Ángel Di María | Transferred to PSG
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Think that has more to do with having their new signings paraded around Qatar. Can't be hard arranging for a medical in France.
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Talk about sold club.. City at least has medicals in Manchester.
They won't, because they are into 'medical tourism', they need to send their players in Doha. They are not in football to toy, it's all about business.
Didn't Herrera come on for him and we won easily. Not much of a miss then is he?
I don't think I've ever been more disappointed with one of our Marquee signings ( apart from Gary Birtles if he can be considered Marquee )
The play up to that goal against Leicester early in the season had my son and I convinced our fantastic football was back. Which reminds me of how I raved about Veron in the game against Blackburn in August 2001.
And how I was convinced Berbatov was going to be the new Cantona. Oh well
The play up to that goal against Leicester early in the season had my son and I convinced our fantastic football was back. Which reminds me of how I raved about Veron in the game against Blackburn in August 2001.
And how I was convinced Berbatov was going to be the new Cantona. Oh well
Seems legit
Birtles would have been at the time. He was the best striker and from what I can gather the expectations of being a striker for Manchester United just swallowed him up.
That is one long ass medical he's having.
Very sad about all this. When his signin had been announced I had hopes that he will be the one turning things around for us. Not LvG.
PSG have got a fantastic Team up there with the best maybe except Barca who are a Level above everybody else atm (although we have beaten them
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However, the world keeps turning and I hope we get Pedro in who seems to be a bit underrated by some.
PSG have got a fantastic Team up there with the best maybe except Barca who are a Level above everybody else atm (although we have beaten them
)However, the world keeps turning and I hope we get Pedro in who seems to be a bit underrated by some.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the club doesn't receive much from kits sold. It's only the overall deal struck.
The medical is scheduled for today, not yesterday, no?
No idea. I just noticed the topic title update yesterday so I assumed he was having his medical.
A world class player needs to show a little more than good form in one season. The fact that he failed so miserably last season seems to have been completely dismissed by you. In assessing "world class" you need to take all performances into account, not just ones that suit.
He's demonstrably not world class.
It really did. I remember when we broke the bank for Ian Storey Moore , he was never that marvellous. Although how you replace Best , Law and Charlton is like replacing Ronaldo , RVN and Scholes
Pretty gutted if I'm honest - but at least LVG has made a positive decision and not let him fester around the club sulking for the next 12 months. His first few performances made me think we'd got a real world beater, which made his rapid decent into Bebe-like performances highly annoying.
If he wants to go then he should go - quite an expensive mistake, but not many people were saying that after 4-5 games, if anything £59m looked cheap at that point.
If he wants to go then he should go - quite an expensive mistake, but not many people were saying that after 4-5 games, if anything £59m looked cheap at that point.
Looking forward to this show pony being gone. I think I'm definitely a card-carrying member of the "He was never that good anyway" club...
And yes, all my ex's are ugly as shit.
And yes, all my ex's are ugly as shit.
Many people changed their opinion after he went AWOL. Suddenly he became a useless player who was nowhere near Utd quality. And they convinced themselves that the sole reason he is going is because he doesnt have the ba**s to work hard at Utd.
Yes but the club selling so many kits means we get amazing deals
So those who laugh at the notion are actually wrong. Our shirt sales is the reason why we have the biggest or one of the biggest ever deals which started 2 days ago
I would have thought adidas would get the shirt sales and United get the badges + name sales. Would love if someone had the facts on this.
£44m is a good fee. In Euro we're going to lose around €10m on him which is what you'd expect to lose in a year time for a player approaching 30 who is heavily reliant on pace.
Even disregarding his awful form for us and the fact that we overpaid by good £10m in the first place we've done very well to receive £44m for him after last season, this is a player who will soon turn 28 and has maximum 2-3 seasons at a good level before he loses that extra pace that sets him from other footballers near his level. He doesn't have the creativity, technique or intelligence to play well past 30.
He was never going to contribute much this season with his attitude, even if he ends up as a success for PSG it won't mean that we've made a mistake because it's clear he doesn't even want to be here anymore.
Even disregarding his awful form for us and the fact that we overpaid by good £10m in the first place we've done very well to receive £44m for him after last season, this is a player who will soon turn 28 and has maximum 2-3 seasons at a good level before he loses that extra pace that sets him from other footballers near his level. He doesn't have the creativity, technique or intelligence to play well past 30.
He was never going to contribute much this season with his attitude, even if he ends up as a success for PSG it won't mean that we've made a mistake because it's clear he doesn't even want to be here anymore.
I've always been very proud of how classy the club acted under Ferguson, Gill and Charlton's leadership and how they were resolute in their silence on criticism from ex players, journalists or pundits. They'd very rarely get drawn into negative subjectsqnd it's probably best we continue like that.
There is a part of me though that hopes Van Gaal calls Di Maria out on whatever bullshit is inevitably coming the clubs way.
There is a part of me though that hopes Van Gaal calls Di Maria out on whatever bullshit is inevitably coming the clubs way.
Ofcourse. Doesn't make it any less daft to multiply the cost of a shirt with the total sold and count the total as revenue for the club.
I'd rather someone who knows how it works comment on this but as far as I know, we don't make more than a small cut from kits sold regardless of names.
Any idea why it is in Qatar though?
Surely it would be more logical not to have injured players travelling to Qatar while injured.
It's Van Gaal. He answers everything bluntly. If Di Maria comes out with nonsense and the club doesn't bar questions on that in the presser, van Gaal isn't going to pull any punches.
They are preparing for life without Gaz, they want people to come to Qatar, also they are building a new training center in Paris, the players might not travel to Doha when it's finished.
When he puts his mind to it, he can be a world class player. Just one of those situations where he can't/won't be WC at United. Veron is another one that springs to mind in that regard, but at least he appeared to be trying.
I'm sure he will tear it up in France, in fact I'm convinced of it. In form, he'd get into any team in the world bar Barcelona, he's that good.
It's not anger, more like contempt.
You seem angry, man. Let's revisit this when you have calmed down a bit.
I wonder why they haven't included the 5 Di Maria foam fingers I purchased, in that list.
It's not anger, more like contempt.
Hopefully at di Maria, not at me for calling him world class.
Is it £45m or £45+5m in add-ons ?
I was So disinterested in this that when I opened the thread just now it took me to page 59(now 110)
Anyway he was a good player but if a player doesn't want to be here ten we should sell him(except de gea). And I don't think lvg wanted to sell him. As for the fee we would have got 52m if the exchange rate was the same as when we bought him. A 7m loss is understandable I reckon
Anyway he was a good player but if a player doesn't want to be here ten we should sell him(except de gea). And I don't think lvg wanted to sell him. As for the fee we would have got 52m if the exchange rate was the same as when we bought him. A 7m loss is understandable I reckon
Anyone seen that pic doing the rounds? A snake lying on the doctor's table with the caption "Di Maria medical at PSG" 
http://www.football365.com/news/21554/9933470/Thiago-Silva-PSG-Bigger-Than-Utd
Di Maria will undergo a medical in Qatar today after PSG agreed a fee of £44.5million to sign the Argentina winger from Manchester United.
Di Maria endured a disappointing season at Old Trafford following his move from Real Madrid for a British record fee, but Silva believes his capture is evidence of PSG's growing stature.
"People now need to respect PSG as one of the big clubs in Europe," Silva said. "Real Madrid and Barcelona are probably on another level, but after that if you join PSG you are you probably taking a step up."
PSG knocked out Chelsea on their way to the Champions League semi-finals last season, a fact not lost on Silva.
"We went further than any English clubs in Europe last year," he added.
This from a player who admitted he was transferred to France against his will.
This whole transfer looks like PSG trying to validate themselves, never mind thinking reaching the CL quarters proves anything
Moyes did that ffs
Di Maria will undergo a medical in Qatar today after PSG agreed a fee of £44.5million to sign the Argentina winger from Manchester United.
Di Maria endured a disappointing season at Old Trafford following his move from Real Madrid for a British record fee, but Silva believes his capture is evidence of PSG's growing stature.
"People now need to respect PSG as one of the big clubs in Europe," Silva said. "Real Madrid and Barcelona are probably on another level, but after that if you join PSG you are you probably taking a step up."
PSG knocked out Chelsea on their way to the Champions League semi-finals last season, a fact not lost on Silva.
"We went further than any English clubs in Europe last year," he added.
This from a player who admitted he was transferred to France against his will.
This whole transfer looks like PSG trying to validate themselves, never mind thinking reaching the CL quarters proves anything
Moyes did that ffs
I've said from the start we were better off keeping Nani if we wanted to have either of them. I knew Di Maria would get to winter and then fade out because he wouldn't like it. It's a shame it's turned out like this and he hasn't settled, though I suspect he never really wanted to join United to begin with, but there's no point keeping a player who will go on strike to demonstrate how much he doesn't want to be here. At the end of the day, though, I think he's mugging himself off really; he could have been one of the important players an a transitioning team that could potentially grow into a dominant force. Instead he will be in a team of nomads who mostly rely on Zlatan Ibrahimovic, an ageing player who looks as though he is on his way out soon, in a league that isn't particularly competitive at all.
If his family really couldn't settle in Manchester/the UK then fair enough, he's doing right by them but if it's down to footballing reasons then I think he's a bit of a mug. Don't really get all the hate for him in here, mind. It didn't work out, it is what it is; get on with our lives.
That's rich.
In the absence of other evidence, I'm taking this as a fact.
I actually think PSG have a better shot at winning the UCL than any of the english clubs atm
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