Manchester United Rumours Archive January 11 2011

11 Jan 2011 23:42:16
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Man Utd will be making a surprise January move for Southampton's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

REDSTER

11 Jan 2011 20:21:51
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Wow some real transfer muppet alarm on here. .

Get a grip guys and realize which club you actually support. . no it's not h* *ing sheikh City.


Indeed, am struggling with h* *ing as a swear word. Was it on the muppets?

11 Jan 2011 18:29:49
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Manchester United are in a race with Everton to sign the highly rated Nottingham Forest player Chris Cohan. The price of Cohan is believed to be around 5 Million pounds. It is not known yet if Nottigham Forest will except a Player swap with Manchester United, where as Everton are prepared to offer Louis Saha?

11 Jan 2011 18:27:37
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What is ur view on the Craig Gordon rumour reported on sky sports today Ed?

{Editor's Note: Unexpected. As I have said before, Rene Adler still remains the most likely in my view still.}

11 Jan 2011 14:23:06
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Firstly, great site by the way!

Secondly, people keep saying Michael Owen has been a bad buy and will go, in my honest opinion he has played well for the vast majority of games he has been picked for and scored valuable goals when urgently required of him. I hope he stays and that Hernandez can learn addition skills from him and that Utd give him some more chances. It is a psycological thing that because you have paid a great deal for one player ( Berbatov etc ) you are bound to play them, more than a free purchase. Any UTD fan will tell you the one position where the cupboard is bare at the moment is a creative midfielder.

The only real candidate in the market is Cesc Fabregas, in years past I believe UTD would have gone for him, we really do need him, the other options people discuss are a ''gamble'', if UTD really want to be regarded as the biggest and the best he is the player they should buy. It is no good keep saying you are the biggest if you do not back that up.

I love this club, but we have made some bad decisions in both purchases and sales over the last 12 years. Beckham was sold way too cheaply and was ALWAYS good for us.

Editor, what is the chance of Fabregas coming to UTD, what price do you believe would tempt Aresenal to sell to us? As you know we bought Frank Stapleton from them before and he was one of their big stars back then. Have times changed so much? {ed's note - they are looking for more than £40m for him, but the biggest problem would be persuading him.}

11 Jan 2011 11:50:22
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What would you say to the idea of signing either Jarvis or Albrighton and sticking them on left wing? They'd be a damn sight cheaper than Bale and to be honest i think Albrighton is the better player in the sense that Bale went missing against us yet albrighton & Jarvis both stood out. If Bale is as good as everyone makes out then how can he be silenced so easy yet considered lesser players stand out?

I know this is just one game but it is a big game and i would rather not waste money on bale if he's just going to go missing (great against inter but other than that he fails to shine in the bigger games)

Ed & EVERYONE ELSE - what do you think? and what price tags would you stick on Jarvis and Albrighton?


P.s I'm just not convinced of Bales potential/ability vs price tag.

MONK

{editor: Both are really good players. I am not sure about price tags.}
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@ MONK

I think the problem with Bale is that when he comes up against a proper defender (One that does not attack better than he defends) example being Phil Neville he looks poor. He looked poor against us too.

He looked good against Inter because Maicon wouldn't (Couldn't / can't) defend.

I personally like him and think that he is a top player (or has the ability to be a top player) but Historically Spurs will rip United and everybody else off when it comes to selling players.

Albrighton was class against us, he looked like he will be excellent.

Jarvis again looked good against us but I am unsure if he has the ability to be a World class player.

I would say Bale's realistic value would be 17-20 Million, spurs will not let him go for less than 35 Million though.

Realistically Jarvis would be worth around 7-10 million and Albrighton around the same 7-10 million.

Just my take on the subject.

Gaz

11 Jan 2011 11:50:05
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@MONK

Dont you think that if Bale were a target now would be the time to get him while he does go missing in some games and has some still doubting his ability?

If he were the finished article and was consistantly performing brilliant then surely the price tag would increase further and also the interested clubs would increase.

We did it with hernandez when Fergie had an incling that other interested parties were gonna take a look at him in the WC. Its the way Utd work, get rough round the edges players for cheap and mould them.

Obviously Bale now being at a prem club (and even more so at Spurs) the fee would be big so the cheapness has gone but we could still mould him into a better and more influencial player.

Jono!

11 Jan 2011 11:31:29
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That is why we have an insurance on players For hargreaves it covers half his transfer fee and the wages while he has been out. Not bad is it? And in terms of playing, you cannot predict anything with injuries. People have small niggles here and there, and its very difficult to determine a problem until it surfaces.

United has the best medical staff in england i think, the work they have managed to do with ferdinand, giggs and scholes is amazing.

REDFAITH

So why didn't they find the problem at the medical then? It would have saved us 2 years of anguish. He had a worsening knee problem and it wasnt found. Certainly the ongoing medics seem good but are the docs who did the medicals 3 years ago (Hargreaves) still the same ones doing it now?

No problem in taking a player with an injury that will clear up as long as it is correctly assessed. It worked for Van Nistelrooy and we picked that up.

11 Jan 2011 11:21:17
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What would you say to the idea of signing either Jarvis or Albrighton and sticking them on left wing? They'd be a damn sight cheaper than Bale and to be honest i think Albrighton is the better player in the sense that Bale went missing against us yet albrighton & Jarvis both stood out. If Bale is as good as everyone makes out then how can he be silenced so easy yet considered lesser players stand out?

I know this is just one game but it is a big game and i would rather not waste money on bale if he's just going to go missing (great against inter but other than that he fails to shine in the bigger games)

Ed & EVERYONE ELSE - what do you think? and what price tags would you stick on Jarvis and Albrighton?


P.s I'm just not convinced of Bales potential/ability vs price tag.

MONK

{editor: Both are really good players. I am not sure about price tags.}

11 Jan 2011 09:09:17
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Man utd linked with £15m bid for safcs Craig Gordon (source sky sports news). Sunderland fan

11 Jan 2011 04:01:20
ED n sydney. .
I think Hazard clarified it in a interview dat he likes Arsenal n Real Madrid but that dsnt mean he is going there. . he can also play at big clubs like Manchester n Barca. . .
so why is everyone sayin Hazard to Arsenal is a done deal. .

Do u knw anything about this interview ED n Sydney. .?

Shaun

{Editor Note: Arsenal would be his club of choice, he feels he would get first-team football there under Wenger.}

11 Jan 2011 01:19:22
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P.s to people saying he'd fail the Medical you obviously don't know what the Medical is for, it is quite simply to find out the players fitness levels and to find any covered up injuries as long as the Med staff know about the injury in advance then the signing would not be a problem.

*You're wrong. It's for insurance purposes*