I had an inkling that Rossi might be groomed as a long term replacement for Scholesy. SAF has apparently sorted that one. I expect that Rossi has decided that his prospects as a United striker are limited, and based on regular 1st team football in Italy last season he wanted to leave. I suspect SAF felt that he wouldn't get to the top and it was in the lad's best interest to move. The only surprise, as others have said is that it's Villareal - hope the fee was good.
All Rossi transfer speculation here please
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Funny thing is I've seen him play for United in the Carling plenty of times, and he's not even impressed at that level. A few goals in the Serie A and he's been compared to his namesake, Paulo.
So what does this mean for Smith?
Always gets on people's nerves when you write something like that. Tabata would probably kill himself if he read it
absoloutely shocking move by fergie. just watch him go on to big things in the next couple of years... if he scores the winner against us in the champions league semis, we'll know who to thank... glenn fecking roeder, the genius who thought a strike pairing of antoine fecking sibierski and shola ameobi is better than a rossi-martins partnership... those 6 months are what cost him his chance at united imho...
Allright, what i wanted to say is: He WILL be MUCH better than injury-prone-i-can't-score-one-on-one Louis bloody Saha.
He is already better than him, and if someone can't see that, he must be very blind.
Sad day, very unSAF like. Selling a kid of such talent who has done everything we've asked of him for the u18s, the reserves and finally at Parma, is not a good way to honour our traditions 50 years after Munich. Gutted.
Though it would be a travesty if Dong is given a chance and not Rossi.
Its not about nationality or where he was born. Its a shame that the best talent to have come through our academy in several years is not even given a proper chance. Why not just close it down if we are only going to buy players for the first team?
Once Tevez comes, we will have a 60 million strikeforce, 70 million midfield and the most expensive defender in the league. How are we any different to Chelsea ? Even Chelsea's first team could possibly be less expensive than ours.
I think we paid around 0.5million - not sure though
G'luck to Rossi firest off. It is a sad thing that Parma fans saw mroe of his potential unleashed for them last season, than we were able to at OT. He showed more then the quality needed in his time here, but has been spurned. 
Many of us hoped that this coming season would be his opprtunity, his chance to shine, but it seems some madness ahs gripped the club to be making decisions like this. And at such a time of uncertainty if it was not bad enough in itself..
One of the reasons i've not been as taken with the wholeTevez saga and the prospect of him coming, for the fear of this happening.
A sad day, and i wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the future, Rossi reminds us, or Sir Alex or whoever it may be, of the mistake.
We've let a gem go today, and it ain't right, ain't right at all. Goddamn fools we must be.
Suppose Pique will be on his way too soon enough, Evans and Lee to follow in the coming seasons, why do we even bother trying to develop talen from within.
Stupidity!!
Many of us hoped that this coming season would be his opprtunity, his chance to shine, but it seems some madness ahs gripped the club to be making decisions like this. And at such a time of uncertainty if it was not bad enough in itself..
One of the reasons i've not been as taken with the wholeTevez saga and the prospect of him coming, for the fear of this happening.
A sad day, and i wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the future, Rossi reminds us, or Sir Alex or whoever it may be, of the mistake.
We've let a gem go today, and it ain't right, ain't right at all. Goddamn fools we must be.
Suppose Pique will be on his way too soon enough, Evans and Lee to follow in the coming seasons, why do we even bother trying to develop talen from within.
Stupidity!!
I don't think he'll be near to be honest. RvN, Henry and Eto'o to name but a few, who will be up there.
Rossi could reach 15 league goals though. That should be a realistic ambition for him.
Interestingly, I've just read on BBC Sport that Forlan fetched about £14 million. I can see a similar scenario with Rossi in a ciuple of years if his career really takes off. He could easily command a £15 million fee if he is prolific at Villareal.
Then we really will be crying.
1. So the reason we have an academy is to build them up and sell them on?, i thought the whole heritage of United was to "give youngters a chance".
2. Was Scholes world class when he came through the ranks, was Becks, was Neville ?
3. I'm sure players at United are full aware that there is rarely a player that is cemented to 1st team. Heinze seemed to have that LB position his when he came to United, but Evra has stepped up his game and Heinze has been left in his shadow. If your good enough, you should be given a chance.
Its the principle, we shouldn't be selling our talented youngsters.
rossi leaving must mean that the tevez deal is very close to completion. I hope anyway!
Spot on, anyone who is happy for Rossi to be sold only to then go and spend £25million+ on his replacement (Tevez) should realise that we have basically turned into Chelsea this summer.
This is a bad day for United and should be a warning to all the reserve team lads.
You are wrong here Spoony.
Rossi did show potential, he is highly rated in Italy.
Rooney, Ronaldo, Cesc and Messi have spun people's heads. Not every young player is going to make it at 20. Normally players are going to take time. I am sure Rossi will be playing for top 4 in Italy in another 3 seasons.
Rossi did show potential, he is highly rated in Italy.
Rooney, Ronaldo, Cesc and Messi have spun people's heads. Not every young player is going to make it at 20. Normally players are going to take time. I am sure Rossi will be playing for top 4 in Italy in another 3 seasons.
We tried to sign Berbatov in May,Spurs told us to feck off. Then we started working on signing Tevez that was nr 2 on our striker wishlist, Anelka apparently is nr 3 on the list.
this is a horrible piece of business. rossi will make united look like idiots.
He did not really come through to our academy. We poached him from Parma when he was 16/17. He could have gone to any another top academy at that stage.
rossi leaving must mean that the tevez deal is very close to completion. I hope anyway!
fergie comment don't look assuring to me, we look foolish when we sell Smith too together with Rossi and end up with no striker coming in.
The people who wanked off after we signed Nani and Anderson, surely expected this to happen?
He's 21. Not 17. He's not shown anything at United. . .other than in the reserves. Unless you've all been seeing a different player to me. And if he's so highly rated in Italy then why as he gone to Villareal for £7m. . .not not to a decent SerieA outfit?
Only 11 players can start.
Rossi may go on to have a great career. But it won't adversly affect us either way.
We may just look like idiots if he fetches a good fee on his next sale.
Get real.
Riiight...
I'm backing out of this, since there is really blindness problem right now at this forum, and we will see very soon who is right.
feck...I wanted us to keep him just so that Gus fella would be proved wrong Hope Rossi has a great career, good luck to him!
Hope Rossi has a great career, good luck to him!Scrap the youth system.
If a player of Rossi's quality can;t get into our first team there's feck all chance for most others, these days...unfortunately.
If a player of Rossi's quality can;t get into our first team there's feck all chance for most others, these days...unfortunately.
Why should we close it down when we produce great players? There was no need to keep Rossi in the squad. I'm confident SAF is getting more forwards, or at least the ones we have will do just fine. And do you realize how much money 7m£ is for a 21 year old? The dutch supertalents don't usually go for that much. And I honestly don't care what the squad costs as long as it wins things. We had both cheap and expensive players in the squad before, and we got the treble. We're not fecking Aston Villa.
spot on, there surely is something wrong with our youth education system if player of Rossi's ability doesn't get a chance.
Not sure I'd want Anelka.
Look, lets be constructive.
Saha is a fearsome striker when fit. He is extremely frustrating when injured but he is miles ahead of Rossi in experience and will cause defences far more problems.
He showed lot more potential at United than likes of Fletcher, Richardson did. And they got ample opportunity.
And as I said everybody is not Ronaldo and start performing at 18. He had a good half a season at Parma and there is no reason to doubt that he won't have another good one next season.
I am myself surprised with his move to Villarreal though. Waiting for more news to filter through...
Rossi came from Parma. He is not really a product of our system.
I'm gutted.
But, I guess I can see the harsh logic of it.
Rooney and Tevez both fit the bill of shorter, fast, skillful players who are not target men. Saha can play upfront as a target man, and Berbatov, a true tall, strong centre forward has already been blatantly alluded to as a transfer target by Ferguson. Ferguson said we had been pursuing a striker whose club wouldn't sell him this summer. Quagliarella, Huntelaar etc. all were for sale, so only Berbatov fits that description of the players we were connected with this summer.
If Berbatov is on the way, and Saha is never healthy enough to be traded, then with Rooney and Tevez in the fold there is no long term future for Rossi at United.
Berbatov and Saha provide something different(i.e. size) from Rooney and Tevez. Rossi could not, skill and goalscoring nous notwithstanding.
But the question remains, with Tevez and certainly Berbatov open questions, who will play this season?
Solksjaer is slowing down. Smith should be sold. I thought Rossi should be given his chance this year while we had a need for one more player. But perhaps it would hurt team spirit more if Rossi had a good season with the squad and then was sold to make room for Berbatov(or similar style of player).
If Rossi has been sold because Smith is refusing to countenance being traded then I will be disappointed. I don't believe Smith can produce goals regularly for us. But if Smith goes as well, then Ferguson must have a definite target beyond Tevez which surely is Berbatov in my mind.
Oh well, in SAF we trust.
But, I guess I can see the harsh logic of it.
Rooney and Tevez both fit the bill of shorter, fast, skillful players who are not target men. Saha can play upfront as a target man, and Berbatov, a true tall, strong centre forward has already been blatantly alluded to as a transfer target by Ferguson. Ferguson said we had been pursuing a striker whose club wouldn't sell him this summer. Quagliarella, Huntelaar etc. all were for sale, so only Berbatov fits that description of the players we were connected with this summer.
If Berbatov is on the way, and Saha is never healthy enough to be traded, then with Rooney and Tevez in the fold there is no long term future for Rossi at United.
Berbatov and Saha provide something different(i.e. size) from Rooney and Tevez. Rossi could not, skill and goalscoring nous notwithstanding.
But the question remains, with Tevez and certainly Berbatov open questions, who will play this season?
Solksjaer is slowing down. Smith should be sold. I thought Rossi should be given his chance this year while we had a need for one more player. But perhaps it would hurt team spirit more if Rossi had a good season with the squad and then was sold to make room for Berbatov(or similar style of player).
If Rossi has been sold because Smith is refusing to countenance being traded then I will be disappointed. I don't believe Smith can produce goals regularly for us. But if Smith goes as well, then Ferguson must have a definite target beyond Tevez which surely is Berbatov in my mind.
Oh well, in SAF we trust.
That will be taking the piss
He always looked like an interesting player, but every time he played in the full team, ie given a chance, he just looked completely out of his depth.
I was never really expecting him to make it at United for quite a while. Hoped yes, but not expected.
Even if he does do well in Spain, I don't think that proves anything.
I was never really expecting him to make it at United for quite a while. Hoped yes, but not expected.
Even if he does do well in Spain, I don't think that proves anything.
Difference is, Rossi plays as a striker. There is no time to give a youngster a chance to settle in. We need goals immediately.
He still would've counted as a home grown player as he has been here for 3 years pre his 17th birthday.
How much did we get for Rossi?
Bollocks, a mistake in midfield is more costly than one upfront.