Updated Manchester United have made a move for Jarrad Branthwaite, with Everton reportedly rejecting a derisory opening offer of just £35m, with a further £8m in add-ons.
According to an initial report by Mail Sport, the Red Devils were preparing a bid after the Blues placed a £70m price tag around the 21-year-old’s neck and other sources corroborate that the two clubs are now in talks.
The likes of The Express and the Manchester Evening News, meanwhile, claim that Branthwaite has agreed personal terms with United, paving the way for him to move to Old Trafford this summer if Everton accept an offer.
However, Everton’s stance is that the defender isn’t for sale unless they receive an astronomical fee and, at present, the two clubs are miles apart in terms of valuation.
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The former Carlisle centre-half had a breakthrough season in the Premier League with the Toffees in 2023-24 following a hugely successful season on loan in the Eredivisie with PSV Eindhoven the year before and he narrowly missed out on a place in the England squad for Euro 2024.
Branthwaite is regarded as the most promising player in his position in the country for his age and, under different circumstances, Everton might well have been able to demand a record fee for a centre-half.
However, with cash at Goodison Park incredibly tight and the Toffees needing to make sales before the end of the financial year on 30th June, their bargaining posiiton has been weakened considerably.
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Brian Williams
1 Posted
13/06/2024 at
22:36:12
If true how the fuck can they do that before reaching agreement with the club over the transfer fee?
So wrong, again if true, when a player is under contract to a club.
Tommy Carter
2 Posted
13/06/2024 at
22:37:24
Not a bad fee for a player Dyche considered inferior to Michael Keane just 9 months ago.
Roger Helm
3 Posted
13/06/2024 at
22:45:33
I would rather take the points deduction resulting from an overspend than sell him just to balance the books.
Gavin Johnson
4 Posted
13/06/2024 at
22:51:10
I’d rather take a 3-point deduction and keep him for another season rather than sell on the cheap.
Barry Shearer
5 Posted
13/06/2024 at
22:51:37
I also fear for him. He won’t have Tarkowski with him who he has learned a lot from and might not have that same rapport whomever is with him at Man Utd.
£70M is an insult as well. Hope there is a sell-on clause. We’d better not be getting Maguire.
Kunal Desai
6 Posted
13/06/2024 at
22:53:24
Shame we could not keep him for another season.
Ian Wilkins
7 Posted
13/06/2024 at
22:55:21
How many points is Jarrad Branthwaite worth? Should we take a 3-point deduction? And call me old fashioned but agree the fee before the player agrees terms. Yes, we have a 30 June deadline, but it just weakens our negotiating position.
Ryan Holroyd
8 Posted
13/06/2024 at
23:11:05
Keep Jarrad Branthwaite and take the points deduction.
Gavin Johnson
9 Posted
13/06/2024 at
23:37:52
I thought we owed Carlisle 10% of the fee, but the Daily Mirror are saying it’s 15% which makes £70M (or less) absolutely derisory for a player of Branthwaite’s ability and potential.
Let’s hope another club come in for him and price Man Utd out of the deal.
Dan Parker
10 Posted
13/06/2024 at
23:47:44
Pathetic if we let Ratcliffe get away with a lowball offer.
Jamie Sweet
11 Posted
14/06/2024 at
00:21:19
In the end, they could have taken 20 points off of us this season and we would have survived (that’s amazing when you think about it, isn’t it?!).
Admittedly that was down to how terrible the Bottom 3 were though. Safety might be up around the 40-point mark again next season.
Nick Page
12 Posted
14/06/2024 at
00:40:32
Can these twats even do basic maths? The worst bit is, the useless cunts will spew the money on a load of garbage, as per usual. They literally can’t wait to sell, this lot.
Keep him for one more season – his value isn’t going to decline at such a young age. Absolutely maddening. Still the worst run club in English football, by a fucking mile.
Mal van Schaick
13 Posted
14/06/2024 at
04:50:01
Last season, we more than survived, and proved how invaluable it is to have a group who are together and fighting for us. A lot of those players can improve us again, and by adding a few more decent players to them, next season could be an even better one.
Do a Man City. Do whatever it takes to avoid the grasp of Masters and the Premier League, regarding financial rules, until such times we are solvent with new owners.
Tommy Carter
14 Posted
14/06/2024 at
06:20:15
Not a bad fee for a player Dyche considered inferior to Michael Keane just 9 months ago.
Denis Richardson
15 Posted
14/06/2024 at
07:14:34
The club sale won’t help with PSR and failing to comply this year would probably cause an issue with the sale as we’d be looking at another points deduction. The bottom 3 next year will likely not be anywhere near as bad as last season.
I just hope that it’s £70M cash and Maguire is nowhere near the deal. Man Utd have loads of players they want out – please just take cash.
John Keating
16 Posted
14/06/2024 at
07:15:43
However, if the Club are of a mind to sell, it appears they’ve put an £80M price tag on him. He shouldn’t go for a penny less.
None of this, so much if he plays so many games, so much if he wins a league or cup etc.
£80M as a fee plus add-ons.
Kevin Prytherch
17 Posted
14/06/2024 at
07:57:33
Although, as others have said – I’d rather take the hit on the points
Robert Tressell
18 Posted
14/06/2024 at
08:06:54
After the situation this season, any blatant and deliberate breach is likely to result in very serious sanctions – much worse than this year (and indeed we might get points deductions this year anyway due to our ongoing financial situation).
Otherwise, the message would be that the Premier League rules do not really apply anymore and you can do what you like.
So maybe 15 points? 20 points? And a continued toxic relationship with the Premier League. We obviously won’t do that and nor would any other club in our situation.
It isn’t a sign of ongoing incompetence at the club – it’s a legacy of previous incompetence biting us on the arse.
Tony Abrahams
19 Posted
14/06/2024 at
08:14:02
It’s simple really: sell one of your best players cheaply by 30 June or get another points deduction. PSR in a nutshell.
Rob Jones
20 Posted
14/06/2024 at
08:39:25
Whatever happened to “tapping up”? Why the hell are BBC so blatantly undermining our player?
Anthony Dove
21 Posted
14/06/2024 at
09:06:06
Apart from the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock, Branthwaite is the club’s most valuable asset, so why on earth would any new owner sanction his sale???
Ian Wilkins
22 Posted
14/06/2024 at
09:12:15
Prepare to feel absolutely mugged by losing a rising star cheaply courtesy of PSR. Personally, I’d take the 3 points and it can’t be more as a legal precedent has been set by Forest and us after appeal.
Ray Roche
23 Posted
14/06/2024 at
09:22:30
“Any blatant and deliberate breach is likely to result in very serious sanctions.”
How can keeping your best young players be regarded as a deliberate breach?
The Premier League is being run solely for the benefit of the rich clubs. Remember the League spokesman saying that Leicester winning the Premier League was ‘bad for football’ because it affected the revenue from the Far East?
Football has been ruined. Rules regarding tapping up are routinely disregarded because it’s usually the Rich Six that are hoovering up the young talent to prevent rivals getting them, only to send them out on loan after loan without any real thought for the young players’ future. Unless he’s like Branthwaite, exceptional.
Christopher Timmins
24 Posted
14/06/2024 at
09:24:55
The worst run club in the Premier League!
Jimmy I’Anson
25 Posted
14/06/2024 at
09:30:09
That would be classic Everton.
Anthony Dove
26 Posted
14/06/2024 at
09:43:01
Can things get any worse? Probably.
John Pickles
27 Posted
14/06/2024 at
09:53:54
If he goes with no funds for rebuilding, if I was Dyche, I’d walk. His stock is high at the moment, he could get a stable Premier League job now; why try to pull off an even greater miracle by trying to keep an even worse squad up?
Brian Harrison
28 Posted
14/06/2024 at
09:54:05
With Godfrey not signing a new contract and Calvert-Lewin still not having signed a new contract, wouldn’t it have made sense to sell these players first before Branthwaite, who has just signed a 4-year deal with no get-out clauses?
As for holding out for £70M with only 16 days left before the accounts deadline, we may have to accept a hell of a lot less for a player who I believe will be an England regular for years to come.
James Newcombe
29 Posted
14/06/2024 at
10:00:42
“Nice defensive prospect you have there. He’s clearly going places. It would be a shame if we…” kicks tyre “were to structure the rules and skew the league itself, so he has to join one of the Heavenly Sky Six in order to meet his ambitions and keep your little club in business. A real shame.”
Brian Williams
30 Posted
14/06/2024 at
10:21:03
For fuck’s sake, mate, a ball hasn’t been kicked in the Euros yet — never mind the Premier League.
Raymond Fox
31 Posted
14/06/2024 at
10:33:31
We are not in a strong bargaining position, skint and the player probably wanting to play for the ‘great’ Man Utd.
My question: Is Branthwaite as good as he has been talked up to? I’m not sure.
The way things are, though, I think we should ask for £100M and look to get £80M; it’s worth a try – there’s more than Man Utd interested.
Ian Pilkington
32 Posted
14/06/2024 at
10:56:41
It is clear that Onana is keen to leave and hopefully he will enhance his value in the Euros, so why should we consider selling Branthwaite and how can personal terms have been (illegally) agreed? The BBC as usual is regurgitating dross from the tabloids and Football Insider etc.
An article in yesterday’s Telegraph suggested that Manure’s transfer funds will be relatively limited: “perhaps as low as £50M” and that Ratcliffe was horrified by the excessive fees paid for Antony and other flops.
Kenwright gave Rooney away for £26M to keep himself afloat as owner, not to keep the club afloat. Branthwaite is our finest prospect since Rooney and with the sale of the club at endgame I don’t see any reason to sell our most valuable asset. He certainly wouldn’t be advancing his career at Man Utd.
Michael Bennet
33 Posted
14/06/2024 at
11:15:51
Sad – and so it carries on that we are a feeder club for them…
Jack Convery
34 Posted
14/06/2024 at
11:15:59
Everton will come out and state “We had no choice, with no firm offers from other teams for Jarrad or any of the current 1st team on the table. We have been warned we will face further sanctions for PSR and the possibility of administration cannot be discounted, given the ongoing shambles of trying to sell the club. This despite some really good offers to buy laying in Moshiri’s In-Tray.” Sorry folks that’s all for now!!
ps: Comparing his sale value to that of Maguire’s transfer is a bloody insult and the rest of it proves beyond doubt how “fixed” the Premier League is.
pps: I’ve said this before but, if Southgate turns up at Old Trafford as their next manager, the whole thing stinks. Jarrad playing for England in the Euros would have put his price up even more and would have brought more bidders to the table. How on earth anybody thinks Dunk, Guehi and Gomez are better is beyond belief. Being in the squad would have stopped a sale before 30 June too, giving EFC the chance to play real hardball. It might even explain Man Utd keeping hold of Ten Hag.
Alan J Thompson
35 Posted
14/06/2024 at
11:26:13
“Know when to hold, know when to fold, know when to walk away, and know when to run”.
Is Thelwell that good or should we be seeking some sponsorship from those willing to purchase the club?
James Hughes
36 Posted
14/06/2024 at
11:27:06
The FA have stated there have been no approaches for Southgate. Ten Hag has been retained. Southgate is too negative for club management.
We need to keep Jarrad and alas sell Onana, who will become a very good player – just maybe not with us.
Dave Abrahams
37 Posted
14/06/2024 at
11:27:59
I think Dyche is the one person I don’t want to leave Everton FC at the present time. Stability is what’s needed now; Dyche has provided that over the last 18 months and I believe he will continue to do that.
Raymond (29),
Why are you surprised that Pickford is still an Everton player?
A lot of the top clubs have bought goalkeepers in the last few years… none have bid for Pickford even though he has been England’s ‘keeper for many years.
He’s on an excellent contract at Everton and seems more than happy here. I don’t think there has been any big demand by other clubs to sign him which doesn’t really surprise me.
Gavin Johnson
38 Posted
14/06/2024 at
11:45:58
It was £85m not long ago. Stories about the fee we’ll accept seems to be going down by £5m every few days.
Absolutely embarrassing!! Ratcliffe must be rubbing his hands!!
Brian Williams
39 Posted
14/06/2024 at
11:57:11
Don’t be embarrassed. The figures are plucked out of the air by the media.
I’d bet a fair wedge that it’s not the club putting those figures out.
Brian Williams
40 Posted
14/06/2024 at
11:59:12
If that is the case, it makes the fact that Jarrad was bumped even more annoying.
Paul Hewitt
41 Posted
14/06/2024 at
12:12:17
The fact we could get £70M for him is a good deal to me. I’m sure this is how Carlisle fans felt when we took Jarrad off them. We just need to go and buy the next Jarrad from another club.
James Hughes
42 Posted
14/06/2024 at
12:23:37
Unless fame goes to his head. he is going to be an amazing player; solid defenders are hard to find.
Ian Jones
43 Posted
14/06/2024 at
12:26:06
That does seem odd because you would like to think players would be concentrating on the football but life goes on.
Laurie Hartley
44 Posted
14/06/2024 at
12:26:17
Unfortunately, unless Man City, or a “big” European club enter a bid, then United will have the upper hand at the negotiating table – purely because they know our financial situation and the likely penalties for another breach of PSR.
Remember Lescott and Stones; same scenario only worse because of the PSR situation which no doubt Ratcliffe will take full advantage of.
I just hope we don’t get one of their discards.
Barry Rathbone
45 Posted
14/06/2024 at
12:35:17
A non-challenging club of moderate means gets a decent player or two and Boom!! they’re gone. You can’t build a team around vanished players.
After that, the lottery of replacement for lesser money begins and it’s wash, rinse, and repeat until fans get fed up and the board and manager come under pressure and the entire edifice crumbles.
The successor to Moshiri needs more than street smarts in business – they need big pockets – I mean huge!!
Robert Tressell
46 Posted
14/06/2024 at
12:37:04
More generally, there are two other aspects to this:
Avoiding going bust. That hopefully seems to be averted now by the amount of interested parties emerging for the takeover. But please don’t expect a new set of owners to pump money into the club for transfers. There will still be player sales.
Generating funds for the acquisition of players. The sell-to-buy approach seems to be very much hated on this site. Some of that is probably a “keeping up with the Joneses” mentality – where selling to a mediocre Man Utd side just reinforces how far we’ve fallen.
Some of this is because we have a track record of atrocious bad spending between about 2016 and 2020 in particular. However, whether we sell Branthwaite or not, we have to become much, much better at player trading (including the sales side) if we are to get back into Europe etc.
Anyway, we all know Branthwaite will be sold and possibly for less than his true value. If so, I just hope people blame the real culprits of Kenwright and Moshiri rather than Dyche and Thelwell.
Steve Shave
47 Posted
14/06/2024 at
12:43:43
We are stifled by all kinds of fiscal restrictions so I’d be looking for a couple of fringe players, say £60-65M plus Hannibal Mejbri (who we wanted last year) and perhaps Diallo or Shoretire on loan. It would help keep the powder dry.
Danny O’Neill
48 Posted
14/06/2024 at
12:49:21
He is pure class and a joy to watch. He will only get better.
I’m not sure about us being a feeder club for Manchester United. Without going on Google, I can’t see past Rooney.
I think most of the transactions have been the other way them offloading their players on us. It would not surprise me to see this happen.
Whatever happens, just make sure Sean Dyche gets a slice of the cake to reinvest in an already thin squad.
Gavin Johnson
49 Posted
14/06/2024 at
12:57:57
If Man Utd don’t to want pay Branthwaite’s worth, we need to try and get a fringe player as a sweetener.
I suggested Diallo and cash earlier in the thread, but Hannibal might be more viable, given we wanted him last season and he seems to be more on the periphery at Old Trafford.
Ray Roche
50 Posted
14/06/2024 at
13:03:59
I don’t know how keeping a young player “breaches” any rule. As yet, Masters and his sort aren’t in a position to tell us who we have to sell. Yet.
What is really pissing me off is that arse Ratcliffe thinking he can dictate how much we are to ask for Branthwaite. I’m not impressed with Branthwaite or his agent for entering into discussions about his transfer. I can only assume that there are no longer any rules regarding tapping-up of players.
Okay, it’s always been rumoured to be going on, but I don’t recall anything as blatant as this before. I would like Everton to make an official complaint just to irritate Ratcliffe et al and not just bend over for our regular shafting.
John Pickles
52 Posted
14/06/2024 at
13:25:42
Brian#28
Not sure the significance of your timings. If we constantly sell our best players without being able to use the money generated to get as good or better players in, then a squad that perennially battles promotion is eventually going down. That’s just logic.
Karl Meighan
53 Posted
14/06/2024 at
13:27:30
I hope its not a case of us believing we have 2 very good defenders ready to step in- Michael Keane and Ben Godfrey who is soon to be out of contract, so it softens the blow.
Its more than selling are best players even with psr threats and other debts. The Club will have to make a stand sometime or continue to have vultures circling. By refusing to sell as low as we can go, maybe it shows we wont be trampled on.
The only hardball played by Everton in recent years was Moyes with City for Lescott after that we just seem to accept it and roll over.–
Karl Meighan
54 Posted
14/06/2024 at
13:31:11
How the fuck can personal terms be agreed before a Club has agreed to sell?
Derek Taylor
55 Posted
14/06/2024 at
13:34:52
(It keeps them out of their rivals’ teams anyway and stops teams like Everton getting too successful.)
I hope City win their ‘freedom’ case and bugger off to Europe with the other ‘top teams’ whilst we get back to real competition – VAR-less and all!
Dave Lynch
56 Posted
14/06/2024 at
13:35:25
If Braithwaite has anything about him, he’d tell Man Utd to meet our asking price or he won’t move.
Raymond Fox
57 Posted
14/06/2024 at
13:39:28
I’m just surprised that a goalkeeper of his ability has not been a target for one of the top 6 clubs. At least I’ve not seen any rumours etc of him being a target.
He probably is happy to stay with us, I wasn’t suggesting otherwise, he is behind a good defence and still England No 1, I hope he stays.
Sam Hoare
58 Posted
14/06/2024 at
13:48:33
We won’t get more than £80M for him because non-Evertonians simply don’t know him as well or rate him as highly as Evertonians.
Not sure he’d be available but I rate Willy Kambwala and maybe £60M + him would be a decent deal for both teams? They could include a £35M buy-back clause or similar.
Sad to see Branthwaite go but, unless we get a good offer on Onana before the end of the month, then it seems a necessary evil.
Christy Ring
59 Posted
14/06/2024 at
13:48:42
Thelwell and Dyche should insist on keeping the youngest and best left-sided centre-back in Britain. The best part of our team this season, and the reason we conceded so little, which kept us in the Premier League was the Tarkowski & Branthwaite partnership.
It’ll be a total disgrace if he’s sold; sell Onana. Why should we accept £65M, are we that desperate? His price tag should be £100M, isn’t that what Maguire cost, and Carlisle are due 15%.
I’d prefer a points reduction. If he goes, it’s a sad day and fuck Moshiri.
Ian Jones
60 Posted
14/06/2024 at
14:00:12
I give you Fellaini and Lukaku.
Rob Halligan
61 Posted
14/06/2024 at
14:15:28
That’s not to say there won’t be any in the future, but I’m also hearing there are a few clubs interested in him.
Brian Williams
62 Posted
14/06/2024 at
14:22:03
Rob is that from the guy you sometimes bump into in the park? (If that’s you 🥴).
Danny O’Neill
63 Posted
14/06/2024 at
14:29:48
It’s football. It has always been the way.
Let’s see what happens with Branthwaite.
It’s that that time of year.
Ed Prytherch
64 Posted
14/06/2024 at
14:35:59
EFC may have granted permission to Man Utd to talk to Branthwaite.
Ian Jones
65 Posted
14/06/2024 at
14:40:00
Apologies, the clue was in feeder remark!
Rob Halligan
66 Posted
14/06/2024 at
14:44:32
Brian, its from about the most reliable source you can imagine, but Im not going to say who it is, but its all 100% true.
Danny O’Neill
67 Posted
14/06/2024 at
14:44:59
If this does happen we will all be disappointed and may end up with Harry Maguire!!
Gary Mortimer
68 Posted
14/06/2024 at
14:48:43
I think Martinez played hardball with Chelsea over John Stones. I remember the Chelsea fan (one of Paul Hawksbee and Andy Jacobs) on Talkshite saying “He’s coming to Chelsea, it’s definite”. He ended up staying for another year and then going to City and winning everything. . . so you can’t blame him really.
Jarrod should hold out for a more successful club than United, they are in a mess at the moment. I can see City coming in for him when they have “done with” Dias and Stones.
Kieran Kinsella
69 Posted
14/06/2024 at
14:55:12
As far as “agreeing terms,” I guess the thing with that is you have the agent factor. Clubs can’t (supposedly even though we hear so many tales of Fergie calling players up at home etc down the years) talk to players without clubs permission. But what is to stop them talking to the agent and gauging what the player is on and what the player (AKA agent) would expect IF or when the player were to move?
This story though is a bit weird because for weeks we’ve been hearing how Utd have no money to spend, and cutting costs, and more recently “baulked” at Everton’s demands. Now suddenly they supposedly decided to offer a big sum (albeit one less than we might want.” Not suggesting there is no hint of truth in it but the media tend to say things are in the bag. e.g. various parties having “bought” the club, kenyon’s group, msp, 777, Samuelson, etc none of which came to pass.
Kevin Edward
70 Posted
14/06/2024 at
15:12:14
I’d like the club to make a stand, if this is all true, and dig in for a huge cash fee and sell-on clause, especially if Jarrad doesn’t really want to leave.
Football business stinks, but we need to avoid the drop next season so positive PSR will help. Then perhaps we can hang on to our best players at the new stadium and start to recover.
I feel sad that we are in this position now, huge thanks to our ‘world class’ leadership team of the past.
Joe McMahon
71 Posted
14/06/2024 at
15:21:55
Why can we never do a Liverpool or Brighton and demand top dollar and get it! Yet again underselling.
Rooney, Richarlison and now Branthwaite. Should be no less than £90M. Man Utd paid a fortune for Maguire, for fuck’s sake!
Alan McGuffog
72 Posted
14/06/2024 at
16:09:23
I’m told our new badge is the ToffeeLady bent over with her skirts hitched up with the new motto “Welcome Man Utd!”
Ed Prytherch
73 Posted
14/06/2024 at
16:10:39
Serial winners, brilliant coaches, nice weather, good food.
Ian Bennett
74 Posted
14/06/2024 at
16:14:26
Probably paper talk, but that’s clear tapping up when no fee has been agreed.
How can you stand your ground on a fee, if that’s been done?
Brian Williams
75 Posted
14/06/2024 at
16:31:24
£35M for fuck’s sake!
Brian Williams
76 Posted
14/06/2024 at
16:32:25
Cheers, mate. I trust your word!
Kevin Molloy
77 Posted
14/06/2024 at
16:36:25
“How could I have known Man Utd were going to buy him? Fool, Gareth, you bloody fool!”
Jay Harris
78 Posted
14/06/2024 at
16:39:46
We know Man Utd want Jarrad, who doesn’t, but I would hope there is no way we sell him unless it’s an outrageous bid which an arrogant prick like Ratcliffe will not sanction.
I’m just glad Black Bill isn’t involved in any negotiations.
Robert Williams
79 Posted
14/06/2024 at
16:55:44
Oh, I forgot — and a 10% selling-on fee.
Ted Donnelly
80 Posted
14/06/2024 at
17:00:01
The grass isn’t always greener.
Steve Brown
81 Posted
14/06/2024 at
17:01:21
Man Utd have planted the story with the media to unsettle the player. Their half-witted belief is that Branthwaite will push for a move and drive down the fee towards their derisory £35 million bid.
They are a joke of a club, so why would he choose them?
Ian Jones
82 Posted
14/06/2024 at
17:05:54
Offer a £1 million for Mainoo.
Paul Ferry
83 Posted
14/06/2024 at
17:10:50
It’s a bigger/richer club preying on smaller fish kicking off with a low bid to test the needy. It’s what happens these days.
Mike Corcoran
84 Posted
14/06/2024 at
17:16:09
Surely he’ll hold out for Carlo’s bid! 🙂
Ian Bennett
85 Posted
14/06/2024 at
17:27:58
£35m? Clearly don’t think that much about him then…
Shaun Parker
86 Posted
14/06/2024 at
17:53:10
Are they allowed to speak with our player when he is under contract with us? Without asking for permission?
Typical Man Utd, total lack of any class.
Swap deal:- Branthwaite for Mainoo and Rashford?
Jack Convery
87 Posted
14/06/2024 at
17:58:24
£35M – who the fuck does this Jim Radcliffe think he is? What a gobshite. EFC are in trouble so let’s make hay!!!
He also wants the taxpayer to pay for a new updated Old Trafford! You couldn’t make it up.
If Eberton sell Jarrad for less than £80M plus add-ons, they’ve certainly bent over and lowered their pants. Tell them to do one and say until they get serious and really serious we won’t be picking up the phone.
I’d rather take a points sanction than sell him for bloody peanuts. As I said, what a gobshite. Piss off.
Karl Meighan
88 Posted
14/06/2024 at
18:07:14
If they want to insult, let them know they paid £57M for a older untested at the time Martinez and more for Mcguire,
Ian Wilkins
89 Posted
14/06/2024 at
18:12:59
Do not respond, do not engage, treat it with the contempt it deserves. Do not be drawn in by idiots. If we are going to sell then name your price and stick to it.
Paul Ferry
90 Posted
14/06/2024 at
18:42:05
It’s realpolitik. Don’t feel insulted. The only thing that matters is how the club responds not any of us.
So, right now my main concern is who on earth is calling these shots at the club. If it is the absentee landlord then expect Jarrad to go for somewhere in the middle of £35M/£80M.
The Old Trafford people are simply taking advantage of a club that from the outside (and inside) is in ownership limbo, has no clear decision-making, and, to cap it all, are desperate for £££££££.
There’s nothing immoral or inappropriate about this. It’s just the post-1992 world of Premier League cut and thrust financial and administrative acumen and aggression that we have been historically shite at.
Christy Ring
91 Posted
14/06/2024 at
18:55:16
Sky says they offered £35M, fair price, so they can take Michael Keane back to where he started.
Bill Watson
92 Posted
14/06/2024 at
18:58:48
Branthwaite looks like the centre-back of his generation and even at £80M would be a bargain. If I was him, the only clubs I’d consider would be Real Madrid or Man City as Man Utd are almost as much of a shambles as we are!
How can we ever compete at the top end if we’re constantly feeding them our best players at bargain prices?
Thanks, Bill Kenwright. This is your true legacy.
David Nicholls
93 Posted
14/06/2024 at
19:01:21
In Man United’s case, the price should increase to £100M for the cynical attempt to take advantage of our PSR situation.
Paul Ferry
95 Posted
14/06/2024 at
19:36:25
This, with today’s ownership news, could well allow us to say no to any Branthwaite bid, but there are too many balls being juggled in the air at the same time right now for any real certainty or clarity.
Rob Halligan
96 Posted
14/06/2024 at
21:01:31
Oh, and by the way, there has been no communication between Branthwaite and the red shite Mancs.
Kieran Kinsella
97 Posted
14/06/2024 at
21:07:53
“£35M…….hahaha….fuck me, my house is worth more than that.”
You’re not one of the mystery bidders for the club are you?
David Currie
98 Posted
14/06/2024 at
21:40:34
A joke of a club who have won 2 trophies in the last 2 years!!
Wish to God we could be a joke of a club?
We need to keep Branthwaite but, if we do sell, then no less than £80M plus extra when he plays for England 50 times!!
Rob Halligan
99 Posted
14/06/2024 at
21:43:46
Kieran……….if only!!
Brian Wilkinson
100 Posted
14/06/2024 at
22:36:55
Currently, under FIFA and FA transfer rules, if a club wants to procure the services of a player registered with another club, they must speak directly with that club and not to the player or his representatives. The player and his representatives will only be brought in for discussions with the potential purchasing club once the two clubs have agreed a fee.
Often a club wishing to buy a player from another club will contact the player directly to try and persuade him to join them should a bidding war for that player ensue. Also, if the club wishing to sign the player feels his current club would be unwilling to sell, they may contact the player to unsettle him at his current club and thus persuade him to hand in a transfer request.
The footballers representatives are likely to have a big involvement in setting up a meeting between the club and his player. The players agent will be the first port of call for the club wishing to gain the services of the player and often it is the agent which makes the first contact with potential clubs touting the services of the player he represents.
Article 22 of the FIFA Players Agents Regulations prohibits a players agent from approaching any player who is under contract to a club with the aim of persuading him to terminate his contract prematurely or to violate any obligations stipulated in the employment contract. It shall be presumed, unless established to the contrary, that any players agent involved in a contractual breach committed by the player without just cause has induced such breach of contract.
Gavin Johnson
101 Posted
14/06/2024 at
23:21:35
Jim Ratcliffe still thinking he’s living in 2014 it seems
Jeff Armstrong
102 Posted
14/06/2024 at
23:39:41
Man United created the market of £80 million centre backs years ago, when they signed mediocrity from Leicester,now they want the best left sided centre back in England for £35 million!!!
Get the fuck 🦝cliffe,and take your parasite club bids with you, come back with £100 million and we might then tell you to fuck off politely.
Keith Harrison
103 Posted
14/06/2024 at
23:52:21
The Telegraph is incorrect – so far – on any agreement between the player and Man Utd. A number of other clubs are also very interested, so Man U need to show how serious they are for a bid to be accepted.
With the news tonight on Friedkin agreeing a deal in principle with the Mosh, I’d rather see Onana and even (plus) DCL go, and use Jarrad as a bedrock for the future.
If things in other areas can move quickly, I think he could well stay – if the club itself start sitting down with the lad, and give him re-assurances about our ambition including him. That, however, is not, to my belief, happening at the moment.
Don Alexander
104 Posted
15/06/2024 at
00:24:44
He’ll also have an agent who’s devoted to lining his own pocket asap by way of what he, the agent, will contend as a mega-deal by signing for any one of the “big” clubs (after all, Jarrad could bin him next month couldn’t he – hence the agent’s haste).
I just hope Jarrad takes a leaf out of Jordan’s experience and chooses, as the very young man he is, to go on gaining regular selection in an excellent defensive unit in an otherwise bog-standard Premier League club from which, in two or three seasons, he’ll be able to more or less select which top club he chooses to sign for, thereby becoming ludicrously wealthy, and trophy-laden too.
Man U are not a club to deliver top trophies in the next two or three seasons at least.
Kieran Kinsella
105 Posted
15/06/2024 at
00:44:34
I imagine Dyche Thelwell and even Chong cant offer assurances due to the ownership fiasco but hopefully they changes asap. JB seems like a level headed young man and agreed Id sooner cash in on others.
Anthony Dwyer
106 Posted
15/06/2024 at
01:00:46
Just watch, these c**ts have got us by the balls, the prem with there so called fair play will see to it we won’t see anything over £55m for him (more like £45/50 plus bonus ) when we have the right to a bigger fee like fafana maguire etc.
Need to off Godfrey etc b4 the end of the month N dig our heels in or keep r contracted player.
Si Pulford
107 Posted
15/06/2024 at
01:13:04
Anthony its their opening bid. Its already been rejected. Take a breath. No way he goes for 55 million. Not a chance.
David Morgan
108 Posted
15/06/2024 at
01:26:42
Idiots at Man Utd, offer him to other clubs for 80 million and charge them 90 million for this insult (if we are selling), or even better keep him one more year and sell for the same price then. Sell someone else, Onana would be my choice.
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