Manchester United Rumours Archive June 20 2012

20 Jun 2012 14:03:53
Hey Ed, is it true that Zeki Fryers is going to be sold?

Robert De Niro Fan. {Ed002's Note - I really don't know. Sorry.}

It is pretty well known around Carrington amongst the older folk that Zeki has chosen to join Spurs. United are not that fussed about letting him go either so I hear. He will be joining his bessy mate Ravel in London Town. He will be available on a free, but we will get some compensation for him, a nominal amount.

Sydney!

Overrated never a first team regular watched him since he joined the academy good job he's got pace technically lacking.

I have to be honest, this isn't sour grapes, I watched him a couple of times last year and I can't say I was massively impressed, don't get me wrong, he's not a bad player but think people are jumping on the fact he's another youth product who we can't keep hold of.

Look at the bigger picture, Morrison left because SAF had had enough of his attitude and has been proven right so far.

Pogba, well, he's a talent but I think he will regret leaving.

Fryers, well I've had my say on him at the start of this post.

I think people need to stop worrying about us ''losing'' youth products, 3 players who seem to all have a chip on their shoulder.

Pettrucci looks like he'll sign a deal, Tunncliffe said he'd sign whatever United put in front of him, Blackett I believe is a better talent at LB then Fryers, and then we have Keane twins, and Barmby and co.

It's not a case of not keeping our best youth players, I think we are, we're letting go the ego's!

Ports

Is it not a worry though that we keep losing all these youth players? Ok its for different reasons, but that'll make Morrison, Fryers and possibly Pogba and maybe even Petrucci. Ok there's always a good chance of the foreign lads doing one, after all they've done it once to come here or could homesick or whatever. But the likes of Morrison and Fryers are local lads and if they are jumping ship for whatever reason what does that say. Ok they may have attitude problems and the rest but Fryers looked decent to me in his first team appearances. And Morrison was a shgame how it ended up. Ok maybe he had to go in the end but still losing 4 youth players in 6 months is a bad thing.

How many of our Youth players end up as 1st team regulars? Fact is 90% never make it to the 1st team ,Pogba is a miss perhaps the others I couldn't give a toss about and Morrison well a right dinlo we are better off without

Pardoe

Lets be honest, how many youth players make it and turn into massive talents at the club, not many. Have we had any top quality players since the Beckhams, Butt, Giggs, Scholes, Nevilles youth side? As unless I am missing somebody I canonly think of the likes of O'Shea, Brown, Evans and Welbeck in the last 10 years. Welbeck its too early to tell how good he will be but the others mentioned have all been good servants but not exactly game changers yet n doubt there have been 20/30 in that time labelled as the next best thing. We will only know how much of a loss losing these youth players will be in a few years when we see how they develop and nothin is better than seeing home grown players break through but it certainly isnt something to panick about I would say
Invisible Stuey

20 Jun 2012 15:15:25
Modric will join Madrid, United will bid 22 million for Sneijder.

Source? I believe Modric may join Madrid, but where's the source that we are going to bid for Sneijder? Although I think Sneijder would be a great addition to the team, do you think we will be able to afford his high wage demands? I think £22 million may do it and that will great for our midfield.

If the injuries are behind him he would be a good signing for us, he makes things happen

sparkyred

Omg please stop about sneijder, he is not coming. he turns 28 this year, we will not buy anyone over 27 years

How do you know we wont buy a player 27? we have bought players over 27 in the past, are you Sir Alex Ferguson?

We just signed Kagawa who plays in Sneijders position..

Now considering we're buying Kagawa, who also plays in that position, I find it strange that so many people still think we'll go for Sneijder.

M.D.

Gotta say n i know how this sounds as i didn't believe it either but a guy who works at carrington had told a mate of mine that "the dutch mans coming" i thought possibly rvp but he recons he was referring to wesley? make of that what you will (probably not alot...)

Andyred

^^It could be Kevin Strootman or Jetro Williems...

Could be almost anyone in the dutch team apart from stekelenberg.

personally i hope its not sneijder sick to the back teeth of hearing about him.

One pass, in one game (which they lost) playing for the team that underperformed the most at the euro's and people are working themselves up into a frenzy.

"The Dutch Mans Coming"?? Maybe he was just trying to scare him.

Think he meant the duct man coming to fix the air con

Sneijder will drop his wage demands, he has lost his love for Inter and does not feel that he will win major trophies in the next few years.

The Dutchman is Coming? Who says it has to be a player? Hiddink anyone?
Mr Q

I think sneijder would be a great addition to the squad, and dont forget, kagawa and him can play other positions, not just cam, i think signing him will allow us to play 4-2-3-1 with sneijder kagawa and nani/rooney playing off rooney/welbeck. also, i dont think anyone on here can say that sneijder is not a world class talent and would improve our squad hugely. and it may only have been one pass, but i dont think theres a united player with anywhere near the creativity he has. who cares if hes 28? means he should be in his prime, and could still play for 5 or 6 years! great player. Sign him up!

Idiots !! sneijder is still in the top 3 best midfield players in the world sign him up fergie

20 Jun 2012 15:04:29
Talk in the last couple hours that Man Utd were in fact in contact with James Rodriguez just at the end of the past season. Talks were dropped/Put on hold whilst Rodriguez wanted to focus on the World Cup qualifiers that have just taken place. One thing I have heard about the contact between both parties is that Rodriguez would be delighted to move to Old Trafford and that it would be an honour to wear the Red of Manchester.

Talks are set to continue if we cannot agree a contract with Nani when he returns from Euro 2012. I believe however that it will cost us closer to £30 million pounds as Porto would want it to be close to the £38.5 million buy out clause in his current contract.

fearny

We need to insist that Andersons release clause is £39 million!A swap with £1 million should do it?

You my friend are talking total BS.

If we were selling Nani to buy Rodriguez I would like to see a good £10m profit between the 2 deals tbh, as Nani has greater experience, has already played in the Prem and has been an important player for his international side for years. I cant see us getting more than £30m for Nani, if that, so I wouldn't want us to pay much more than £20m for Rodriquez if that makes sense

If we were to sell Nani and buy Rod for a similar amount I don't see that as 'good business'

Gav

He would be a good signing in the eyes of anyone who knows his game well enough. However i think it's more likely he'll stay at Porto til next summer when we could replace Giggsy on the wage bill once he hangs up his boots.

Ozwald

Have you just read that on Daily Mail as well? Those journalists just make up crap for fun. He Would be a good signing though!

I think there's some legs in this one and would obviously be delighted to see Rodriguez at United.

There had been talk about us bidding £23m plus Anderson. Whilst I dont think that will be enough to land him a player plus cash deal will always allow a bit more leeway in terms of 'activating' a buy-out clause. If the player wants to go and the selling club are getting a decent chunk of change plus a player too it may be enough for Porto to agree to.

Other teams will be surely interested though always impresses me when there's talk of players being honoured / proud / happy to be linked with playing for us.

Never got the latter from Hazard did we!!


Halesini

20 Jun 2012 14:18:04
dutch youngster narsing to join united everywhere on internet

*REDPOLTERGEIST {Ed002's Note - As far as we are aware there has been no interest in Narsingh from anyone other than Ajax and Fulham. His agent has been hawking him around Italy with Bologna, Genoa and Fiorentina being approached.}

From what ive seen on youtube(i know never seen him play proper) but he looks a good young talent would be a good signing for cheap

20 Jun 2012 13:13:49
seen the following on a couple of sites this morning - Seems Levy is happy to sell Modric to Spain instead of another club in the EPL resulting in the renewed interest of Mr Sneijder

Giants14

Where is you sorces

I did attach the link but mustn't have worked- again i got this only through the internet, I don't have any sources or claim to know SAF dog walker ;)

Could be true with Modric heavily linked with RM, after the WS euro performances I would love him at the club!

Giants14

After his Euro's performance!! WHAT, are you mad? he was no better than average at the Euro's, in fact if I'd go as far to say that 75% of all midfielders performed better than he did at the Euros!
Anyway more to the point, the WS rumour is old news, get over it!

Sydney's Mother!

Momma, is that really you?

Sydney!

Agree sneijder would be a great signing i thought he played well for someone in a struggling unorganised dutch side, would have liked to see strootman but unfortunately to family connections didnt get a starting place !!

sparkyred

Sounds more than possible, spurs weren't keen on him joining another prem team end of the seaon before n they could maybe get a player in the mix??

andyred

Why would Sneijder be back up to Modric?
We've just bought Kagawa to play "the number 10 role" presumably.
Modric and Sneijder are totally different players and play toally different roles for their teams.

@ Syd's Mother!

Seriously?! I thought Sneijder performed very well in the first 2 games which was magnified by the fact that all his team-mates were playing as individuals, whilst he tried to get on the ball and find one of them continuously. I thought during spells his through balls/switches/diagonal crosses were out of this world and could only be matched by the likes of Iniesta. The number of times he dropped the ball on the head or toe of a striker from 30+ yards was scarily good. He also worked hard for his team in tracking players, which you don't always get from flair players (ahem...Robben). Sure the 3rd game he didn't do much but you cannot judge him on that as it was probably the worst team performance I've seen from a top team in ages

BTW - I don't want us to sign Sneijder! Just don't understand WHY you thought he was worse than average?

Gav

"Modric and Sneijder are totally different players and play toally different roles for their teams"

I agree mate it seems obvious to me. For some reason many on this site don't 'get' what positions they play or they think that we will spend silly money on Sneijder then 'mold' him into a deep lying player. Not sure why, when his strength is in causing mayhem around the opposition's 18 yard box as an attacking midfielder?

Gav

Just want to say Sneijder was good at the EURO's. He thrives on an international stage and was probably Hollands only performing player.

But to the point of this post, i don't see how considering Modric is a Centre mid and can act and would act as a deep lying playmaker if he were to move to United. Sneijder on the other hand is a more advanced midfielder who can't really and doesn't like defending/sitting deep at any point during a game. He's definitely got the talent of Luka and only a year older BUT the position he plays has already been filled by the Super Shinji.

Wouldn't surprise me if United enquired about a player such as De Rossi, who can attack and defend but prefers the latter of the two.

Ozwald

What did i say :P

Next day De Rossi comes out to the media saying he's received several offers from england. While we don't know United are a certainty, there aren't many clubs that can afford him apart from City and Chelsea so..

Ozwald

20 Jun 2012 10:44:31
according to a friend of mine who works at old trafford luka modric has agreed to sign for united and he will sign when he gets back from the euros

So it should be this week, because Croatia are out?

Then ask your friend if lionel messi is coming to utd . aha

I hope so because he was very impressive at the Euros !

So he has decided he will sign after the euros that he is already out of and spurs dint get any say in this.

Get simthing better to do with ur life than making up pretend friends

Ralph

I hope so, because he has been very impressive in his time in the Premier league post above. If we were signing players on impressing at the Euro's we would have
Bendtner and Arshavin on our radar, do you not watch football through the season?

GDS

Does this friend live at the bottom of your garden?

Can you get his autograph for me please? Because it must be SAF, or Gill

Cheers bud

Sydney's Mother!

20 Jun 2012 09:29:36
How impressive was Yarmelenko last night.

He had Parker crawling at one point.

Does anyone think that he could be on Saf's radar or any other EPL teams radar?

Cban {Ed002's Note - Napoli are well placed to take him right now. But Palermo, PSG and AC Milan are also showing an interest.}

Thanks 002, always appreciate a response
Cban

He shoots he scores, another player I said to look out for months ago. Lol.

My scouting talents are wasted as a barber. Lol.

Shappy

Do you work for newcastle shappy?

cban

He was quality although i thought that konoplyanka was even better
Cheeks

I wasn't all that impressed with Yarmolenko last night, he bottled a lot of his chances. Konoplyanka looks an amazing prospect though, he does have a Messi-esque control of the ball. Decision making though, takes about half an hour to pick the simple pass out that was on when he first recieved the ball. I think they both are a bit rough round the edges but have all the raw materials to develop in to two very good players.

Sanshine

Yarmolenko did miss a few chances last night but I was still impressed with his overall play. I also think he looked v good in the 1st group game. I admire his silky left foot, his ability to come inside or stay wide and the fact he always provided a dependable out ball for Ukraine. He seems to make the right decision more often than not too

I can see him going on to be a real top player but I doubt that will be at our club

Gav