*January Transfer Window 2014/15 Season Rumours/Signings*

Any supposed issues with RvP are a mental thing anyway. He's never been reliant on pace but he can shift quite quickly, and did so a few times against Chelsea. He's also pretty strong, he doesn't usually get shoved off the ball.
 
The difference is when you are missing a one on one earlier in the game to give us the lead then it's a problem.

Yes he scored a rebound from a save by the keeper from a corner but had he missed that golden chance then he rightly would have been castigated.

A good striker for utd is always going to get goals, that's an expectation not a bonus other wise they leave.

Looking analytically at the real madrid tie in his first season, had he bagged his chances the likeliness is we would have won the tie.
 
drunkenmaster said:
You believe a story in which Chelsea would target Pique, the single most over rated and not at all high class CB, despite both Chelsea and Mourinho pretty much having the best record of any manager of buying top CB's or stopping using or letting go CB's who are past their best(when Carvalho stopped being good he was cut despite his history with Mourinho).
Click to expand...

Spainish paper "Fichajes" saying Chelsea are preparing a bid.

Chelsea have offered Barcelona £23.6 million for defender Gerard Pique. The Blues are hoping to beat Manchester United to the Spain international who is expected to leave Camp Nou in the January transfer window.

- Metro
Click to expand...
 
Yet Barcelona have a transfer ban in which they can't actually sell Pique, or buy a replacement.

The fact that the Pique story is gaining any momentum(a term people use when one newspaper copies a fake story another paper has already printed) just proves how utterly retarded and useless these journalists(if you can call them that) actually are.

Pique can't be sold in January, yet one paper has some idiot journalist who either knows but thinks his readers don't, or himself doesn't know so makes up a story that is literally impossible. Only thing worse is readers falling for it and then other papers picking up the story and repeating it.

The number of papers repeating an incorrect story doesn't change the truth of it.
 
Doubt that. Porto's official accounts stated Utd paid a guaranteed €30m (which at the time was a tad over £20m). He's been paid a lot more than £6m in wages over the 7 years he's been at Utd. With wages you'd be looking at around £50m.
 
Who knows how papers come up with headline figures.

Maybe just initial transfer plus add ons?
 
Im surprised Utd are struggling for a foreign squad place enough to rip up a contract 6 months early (he is effectively worthless either way its looked at, so its not about the money but the actual place itself)

Sounds like Mata might go (even if it isn't for anything like the money paid out), and wouldn't be surprised if Valencia went as well and there have been constant rumours LvG isn't that keen on Rafael either (even though he is probably considered home grown), even though I wouldn't expect him to go until the summer anyway.

Its probably likely that at least one of Smalling/Jones /Evans will also be sold off (again probably in the summer), if Evans can prove his fitness with a good run of games he is probably the best bet for a squad place at least - and the only reason I don't include Jones is his habit of getting injured so often and rarely getting a few games under his belt once he does recover before getting injured again.

edit - I doubt Anderson got £30m~ in wages even over 7 years given that he never played consistently enough to get bonuses over a season etc (and he originally signed before Man Utd had mega money to pay out in wages, so he probably signed initialy for £35k/week

Initially (according to the Guardian) the combined cost of both Anderson and Nani was about £15m rising to potential of £35m (probably the case of Nani, but doubtful of Anderson I would have thought) http://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/may/31/newsstory.sport10
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom