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Manchester United: Don't Believe the Hype, They Don't Have £165m To Spend

Ben JohnstonMar 23, 2011

The MEN is reporting today that we are going to have a summer war chest of ยฃ165m to spend, in spite of the Glazers posting losses of over $100m. You what?

Where on earth has this figure come from? Even if we are going to include the full ยฃ80m from the Ronaldo sale and not net off any money for Smalling, Bebe or Hernandez, that still represents an investment of another ยฃ85m in the squad this summer.

Just think how wild we could get with that amount of money...and now inflated all of the transfer fees we would be paying will become. Alexis Sanchez and Javier Pastore alone could munch up most, if not all, of that budget.

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Given Fergieโ€™s refusal to be ripped off, regardless of how much money we have to spend, I think being told we have ยฃ165m to spend actually makes us less likely to sign either of those two, rather than more, because Fergie wonโ€™t be gouged.

Instead, we can probably look forward to more under-the-radar signings like Hernandez and Smalling.

Of course, itโ€™s going to be even more difficult to pull these off now that Ferguson has enhanced his reputation in the transfer market with last summerโ€™s dealings, because as soon as weโ€™re linked with a youngster from around the world, other clubs are going to be taking note.

One of these could be Angelo Henriquez, some 16-year-old Chilean striker that weโ€™ve unearthed. Heโ€™s scoring goals at the U17 South American Championships, so it might be worth a look next time that you see Chile playing on Eurosport. I donโ€™t know the first thing about him.

So, between Fergieโ€™s obsession with value in the market, the inflated transfer fees weโ€™d be paying now that people know how much weโ€™ve got to spend, and the fact that this figure is most likely complete bollocks anyway, I donโ€™t think weโ€™ll be seeing ยฃ165m spent on Pastore, Sanchez and Benzema.

Just a hunch, like, but donโ€™t get your hopes up.

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