With the greatest of respect, it really is fanciful to believe that we could secure such a deal for AWB.

Nonsense.

No club in the PL needs to sell players unless they decide it is a good option.

Selling should be on our terms at a time when we decide. Not when some big club wants to poach our players.

I swear that half our fans have been lobotomised.

Reign it in shouty...no deal has been done yet and as you say it'll only be agreed if the club decide its a good option...but then again even if it happens i'm sure you'll disagree.

I think its a pragmatic stance to sell for £60m+

The Voice of Reason In An Otherwise Mediocre World

we can only afford 3 or 4 100kplus a week salaries and a full back will never be one of them.

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

Whilst of course many supporters will be dissapointed or indeed irate if AWB departs, there might be a sizeable number who would see the merits of our club selling an unproven and work-in-progress right-back for such a significant sum of money.

The one thing that would REALLY piss me off if he went though would be if he got straight into the England Senior squad on the basis he's at Man U and not us!

The Voice of Reason In An Otherwise Mediocre World

Ah come on you know that's just going too happen !!

Pro USA & Israel

52 million sterling most ever paid for a fullback, Benjamin Mendy, we may be a record holder at something

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

Read up on our accounts, % wages to revenue, money lost each year, how hamstrung we are with regards to transfers, main stand to build with either US money gone or never there anyway, plus Badger’s post at 11.45am.

COYP

You're Selling a very idealistic idea of modern football. Of course we shouldn't need to sell players and it should be on our Terms when it is, but with the amount Of money in football nowadays this is the harsh reality.

I'd Love for football to go back to the 80s way Of agentless players getting paid in peanuts and lager, and player power was a pipedream kept locked away in one of Brain Cloughs sock drawers. but it aint. It's a money making cash cow - one which as a result is much more Accessible to many fans than its 80s grandparent - with mercenery players (who may actually have some kind of future after retirement) and the threat of Liquidation over the next hill.

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"