Manchester United Rumours Archive August 04 2011

04 Aug 2011 23:40:50
Just watching Juan Manuel iturbe against korea and boy this guy is a real talent. Anyone know anything about this apparent strange deal where by he will play in Portugal to get a work permit and then come to utd?
Mac

Rumour has it that we have agreed a price for Iturbe with Porto before Porto signed him from Quilmes. Iturbe cost Porto 1m euro and it is rumoured that he will spend a year in Portugal to make a name for himself then join United if granted a work permit. Jorge Mendes is his agent and I think the agreed fee is around £5m.

Sydney!

I heard 10m at the time either amount would be a snip hes gonna be a star i just hope were not reading too much in to the past and the jorge mendes links

Ive heard of this kid hes amazing he will be new messi. come to utd. has anyone heard about him?

04 Aug 2011 23:19:15
Hi there guys. Does anyone know where i can watch the Mexican league games? Seems to be a lot of talent there at the moment and i.d like a better look.
Mac

I dont know where you can watch on tv but

lshunter.tv/football-live-streaming-video.html

has most matches. South American stuff as well. And any other sport you want to watch...

Mr. Good Cat

04 Aug 2011 20:14:22
have united released any official squad numbers yet? do we think the numbers from the tour will just be the same for the season? really thought rafael would get no2 and maybe some other changes

I thought the same, i also thought smalling wud b 6. makes u wonder wot num sneijder wil b if he comes, he usualy wears 10

I'm not too sure. They're not selling shirts with any of the new signings on the back yet so there could be some changes. I think it all depends on who else gets sold or brought in (Berbatov & Sneijder for example).

04 Aug 2011 18:12:35
ed. is there any chance of us getting both sneijder and lass. {Ed007's Note - You leave our lass alone! She is happily married.}

04 Aug 2011 15:37:43
{Ed007's Note - Manchester City have made a cash offer for Nasri and are confident of sealing a deal. They have been told that Eto'o is NOT for sale and they will try to sign another AM that is definitely NOT Sneijder. They have their eye on another well known player but as yet I don't have a name.}

Thanks for clearing that up 007. Always been known for your work behind the lines. ;)

REDFAITh {Ed007's Note - Thanks mate}

How comes they are goin for an AM as opposed to a striker, which eto'o is?

Sanshine {Ed007's Note - They wanted Nasri and Eto'o, if they didn't get Nasri they would have turned their attention to Sneijder. They have now supposedly dropped all interest in Sneijder. Eto'o was a target as well}

Why would they want to sign a AM when Eto'o is a striker? do you have a clue

04 Aug 2011 09:58:59
First time post, love the site Anyway just a thought, do you not think it's about time united actually made a concrete offer for either nasri or sneijder that is almost too good for arsenal or inter respectably to refuse, giving the players more time to settle in at the club?

D.V

Don't much want Nasri, though he says he like playing in the middle, he's played on the wing for 90% of his career. We have plenty of wingers at OT and better ones than Nasri.WS is to injury prone, greedy and has only had one good season of club football since leaving Ajax. That was 2009-2010 when Inter won the treble. He was either injured or average at Real, so why should he be so great for us. He would cost £75m for four years in transfer fee and wages. Because of injury problems he's likely to only play 25 games a season, that 100 games over 4 years, That works out at £750,000 per game. There's no doubt he's been top notch at World cups, but that has not been replicated at club level. I would like Martin and M'vila, or Ganso and Sossoko, or, Gotze and De Rossi. Two top midfielders for the price of WS or if we go got one Ganso or Hamsik.
Welcome to the site anyway
Mik {Ed007's Note - Yeah, welcome to the site D.V.}

Nasri hasn't played 90% of his career on the wing. Also, it is like Nani playing on the right or left. On the right he is one of the best, most influential players on the pitch whereas on the left he isn't as good. This is the same with Nasri who is one of the best in the middle but when he was forced on the wing because of Fabregas returning he went nowhere.

FED up of reading this 2 names... NASRI and SNEIJDER...

Goetze and De Rossi for me all day. That would be a class pairing in the middle, no nonsense tough tackling and creativity.....nothing else needed

35-40mill for the pair as De Rossi is in his last year of contract so about 15 mill and about 20-25mill for Goetze.

Salford C

Nasri played primarily on the wing at Marseilles and has played on the wing far more than anywhere else at Arsenal. Also £20m - £25m with a year left on his contract is expensive. It's the equivalent of paying £35M+ if he had 2 or 3 seasons left on his contract. I didn't hear any United fans last season say "he's one we should go for". As for Nani, he's a far better player than Nasri. Nasri stats were good last season 15 goals and 4 assists. Nani's were awesome 9 goals and 18 assists. Toni Valencia plays as a centre mid for Ecuador, but he like Nasri does his best work out wide.
On another note, Toni would be an awesome wing-back/ right full back.
Mik

@Salford C.
Sadly Goetze is not for sale. And if he was i would expect a price of 35-40mil. If PAstore goes for 37mil and Sanchez for a similar fee, Goetze who imo is better and more talented than the two will go for just as much if not more.

REDFAITH

No player United looks at is for 'sale'. Every club wants to keep hold of their talented players. I know what you mean about the price, he is more talented than the other 2 guys and younger, but Sanchez ended up being an initial fee of around 24mill wasn't it? Pastore left for so much due to PSG having billionaire owners so the price goes up due to the bidder. So theres no point putting a price on what we think he will leave for as it will change with the market. My point was just get the kid bought, hes pure class, young and plays in a league that is most similar to the EPL so should fit in with our league and style of play.

Salford C

Completely agree Salford C. Goetze imo is the only "young potential" we should look at after Sneijder, Nasri and Modric. Whenever he does become available we should do all we can to sign him. He comes as close to being the next Paul Scholes as it gets.

REDFAITH

Personally happy with cleverly. Oh and we've already got him. Screw the big names at their twilight. Stick with the youth - we are united it's what we do.

I do agree that cleverly is the future, but with scholes supposed to be going to coach the youth team he has no one to learn off in the attacking midfield role and he is still far off the finished article. Also I am fed up of the nasri and sneijder rumours but of we got one of them then it would be a huge boost to the club

D.V

04 Aug 2011 02:16:02
heard were going to sell berba and bring in jelavic ? like for like with jelavic younger ? Thoughs ed ? {Ed007's Note - LMAO}

There is no real interest in Jelavic from United. We are going to use the Berba money towards a young mid say Rodwell or Goetze or even Kagawa.

It's been a while since you posted this crap but generally you post it twice in quick concession. None of your players at rangers are good enough as proven by malmo and hearts

I'd rather Welbeck replace Berbatov than bring in Jelavic.

Jelevic is an ordinary £5m championship level player. I worry that if we sell Berbatov and we don't get a new striker, what will happen if Chico or Wazza gets injured. Diouf and Macheda are championship level £2m-£4m players, not United class for sure.Wellbeck may make it, but we usually have 4 quality strikers. I would like two midfielders an attacking one like Hamsik or Ganso or Gotze and a holding player like Sissoko or M'vila.Unless we can pick up a decent striker for £15m I'd keep Berbatov - Berbatov, Rooney, Chico and Wellbeck sounds cool. Rooney, Chico, Macheda, Owen and Wellbeck sounds weak. We can't go into a new season with 2 top and 1 up and coming striker (Wellbeck). The Rangers player only has to play against Celtic that are better than the English championship. He'd be a rubbish buy even at under £10m
Mik

Well we have only got 200 strikers We could really find ourselves in trouble if 199 of them got injured Sod the midfield lets buy more strikers
Woffsta

I wouldnt be worried about Berba going if PSG are willling to pay upwards of £15mill.

Of his 21 league goals last season 13 came in 4 games which meant he scored in 12 games He didnt register once in the CL and hasnt for over 2 seasons.

We would then have Rooney, Chich, Owen and Welbeck. Thats a pretty good 4. With Nani and Young being capable of playing through the middle and the possibility if Sneijder signing i think we'd be okay attacking wise.