30/08/2026
Have you ever wondered why Manchester United struggles to offload our deadwood players, while clubs like Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, City, and Spurs manage it easily and often for a good fee?
Many of you might say it's because we have incompetent people running the club. While there’s some truth to that, it's not the main reason.
The fans play a significant role in our difficulties in selling players. Yes, that's not a typo.
Let me explain.
When clubs like Chelsea, City, Liverpool, Spurs, etc purchase players who underperform, their fans generally don’t devalue or abuse these players. They may criticize them, but it tends to be constructive, allowing their clubs to make the final decisions.
At Manchester United, however, the moment we sign a player, if he has one bad game, the criticism starts. The abuse and hate begin, and it continues until the player loses confidence and starts performing poorly.
If it were just about poor performances, that would be one thing. After all, players like Liam Delap, Nicolas Jackson, Alejandro Garnacho, Tijjani Reijnders, etc have performed below expectations at their respective clubs, yet they were sold at decent fees.
But Manchester United fans tend to devalue and demarket our players on social media, creating negative PR. What they fail to realize is that other clubs are watching.
Barcelona didn’t back out of a potential deal for Marcus Rashford because they think he’s not good; they did so because they wanted to avoid the negativity associated with our fans. During Rashford's loan at Barcelona, many United fans bombarded Barca’s comment sections with abuse directed at him. Why target a player who is no longer at our club?
Do you see why other clubs aren't interested in our players now, and when they are, they buy them cheaply?
So before you point fingers at INEOS, the Glazers, Berrada, Wilcox, Vivell, Carrick, or anyone else, I want you to acknowledge that you, as a fan, are part of the problem.
And until you change, that is never going to change.