Manchester United net triple transfer windfall as 'new PSR approach' emerges

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·16 July 2025

Manchester United net triple transfer windfall as 'new PSR approach' emerges

Club desperate to raise funds to invest in transfer market

United are cautious that they are close to breaching the Premier League’s regulations, which is not a position they want to be in as Ruben Amorim looks to invest heavily in his squad ahead of the new season.

United have signed just two players this summer - Matheus Cunha from Wolves and Diego Leon from Cerro Porteno - while they chase Brentford’s Bryan Mbeumo.

They have also signed 18-year-old striker Enzo Kana-Biyik from Lausanne.

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A report in the Manchester Evening News details that United have now begun offering out academy players for next-to-nothing as they try to balance the books.

It claims that United have put together a list of players over the age of 18 that they believe will not make the jump to the first-team squad, and as such, have looked into finding new clubs for them.

That has come as a “shock” for players and families, who, the report says, believe that they have not been consulted on the decision, while United maintain that that is not the case.

Now United are looking to offload their academy graduates for very small transfer fees - or nothing at all - but with high sell-on clauses in case the players in question go on to become a success elsewhere.

United have started to see the benefits of inserting those sell-on clauses in respective outgoing deals, and they have received a windfall of around £18million from the recent transfers of Anthony Elanga, Maxi Oyedele, and Alvaro Carreras.

Elanga joined Newcastle from Nottingham Forest for £55million, while Carreras has moved to Real Madrid from Benfica in a £37million switch. They had a 15 per cent clause inserted into Carreras’ Benfica contract, and a 10 per cent sell-on for Elanga.

Oyedele completed a move to Ligue 1 Strasbourg on Wednesday.

United are believed to have received £13m from Elanga and Carreras’ transfers, while they will bank £2.1m from Oyedele’s move to France from Legia Warsaw, who signed the midfielder from the Red Devils last summer. United held a 40 per cent sell-on for Oyedele.

Amorim’s side also received £5m from Chelsea’s decision to terminate Jadon Sancho’s loan, rather than pay their £25m obligation to buy.