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Originally Posted by yesman
I read somewhere today that United have £100 million in the bank available for new players, that is quite small if you take away the £80 million United received for Ronaldo.
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I remember something about £20m per window floating about so Fergie would have had £100m to spend. Problem was, clubs saw we had just got £80m for one player and so prices for any decent player jumped up - quick example was Bayern slapping £60m+ on Ribery's head. We know Fergie isn't like Wenger in terms of spending large amounts of money but he does refuse to pay inflated prices for players.
You go on about the potential of Fergie being a puppet but he doesn't seem the kind of manager who would take it, and let's face it, if he wasn't happy with the way things were going, announcing his retirement at the end of X season wouldn't be a total shock considering his age, how long he's been the manager and what he's done so I doubt the Glazers would have much ammo to try and stop him leaving.