Manchester United Rumours Archive July 23 2013

23 Jul 2013 14:15:11
SlySportsNews just reported Fabregas considering his future. Fingers crossed.

Yessssss

Just heard this my self from the same source. Got to be something in this has why would united keep going back with another offer. They definitely know something whether it is the player wants to come himself or his agent wants him to move or barca are willing to sell at the right price. Somebody has told united that there is a good chance he will move to us. fingers crossed would be an excellent signing for us and will be the start of a few more signings I would think.

M. U. F. C Salford

Sly are probably just trying to stir up the betting markets. Their "sources" are nowhere near reliable.

REDFAITH

I'm not getting my hopes up with any midfielder or any player at that il believe it when I see him holdin a united jersey. A few weeks ago thaigo agreed and #uck all happened. there's no point in livin in transfer dreamland.

Dufferz

Dufferez
U can count on paul scholes though. lolsss

Rodio17

Dufferz, I think you may have come to the wrong website then.

Ozwald

I've got to agree with REDFAITH there, one of the eds said this a while ago about stories to get the bets moving, spot on

Dustbin

The only thing stopping Cesc from signing is the fact that we have not had a clear out of the sub standard players we have in our squad. Hopefully Moyes will realise what all us supporters have come to realise:- Evra, Nani, Welbeck, Buttner, Anderson, Cleverley, Young, Macheda and Bebe are not and will never be good enough for United.

We need to invest heavily in some decent squad players as well as top class players rather than papering over the cracks!

We never got thaigo because we never made a bid for him as we was not interested was just paper talk. all our business is in public now only bids we have made are for baines and fab

reddevil69

I really disagree with welbeck. I think he is a huge threat to the opposition. Performed in big games like real last year.

No Name,
There are always some substandard players in the team. Because they don't make a big fuss about being on the bench. The players you have named, apart from Evra and Young are all 2nd choices or even 3rd choices. Can you have Baines and Evra in the same team or maybe Lewondowski, RVP, Rooney in same sqaud and keep them happy?

I haven't been his biggest fan over the last couple of yrs but I think we should keep Evra for another yr. What he needs is some support in the form of a top left winger who tracks back. The money would be better spent elsewhere

I get the feeling fabregas may be stringing us along. He owes us nothing and Being an arsenal fan he is probably just doing them a favour by delaying our transfer activity. This is the best opportunity they will ever have to finish above us. it's worrying that we are only a couple of weeks away from charity shield and not one player signed who will have chance to have a pre season with us. On a positive note zaha has looked good. I think we need him for the coming season.

Dan h

Squad players! We have those in abundance! Welbeck, Hernandez, cleverly, Anderson, jones, Evans, smalling and dare I say young! That's back up for every area of the pitch.

We need quality in the middle and on the left wing.

Dream on

NE Gooner

Have a feeling the influence of messi is the reason martino got the barca job, and with messi and fabregas being such good friends messi has influence on keeping him at barca

Ozwald

Ha yeah I totally agree and I love this site but over the past few seasons me heads just been wrecked with the constant links to world class midfielders granted we got kagawa but we played him outa position. it's just hedious man.

23 Jul 2013 21:36:42
Nothing to do with the fact that bookies stand to make a lot of money by the stories these guys generate.
Burgerbrains

Yeah I know how you feel! I love the excitement surrounding potential transfers but I also hate all the speculating.

Ozwald

The un named poster say he has a feeling messi influences the barca job, would that because that exactly what he said in his press conference when he got the job. Genius thinking not

Dustbin

23 Jul 2013 12:15:19
Marca reporting Bale to Madrid is almost done and he has told tottenham he wants to leave. whilst I believe any deal is a long way off, if it were to happen, surely this would open the door for ronaldo to come back to old trafford?

Nozzla

Or Ronaldo to go elsewhere?

Sydney!

The Real Madrid president came out before and said Ronaldo is definately staying.
I really can't see Real spending 80 million plus on Bale after already shelling out the best part of 60 million already in this transfer window.
I mean do thay have that sort of money at there disposal?
Unless they are going to offer Spurs a load of players in part exchange, let's face it they have plenty of them because they just buy them in the first place so nobody else can have them.
I am starting to really worried now, we are really struggling with our targets and seem to be going form one player to another.
It's starting to look ridiculious, who's going to be next and what if we get turned down again?

Simmo

Well Simmo, it appears things won't get any easier on that front with Fabregas, looks like its going to take a ridiculous offer for Barca to entertain selling, we may up it to 35 million, but got feeling that still won't be enough. Just hope we don't start to get desperate to sign just anyone and end up with Fellaini!, soz to all those that may rate him, but is he really going to have an impact against the top sides in CL?, just don't see it, coupled with the fact he's very easy to wind up you would have to wonder if he could actually complete 90 mins on the pitch.

I know people will say he always dominates us when we play Everton, but that's more down to our poor quality in CM than anything else, would he have dominated when Keane was playing?, I think not!

Just my opinion but really hope we don't go for him out of desperation.

Charla

I am an everton fan but have always liked united and it just seems to me that your squad seems to be getting weaker by the season. The midfield in particular is very poor. The forwards and defence are fine although I would get rid of rooney if his hearts not in it. You really could do with a couple of worldclass centre mids and a winger and get rid of the likes of anderson, nani and young
Cheeks

Cheeks, 100% agree. SAF bailed out of a sinking ship and has left Moyes to try and bring it to the surface again. We need heavy investment.

Dan

Shades of what Busby did when he left and handed over to Wilf McGuiness. An over the top ageing team which needed a complete overhaul. We were relegated 4 years later.
Hope its not an omen

I know some of us are assuming that Ronaldo will leave if Bale arrives at Real but is it also possible that they could play together at the Bernabeu? Scary prospect if this happens!

Smoke screen. Bale to united

To true I think utd need to buy now not in 3 weeks when the season starts ok it takes a year or so before the plyers bond but at least buy a quailty midfield in the next week I think we will have a poor start to the season

How can our team be weaker by the season we have just won the league by god knows how many points. people have this fantasy of taking a stand out player from another team and think they can just automatically fit in and do well when in reality in doesn't work like that. remember its about having the best balanced squad, not 11 superstar individuals that can't play together.

Don't make it out that SAF left the squad in such bad condition for christ sake! He'd left a premier league winning team for him with a mix of experience and youth players!

Jones, Smalling, Rafael, Kagawa, Evans, Powell, Januzaj, Lingard, Zaha, Welbeck, Chica, Henriquez. Half are already at a good level and will only get better while the rest have a big future! The only problem/issue Moyes really has is a decent midfielder who can work well with Carrick in the middle of the field. Hence Fabregas! Yes there are players that we could get rid of in Young, Nani, Anderson obviously the likes of Macheda and Bebe too. But generally its a good squad or are some of you blind?

Ozwald

Here Here Ozwald, SAF left the PL Champions, Busby left a bunch of has beens! daleman55

We should go for players who want to come to us. On this page if you say "lets go for Cabaye and Fellaini" many say no let's go for Bale and Ronaldo, which isn't at all likely. If we played Cabaye as an attacking midfielder and Fellaini alongside Carrick we would become a truly powerful outfit. Fellaini can operate anywhere from deep defensive midfield to an out and out striker, so with Cabaye and Fellaini we would get 2 players the are flexible and interchangeable. I have read on here, by folk who either don't watch real football, or can't understand what they're watching, that Cabaye and Fellaini wouldn't be an improvement on Cleverly and Anderson! Well if Cesc, as seems likely doesn't come to OT, I think Fellaini, (who may well be on his way here anyway) and Cabaye would show the difference between good internationals, (one plays for an improving France and one for Belgium, both stronger nations than England IMO). Over the overweight, all ways under achieving, non International Anderson and the poor England teams sometime bit player Cleverley. Cleverly just isn't good enough for Everton let alone United. So we can keep playing "football manager" and aiming for players that won't arrive, or get real and get those who will. I would love Cesc and Bale to come to us, but it looks very unlikely, or grab players that are far better than those we have, in midfield at least. If we do have the cash and there is a sniff of a chance of getting Bale, we could still try and get him, knowing our midfield isn't as threadbare as it's been for the last few seasons. I guess we'll all just have to wait a while and we'll find out what will happen.
Mik

Well said Oswald. To many people on here are not even prepared to give Moyes a chance. I remember us being knocked back for Kaka, Fat Ronaldo, Batistuta, Shearer, Ronaldhino etc & Fergie was in charge then, give Moyes our full support because everybody else wants to see him & us fail. MIDDLETON RED

Ozwald, people don't realise how important Rooney is to us. When he goes we will be a hell of a lot worse. Carrick can't be expeted to carry our midfield again and if RVP or Carrick get injured we're in big big trouble.

Dan

Mik, When SAF came in obviously there were absolute gems just coming of age in the youth system such as Scholesy and Giggs. Maybe Moyes could have similar luck in Nick Powell and Adnan Januzaj it certainly looks that way, we need to be careful we don't interrupt their chances of progressing into the first team by signing too many young dominant midfielders. I agree with you about Cleverley, maybe not the part about not being good enough for Everton let alone United he's been good but it looks like he won't improve anymore which means he'll never be anything better than a squad player for us.

Dan, I do agree with you in some respects. Although Rooney's fitness has been his downfall for the past season and a half he's still without a doubt world class, he has technique that you can't teach in training. When fit and in form he's one of our few world class players that could walk into almost any team in the world.

Ozwald

Mik I'd rather have scholes back or give Keane his no. 16 back than that pile of dung Feilini coming to our club. cabaye is quality, but would he realy be a player of good European experience, not realy!but I'd take him. I think we should go all out for gourcuff, marchisio, de Jong, gaiten, Ericsson, ozil, sweinsteiger because I don't think fabregas is going to leave Barca.
I think even dare I say it an old sneijder or kaka would improve our attacking options. they still have great quality, heck I'd even take Pirlo at this stage, he is a master.
I'm just getting extremely worried that we won't get the players we need and want and not throw money at ordinary players because we have enough of them in there already!

Well this got tasty. Just to have my say. I still think we have a squad to compete at league level but champions league we a short in midfield and wide men.

Nozzla

I don't understand why people keep on saying big players won't like to play under Moyes. well I can give you a list of players to turn down SAF!

(1) Fat Ronaldo
(2) Kaka
(3) Ronaldinho
(4) Robben
(5) Lucas Moura
(6) Shearer
(7) Hazard (joining Di Matteo over SAF)
This list can go on and on.

If United had bid on Thiago Alcantara - Moyes would have said. Not a single comment regarding Thiago was mentioned by UNITED nor a single comment by Thiago saying he snubbed United!

23 Jul 2013 10:19:25
MARCA reporting that bale has handed in a transfer request?

TRUMORS

How do I verify this.

One of papers this morning suggesting they will go as high at 85 million for him! Not sure how much truth is in it.

Why would he put in a transfer request when there has been no official offer for him. maybe if someone made an official approach and spurs refused to sell but no one has so i'm sure he hasn't slapped in a transfer request

M. U. F. C Salford

Bale will choose Manchester United over Real Madrid

Marca do this all the time they work with Real

23 Jul 2013 12:22:58
No they aren't just a false rumour doing the rounds on twitter.

Marca is basically a real madrid fanzine lol
Cheekos

If Bale is due 5% of the transfer fee (say £4m) why the **** would he put in a transfer request?
The Juicer

Absolute garbage, just been on a spurs site, and they, inc their itk's are saying complete bull

23 Jul 2013 05:51:38
Posters can u please list alternative targets when its getting definate that we will not get Fegregas. ( Realistic type please)
I think ( and its only my opinion)
Ever Banega
Axel witsel
Yahan cabaye
Miraelem pjanic
Marco verratti?
Steven defour
Miguel veloso
Yaan m'villa
Nemaija matic

We need 2 midfielders so any 2 from this will certainly improve us.

Rodio17

I think they all are chasable and kind of getable targets if the price is right

Witsel/Carrick/Fellaini (if we don't get Cesc)

. RVP/ Kagawa

You missed Erikson. Would get him for about 15 million, quite a bargain looking at what they want for some of the others you have mentioned. Put him with Fellaini a very strong midfield indeed and would only get better. There is definitely value in the market there

I washed David Peggs car

Modric and Koke

AR

Marchisio gundogan benders de Rossi?

23 Jul 2013 10:11:45
Only most of those are not realistic.

Defour is not good enough. Pjanic is a winger and Benfica want nothing less than £34million for Matic who isn't anywhere near being close to merit that price tag.

Think we'll only sign one centre mid and hopefully play Powell more. I think he's good enough already

Would be nice if we made a bid or two for Marco Verratti he looks great but I just don't see it.

Ozwald

Gustavo bayern

Just Fellaini! Hopefully play zaha, powell and lingard. All look good just need the experience.

JL

Cabaye, Herrera, McCarthy, Modric, Gustavo, Erikson, de Rossi

We should just get on with signing gundogen. Being half turkish and half japanese, gundogen will be financially rewarding given our global fan base, and the board dosent have to keep haggling over a few million.

Gundogen is as good as the likes of matic or others. i'm not saying I want him signed, but at least its realistic and will be the type of quality needed.

Wish the board and owners would stop messing around. Everyone can understand its impossible to compete financially with monaco, psg and city. They don't have to pretend to bid for players. In the end if we're not careful we'll miss out on targets that we can economically sign, and then we'll be grinding out results for the next 2 years again.

JL if we played those 3 in our team Moyes would have the fans screaming for his head when we start poorly, at least think about it mate

Mesut Ozil?

We are supposed to be the biggest club on the world yet it seems we can't attract the biggest players and haven't been able to do so for quite a while now. Yet city can

Personally I think we will only sign Baines and Fellani and the same story will come from united that we were in for loads of players but nothing came off

Andy r

Andy, what "big" players have Ccity signed? Expensive is not the same as big (downing & Henderson come to mind).

Last year we signed Kagawa and RVP, both massive signings, and while we missed out on thiago, that was partly down to Pep.

Also, utd have rarely ever gone for established stars, usually preferring to get young talent and make stars.

Thorne

I am thinking about it bud. Realistically!. We are not going to sign any of the targets we are after. We never do, so think of the future instead of all this wishful thinking!

JL

Thorne, Henderson and downing play for Liverpool. Silva is a top player as is aguero, as was nasri (and I stress was) as was balatelli as was yaya toure. Apart from nasri all of those would add to united.

In recent seasons we have missed out on thiago, moura, hazard, modric, varane, nasri, benzema to name a few.

We are not the draw we once were and I am a little concerned. Once you lose that and start signing mediocre players you are on a slippery slope. Just ask Liverpool.

Fellaini would be massively more influential than Anderson in our midfield. Cabaye/Eriksen/Matic would all be 200% better in midfield than the average Cleverley. Although if Chelsea really want sulky Rooney, let's see if they're serious and ask for 45million or Mata. Rooney for Mata would mean neither club would lose face. Both would bet what they need.
Mik

We could buy as good a players as Monaco City PSG Chealsea but not as many in one season

I see the point of Liverpool, but are squad as it stands won the league last year. We have a much better back room staff to Liverpool. I agree that we need a good midfield signing. And I can only see us getting fellaini! though I would love to see fab link up with RVP. But fellaini is a great player too.

JL

Only one I like from that list personally is Banega. Seems to have a bit of an attitude and consistancy problems over the years. Think he is a great talent though.
Witsel, Matic and Defour I think are massively over rated, Veloso was full of potential but seems to have become very average. The rest bar Veratti I think are all average and Veratti I don't see happening.
Koke I like the look of as a United player, technically good with a touch of the Keanes/Gattusos about him.
I would love Torres myself, but googlin ghim there seems to have been a lot of links with him to us last year and he didn't seem interested in moving at tha tpoint
Invisible STuey