To celebrate not playing in Europe next season, Manchester United are now preparing to spend a quarter of the entire spending of La Liga during the last summer transfer window (mind you, Spanish clubs even ended up with a net surplus that window). It sure is fun being a strong but not top 1-2 side in Europe’s non English top five leagues.
Rashfords people been dropping hints that he would take a paycut if the right team, like Barca. Of course where he would actually fit into that squad is pretty comical.
Only reason we took him in January was a wage cut, and even then he still broke our wage structure big time.
I have no idea if Unai actually wants him and has a target wage he would sign him for, but I would hope that a wage of 200k a week would work for us. £40m to buy Rashford is a bargain and goes a long way to covering some of the extra wages over our approx. current ceiling of about £150k.
Rashford is worth extra investment in wages due to increased media interest leading to sponsorships, shirt sales, etc.
Would Rashford take that much of a cut? Start of the transfer window, probably not, by the end? Much more likely as what’s the alternative? Rotting in the man united youth squad?
We have similar going on with Acensio, he’s on about 200k ish and he’s looking to move permanently, which means a paycut that he seems to accept he needs to take for first team football.