of how thinking big and going big can be cheaper than being a skinflint, plus of course you get an energised fan base and one investment feeds on another until the process becomes self funding. I wonder how much of Pogba's fee will be covered in the same way?

Meanwhile, Sanogo, Welbeck, Giroud and Theo shirts sales. Anyone know how they are doing?

I dont think we sell that many shirts if you combined our entire squad

[Kano]

Here's a rumour: Begiristain (too easy) Pep's old Barca buddy over at City, doesn't want to go above the £40m he values John Stones at, while Everton want £50m. Can't be true though because it doesn't involve Arsenal or our manager. What confuses me is that it exists online via some shitty journalist. Usually that would make it true. Weird. We're usually the only ones that place a value on a player. Every other club doesn't know how to negotiate and instead launches a barrage of unmarked cash at its target cuz dats how fings werk. And yet yesterday this was 207% guaranteed to happen. Who know eh?

[Niall_Quinn]

Are we now pretending Arsenal is just like any other club when it comes to transfers, just because the chavs have paused to consider a fee? The fact they are even entertaining a 40 mill bid for a player as limited as Stones shows the fundamental difference. Doesn't tell us if it's a good or bad difference, but it does dispel the fanciful notion that other clubs are somehow like Arsenal and Wenger when it comes to parting with cash. Plainly that's not true.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

There's no way they banked 76 mill in shirt sales profit in a week.

[Kano]

There's no way they banked 76 mill in shirt sales profit in a week.

Of course not. 90% of any shirt sold goes to the manufacturer and Utd probably don't even get that 10% because of the £75m they got up front from Adidas. They're probably on a deal where they recieve money after a certain amount have been sold.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Yeah I'm 99% certain that 76 million Ibrahamovic shirt sales figure is pure BS, probably made up by some Man Utd fan to try and justify the extortionate deal they gave Zlatan. Would like to see the sourcing for that ..... I bet it's some random guy on a Manc forum.


I mean assuming ~£60 a shirt, you need to sell roughly 1.25 million of them. I'm not sure if they've sold that many new official shirts period, let alone ones with Zlatan's name on the back. Sure Man Utd do have a lot of fans around the globe (like us) but out of the fraction that buy apparel, only an even smaller fraction buy official merchandise (i.e. the ones in prosperous nations like England, USA, Japan etc who can afford £60 for a shirt). If you go to places like the Far East, Africa etc etc it's all mainly fake shirts which don't give any net financial benefit to the club or it's sponsors.


Other news, Athletico sign Gramerio (who's 29) for 28 million. Madness and shows you the price of strikers these days. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if we could get 40 million for Giroud if PSG suddenly wanted him.