Manchester United Rumours Archive March 15 2013

15 Mar 2013 20:48:12
Ed, I know this has been discussed during the summer transfer window but do you think it's possible to buy rodriguez from Porto for about 20 million with Anderson going the other way and/or a player on a season loan ( Buttner if they lose Sandro perhaps ). i'm not sure Porto are willing to pay Anderson's wages but they are in need of a central midfielder if moutinho leaves and Anderson was highly rated as a youngster in Portugal {Ed007's Note - I would say no, but it is possible a deal for Rodriguez could happen.}

15 Mar 2013 16:04:38
Ed002 I see you've said on another page that an EPL side may be interested in Dries Mertens. I'm guessing it's not United?

Thanks {Ed002's Note - Great guess.}

I try my best :) Thanks for the reply, no matter how kryptic.

Is it Arsenal Ed? {Ed002's Note - You will have to ask that on the Arsenal page.}

15 Mar 2013 12:34:14
I thought that it was about time a web site made up a new rumour, Douglas Costa! It has to be the most unreliable website in the world. {Ed002's Note - Manchester United, Chelsea, Rubin Kazan, Napoli, Arsenal, Manchester City and no doubt many others have been interested in Douglas Costa in the past 18 months. He was being hawked around Italy and and Portugal by Cesar Bottega over the summer and Napoli expressed an interest. There were some talks but no offer was made. Shaktar's approach to valuing players is not dissimilar to Porto's approach. If he moves in the Summer window it may well be to Naples.}

That's hardly a new rumour, just a very old and tired one.

TK-Red

He is a top player and would love to see us get him.

Shahram

15 Mar 2013 00:46:48
So it's looking like a summer of garay, strootman and a versatile attacker possibly Rodriguez/lamela?do people really think we could see lewandowski arrive in the summer?i think he's off to bayern myself. I think if garay is bought we could see jones in midfield more often. strootman aswell would be a fantastic buy. I wouldn't be surprised to see lindegaard go either with begovic brought in. I think we could be in for a busy summer this year but that's just my opinion.?

Id be happy if jones played more than 1 game every 3months no matter what position. hope he's not another hargreaves. his potential is super high (another ledley king?)

Jones will be better at cb than cm, and he will make a great pairing with Smalling.

Strootman looks pretty good but not sure he's what we need. Maybe soeone a bit more technical, to better keep possession and control the game.

Personally I think interest in Lewandosky is purely, precautionary, in case one of our current strikers wants to move on and attracts big bids.

I hope the fact that Jones is injury prone at the moment is due to his age as his body grows and adjusts for his job. From what I have seen I prefer him in midfield but that will be decided by SAF, as he appears to be quite good at his job and with more qualifications than most on this site.
JR-Red

He's injury prone because he's full on. He goes in for some stupid tackles etc, then gets injured. Needs to be more careful in the way he chooses his tackles.

Can't see Lamela or Garay coming in.

I think this will be a busy busy year for united with anderson, nani, vidic, evra, valencia, macheno, youmg (in hope) and rooney going

Vidic is unlikely to be allowed to leave, Rio is fading, Evans not top quality while jones and Smalling aren't ready. We could get a new main partner for vidic but not replace him as well.

We are unlikely to shift all three of young Nani and Valencia, as we can't afford to replace our 3 main wingers all at once!

The departures you're talking about would leave us needing 2 first choice defenders, 3 top wingers, at least one top midfielder, maybe 2, a top left back AND a quality striker. That's 8-9 top quality players all at once. Not going to happen. Even if we could afford it, no decent manager would want to gel a team like that, when the existing team just needs 2-4 quality signings to be back among the best in the world.