Jules72 the one thing that they are doing (ref Mount), at last, is not folding in negotiations with clubs applying a United tax… might be painful missing out on players in the short term, but will save us a lot of money long term.
I’m also guessing part of it is that they’re just playing hard-ball for now because they’re not overly keen to proceed in negotiations until they’re sure the club will be sold.
While that’s up in the air they might as well make speculative offers and try and figure out what the lowest figure the other club will accept is; then they’ll quickly close on those deals once it seems clear the sale will proceed and there’ll be plenty of funds available to them.
That’s what I’d speculate anyway.
