Manchester United Rumours Archive August 21 2011

21 Aug 2011 23:10:57
If Adebayor is going for free then he is definitely a striker Fergie should be looking at He'd give us something a but different up top in those tough games when it's hard to break a team down I think if Adebayor knew Manchester United were interested he would force a move there We do need a quality midfielder or two though. Personally I'd like Nasri or Modric and M'Vila or Sissoko That would be a brilliant squad and one I think could battle it out on all fronts
Daler-t

I agree that he may be worth having for nothing but I think Fergie doesn't like the player.

We prob could have got him from Arsenal when we needed a striker but he's certainly not interested in him.

Pritpal

Pretty sure Fergie enquirer to Wenger a few seasons a go mate? I could be wrong though?
Daler-t

Damn sure city wont give him to us on a free durrgghh

Couldn't agree more, Adebayor is one of the best around in my books, like you said he's different to the options we've currently got, he's strong, quick great in the air, two good feet, I think his only problem would be his attitude although he has seemed to of grown up the past year.

I wouldn't say no but I wouldn't hold my breathe either.

The Moon.

Adebayor would be a good shout for free no doubt.... I like the sound of Nasri and Sissoko, that would make a brilliant squad then.... HERBIE

On his day he's different class and unplayable, but didn't his agent contact SAF and beg him to move for him just before he went to Citeh, but we were not interested?
ajk

Ajk - I think his agent got in contact with United and Chelsea before he moved to City.

Matthew...

Get a grip lads, he is a pain in the @rse and his wages are ridiculous. Keep him.

Sydney!

To be fair Sydney Tottenham are managing to offer him wages he is accepting and we can offer more than them so can't be that bad?
Daler-t

Man s**tty are never gonna allow a player worth millions to join us on a free, that's just nonsense

The man was born offside.... if we could get him on a free and with wages of < 100k then maybe.... maybe.

On his day he can be very good, but what about the other 364 days of the year, where he is generally a bag of fertilizer (cant believe the amount of people agreeing he would be a good signing?)
Invisible Stuey

Spurs can't afford their wages, City are paying a certain amount of them until his current contract would end at City if he stayed there. e.g he is a three year contract (I don't actually know how long his contract is) then City pay some of his wages for three years

21 Aug 2011 21:05:06
Alarm bells

"We looked at Aguero but didnt even get close to signing him"

Sir Alex in effect admitting we can no longer compete with City.

Red Man

Can anybody compete with city in terms of money? i dont think any1 can. {Ed007's Note - Ed002 can, I've seen her bank statements.}

'Red Man'

No one can compete with City in the transfer market, debt or no debt. But they can only buy so many players.

Sydney!

Maybe PSG or Malaga, not sure how much their owners are worth though.

Red Man - No one can compete with them. If a player is looking to move to a club solely for money then he'll go to City. It's as simple as that. And to be honest, can you really see Aguero sticking around for long? He'll be a Real Madrid player within 18 months.

Matthew...

It's not news Red Man. We cannot compete with City financially, but for now we have SAF. That will be enough in the next 2 years, but what happens after he retires? That's what some regular posters on here, the armchair glory hunters, do not wish to highlight. We cannot continue to compete for trophies in the longer term with the current ownership. It will be impossible.

Do you Ed's actually know each other, as in met face to face? I'd like to think there is some sort of Footballrumours.com Ed's xmas party. Does this happen, please tell me it does??

Scaramanga {Ed007's Note - We do meet up for special occasions but it is difficult for me and 002 to be in the same place with her work. We knew what we were getting into when we got married but the English Eds meet up for games etc and me and my wee honey try to catch up with them all as much as possible. We are trying to arrange an LFC end of season party on AFs birthday at New Year, but it might be difficult.}

Sydney

Financially noone can compete with a club where money has no value. However if SAF has identified a player and admits we didnt even get close that has to be a concern.
Payments for setting up bonds and annual interest are taking important players beyond us.
You are right, City can only buy so many players, however, if SAF has only 1 target and it is bought by City he has a history of not moving on to the next best option.

In the circumstances there is a need for adaptability by SAF , going for the next best option but SAF will have to change to do it.

Red Man

Even if we were a debt-free club we couldn't match City in the transfer market, but the FFPR will get us closer as long as FIFA stick to their guns. United along with Chelsea held talks with Kun's agent and we offered him a package. He declined it. Aguero is a very greedy little man, a talented player, but very greedy.

He will be on wages of around £250k a week plus huge bonuses. I imagine he would have received a huge signing on fee too. We could never match that, we probably offered him around £160k a week to play for us. Chelsea & Real Madrid would have offered similar deals. They are obviously more complex packages than that, but I guarantee City offered twice the amount us, Chelsea or Real Madrid offered.

Sydney!

Why should we compete with people who will eventually lead their club into the abyss?

Just because other people walk before the green man, it doesn't mean that you should.
If you are sensible, you will get to the other side intact and pity the fools who have to be scraped off the tarmac with a shovel.

Pritpal

I think Ageuro's wages & buy out clause at Athletico has made the move a none starter for most clubs apart from sugar daddy clubs.
I'm not going to lose any sleep over it as you just get players who are purely financially motivated which will never give you sustained success.
Look at the dressing room issues clubs that throw money at the squad have, you end up with mercenaries like Adebayor, Tevez, Bellamy, Anelka, Robben, Bogarde. There is even rumours coming out of City that important players like De Jong & Richards feel undervalued in comparison to their more superstar team mates.
Anyway Ageuro would only serve to stunt the growth of Chicharito.
ajk

21 Aug 2011 20:25:10
If Fergie isn't going to start Berba when Hern is hurt why is he not trying to sell a player who only has a year left on contract and try to recoup some of that money. PSG are in for him.

The club still has an option to extend Berbatov's contract by another year if they want, so in effect he has two years left on his contact, that might be why there is no apparent urgency to sell.

Andy B

21 Aug 2011 19:31:20
Nasri defo going City and Mata deal agreed in principle with Chelsea look who getting left behind in the transfer market again. what a s**t transfer window AGAIN.

Deffo agree after the initial transfers in the summer very disappointed with our lack of inactivity in the window. Might challenge for the league but deffo nothing else.

These are done deals. We are actually going to see a few more deals in the next 10 days as teams finalize their shapes for the next 6 months.

Weve spent the best part of 50 mil and our squad is still the best in the PL...

And we got young and jones. young is in his prime and savage, while jones is a superb defender with gr8 potential. give sir alex a break. think of what hes done and how hes done it. IN SIR ALEX WE TRUST

You say left behind in the transfer market "AGAIN"???? How did we get left behind last year, we won the Prem and was in the Champs League final, hardly getting left behind mate.... HERBIE

Agree completely with u united has not signed a world class player in years barcalona has improved their squad with fabregas and sanchez an united have cleverly and fat andy in the middle just not good enough

Dick van Dyke

Are you for real50 odd million spent already,jones looks brilliant,young has made a great start and looks very hungry 4 success,de gea has made a nervous start but people in the know sing his praises,theyve obviously tried something with sneijder as well,which may yet happen,,trust and believe,do u genuinely believe we're falling behind the other teams?

And will continue to be left behind for the forseeable future.we are not going to be able compete for the top level players ,end of ....andog

Stop your wineing Isn't 50 million enough for you? We've got a great team granted perhaps a CAM may help but mata wouldn't be the answer SAF knows what he's doing Believe it or not

Or do you think you should be manager? With your obvious years of experience in the transfer market
Fool

Give me a break We won the league, were in the CL final, bought some quality players, have Cleverly playing well, what more do you want??

Totally agree not improved the starting 11 at all got a weaker keeper lundergard much better keeper what I have seen of him should have sold evans not o Shea. We need a world class cam just buy sneijder and pay him is £200.000 aweek rooney on £250.000 aweek

We have got weaker lost scholes and VDS got a sub jones for £18 million Young looks good but dont we already have 2 right footed wide men and we are weak up front beyond rooney and chico. oh and fool last year we got left behind as we missed out on Wes Sneijder then and silva and ozil and we will pay the price for that this year. We cant even persuade Nasri or modric to join us and we won the league last year. We will finish 1st or 2nd but with city adding Nasri to their squad how can we compete in midfield

I come on here most days in the transfer windows and have done for a while. All I see are the realists and the sheep.

Yes we have been the best english team for almost 2 decades but this dominance will come to an end if we don't do something with the midfield. We won the league by default last season, everyone was pretty awful and we were just the least awful. We were severely embarrassed by Barca (much worse than in Rome in my opinion).

There is certainly no crisis yet but SAF cannot keep using the same old excuses for not investing in a world class player who will also help the youth to develop. The transfer market has changed dramatically and we just have to accept that. We have bought 3 good players but I'm sure many of us expected something more. I think we just need that 1 more top class man in midfield.

I don't think it's fair that some of you shout down anyone that dares to question SAF. We are all Utd fans and all want the best for our team but we should all be able to express our opinions without having sarcastic comments thrown at us.

Yes there may be some dreamers that play football management games but I see a lot of sensible posters who are accused of being L****pool fans or that they think they are better judges than SAF. Stop being sheep and have a little think about what is happening at Utd.

We have been spoilt but why shouldn't we want that to continue. We want to remain on our perch

Rant over, come on you reds

Everyone can spend what they like, we build for the future. Utd 4 life

21 Aug 2011 16:52:29
After watching s**tty can't help but to think that our team would be complete with Silva and Aguero. what a complete side we would have even enough to run Barca close. After missing those 2 we must sign Nasri would blend easily in there with our attack and midfield. Mario Goetz would be just as class come on fergie pull ur finger out

Yep fergie needs to get the finger out and get that cmi think nasri would b a fantastic addition,but i still c him as more of a wide player,he comes in from the flanks alot,im not sure hes what we need at the momentgotze or sneijder would b my choice.

super red.

I'd love a raid on Dortmund for Kagawa and goetze and offload nani would end up costing us maybe 10 - 15 million for that little bit of business we could still sign nasri to all in all 35 mill for those 3 players in xchange for nani too great business

21 Aug 2011 14:05:55
Why is Gary Cahill so over-rated?
I would take Jagielka over him any time.

MUMBAI_BOY(will the real Indian team please stand up)

I wouldn't say he was over-rated. He's a good player in my opinion.

21 Aug 2011 13:50:50
Really hope we sign a CM soon . like the look of that lad Ross Barkley wo played for everton yesterday looks to have good potential. would love to see Mario Gotze at OT the Season sign him keep the young blood coming in

21 Aug 2011 11:52:52
well nasri is not going to city coz he played against liverpool .benzema is not coming

I expect Nasri to join City before the 31st of August.

21 Aug 2011 10:14:49
Nasty deal OFF Expect a bid from united very soon

That rubbish its not of it delayed that what wenger likes to do

God your grammar is almost as bad as your interpretation of AW Anything can happen in football and don't be surprised if he ends up at OT Also it's not AW holding things up it's the agents Get it right

It is delayed not off.
For some reason Wenger has decided to sell him to City and nobody but City, guess money talks.
All will become clear by the Udinese game, if he is not in the squad then he will be at City by the weekend.
Sadly I believe our cheque book is shelved for the year.
Roman Runner

21 Aug 2011 00:10:58
What is happening with the Nasri deal Ed? I thought it was all but done.

REDMOZ {Ed007's Note - It is Moz, just the payment structure, Arsenal have forced it on with playing him.}