Manchester United have been strapped for cash since Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s arrival at Old Trafford but the Red Devils could pocket a significant financial boost in the summer
Mason Greenwood could help Manchester United land a significant windfall this summer – just one year after leaving Old Trafford for good. The striker was sold to Marseille last year for a fee of £26.7m after spending time on loan in Spain.
The United academy graduate has been in fine form for the French giants, netting 16 goals in all competitions. Greenwood’s displays have caught the eye of a number of top clubs including Barcelona, Bayern Munich and PSG, and there have been suggestions that he could be moving on again after been left out of Marseille’s last two matchday squads.
Should he be sold, United would be entitled to a considerable chunk of any fee Marseille receive. After initially agreeing to part ways with Greenwood, Red Devils’ chiefs made sure to slot in a 50 percent sell-on clause into the agreement, which would entitle them to a significant portion of any fee Marseille bank.
And with the forward being valued at around £30million, that could see United pocket around £15m this summer – which would boost the transfer pot on offer to Ruben Amorim.
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Such a sum would go a long way to alleviating the club’s current financial worries under Sir Jim Ratcliffe. The INEOS owner had previously claimed that the club would have gone out of business in less than a year. He said: “I just think when you are in a period of change, it is disruptive. It does, if you will excuse the pun, take people’s eye off the ball a bit. We have got a club which was in a level of financial difficulty.
“Manchester United would have run out of cash by the end of this year – by the end of 2025 – after having me put $300m (£232.7m) in and if we buy no new players in the summer, if we hadn’t have implemented the cost programmes and restructuring that we have done over the last 12 months.
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“So we have to deal with all those things, and there’s only so many things you can deal with at once. We have a new management team, we have to deal with the financial restructure, then we have to move on to the squad, data analysis, and moving forward.
“But we are in the process of change and it’s an uncomfortable period and disruptive and I do feel sympathy with the fans, but I am not actually surprised where we are in the league because Ruben’s only got a certain size of squad he can deal with, and quite a number of those players are injured or not available to him.”
Away from his club football, Greenwood is closing in on a reunion with his former Man United coach Steve McClaren. The striker is set to formalise a switch to represent Jamaica internationally.
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