May 14
Random Transfer News Items of the Day
Silly season has begun even though our season’s not over yet. But we will be beset with the task of dealing with quite a few rubbish — and some not so rubbish — rumours throughout the next three months. So we will try all summer to weed out the nonsense bits and give you the ones that are probably true. Or perhaps, we will talk about the nonsense bits too because otherwise we won’t have anything to talk about.
Thank God for the Euros. That way we can decide to support one team and immediately change allegiances after a shocking performance of said team.
Don’t worry, we’ll work something out to keep this blog going, so that you don’t have to resort to watching paint dry (or your hair grow — whatever suits you).
Manchester Evening News reports that the club has posted record earnings, not including earnings from gate receipts and merchandise, of about ‘£78m in cash from prize money, TV revenue and licensing money domestically and in Europe’ — always nice to hear considering the debts we have; as I said in an earlier post, we need all the money we can get as much as the success.
It’s worried me slightly to see Patrice Evra’s contract not decided as yet. We’ve heard of Evra being offered a contract towards the end of last year, but nothing seems to have happened ever since. Whilst I’m sure we won’t let a Flamini happen if Juventus come sniffing I am keeping my fingers crossed on this one. Evra has been quoted as saying that the ball is in United’s court. Hopefully it’s just me being paranoid.
Onto the rumours: it must be clear for everyone that Michael Owen to United is bollocks. Substituting one crock for another is really foolish — and that’s being kind. Secondly, if it’s a striker that we’re going to buy, please, let it not be another midget. No I am not saying Tevez and Rooney are that — they are monsters of players — but they can’t cut it in the aerial stakes, despite the apache heading in a few this season.
Everyone is raving about Aaron Ramsey. I heard of him being mentioned in hushed tones last year, with Giggs obviously linked to him because he’s Welsh. There has been strong rumours of a deal already being done so we’ll see where that goes. The funny thing though is this: I read somewhere (can’t seem to remember where) that he was touted as the replacement for Paul Scholes. Okay, let me switch to French for a moment: For Fuck’s Sake! Where does that leave Anderson? Or perhaps, Rodrigo Possebon — who, by the way, scored his maiden goal a couple of days ago for the reserves? I wonder if United is the right club for Ramsey at the moment. He’s British though, and that will make a lot of people happy — and, of course, he’s just 17. Some one please provide me with his youtube compilations for now. Thank you.
And here’s your guess the player question of the day: __________ has said that he’s at the right club, playing with the right players and learning things all the time and has restated his desire to stay at the club amid reports that Madrid are offering £100m for him — are Madrid that mad?
Oh, and don’t bother answering that question. I wouldn’t waste keystrokes on that.
Luis Fabiano has continued to be linked with the club. I don’t want him. He was very inconsistent before this season. Last season it was Kanoute that shouldered the goal scoring burden and it’s just the one season of blistering form the Brazilian has had.
With Chelsea’s capture of Bosingwa the media will begin scouting for our next eligible full back in earnest. Watch out for Lahm, Alves et al, gather steam in the coming days — they have already, I know, but the rumours will get more and more stronger as days pass by.
Finally, Drogba insists he and Terry will be fit for the Champions’ League.
So there you go. Over to you.
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[Grognard]
This is precisely the reason why a British core is always good to have in your club. You won’t have a Rio or a Rooney profess his love for Madrid or Barca. And it is the same reason why a Flamini or Hleb could leave England at the drop of a hat. Foreign players will continue to be unsettled by foreign media speculation.
Say what you want about the global game, but South American and continental players consider Spain or Italy as their spiritual footballing home by and large.
I may love Ronaldo, but I always know that he will leave the club despite what he says. If he wins the CL I won’t be surprised if he leaves although I wouldn’t like it.
However, I still think it’s been words put in his mouth because he was giving an interview to a Madrid based paper. But that’s just the optimist in me.
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i dont believe for a second, hes been misquoted for sure.
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TinManUnited – I saw the pictures as well but it could be anything.
If Ronaldo wants to leave, I hope we bring in some good money for him. He may be the best player in the world but I am no fan of any player who chooses to leave Man Utd. I supported United long before Ronaldo came and will support United long after he leaves. I will be much more devastated when Fergie retires, that’s for sure.
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I don’t bother to read any of the Ronaldo interviews any more because he says the same thing over and over again, they have become so monotonous. If he leaves, he leaves, nothing we can do about it except revel in the trophies he has given us and the big lump of cash we got in exchange for him. Right now he is irreplaceable and even with £120m I couldn’t see anyone who could come close to replacing him, as I doubt Messi would leave.
Dan; I doubt he was misquoted, he says these things because he wants to be in the headlines. I seen the interview on video so he definitely wasn’t misquoted.
Alvin; Deco is still a great player but he has no place in this team unfortunately as he won’t be willing to be a bench player since he is at the peak age of his career.
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I hear you exactly Redd75…
If he doesn’t have United in his heart let him go..
Manutd/Fergie greatly enhanced Ronnie as a footballer…
But as everyone knows once u leave United there is only one way and that is down
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Argh, Ronaldo is such an idiot. Just this week he says he’ll stay, and shuts everyone up, and then comes out with that sh*t. You know what, as I’ve always said, painful as it has been, if he doesn’t want to play for United, let him go. I’d rather we came second in the league than be a tool for his ego. Hopefully he’s been misquoted, but if he’s really that easily influenced then fine. For the life of me I don’t get why he’d want to go there. I mean, they won La Liga but against who? The rest of the league was crap this year. They were rubbish in the CL, they’re generally a spent force (aside from a couple – Robinho, Ramos etc) and it’s just really a media hooplah.
The problem is that even if we got £100m for him, who could replace him, and what would it do to team morale? Anderson and Nani clearly are friends with him, so it makes it tough to tell what effect it would have on everyone else. If there’s anything Ronaldo has taught us this year it’s that the difference between winning and losing is often a single moment of quality, and he’s been the provider this season.
If he does go, I wonder if Fergie could bury the hatchett and send a certain Dutchman on the plane back. I’d take him in a heartbeat.
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Ronaldo is just acting like he does sometimes on the pitch – “SPOILT”. I honestly don’t think he’ll leave after this season. He’s just acting like this cos he loves the publicity and the oohs-aahs surrounding him. It’s bad timing no doubt, and hope Fergie gives him a word or two.
Anywayz, the interview video on skysports doesn’t have comments as BBC reports, which say he’ll decide his future “after the CL final”. He just says he is happy here, but the future – who knows. Does anybody have the link to any other interview?
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Get used to it. Fergie will do all he can to make him stay (if it is true he wants to leave). Nothing will happen until after the Euro 2008 finals. Brace yourselves for 2 months of Ronaldo-to-Madrid mania. Worse case scenario – he goes to Madrid and United get a record transfer fee but don’t kid yourselves it will be anything like £100m. £60m tops depending how Ronaldo plays in Euro 2008. With AC Milan under pressure to get 4th place in Serie A and having purchased (did it go through?) Ronaldinho it is more likely Kaka will end up at Real Madrid than Ronaldo. Nobody is irreplaceable, not even Ronaldo. United is a train that never stops – you jump on or you jump off but the train keeps going with or without you.
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i guess we shud leave CR7 alone..
let him decide wads best for him, also talkin abt the transfers i guess we shud get lahm as he is amazin, also deco wid fit the ‘experience’ tag, ramsey wud cum good later on so it wud be wise to get him cheap, arshevin is decent wud be a wonderful addition nd it wud also give nani sum competition, for the strker thing get back manucho he’s definately worth a try nd also Villa is world class, he’s got UCL exp as well…eto’o is again decent but m not sure if i wud have him.. also see off saha..
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grognard, conor is right, you misinterpreted what fergie said:
“Along with Carlos Tevez and Wayne Rooney, we may need experience in one forward position, somebody to take over from Ryan Giggs eventually”
He is not talking about signing a left winger. He won’t sign a left winger. He was supporting rangers in the eufa cup final, that’s all. Arshavin is not coming. He is an excellent player, i agree, but the circumstances are not right. Fergie would have known about him and all the other talented left midfielders in the world going into the transfer market last summer (including all the good ones from germany, despite your claims), and he decided then that our new left-sided midfielder was to be nani. He decided nani had more potential to do well here than any of the other players around. So he will not go out and buy another player in that position while we have giggs and nani. If park and ronaldo stay at the club i doubt he’ll buy another winger for quite some time, even when giggs does leave.
Also, it would appear fergie plans on keeping giggs around for a while yet.
We’ll probably buy berbatov…
Arshavin will probably go to a team like man city…
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No one has noticed, but Ajax, didn’t qualify for the CL, this might open the door for Huntelaar’s exit, i think he’s a RVN type of finisher we need at Utd.
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