It’s a rhetorical question you read and hear a lot. To which the answer is always the same and almost always lost in the noise: the agreed point between whatever any buying club is prepared to pay and what any selling club is prepared to accept. This is the only transfer window golden rule.
These four also share something else: accused attitude problems during their time at Old Trafford. Three of the four were left out of matchday squads by Ruben Amorim. They have been cast as wastrels, allowing their talent and potential to seep away. Caveat: during loan spells at Aston Villa, Real Betis and Chelsea last season, nobody once mentioned attitude issues.
Sancho is looking for a new club after winning silverware on loan at Chelsea (Photo: Getty)The Manchester United Four are the work of Amorim and his intended cleansing of the culture within a once broken (still broken?) club. His strategy is one of decisiveness and honesty, presumably because he figures that is the only way to wade through murky water. We cannot move forward until this type of player, or perhaps even this type of person, leaves. Despite his own underperformance (and he’s been farcically honest about this too), Amorim has been afforded the luxury of power.
Towards the players, that mood continues. The onus, fans feel, is on them. There is a World Cup next summer and all presumably harbour some hopes of reclaiming or keeping their place (although that’s probably not true of Sancho). It’s your own time you’re wasting, guys. That feeling has only been propelled by reports that all four will be omitted from the club’s preseason tour in the US.
But Manchester United have a problem too. They need a rebuild; that is no secret. Amorim would quite like his signings to be in place for the start of the preseason tour, but as yet only Matheus Cunha’s arrival has been confirmed. There are conflicting reports on the PSR wiggle room, but at best we can be sure that the nature of the outgoing deals (prices, sale vs loan) will impact their transfer budgets this summer.
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This is where the public honesty of Amorim complicates things: it has played a role in the difficulty to sell because it has lowered the value of these players in the eyes of the buying club. Put it like this: you are interested in a player that the selling club makes clear is a key part of their plans. Answer: “This is gonna cost ya”.
They are all in purgatory, a game of wait-and-see vs taking the hit and having the chance to move on quickly. You hear the names – Napoli, Barcelona, Juventus, Betis – but the names are all you hear, never the details. So we, the players, the buying clubs, the selling clubs, Amorim and Manchester United supporters all wait. And waiting helps nobody.
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