Yesterday according to reports, Udinese rejected an offer from United for Chilean winger, Alexis Sanchez. He is a 19 year old winger who had a successful loan spell at River Plate last season and Udinese have slapped a fee of 20m euros.
Anyway, since there is little to talk about today, here’s a video of the kid. It’s going to be some sort of pattern from now on: club linked to some twinkly-toed winger; papers report he is the next Ronaldo; on repeat.
Continue reading “Who is this Alexis Sanchez Chap?”
… and Scolari and Wenger. He thinks the Premiership is the best league; he watches the English league in the weekends; and, more importantly, he wants to change clubs. He said all this in an interview to the BBC [audio link -- thanks to a comment from yesterday's post.]
So where’s the catch?
Continue reading “Arshavin Likes Fergie…”
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).
Continue reading “Random Transfer News Items of the Day”
Well it’s that time of the year again. And with January comes the transfer market where a lot of big talking goes along but not much actually happens! Anyway, I noticed a lot of talk going on in the past few posts so I decided to make one on that subject. I shall cover all the positions and any places we are weak and also any possible buys, so lets get on with it.
Continue reading “The January Transfer Window - Possible Targets”
It has been rumoured that Fergie has been looking at a few strikers recently, but with the recent announcement of Ole Solskjaer’s immediate retirement, United are left short of quality frontmen and it wouldn’t be surprising to see the great Scot make one more visit to the transfer market before September 1st.
Currently, our 3 main strikers are Wayne Rooney, Louis Saha and Carlos Tevez. But if you look at other top Premiership clubs, it becomes clear that 4 strikers are the ideal.
Here’s what the other top clubs’ strike force look like:
Continue reading “Now, Which Striker Is United Material?”
As you must know by now, Gabriel Heinze has lost his bid to join Liverpool (more over at Soccerlens).
It puts him in a very difficult situation now as there’s barely a chance for him to win the appeal for his Liverpool move, and there is little time left to negotiate a move elsewhere.
Many Manchester United fans have turned on Heinze during this whole process (not surprisingly), and would be glad to see his back. While that’s an emotional response and not necessarily the best thing for the team (Heinze is our best left-back), it’s a valid concern that his actions (and especially the fact that he wanted to go to Liverpool of all teams) will have driven a wedge between him and the other players and apart from the stick he will get from the fans, there’s little doubt that he’ll definitely remain 2nd or 3rd choice now.
So what to do?
Continue reading “Heinze loses arbitration for Liverpool move, what’s next for him and United?”
As most of you will know while one Argentinean has recently entered Old Trafford another seems very likely to be leaving soon. A decision will be made on the future of ‘Fans Favourite of the 05/06 season’ Gabby Heinze later today, though his court case hearing was yesterday. He presented his case to a 3-man team with both Sir Alex and Carlos present.
After all we have done for him, stood by him during his injury, the greedy git wants a move to Loserpool! If he gets his way we will be forced into accepting an offer from Liverpool.
I think fans opinions are mixed with some saying we should sell him to Liverpool and some totally against the decision, I personally wouldn’t mind the move IF we don’t get another offer for him but Sir Alex doesn’t seem to keen.
So what do you guys think now that D-day is here, and also feel free to post your opinions on the decision which will come later on today.
Manchester United were, during the summer, said to be a team with endless attacking options. However an injury to our best striker Wayne Rooney (expected to keep him out of action for at least two months) and also our best player of late, Ronaldo, receiving a 3 match suspension for an attempted head butt has left our attacking options looking a bit slim. It has also been brought to my attention that Ryan Giggs has not been performing to his best and there have been calls by many supporters to drop him, though I doubt 2 poor performances will prompt SAF to not play him against City. Also Scholes hasn’t been himself either lately. Oh, and where are Owen Hargreaves and Anderson??? I mean honestly, they have been included in both squads that played against Reading and Portsmouth but neither even made the bench!!!
Continue reading “Do We Need a New Forward?”
So now, quite unsurprisingly, that transfer ‘negotiations’ between the 5778 parties that own Carlos Tevez have come to a dead end, FIFA will be asked to take over and use their profound wisdom to come to a solution.
Although, if they do make a ruling in any party’s favour, there are, of course, the remaining 5777 parties to contend with, who will appeal to the rather fancifully named Court of Arbitration for Sport whose decision is final in these matters, or so they say.
Continue reading “United To Steer Clear of Tevez”
Sir Alex has confirmed that Gabriel Heinze will leave OT.
Well, what else do you want me to say? It’s a hard thing to digest but since SAF has himself confirmed it, he is moving. So what now? Mikael Silvestre would stay for another season, surely.
Would any good come of this transfer? Not if he goes to Liverpool. Just pray he goes to Madrid.
The money might be handy. But it comes and leaves us with a sick taste in the mouth.
