{"id":342084,"date":"2025-08-13T20:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/342084\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T20:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:47:20","slug":"man-uniteds-four-financial-levers-to-be-able-to-sign-100m-brighton-star-carlos-baleba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/342084\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United’s four financial levers to be able to sign \u00a3100m Brighton star Carlos Baleba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Manchester United are hoping to end their summer transfer window with a big-money move for Brighton\u2019s Carlos Baleba.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So far, Manchester United<\/a> have welcomed four new signings into Ruben Amorim\u2019s side, with the latest being the \u00a366m arrival of Benjamin Sesko<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Ineos are far from being done in the transfer market, with Amorim wanting an \u201cathletic\u201d midfielder<\/a> before the window slams shut at the end of the month.<\/p>\n

United have approached Brighton for Carlos Baleba<\/a>, but with \u00a3200 million already spent on new signings, affording the Cameroon international could prove to be difficult.<\/p>\n

Brighton want \u00a3100m to sell Baleba<\/a> this summer, which would be Ineos\u2019 biggest signing so far. <\/p>\n

\"CarlosPhoto by Mike Hewitt\/Getty ImagesFinance expert on how Man United can afford Carlos Baleba<\/p>\n

According to Fabrizio Romano, Baleba\u2019s personal terms are no issue<\/a> for United, meaning the only remaining hurdle is agreeing a fee with Brighton.<\/p>\n

With United needing to cough up \u00a3100m, United in Focus<\/strong> spoke exclusively to football finance expert Adam Williams<\/a> about how Ineos can make it happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the \u00a3100m asking price is correct, I don\u2019t see how United would stretch to that without significant sales. And it would probably have to be sales, not just loans of players on high wages,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they loan out Garnacho or Hojlund, they might save \u00a325m in annual wages and maybe get a modest loan fee, but they are still going to have to bear those costs when they return to the club, and there is no guarantee that they will be able to sell them for significant fees thereafter. It may be that any club who was willing to take them on loan would expect a chunk of their wages covered anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn any case, the Baleba deal would probably be structured over two or three instalments, so it\u2019s next year\u2019s cash flow that they would need to be concerned with too. Given where they are as a team, I don\u2019t think they can bank on getting European income in 2025-26. They have the overdraft facility that they have extended, yes, but that comes with an interest charge. They also had over \u00a3300m of transfer debt per their last quarterly accounts, and that figure will now have increased significantly with the arrivals of Sesko, Mbuemo and Cunha.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs is well documented at this point, PSR probably isn\u2019t the immediate concern. It\u2019s access to cash that\u2019s the real sticking point. If push came to shove, they could probably afford Baleba in the short term for \u00a3100m, but they\u2019d be betting on A) significant player sales or wage savings, either this season or next, B) an upturn in performance that sees them get into Europe next season, C) another cash injection from Ratcliffe or the Glazers, which seems unlikely in the near future, or D) a big new commercial deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe training ground doesn\u2019t yet have a naming rights partner and they also don\u2019t have a training kit sponsor, I believe. Perhaps they are avenues they could explore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Man United close to two deals to enable Carlos Baleba signing<\/p>\n

Clearly, United will need to raise cash to fund their Carlos Baleba<\/a> bid, but Ineos are already close to completing a few important sales.<\/p>\n

Alejandro Garnacho is close to joining Chelsea<\/a> with United hoping to earn around \u00a330m from his sale. <\/p>\n

At the same time, AC Milan are hoping to sign Rasmus Hojlund<\/a> on an initial loan deal which could eventually earn around \u00a330-\u00a340m for United if he is signed permanently.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: \u2018Masterstroke\u2019 \u2013 Carlos Baleba told to join Man United by former Cameroon star Eric Djemba-Djemba<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

If both sales go ahead soon, a deal for Baleba could become much more realistic as we approach the final few days of the transfer window.<\/p>\n

United\u2019s PSR position is safe<\/a> for now, and Baleba would be a brilliant end to what has been a brilliant window for the Red Devils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United are hoping to end their summer transfer window with a big-money move for Brighton\u2019s Carlos Baleba.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[117296,3781,94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-342084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-carlos-baleba","9":"tag-finances","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115023422878113315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}