{"id":11380,"date":"2022-03-06T09:04:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/03\/06\/why-manchester-uniteds-transfer-budget-could-be-slashed-in-the-summer\/"},"modified":"2022-03-06T09:04:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T14:04:36","slug":"why-manchester-uniteds-transfer-budget-could-be-slashed-in-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/03\/06\/why-manchester-uniteds-transfer-budget-could-be-slashed-in-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Manchester United\u2019s transfer budget could be slashed in the summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An insight into Manchester United\u2019s summer transfer budget has been provided over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Despite spending big over the summer of 2021, Manchester United were expected to have another hectic summer window this year as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils still clearly need a new defensive midfielder and a centre-forward that is not in the twilight of his career.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Telegraph suggest that Manchester United\u2019s transfer budget may not be very high this year, explaining that United\u2019s summer transfer budget will be slashed should Ralf Rangnick fail to get them into the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>And even if Man United do clinch a top-four place, the Telegraph add that\u00a0a modest spend of around \u00a380m is expected.<\/p>\n<p>So, as premium players at the top of the game can easily set a big side back \u00a350m in today\u2019s market, it does not look as though United will be signing a top striker and central midfielder this year, even if they do earn Champions League football.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Erling Haaland to Man City? 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Despite spending big over the summer of 2021, Manchester United were expected to have another hectic summer window this year as well. The Red Devils still clearly need a new defensive midfielder and a centre-forward that is not in the twilight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-11380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}