Manchester United Rumours Archive July 16 2013

16 Jul 2013 12:04:43
Reports arsenal, city and Chelsea are also in for fabergas

Doesn't matter who is in for him- he isn't going anywhere.

Move on.

16 Jul 2013 15:42:39
He will only leave Barcalona if they want to sell him. I f baraca do want to sell then there is only one place Fabregas will be going and that's United. He won't go back to Arsenal has they can't compete for the premiership, he won't go to Chelsea out of respect for the arsenal fans and he won't go to city because he sees United has the bigger club plus van the man is at united and they are good friends and the prospect of linking back up with his friend would be to good an opportunity to turn down

M. U. F. C Salford

Chelsea have enough midfielders

I'm optimistic as it is unusual for Untied to make an offer without being fairly sure the move will take place.
Could just be Cesc not wanting to alienate the fans if it doesn't come off, or the fact he will get a juicy loyalty bonus if he is sold 'against his will'.
Same reason could be behind the fact Rooney has not submitted a transfer request.
AJK

Villanova quoted as saying he has spoken to Fabregas who says he wants to stay, another one bites the dust! What was looking like an exciting transfer window is now looking more like a damp squib!

Born a Red Devil

One a website source claims Arsenal have no interest in matching the bid and one says Arsenal, Man City and Chelsea all want him as well. They constantly contradict themselves.

Absolute rubbish the question is who needs cesc the most? Chelsea, arsenal, man city have already got talented midfielders

Maybe they want to sell him but they won't publicise it as his fee will go down!

A £25m bid was a joke anyway.

Given the clauses it's rumoured Arsenal negotiated with Barcelona, it would require closer to double that to tempt them.

This all seems more like posturing from United, to make their big money sponsors think they're after 'star' players, than an actual serious attempt to by him.

I honestly feel that the bid for Fabregas is just appease the fans and major sponsers and give them the impression that we're competing with the big spenders. sorry this Red here just doesn't believe it. Obviously Barca weren't going to let him go at £26m, it's just childish battering. We'll end up with Baines and no one else. I do believe though that we have a couple of crackers in our youth set-up, Adnan and Cole. Cole for one reminds me of Scholes more than anyone else,

J-Stand

Disagree j-stand.

The glazers are good businessmen, they know you have to spend money too make money, and making money is what the are interested in.

Doesn't mean we'll get the best signings, or the ones we need, as I don't think they really understand football, but they will definitely spend the money when needed.

Thorne

But Thorne. If we get signings but not the ones we need, what's the point?

J-Stand

16 Jul 2013 11:31:44
Strootman has joined Roma so we didn't even bid for him surely that was Moyes idea. considering everyman and his dog were certain we'd buy him, makes for a most unusual window

Oh god no. looks like the Evertonians will be coming - Ok Baines makes sense - but i'm not convinced by 'big bird' one little bit

Our big signing will turn out to be fellaini, I can't wait : (

That's because most people reckon they know something about football, or apparently someone linked with the clubs, when really 80% of people here aren't.
The signs were there, first the Rooney situation had to be sorted, also no reason it would take so many weeks to sort.

Melwing28

I don't know where you've got your info from but Strootman hasn't joined anyone!

How are you so sure we were in for Strootman?, because the papers told you?if we were to sign every player we were teniously linked with we'd have a squad of 100+. less of the moyes bashing. you are clearly paying too much attention to sly spurts or reading too much of the sun. less fantasy football and more support.

There are some on here who claim Strootman would be a great buy, whist claiming Fellaini would be a poor buy. Get real for Christ sake. One, Strootman has had one solid link and that's with Roma for 11 million Euros. (His worth in my opinion) He is slow, has no goal threat and is by no means a midfield destroyer. The other - Fellaini has been an all round success for Everton, so knows the EPL well. He can play in several position ranging from defensive mid to striker. Has a goal threat if played just behind the striker, or from set pieces. Or he can be a powerful midfield enforcer. If he's done as well as he has at Everton, who have a small squad with only a few really top players, just think what he could be like at United. I'd like to see him playing alongside Carrick, with another purchase, this time an attacking midfielder/winger bought in to play with Kagawa and Rooney as an attacking 3 behind RVP.
Mik

Does my head in every1 slagging fellaini off. If u was any good at managing u would b where moyes is. Some of u r up your own arses united win trophies nearly every year and buy players hu sometimes turn out to be great or sometimes rubbish but they still win things. why don't u support moyes and united or go bk to a team wts spending 100 mill plus u plastic fans davemufc

I don't get you Mik. You keep banging on about Strootman being slow, then saying we should get Fellaini.

Strootman is fairly quick for a cm, although not exceptional, while Fellaini is takes half the pitch to get up to speed, and is no quicker than Strootman even then.

I'm not saying we should have gone for Strootman, I think he would have been a marginal improvement on Anderson at best, and we need better than that. However, at least give a factually accurate argument.

Thorne

Couldn't agree more. I'd rather have Fellani over strootman any day of the week.

He's not given credit on this site too often. Sideshow bob with fabregas/modric would give us a very very strong mid IMO.

I'm sorry but both ando and cleverly are not united material. clevs maybe on his best day but not ando. and I dunno why everyone seems to hate on fellaini so much. he's almost impossible to win the ball from and scores a fair share of goals plus proven in the prem.

Spot on opinion Mik Strootman and Fellaini are both very good players but Fellaini is older more experienced and a better player in my book, been saying for ages its him we should and will be signing and been criticised loads by self claimed experts who really know very little its going to be funny when in a years time these self styled experts are saying what a great player the big fella is for us and how glad that we signed him and what a great manager Moyes ls lol Katef

Everyone is getting very impatient and frustrated. Just wait and see, we will make a good signing, it has been the pipeline for a while to replace scholes, there is just no more putting it off. Moyes has identified that area so let wait and see. Not my ideal choice but If it is fellani he will give us height and strength, something we need and with better players around him we will do well.

Dan h

Well I never rated strootman so could not care less where he goes.

As for Fellaini all I know is that he has always given us a horrid time and made our midfielders look like championship level opposition.

Some one mentioned cleverly and anderson being poor and I agree before we start slagging off players like fellaini take a look at welbeck, cleverly and anderson and you would need to really choose your words carefully and what does united quality mean as it seems the bar is set differently for some players. If some of the lot who play for us currently were at another pl team no one here would want them.

Shahram

Fellini spends more time elbowing players than he does on the ball, very slow, has no real tactile brains, no technical skill ability, he is pure muck, full stop, il never forgive Moyes if he brings that long streak of misery into our club!he wouldn't get his game for chelsea, city, barca, madrid or bayern, he is no way near world class and that's what we need in midfield at the moment!

"I'm sorry but both ando and cleverly are not united material. clevs maybe on his best day but not ando. "

anderson is miles better then cleverly he's overrated because he's english but anderson when he's fit awesome some of his passes well better then cleverly

Some of you Strootman bashers are being OTT to be honest, would he have broken into the dutch national team aged 21 (considering the dutch aren't short of good midfielders) while also picking up the captains armband too?

He's good on the ball, definitely can be a goal threat in the right areas and likes to attack directly, IMO definitely would improve our midfield. He's better than Cleverley and Anderson! Only 23 too, a bit younger than Kagawa so has plenty of time to improve.

Fellaini is also a good player, a lot of people see him and think 'big guy must just muscle his way to the back of the net' but he's actually a clever player with his passing and moving too. Personally I don't think he'd be a great help to us against the biggest teams in europe but also he'd be an improvement on Cleverley and Anderson.

Ozwald

Few regular posters going on about us signing Strootman being ideal for our midfield, just because he isn't a flair player means we slate him when he is perfect, we have no idea blah blah, seems the Utd scouts and/or Moyes didn't believe in him.
I have said all summer I don't see us signing and certainly hope we don't sign him. Player who is good enough but isn't needed also is Garay, and I have said this isn't happening even though one of the Eds and again various frequent posters on here have said deal nearly done, in talks and how ideal he is for giving us a higher line, yeah ok footy experts talking utter nonsense tryin gto sound clever let's see if we sign him too!
Invisible STuey