Manchester United Rumours Archive November 05 2011

05 Nov 2011 15:19:59
ed is there any truth in the gotze rumor, and do you think any stars will be coming into old trafford any time soon? {Ed002's Note - Don't hold your breath over Goetze. Arsenal, Manchester United and Barcelona have already been knocked back by his club and the player himself has made it abundantly clear that he wants to stay at Dortmund for this season. Real Madrid may be able to persuade him to move. He has identified his favourite teams as Barcelona and Arsenal. There is also interest also from AC Milan - and I suspect that they are shifting their interest in Ganso to Goetze due to persisting non-EU quota issues. There may be some, so far unpublisized, interest from elsewhere coming up soon.}

Thanks ed

Rumour has it that Goetze was to hold talks about his future at Dortmund. He recently has said that he wouldn't mind going to a bigger club should an offer from a bigger club come in.

However, I don't think that Fergie will be after a midfielder anymore considering Rooney has played great in that position. Cleverley will partner with Rooney in midfield when he returns from injury. We'll see Welbeck starting alot more games with Hernandez aswell.

Keeping rooney in midfield would be a terrible idea, no matter how well he plays there, it is not his best position

This is what i was thinking when rooney first played in midfield against otelul, cleverley and rooney could work nicely, want welbeck to get more game time too.

Ozwald

How would keeping him in midfield be a bad idea? His passing is terrific, he's good at keeping possession because of how strong he is. When he loses the ball... he gives everything to win it back and 9 times out of 10 he does win it back. He has everything you need to be a quality midfielder. I think that's the closest we're going to get to replacing Scholes anyway.

Rooney's passing and Chicharito's finishing is enough to cause a threat to any team.

Not only that, but Welbeck is cropping up with goals just when we need them aswell. The more game time he gets... the better he'll get.

Midfield isn't his best position obviously but seeing as we have a midfield crisis and rooney is our best player even when played in midfield (88% pass rate against Galati with i think 97 passes?) fantastic record. While having two young strikers both playing well, why wouldn't you wanna bench either of them? It's the only way i see us reviving our form we started the season off with.

Ozwald

Then United would need to buy Benzema or Cavani to partner Hernandez in attack.

__________De Gea
___Rafa_Small_Vidic_Alba
L.Nani_Clevers_Rooney_Young
______Chicho__Cavani

But personally I would prefer to go with this line-up as I am positive Pogba could play just as good, if not better than Rooney in the holding role, however that would not mean we still couldn't buy a striker.

_______De Gea
Rafa_Small_Vidic_Alba
____Clever_Pogba
L.Nani__Rooney__Young
_______Cavani

or

_______De Gea
Rafa_Small_Vidic_Alba
____Pogba_Jones
L.Nani__Clever__Young
_______Rooney

There are options with what we have got if SAF would take a chance on Pogba and when Cleverley returns.

Sydney!

I think Pogba is over-rated myself. He's played a couple of Carling cup matches and everyone's hyping this lad saying how good he is... but, he doesn't stand out from anyone else when he's playing.

Morrison is one of the younger players that stands out for me. He won't make it into the first team yet though because he's a winger and at the moment... Nani and Young are on form and while Young is injured Valencia or Park can cover.

No doubt he'll be one for the future though.

You clearly know very little about football and Manchester United as Morrison has not played as a winger for some time now.

Sydney!

Also if you actually pay attention to Pogba when he's playing he's always very calm and composed, with his physique and power he's perfect as a holding midfielder.

Ozwald

It's not possible to judge Pogba yet. Looks great against kids and reserves, but in the small amount of League cup time he's played, he's been invisible. I think Rooney's looks good in midfield, but Chichareto isn't really very creative around the box, more just a poacher. So when Rooney plays midfield we have trouble scoring. He's better working his magic as a 2nd striker, in the hole as they say. When he's not scoring, he's creating for others. We are still 2 players shy of being up to our usual standard. We need someone like Tiote, a real midfield destroyer and a Ganso a real creative midfielder. We need another £50m injection of players. I hope Morrison and Pogba come good, but no one really knows as they have only played against kids and 2nd string players. I think Tunnicliffe is the most likely youth midfielder to make it at OT. Then I don't really know as I haven't kept tabs on him at Peterborough, though they are doing well result wise.
Mik

05 Nov 2011 00:00:17
Can anybody tell me the situation with Pogba's contract situation. Alot of reports have him leaving the club, that would be a massive mistake for us.

If he wants to leave that badly then i think fergie shud sell him to napoli or dortmund swap deal for pogba and hamsik if he joins napoli or pogba and gotze if he joins dortmund wat say ? {Ed002's Note - The exchange deals are a non-starter. As I previously explained I don't see Manchester United wishing to sell him, but enquiries by an "associate" of Pogba have been made with two French clubs as to the amount of first team football he would have if he were there. One of those clubs was Marseille. This is likely to be no more than a negotiating tactic, and probably bad advice.}

Don't believe anything you read in the papers. Just the media trying to stir things up. Actually might be a good thing tho if it does get fergie into thinking etc and he decides sooner than later that he has to give pp more first team chances. If we do lose him fergie will have a lot of unhappy fans asking questions including myself!!

Robbo

It would appear that we have no choice. If he doesn't renew his contract he is free to sign a pre-contract with another club.

Pip

Why would you be unhappy? he's played a couple of games and hasent realy done anything that good, plus if he wants to go, f*** him, he doesnt deserve to wear the shirt after wanting to hold us ransom after a couple of mediocre games!
likkle duggo

04 Nov 2011 23:22:51
United have made an enquiry for their loan starlet Richmond Boakye.
The Serie A outfit signed the Ghana striker back in 2008 following a youth tournament in Italy.
After turning 18 earlier this year, they opted to loan him this summer to lower league outfit Sassuolo.
And Boakye has impressed hugely in Serie B with six goals in just 11 games, which is now already leading to speculation about his future.
Preziosi has now claimed that there is already huge interest in Boakye with Juventus and United both linked.
"Is it true that many clubs are already finding out about Boakye? A big Italian company (understood to be Juventus) and a great English one, Manchester United, have already asked me because he is very strong," he confirmed to Corriere dello Sport.

Source: Sky sports
Never heard of him, anyone know anything about him??
HERBIE