Manchester United Rumours Archive February 13 2012

13 Feb 2012 20:06:49
If Martinez is unavailable and we want a big strong central midfielder, then how do people feel about Fellaini? He might not be bad for us i think..

RedDevil19

Not a chance, Fellaini is by no means a player that you can win a title off the back of him in midfield. He is a good player but by no means at all good enough for us.

JS RED

I agree with 19, he's a fantastic player. He's young, athletic and fantastically talented. Twice the player Rodwell is. He could really become a fantastic player at United, and no settling in problems. I've thought about him for a while but been reluctant to mention it in the belief that it was only me that saw it.

Jack

I don't understand the consistent fixation on Fellaini. He's not a guaranteed starter for a midlevel club. How does he do anything for us besides providing depth, which we have in spades. He doesn't add quality and doesn't improve our best XI. Long term we have Cleverly, Anderson and Pogba, maybe Fletcher. We need another young star like Eriksen, Ganso, etc. Otherwise, whats the purpose? Just my opinion....-KG

Fellani is a very underated player he,s a handful for most teams scores a few and is very good in the air.he breaks up a lot of the oppositions play but my worry would be his discaplinery record well inti double figures on yellows each season.
johndenton

Cany have someone with a haircut like that in a utd shirt sorry

I brought up Fellaini not to be a consistent starter, however he is very effective when we need a midfield presence, like Yaya Toure is for City. I don't think he'd be a regular, more like an Ashley Young sort of player for us - not first team, but very good.

RedDevil19

13 Feb 2012 19:06:51
we are linked with xhaka in today's press.probably there is not a lot to it but he played well when we played basel.would come on cheap too.15 mil at the max.

red devil for life

He will cost £7m maximum my friend, that is why we should be buying him.

Sydney!

£15 million max- 10 million at the absolute max

Was it not reported he had a medical at bayern munich ?

Its beyond me how anyone can say they no the exact price or max, its pure speculation on your behalf unless your within the clubs concerned you do not know period.

Xhaka’s contract with Basle runs until June 2014, with an escape clause of £3.5million. according to the people

whether that is true or not I don't know, and theres no way of us knowing unless someone here has actually seen his contract with their own eyes, but the people is not exactly a reliable source so its more than likely to be false

but considering they sold shaqiri for 10 million euros you would expect to pay no more than that for his team m8.

13 Feb 2012 18:32:49
We are all in agreement that we need a central midfielder and a full back/versatile defender. A CB would of been on the list but i think Veseli might come good in that position.

I'm not saying i want this or anything, but i'm thinking if money is tight for someone like an Eriksen, then i think we could do a double deal with Dinamo for Kovacic and Vrjsalko (sp?). Both are excellent players, Kovacic i believe is 17 and Vrjsalko is 19 going on 20. They both fit in with our youth policy system.

I'd also like to say that expect to see a bid in for Alvaro Vadillo in summer and potentially Erick Torres if we can manage to get a work permit. I think youth is going to be the way we carry on to do things.

RedDevil19

Kovacic is a new one, dont think you have mentioned him before!

13 Feb 2012 15:29:08
It'd be great if United sign Podolski.
With Berbatov out next season.
He, welbeck, rooney and chicharito would be great.
Also he could do the job on the left wing or even play on the left in a 3 pronged attack.
Sell berba for 8-9m. Buy him for 15m.

Sounds good in theory...great left foot, good finisher, decent age and value for money...not sure he'd be willing to come and be used in rotation though which would be my concern. with wellbeck & hernandez doing so well he wouldnt necessarily be 1st choice until/unless he proved his worth

Gav

FAT chance he is going Arsenal. We will sign Erriksen and Wilfried Zaha

13 Feb 2012 10:09:28
hey guys...
Jst heard that manutd are intrested in bayern.L mid fielder M.ballack for 15 mlp

Thats grt Ed's/syD?
What say u both..hmm. {Ed002's Note - I don't know what currency "mlp" are but I rather doubt Manchester United will be paying £15M for Michael Ballack. My understanding is that the plan is that he will move to the United States unless a particularly attractive offer arrives from China or the Middle East.}

Wouldn't even have him on a free as he would want high wages, pretty much nothing in this rumor, and he will as ED said get offers from elsewhere, he will get a nice little retirement pot but not from us

Dan S

Probably meant to be 15 million pounds but I reckon more realistically the currency stands for 15 millilitres of petrol or My little Pony's, (as he is pony)

Supasub

Utter tripe

Woffta