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Spanish radio station Cadena Cope is claiming that Manchester United have seen a bid of €40m for Sami Khedira rejected by Real Madrid, making the Germany international approximately the 612th La Liga midfielder that United have failed to sign this summer.
 
Gunner B Allright ™;5296275 said:
Spanish radio station Cadena Cope is claiming that Manchester United have seen a bid of €40m for Sami Khedira rejected by Real Madrid, making the Germany international approximately the 612th La Liga midfielder that United have failed to sign this summer.

Poor Utd <cry>
 
Gunner B Allright &#8482;;5296275 said:
Spanish radio station Cadena Cope is claiming that Manchester United have seen a bid of &#8364;40m for Sami Khedira rejected by Real Madrid, making the Germany international approximately the 612th La Liga midfielder that United have failed to sign this summer.

You should have posted the whole quote - the herrera deal has hit some problems as well.
 
You should have posted the whole quote - the herrera deal has hit some problems as well.

Apparently they needed to pay all the money in cash at the office of the club, they turned up but did not leave any money due to a 'bureaucratic' decision. Looks like they've missed out on him too <ok>
 
I want to drive down the road and buy myself a chinese but dont want to miss the announcement or any other transfer news :P
 
Apparently they needed to pay all the money in cash at the office of the club, they turned up but did not leave any money due to a 'bureaucratic' decision. Looks like they've missed out on him too <ok>

Possibility that its to do with tax payments that would have to be made if the deal goes ahead as it is. Not sure yet if that one will go through or not!
 
So if we get the three players we are linked with our first team squad would look like this

GK's

Wojciech Szczesny
Lukasz Fabianski
Emiliano Viviano

(That's fine, and I am pretty happy with that)

Defence:

Carl Jenkinson
Bacary Sagna

Thomas Vermaelen
Laurent Koscielny
Per Mertesacker

Kieren Gibbs
Nacho Monreal

(Still feel we are one player light in this area. I think the demands on Sagna are too much and if he potentially gets injured we are in trouble.)

Midfield:

Mikel Arteta
Jack Wilshere
Aaron Ramsey
Mathieu Flamini
Mesut Ozil
Santi Cazorla
Thomas Rosicky

(As it stands, we are not going to get the expensive DM we were after, but I was impressed by Flamini's performance against Spurs, and Arteta can hopefully recover from his injury and do what he did last season, because he still a class act. So the trio of Flamini,Arteta and Ramsey have to be the guys that shield our defence. Going forward, we have no problems. The potential link up play between Cazorla and Ozil is mouth watering.)

Forwards

Olivier Giroud
Theo Walcott
Lukas Podolski
Alex Oxlade Chamberlain
Yaya Sanogo
Demba Ba

(Problem here is that the Ox and Podolski are going to be out for a while, so does leave us a bit light. With Cazorla and Rosicky able to play in one of those wide roles, we can adjust. The big disappointment is that we failed to get the world class forward that we wanted, but Giroud has stepped up this season, and with potential arrival of Ozil, he is going to get the chances that he did not get last season. Ba would be a solid addition and provides competition for Giroud).

With Ozil coming in, Cazorla is almost certainly going to be playing higher up on the left. Also, not out of the question for Ozil to play on the right, if something happened to Walcott.

Window isn't over though, so still time for a striker. Despite the injury to Podolski, I still don't think we need to replace him. After all, what decent player is going to come in, with Podolski and Cazorla ahead of him. Podolski isn't going to be out forever.
 
Gunner B Allright &#8482;;5296380 said:
we could have snapped him up in January for a song ...........wasted opportunity, he has REAL potential , not bollox potential , hes wasted at Chavski

Teams like Chelsea piss you off. They hoard players and just stick them on the bench to rot. Players like Ba, Mata etc can play first team footy in loads of teams but big money teams just keep them on the bench.