Manchester United Rumours Archive August 19 2011

19 Aug 2011 21:52:11
Rumours around Madrid, Utd about to bid for Benzema so that means Berbatov will go to Dortmond with Goteze coming to Old Trafford plus 18m, seems that will be the end of the spending for along time.

Seems like a bit of a stretch but if this does happen it would be amazing for United.

Ye and messi wants to sign for norwich,stop man,just another sweeping statement,with no element of truth

super red

It's the weekend and this youth has had too much to drink etc
Mik

I believe that deal , whilst unlikely, would be an excellent one.

Red Man

Benzema is on more money t than sjneider and very happy at madrid

Maybe if Neymar goes to Madrid then there will be no more room for Benzema? Just a thought...

Mega Amazing Man

I've never been impressed by Benzema.
Every time I've seen him he's been VERY average and I can't understand why any top club would want him.

I know that SAF is supposed to be a big fan but I think that must be a running joke around OT, like an ironic practical joke at the french lads expense.

In my opinion, he's no better than James McFadden.

19 Aug 2011 20:24:41
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19 Aug 2011 18:55:59
Only a couple of weeks left until the transfer window slams shut and we seem no closer to a new signing.

This for me is for one of two reasons; A.) SAF has no intention of signing a new player as he has previously stated or B.) We could be heading for another Berbatov deal i.e deadline day signing. I personally hope it's option B whether it's a certain Dutchman, a wantaway Croatian or a German superstar in the making i'm not sure but hopefully it will be one of them.

At this moment and time Ed, what player, if any can you see ending up at Old Trafford before the close of the window?

I think were done in transfers, i also think were a bit short in midfield but d'ya know what... if utd got relegated 3 seasons in a row, I'd still worship them.... HERBIE

I agree with Herbie for once. No more transfers but I would chase Goetze had I the option. Big style.

Pip

19 Aug 2011 18:52:51
I wish I could understand more on this Singapore thingy..... It seems to me like the Glazers are acting like dodgy dealers, juggling the finances about and why why why is the question..... Anyways its Friday so have a top weekend peeps.... HERBIE

Depending on how the glazers enter the market it could help clear a massive amount of the debt or could only erase a very small amount. asian market is prob biggest market in world. from what i have read glazers are valueing united at overall 1.86billion. if this is true capital they can make from this by sellin 20 to 30% should be enough to take at least and up to 62% of our overall debt but as united has a sister an lead company owned by the glazers this will effect the evaulation of the overall value in the market to decrease due to it losses it anounced for last 2 years

Thanks for that mate, I kinda get it but it just gives me an headache thinking about it :-) .... HERBIE {Ed007's Note - Don't worry Herbie, I am the same, takes me all my time keeping up with the Rangers Tax Case without trying to understand this stuff.}

Hey no probs. tried to write it down best i could. give me a headache aswel should have chosen something easier at uni than world economy they are clever buggers tho cause puttin united on that market wil make it extreamly difficult for anyone to come an buy united as a whole because of the amount of money need to buy it would become astronomical. might aswell buy shuttle atlantis an send it back in to space a few times glorytounited

19 Aug 2011 17:09:24
I dont see why we dont try to get Bastian Shweinsteiger still a great player and his family are known to be Red Devil fans plus would be so much cheaper than Sneijder and the wages would be cheaper for us, and his set pieces are quality aswell to offer another option rather than just Young on the long free-kicks

ForeverRed

He would if anything be more than Sneijder as he is younger, wont want to move with the same willingness as Sneijder and plays for a club that are in no need of money unlike Inter. However I agree that he would be the best player we could get for our team at the moment.

He played this week with Bayern, that means not awailable for champion's league this year. He'll never play for another team than Bayern

No money.

Seen the stock market and the debts?

And unless you have a mad oil rich arab or a crooked oil rich russian as an owner who does have money?

its a recession. i work for a major uk firm, we have profit of xx millions but because our european partners are struggling we are making cutbacks so we can still run at a profit and use that to support them.

the times are hard which is why people are thinking hard about going to games, because the tickets cost so bloody much.

Onto Schweiny, Bayern are one of the richest and best well ran clubs in europe. Inter aren't. Inter need money, Bayern don't. They told Real to bog off a couple years ago over both Schweiny and Ribery.

Schweinsteiger,fantastic footballer,wud love to c it happenbut sadly as the others said,we aint got the gold for him,he would b much use in CL coz he b cup tiedSneijder is better option,but with only 12 days to go without him handing in a transfer request,i doubt itl happen

super red

He would be by far the best possible addition to our midfield squad, both solid and full of footballing quality. But he WILL NOT move from Germany this season, Unfortunately for us

Schwienstiger played Champions Leage during the week with Bayern so he's going no where now.

19 Aug 2011 15:29:52
Why do most people felel that united is entitled to every good player? And that anybody who does not want to come is money hungry.
Maybe some players do no want to join because they like other clubs
Ferguson said earlier in the window that Nasri had agreed to go somewhere else, does that not mean that united tried and failed? So how do you guys come up with the farce that arsenal won't sell.
Always making excuses when the player clearly rejected the club, no matter the reason why.
The sense of entitlement is incredible and will be your downfall , even real Madrid have been turned down by players

Good point. I have also made the same observation on this page.

Most players that do go to city is because of the enormous wage they will recieve, before they got taken over by a billionaire hardly any big name players wanted to go there, so what was the attraction other than money.

P.S. Ive never called modric money hungry.

Is it a bit quiet on the s****y page of this site ...whats up go no transfers to speculate about after filling your 25 man squad with mercenaries...only a handfull of your squad will want to fight and win for your team when it comes down to it. We are not entitled to every player we just want players that want to play for us and not content to sit in the stand and count there sheckles

Well said last poster. I do understand that many players would rather join other teams like Real/Barca because Spain has great culture + weather + the taxes are less + there great teams too BUT its clear that Man Shi##y's offers of huge wages are attracting players to the club that would not have gone there otherwise. Would Tevez have gone to a team without Champs Lge footbal if he wasnt on £20ok-£250k per week? Would YoYo Toure have chosen the murky autumn nights of Manchester without Champs Lge football were he not on a similarly redicilous wage? But dont worry Reds, their business plan, if you can call it that,it far from sustainable...Red Devils will still rule years from now

This is almost amusing, and United aren't even nearly as bad as say, Real Madrid or Barca for example. Look how madrid acted over a game the other night, how Barca acted in the fabergas saga and that's only recently. They litterally bully the spanish league also in a number of ways. They are this big because they expect to be this big. This the modern day game - and i say game loosely. It's business really. The day United sit idly by and play second fiddle because of the theory of ''maybe we aren't as good as we think'' will be their downfall not if they stop. Do you believe that arrogance and dogged self belief have nothing to do with Alex Ferguson's success? This has clealy worked for 20 years and you think it'll be the downfall ? really ? If united continue to act like this they'll fall away ? In the real world, what will change the capitalistic structure of the major european leagues is the introduction of perhaps an NFL system. The best Players are allocated by the league on a weakest team basis and so on. Until that far off day we're stuck with this.

Keep telling yourselves players only go for the money but the fact is yaya and tevez have fa cup medals and champions league games to play this season the money helps but joining city now also means you have as good a chance of winning silverware as anywhere else so just deal with it cos deep down you know it's trueo

19 Aug 2011 14:41:32
a few papers in england and france running with a story that nasri wanted united move but united never made a move for him.
anyone really no whats going on at united.
jred

Its blatantly obvious that nobody knows what is going on behind closed doors at man utd, unless u are lucky enough to spot someone when that wasnt intending on being spotted on etc......

it all boils down to luck and guesswork imo......

Robbo

I dont even think people in the so called know , know whats going on at OT.... if they did, a proper midfielder would have been signed by now.... its a joke that we have not addressed this issue now for the past 3 years.
The positive news however is that Blackburn are on the verge of signing Gibson for £6m, thats us paying them to take him off our hands of course :)

If he wanted the united move he would of played out the last year of his contract and got his move to united.

He could of wound his contract down and come to united,
or barce or madrid both would of had with no transfer fee,
or he could off then even gone to city , how much would they of paid him in wages with no transfer fee.
the smart thing to do would be to run his contract down but he never so why not.
the only reason i can think is he wanted to win silverware and city were is only or best option to do it this season.
jred

19 Aug 2011 10:43:20
The thing I'm struugling with over the Nasri situation is why Arsenal wont deal with us yet will with one of their own rivals for a top 4 spot. How does that make sense?

The guy clearly wanted us, we wanted him but Apses wouldn't even talk to us so we never even got near bidding for him.

Think they have lost the plot over this one

Personally I'm sure something is in the offing and I'm guessing will be done before 28th August-Inters first Serie A match.

I have a feeling we were interested in nasri because he was cheap and available but when we knew wesley sneijder actually wants the move to old trafford i think our interest in nasri has calmed.. I mean i'm thinking £20 mil for nasri? thats so cheap, everyone knows that's a good buy so why wouldn't fergie bid? we all know we need a top draw midfielder.. maybe nasri isn't experienced enough for our young squad?

Nasri has been hinting around we wants to join united but obviously can't say that especially since city are involved... I don't know why united have not bothered trying to sign him or maybe they are doing on the quiet... Rediculous arsenal won't sell to one top 4 side but will to another... Arsenal needs a deal done now not later so they can buy in replacements... {Ed007's Note - The deal with City is 99% done, the hold up is Arsenal haggling over the set up of the way the transfer fee is paid.}

20million pounds for a player with one year left on his contract doesn't seem cheap to me

Why would we have ever wanted Nasri? He is essentially a winger, the one position we don't need need any more of

Wenger won't sell to United but to sh**y is beyond me. I think the fear is united will keep winning and wenger hates us that bad to give the noisy neighbors a 'upper hand'.

Orrrr, probably the more likely explanation is that city will giver arsenal more money for him?

Sanshine

If we were interested in nasri and nasri wanted us " badly " do you not think he would have ran down his contract and moved to who he wanted Personally i dont think we were ever seriously interested in him

CRAIGY

'Nasri is in the squad tomorrow and is available to be picked,' said Wenger.

Could drag on a little more if he plays... Even longer if he picks up an injury..

We could all be in for a very busy last couple of days come the end of the month.

OxfordRed

@sanshine

if sh**y is offering more at 20-22m and we were offering 25m I think that it was united who offered more money. However, I do think that wenger is spiting us because he wants to minimize us winning again? Maybe if the noisy neighbors win he would be satisfied?

Why would weput a bid in for Nasri when we already have Young, Giggs and Park in
the same position.

19 Aug 2011 08:04:03
Its gone all too quiet now on Utd transfer rumoursGood or bad thing?Does it mean were doing nothing or somethings happening?Does anyone know if theres any truth in Sneijder handing in a transfer request so he can get the united deal moving?Ed's? Super Red {Ed002's Note - It means it has gone quiet - there are no secret messages.}

It's either gone quiet and were not looking or Fergie really is that good and nobody knows like he has done with other players before... The fans know a good cm wouldn't hurt, gill said they were looking for a player for this position but maybe players we want are just not willing to talk or except our contract

19 Aug 2011 00:14:40
Sir, I fall to my knees hoping that
you will look to a cheaper option, to
a player that wants to join United.
He is willing to wait but why not
please United fans, myself and you
your highness and buy NASRI. In the
Sun newspaper the player expresses
his wishes.
And dont tell me what is the sun
newspaper. Thats not a reliable
source. Well why dont you make a
bid or speak to the players agent?
Make my day so I can get up and
watch United (Sun Aug 18 2011). {Ed007's Note - You ok there mate?}

First off, I hope the hangover is not too bad .............. as for Nasri, the choice is his, he can sit tight for a season and come to Utd for free if Arsenal won't accept the £22m bid we tabled in June, (maybe Fergie will go up to £25m) or he can join the mercenary army at Wastelands. My inkling is that he will be wearing a nice blue shirt covered by a big warm tracksuit sat next to Milner, Barry, Johnson etc on the bench, taking calls from his bank manager on how to invest his millions. Sadly he could be yet another player whose greed will overtake his playing time, look at Given, Bridge, Boateng, Santa Cruz etc

When you get back on the planet I suggest you read old posts etc. Arsenal wont deal with us. We tried they wont. End of

I suggest Black Coffee.

Im not sure they are Ed. Though if we are asking for things Id love for my place of work to go up in flames within the next 15 minutes....pretty please?

TK-Red

One of the funniest Ed replies ever.....love it I do realise this is not constructive or a rumour

Salford C

Does you think this is a direct line to SAF

Salford Red

Shouldnt really admit to it but i watched a closet transvestite alcoholic 26 year old who stole from his family and looked about 40 due to his excessive drinking admit to his mother on national television he was a woman in a mans body whilst clearly still drunk (jeremy kyle show)..... he wasnt anywhere near as emotional as you sir......get help...soon....oh and chicken....chicken makes everything better {Ed002's Note - Please don't tell the whole sorry Ed007 saga to everyone.}

Ed002 i do apologise but Ed007 should definitly let it out in the public domain.... it may be why he feels the need to masquarade behind this "Ed007" nonsense... cant be doing him any good living in the digital shadows...he should just whack his dress on and go for a big mac {Ed007's Note - My past is much more colourful than that, but not quite as 'chavvy'. As for my dressing habits, I dress 100% male, you should see Ed001s outfit for watching LFC though. He even has an old iron on LFC badge on his (red) basque that 022 (Arsenal Ed) left over at our summer jamboree. I am still coming to terms with the cross dressing habits of all the 'southern softy' Eds, and the only time I have ever worn a kilt was at my wedding, I will never wear one again either (I bent over and my mammy saw my hold ups!!!}