Manchester United Rumours Archive December 10 2011

10 Dec 2011 23:02:51
Latest rumours are that £39 million rated Benfica winger, Nicolas Gaitan is United's top transfer target for January.

Shaqiri is 10 times better than Gaitan. Better to go for him rather than Gaitan (if at all)

A 4th winger and still no cm what a joke that would be

I wouldnt say that. IMO Shaqiri is far too inconsistent. He shows the odd flash of brilliance then goes missing for the rest of the game. To say he is 10 times better than Gaitan is a bit over the top. That said, if we spend £39million on Gaitan when that money could've bought us someone like Pastore, Sneijder or could get us Martinez and a LB, I wouldnt be too happy. Gaitan is more likely to go for around the £23million mark and even that is too much IMO.

TK-Red

We don't need another f***ing winger!! We need two midfield players, defensive abd creative, plus a centreback to take over from Rio/Nemanja. If Fergie gets yet another winger I will scream ..... arrrgggghh!

Latest rumours that he will definetly come to united

Gaitan has played CM all this career up to being managed by Jorge Jesus at Benfica. He likes to sit deep but makes very good use of the ball and in the past has chipped in with his fair share of goals.

10 Dec 2011 09:28:08
Fergies latest interview states that he will not be going into the transfer market. he has enough defensive cover to cope with the nxt 4/5 months. I guess we go with what we got till the summer.

Fergie has faith in his squad, if the players constantly criticised on this site fail to impress, they will be shipped out , they only need games to gather momentum and consistantcy. The injuries and the lack of leadership in the engine room are unsettling but any signings would be a knee jerk response going by the reports coming out of OT and maybe might hinder or signal the departure of Pogba.

City, PSG, Malaga, Chelsea and the influence of the buy out clauses in South America have inflated the market. The prospect of being cup tied in Europe and the settling in time, suggest any signings would be unappealing and problematic.

SAF usually says something and does another. So I'll not take his latest comments into much consideration. I personally think that he will wield the axe this transfer market, just imagine what he's going through: out of the Carling cup and the CL this early and in seven days interval. He was talking about reaching Barca's standard and now so much humiliation. But from now to the opening of the transfer market he'll need every player due to too many injuries. So this reassuring comments to the players.

Looking at todays bench, united need more strength imo, gutted we went out of UCL, but we didn't deserve to, we used to beat teams in the tunnel before games started, now there is no fear which is not a good sign. fergie must sign some players january, it proves we need t buy likes of sneijder, schweinstieger

^ Sneijder & Schweinsteger are approaching their late 20's and have probably hit their peak, both are on considerable wages and both would command huge transfer fees. Can't see Fergie spalshing out that sort of cash on players who are likely to have 2 years max at their peak with no sell on value should they need to get rid if they don't perform. There are far better options for Utd out there than these two players, who in my opinion don't represent good value for money in the long-term.