Manchester United Rumours Archive May 28 2013

28 May 2013 21:22:55
News from a totally unreliable source is that the strootman deal is all but done at £17m

Hopefully one down two or three to go

Pedroknight

I just don't get thus no other club competing for his signature so why the big fee.
I'd be amazed if he turns up at OT.
Dylan

Lets hope so

Big fee! for hollands vice captain who is only 23! Cheap in my eyes

28 May 2013 22:14:05
its not a big fee at all, compare it to the amounts already being spent this summer or last summer on players like moutinho or witsel.

KS is Pure Dutch Class £17 Million is a bargain. £24 Million for Fellaini, £23 Million is the price of his hair cut alone

Big fees paid by desperate Oligarch owned fantasy football clubs.
I'm sorry to keep repeating myself but this lad does not improve us Alcantara would for the same if not less investment.
If it does come off I hope I'm proved wrong!
Dylan

Not a big fee at all, if he was english the price would be monumental compared to that, just look at jordan henderson, strootman is twice the player he is at a similar price!

In todays market it isn't a big fee, pretty standard. To be fair Dylan Strootman and Alacantra are different types of midfielders, but yes Thiago really would be good value and from what I have seen of Strootman which is admittedly no that much I don't get the hype, good player but reminds me a bit of when we were continually linked with Defour and he has done ok but hardly set the world alight has he and was hyped to the hilt
Invisible STuey

Invisible STuey, It is difficult to fully judge quite how good someone coming out of the dutch league will be, due to the lack of serious European pedigree domestically. For example, Ryan Babel was touted as being the best thing since sliced bread and well. he didn't quite live up to that. Or Afonso Alves, he was supposedly a brilliant player, scoring 7 in one game for Herenveen, turned up at Boro and was a huge flop. Then on the other hand you have players like Suarez who is truly a world class player (yes, as a United fan it pains me to say) so I think you would have to wait until he plays in one of the top leagues to really see if he's good enough. I hope he doesn't sign personally as we need to strengthen our wide areas as we are surprisingly lacking more there than in cm as it stands IMO.

Alves? bit of a rash statement, he was a fantastic player, let's not forget the 2 fantastic goals afonso alves scored against us ;)

Just think of the success of some of our previous Dutch international signings. Stam, RvN, VDS. Pure class. let's bring him on.

Strootman has done well on the international stage which is always a slightly better way of judging but yeah we'll just have to see how he adapts, he does like capable IMO. No name poster, I wouldn't say we're weak in our wide areas, we have 3 wingers plus Zaha coming in, I have a sneaky feeling Nani could shine again under a new manager because he won't constantly sh*t himself if he does something wrong which is usually what makes him more hesitant and poor. Would love to see an in form Nani on the left and Zaha on the right constantly switching wings.

Ozwald

Dylan, I'm guessing you've never seen this guy play, or us for that matter if you think the only player we need in cm is Thiago. £17m is cheep for him and also there are 3-4 clubs who are keen on acquiring his services

Dylan, strootman is class act and at 23 he going to get even better. exactly the type of player we need. Box to box, good tackler with an eye for a pass! Dutch players on the whole tend to do well in the epl too. The midfield situation been needing sorting for a while and Wrekon strootman b less of a risk than thiago who may I add can't get a game for Spain or barca.

We need some steel - Fellaini would give us plenty and has proved his worth in the EPL. We also need guile and Tiago for 17m is the answer. He's young, skillful, picks a pass and knows where the goal is. I think Strootman is like a more classy version of Fletcher, a good player but a jack of all trades, master of none. He was linked to United for a couple of seasons and SAF didn't open the wallet for him and we have no idea what Moyes thinks of him. Fellaini and Tiago for 40m plus Zaha for 10m down and maybe Shaw and that will be that. If Rooney wants to go to Chelski we should ask for Lukuku (spelling) and 20m
Mik

28 May 2013 19:44:25
Aren't Moutinho Rodriguez Falcao & Carvalho all Jorge Mendes's clients? If so he will be having a field day!

RED91

I think he is Nani's agent too. Who has been linked with Monaco. Mendes is raking it it at the moment. He will have had a part in Mourinho to Chelsea, and whatever happens with Ronaldo he will make a fortune

28 May 2013 21:26:21
And Di Maria's and Nani's, maybe he's doing them a job lot deal. Lol.

Hulk is on the way next

And he sent us bebe.

28 May 2013 15:29:40
David de gea posted pic with thiago alcantara on his twitter account!

Hope he has approached him to join United :)

Finger Crossed
Yash (india)

28 May 2013 17:47:26
It was actually Thiago who posted it on his twitter
Andy H

They are very close friends out of football so I wouldn't read too much into it, but then again it is a new pic so you never know.

Hopefully Ed002 can let us know if there have been talks between us and Thiago's agent or club when he has a spare minute.

Sydney! {Ed002's Note - Nothing has changed Syd.}

Thanks Ed.

Sydney!

Or maybe DDG is off to Barca!

Didn't actually realise Thiago is former Brazil player Mazinho's son. Remember him from the '94 World Cup. Older posters will remember him I suppose.

BennyBlanco

Syd,

how would you know who de gea is friends with outside the game? you make up some amount of crap

The message reads: "We always have reasons to be happy. Remembering old times".

Thiago on Sly Sports:
"I just live my life and I am very happy, I enjoy it in Barcelona because I have lived through some great times but we will see what happens after the Euros. Any player is used to living with rumours about him and they just cannot affect you. "

United's interest prompted goalkeeper David de Gea to state that he would like his Spain Under-21 team-mate to join him at Old Trafford, but Thiago brushed off the comments.

"All players want the best players in their team. I could say I hope that he comes to Barca in the same way he says things about me, I just think he was having a bit of fun and not too much should be read into it. "

No name, DDG said it in an interview before we played Barcelona in a preseason friendly in 2011. So I heard it straight from the horses mouth.

Sydney!

28 May 2013 11:30:48
Eds, any truth in either of these rumours about Thiago & Strootman? Just don't wanna get my hopes up only for them to crash and burn AGAIN! Thanks in advance :)
Snorlax {Ed002's Note - Nothing has changed but I think a deal can still be done for Strootman.}

28 May 2013 14:27:03
With Roberto Martinez leaving Wigan and looking like he will join Everton deals for Felliani and Baines to be done quick so he has money and time to buy his own targets, also Tottenham are back next week from Bahamas with Joe Lewis sorting out Bales future the owner has more say than Levy on this so if Bale was to say United and no were else it will be United and no were else Joe is a good guy and would not stand in his way and Knows Tottenham had to get CL football to keep him this season he will not be talked into a new year contract with 50m buy out he wants CL now so expect huge bid from us. Katef

I can't see bale going anywhere but madrid
jred

He's said he'd rather stay in the country, Giggs is his idol, wants tophies and CL football. I'm sure we'll get him, it's just if we decide to part with the kind of money needed! If he comes in and a CM such as Strootman, Thiago or Modric then i'm sure every single United fan will be greatly looking forward to next season.

Ozwald

I hope we don't buy Bale he is a ball hog Tottenham have become a one man band and that is not what we are about

Money talks. We simply can't afford Bale despite what everyone thinks. £30. 75m for Berba is our record. We won't spend £50m till the debts are gone

Money does talk yes but we have a lot more than seasons gone by the debt is down the payments are down the revenue is up do the math we are loaded again and big earners are going to leave or already have so yes Bale is a top target I am shore. Katef

Haha MRC what are you on about? If you have the skill to get past multiple players shoot and score people won't complain, unless you're saying Ronaldo and Messi are ball hogs? They both see a lot of the ball because they're both very influential players, if you have a good player get them on the ball. stop talking out your backside!

Ozwald

He simply won't sign for us!

28 May 2013 13:38:16
Hearing Monaco are close to agreeing a deal for di Maria.

Although not my first choice, he'd be an Excellent player to have. Hope we don't miss out


TRUMORS

Seems like they're going to have an attacking force better than PSG!

Ozwald

But not better than ours if we keep Rooney get him back to top form again and we sign Bale. Katef

28 May 2013 15:31:39
I seen this on twitter so I can only assume like me this is where you heard that.

Monaco are becoming a serious force and I for one am not looking foward to more competition in Europe because when they get there and they will, they shall have some of the biggest names in football and it's not looking good

They have already bought Rodriguez, are they getting De Maria to warm the subs bench? They have bought 4 players already, presuming Falcao passes his medical. I can't see them going for de Maria as well
Mik

28 May 2013 13:36:36
So Monoco to buy Di Maria as well as Rodrigez. What about Lucas Ocampos then?
Mac

28 May 2013 11:35:50
I don't understand why Utd don't try to sign Coentrao 26, from Madrid? He looks a very decent LB and with Evra 32, getting older now, I think we should buy him. He'd only cost around 15m as well with him wanting to leave.
MMF

I have seen him quite a lot this year, and in my opinion I don't think he is all that much different than Evra. (My opinion) Very enthusiastic going forward, player more of left wing on the overlap, but is not the best on the defence side. Reals whole back line has been suspect this season though. I think this is the way the game has evolved now, with fullbacks playing that way, but getting the balance is difficult. Or so it appears.

Sambo

He doesn't defend, so we would still have the same problems at LB that we do now. The only difference is we will be 15m+ worst off.

Did he not sign for Monaco?

So who would we sign at LB that is good enough at the defensive side of the game? IMO Buttner is a good player but again like Evra looks suspect going backwards. Baines has defensive frailties, and would cost a similar amount, I think we should personally sign Luke Shaw, who is a young version of Baines and is also at a young enough age to develop his defensive side of the game as well as going forward, similar to what Rafael has done.

28 May 2013 01:34:41
Hi eds,

Super work as always, any update on Rooney?

Lorcan {Ed004's Note - None atm}

I reckon MUFC are upping the ante, so as to get the best deal when we sell him.
He's starting to look like a square peg in a round hole