Manchester United Superthread 2014 mod warning #8081

Cantona's Collars

If Schweinsteiger was available for £10 million I don't see a problem with taking him to United,IIRC there were many here who bandied his name about last season.The guy's a proven winner with tonnes of experience and a mentality to match.
At this stage anyone who can pass a ball forward & tackle would be welcome in the team.Anything would be better than what's here now.

Agueroooo

Schweinsteiger is not available for £10million.

MagicIRL

zerks wrote: »

If Schweinsteiger was available for £10 million I don't see a problem with taking him to United,IIRC there were many here who bandied his name about last season.The guy's a proven winner with tonnes of experience and a mentality to match.
At this stage anyone who can pass a ball forward & tackle would be welcome in the team.Anything would be better than what's here now.

Point missed completely zerks!

Agueroooo wrote: »

Schweinsteiger is not available for £10million.

Point nailed, enemy Liverpool fan.

Cantona's Collars

Agueroooo wrote: »

Schweinsteiger is not available for £10million.

It wouldn't matter to United,we'd wait and pay more than that.

Cantona's Collars

The Express is saying that 'sources' in Portugal are stating that we'll move for Carvalho.

RichFTW

MagicIRL wrote: »

Point nailed, enemy Liverpool fan.

Ha ha ha!

At least he comes for a discussion and not just a cheap rise like the other pool fans.

RasTa

zerks wrote: »

The Express is saying that 'sources' in Portugal are stating that we'll move for Carvalho.

Is that the same sources that said Kroos for £20m all done and dusted?

MagicIRL

RasTa wrote: »

Is that the same sources that said Kroos for £20m all done and dusted?

When in doubt: ask bangkok!

zerks

zerks wrote: »

:pac: Vanilla Ice

Whatsisname

RasTa wrote: »

Is that the same sources that said Kroos for £20m all done and dusted?

same source thats saying we're selling Mata too I believe

Al Capwned

Sources.

Hate that word - "we'll make something up and say the info is from our 'sources', sure who'll know"
And when they do get something right, people start believing that these 'sources' are reputable.

When you fling enough........ some of it will stick.

TheDoc

Al Capwned wrote: »

Sources.

Hate that word - "we'll make something up and say the info is from our 'sources', sure who'll know"
And when they do get something right, people start believing that these 'sources' are reputable.

When you fling enough........ some of it will stick.

Don't know how many times I've to retell the story.

Friend worked in UK rag paper for two years. Football correspondents have their daily meet, where a number of absolute lies get agreed on and spat out.

Very few, and I mean VERY few journalists have REAL connections to clubs. And these are the guys that to be honest rarely speculate or put their rep on the line with transfers. Henry Winter, Balleague and Hunter spring to mind.

Don't forget a lot of clubs are organisations in themselves. Anyone who has worked in pretty much any job knows there is rumour and gossip that does the rounds. My last job was full of it, that some might come to pass, majority of it is tosh.

Football clubs are no different. As much rubbish and rumour get's spread in there then any office. Just so happens journalists are happy to pay for that particular office gossip.

Sources and close friend are the two biggest falacies for football transfer nonsense. I can assure you nobodies ****ing close friend speaks to rags about their future.

v3ttel

I've taken to completely ignoring transfer speculation for the last week or so. I've "unfollowed" all but the most reliable of journalists on Twitter. Also have paid zero attention to speculation posted here and treated everything about this mythical "list" as total bullsh*t unless it comes from BBC, etc.

I've been following F1, NBA playoffs, GAA and then we have the World Cup starting soon. So many more things to follow than people making up transfer stories only for my hopes to inevitably be dashed mercilessly. For now, I trust Van Gaal as a world class manager, will get the people he wants to make us better, sooner or later, and will not get stressed out about it.

Join me. It'll be helpful for your sanity.

Whatsisname

According to beIN Sports France, PSG have accepted a bid of €20m for Marquinhos plus Dani Alves from Barcelona.

This Marquinhos has accumulated like €54m for his last 3 transfers, he must be something special?

TheDoc

Whatsisname wrote: »

According to beIN Sports France, PSG have accepted a bid of €20m for Marquinhos plus Dani Alves from Barcelona.

This Marquinhos has accumulated like €54m for his last 3 transfers, he must be something special?

His agent is

Rubber_Soul

Hang on, are you saying Guillem Balague rarely speculates Doc?

MD1990

v3ttel wrote: »

I've taken to completely ignoring transfer speculation for the last week or so. I've "unfollowed" all but the most reliable of journalists on Twitter. Also have paid zero attention to speculation posted here and treated everything about this mythical "list" as total bullsh*t unless it comes from BBC, etc.

I've been following F1, NBA playoffs, GAA and then we have the World Cup starting soon. So many more things to follow than people making up transfer stories only for my hopes to inevitably be dashed mercilessly. For now, I trust Van Gaal as a world class manager, will get the people he wants to make us better, sooner or later, and will not get stressed out about it.

Join me. It'll be helpful for your sanity.

i try to watch GAA but its gone very bad last few years.

irishfeen

MD1990 wrote: »

i try to watch GAA but its gone very bad last few years.

You obviously didn't watch yesterdays Cork/Waterford match

tallaghtmick

TheDoc wrote: »

His agent is

Our friend Bebe's agent?

Liam McPoyle

Probably been posted before but today was my first time seeing it.

Liam O

That story always seemed very ludicrous to me. Maybe maybe United have just been signing the players who didn't pass in recent seasons and that's why it all went down the swanny last season

Pighead

Nice story but surely bullshit.

Lord TSC

The guy he is hugging is apparently his brother btw...

ElChe32

Yeah could have sworn I heard Gary Neville say that Ronny was hugging his brother

Whatsisname

You'd think his brother would have been in a big fancy box for the game though with VIP status or the like, no?

kryogen

That story has been doing the rounds a long time

Edit: actually think I heard it around the time of the 08 CL win

irishfeen

1999 CL final on MUTV now about 65' gone, a nice time to pick it up

Headshot

Jan coming on for Belgium now

Mitch Connor

Headshot wrote: »

Jan coming on for Belgium now

100th Youth team graduate to make his international debut.

Agueroooo

Coleman Slawski wrote: »

Probably been posted before but today was my first time seeing it.

Would be nice if true but it's not.

the guy Ronaldo is hugging is his brother Hugo.

MagicMarker

Coleman Slawski wrote: »

Probably been posted before but today was my first time seeing it.

Headshot

Lovely from Jan

The_Kew_Tour

Matt Busby would have been 105 today.

The man who made Manchester United what they are.

kryogen

By the by, the story has been around a long time, the pic being of Ronnie and his brother or whoever doesn't make the story any more or less true.

It seems a little far fetched for me, but I have heard stories of pretty incredible generosity and other stuff with regard to Ronaldo, and not just him either

Whatsisname

Please not Warrior

Mike Keegan @mikekeeganmen
WSJ (Wall St Journal) say #mufc looking for more than £600m for a 10-year deal. Would be a record. Nike not happy.

Mike Keegan @mikekeeganmen
According to WSJ, Nike are tiring of #mufc demands over new kit deal. Adidas and Warrior Sports in the running.

kryogen

Let Nike back off it they want, I would be delighted for Addidas to come in. Besides that, Nike will definitely want to keep the sponsorship, it must be getting down to the real nitty gritty part now if PR is getting involved. Both parties will look to get the best deal naturally.

Mars Bar

Apparently Ronaldo was donating his CL win bonus to charity. Supposedly it's €750k (could be in £). I have no idea if that's true or not.

Oh please, please not warrior

lordgoat

Kiko off to Cardiff.

Best of luck to him. Always remember that goal. Rang my bro during who was at OT for his first game, still hear the crowd over the phone and him saying: "Tom I can't hear a word you're saying, it's going mental here"

PhlegmyMoses

Could not care less who sponsors United as I haven't bought a jersey since I was a kid. Biggest deal possible please.

A fair deal is usually the one in which both sides go away slightly unhappy with their side of it. I'd say we're getting to this stage now in that deal.

Whatsisname

More twitter stuff

United are expected to complete a £27m move for Southampton’s England left-back Luke Shaw after the World Cup. [Via @MOgdenTelegraph]

Nani, Anderson, Young, Fellaini, Zaha, Cleverley and Hernández could all leave United this summer. [Via @MOgdenTelegraph]

Headshot

Ill be fair pissed off if Chico goes, really really pissed off

Pro. F

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Could not care less who sponsors United as I haven't bought a jersey since I was a kid. Biggest deal possible please.

It's really important to me. I will be looking at the players wearing the kit every week. I prefer to look at things that look good rather than things that look ugly.

scudzilla

Whatsisname wrote: »

More twitter stuff

get at least 60mill for them

GSPfan

I would love Adidas to sponsor United even though I dont buy any gear. But i love the designs of Adidas. Warrior can fook off. Embarassing.

Maybe Nike weren't on LvG's list either???

GSPfan

I think Pochettino's move to Spurs clears Shaw and Lallana to leave Southampton. I'd be happy if we even chanced our arm for Lovren but I think Southampton would freak at the suggestion of Shaw and Lovren.

Felexicon

Pro. F wrote: »

It's really important to me. I will be looking at the players wearing the kit every week. I prefer to look at things that look good rather than things that look ugly.

Hope you didn't watch United last season so.

Mars Bar

Felexicon wrote: »

Hope you didn't watch United last season so.

Last season's jersey was nice! The year before that however...

Mikeyt086

http://balls.ie/football/15-years-remembering-manchester-united-treble-clinching-win/

Today was the 15 year anniversary of that night in Barcelona. I had a really good time putting the above post together.

J. Marston

Whatsisname wrote: »

Nani, Anderson, Young, Fellaini, Zaha, Cleverley and Hernández could all leave United this summer. [Via @MOgdenTelegraph]

Nani: Meh.

Anderson: About time.

Young: Good.

Fellaini: One more season for Afroman.

Zaha: Hard to see how he'll get games, loan him again maybe?

Cleverley: Thank Christ.

Chicharito:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s

Son Of A Vidic

Whatsisname wrote: »

You'd think his brother would have been in a big fancy box for the game though with VIP status or the like, no?

Feck being in a box, down on the pitch is where it was at.