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UTD will not make any signings

Discussion in 'Manchester United' started by HRH Custard VC, Jan 14, 2014.

  1. Sir Tennisball

    Sir Tennisball Well-Known Member

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    Apparently he had a release clause which was a lot more than the transfer fee. I can't remember the exact figure quoted but it was in the high 30's (million).
     
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  2. HRH Custard VC

    HRH Custard VC National Car Park Attendant

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    so why sell for 21M then?
     
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  3. KingEric07.

    KingEric07. cape wearing twat

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    World Cup years very rarely result in paying less for players in my opinion <ok>
     
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  4. Drogs

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    Because he wanted to leave. Release clause was rumoured at £45m in the summer.
     
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  5. Chief

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    No, they can result in ****e Senegalese players being bought for at least three times what they're worth.

    Some of the players mentioned, mainly the German ones, could end up being just squad members/bench warmers during the world cup though so as such their value won't go up.

    General rule of thumb for me is certainly avoiding African nation players (unless Yaya became available of course!!) never as good as they seem, bar obvious exceptions, and tend to **** off mid season every other year.
     
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  6. HRH Custard VC

    HRH Custard VC National Car Park Attendant

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    Would it be better for the selling club to hold out until then and get more?

    Roo wants out but UTD have held onto him, and will sell in the summer to a smaller club for £30M or so.
     
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  7. Sir Tennisball

    Sir Tennisball Well-Known Member

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    £60M if said smaller club has strikers who can't score, and have been tapping up Rooney for ages.
     
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  8. HRH Custard VC

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    I doubt he would want to play in a bus team
     
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  9. Sir Tennisball

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    He would suit the system though, that's probably why Mourinho wants him... Is there a striker in world football that is capable of doing more defensive work than him?

    I mean geez, he can even play in midfield. For those big European games they could play a true 4-1-5-0 formation to 'control the game'
     
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  10. HRH Custard VC

    HRH Custard VC National Car Park Attendant

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    I understand now, a Roomaster bus <laugh>
     
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  11. shwan

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    WTF?
    whether it is paying more for agent or any other fkn reason, we let our targets slip away
    so all what you said about hazard or Noura is b***sh*t, the bottom-line we needed to offer more or same and we didn't .. who to blame in your opinion?
    Cesc deal will not go through when trying to bid for what he value, if Glazers offered 50m, Barca would had accepted
    executive director work within a budget set by the owners or some scale, they don't work based on a free balance world where we can sign anyone
    regarding Berba, how much we offered 30m for an old player , and we did kind the same for RVP, short term success policy that will not bring a club a big success in the long term
    Glazers are not ready to gamble big money on young players and we seem to bid over the odds for oldies, but let all young talents go to other clubs and we rather get those old ones who last a season or two

    ignore all that in the last 5 seasons, we spend 2m more than stoke city or Aston villa in average !! yeh Glazers must be really going mad in the transfer market
    http://www.transferleague.co.uk/league-tables/transfer-league-table-last-five-seasons.html

    and we paid that 28m bcz we didn't want to pay 50m for cesc or others .. is like you go to a shop and settle for 2nd best bcz the 1st choice sound costly
     
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  12. UnitedinRed

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    Shut up you crack whore!
     
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  13. Page_Moss_Kopite

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    Fixed.<ok>
     
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  14. Chief

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    Point 1, if we didn't get these players because we refused to pay ridiculous agents fee's then that's good to be honest. I don't agree that we need to go down that route so f**k agents frankly.

    Point 2, agreed. We offered stupid money for Fabregas and Barca rightly said f**k off.

    It is HERE that the Glazers are so patently f**king things up.
    We need to offer what a player is 'worth' or thereabouts, and then start negotiations. Not take the piss meaning the selling club dig their heels in even more.
     
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  15. UnitedinRed

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    Not ready to gamble big money on young players?

    You like proper deadly insanely mega epically serious?
     
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  16. KingEric07.

    KingEric07. cape wearing twat

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    Unofrtuntaley though Ruff, with your first point, that's just the way football has gone and if we want to compete for the big players then sooner or later were going to have to bite the bullet and do it.

    Alot of the top players have the same agents who screw as much money out of a club as possible. If we don't play the game with these horrible bastards then we will lose out on alot of top players, which is what we have seen happening.
     
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  17. Chief

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    What about top top players?
     
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  18. A few years ago, agents didn't have to be registered anywhere but Fifa (I thin it was Fifa) made it compulsory for all football agents to be on a register. At the time, this helped to eliminate the scumbags that were taking everything they could get. however, at the same time, it also gave the legitimate ones more power and this is what we now see. These agents know that players and clubs need them in modern day deals and they also know there is a limited ball pool to choose from, therefore they are now the ones that take everything they can get. Its proper **** but as you rightly said, part of the game now too.
     
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  19. Like_a_virgin

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    Second that. If you can't beat them, join them. This season has shown that money really talks, so we gotta show them the money.
     
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  20. Diego

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    There is something very very wrong here. Agents are "employed" by players to get the best deal possible for them therefore the player should pay all agents fees, for a club to pay the agents fee it could/should be classed as bribery and is in no way in the intrest of the player as it could end up (and often does) that the agent does the best deal for himself and not his client (employer).
     
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