I am fairly sure many of Utd fans will never have heard of him. I watch quite a bit of La Liga but I must admit I have only ever seen him play a handfull of times and admit further than I didnt take a huge amount of notice of him. Its more through stuff I have seen written about him that I know he is well thought of.
Ander Herrera is a Manchester United Player!
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I am fairly sure many of Utd fans will never have heard of him. I watch quite a bit of La Liga but I must admit I have only ever seen him play a handfull of times and admit further than I didnt take a huge amount of notice of him. Its more through stuff I have seen written about him that I know he is well thought of.
No idea why we didn't bid 2-3 weeks ago when the Fabregas deal died but it's still mental that we didn't just pay the extra 6 million. Do we not ever learn?
fecking hell. Another midfielder transfer saga on the cards.
Can Eddy Woody just submit the 36m bid and be done with it?
Can Eddy Woody just submit the 36m bid and be done with it?
They do not negotiate with terrorists.
Bilbao don't need the money, they can't replace him anyway. So they will wait for his release clause to be met and they have to sell him.
Exactly. I'd be thrilled if we didn't sign him.
If we had a huge transfer record(say €50M+) we would'nt really have a problem paying €36M for Herrera or the likes. The fact that he will become our transfer record signing will be playing on the minds of those in power I'd imagine, rightly or wrongly.
You apparently have to knowledge on how Athletic deals with transfers. If they say they they will sell only for 36m, then the only way to get him is to pay 36m. Or to wait until 2016 when his contract expires.
he was immense against us in the Europa only 18 months ago.
I don't think there's enough time left in the window to prepare a new bid TBF.
You just know we will offer 35m and refuse to pay more!
I reckon 74m and we get all three targets
I reckon 74m and we get all three targets
Doubtful, especially if it is true that his buy out clause increases next year. If he goes to have a good season again they can get more next summer.
I think we should, but like I said earlier, it’s a bigger risk than most. But I think we are desperate
Can someone shed some light on how good he is and how he fits in here?
We could wait. Giggs still has 3-4 seasons left in him.
Surely not?
It's only an email according to Mourinho.
This release clause shite isn't as straight forward though. Release clause is there for clubs in Spain if they bid, we are lumped with taxes then I think if we do bid it. Same bollocks about the Thiago release clause.
Oh god we are going to take another 2 weeks to prepare another bid.
We're doing a Wenger
That's how it worked on Ultimate Soccer Manager 1998...
Chelsea don't prepare good solid bids though, we've been over that. United's bids are the way they should be.
I believe that is at the discretion of the selling club though.
Just fecking pay it, Woody you virgin bastard!
Well if we're willing to spend €36M on Herrera, why don't we lump another €10M on top of that and give Barcelona a genuine offer for Fabregas? fecking stupid.
The feck do Bilbao want the money for anyway? They don't buy players all too often, and when they do, it's local youngsters for pennies. Why don't we just agree that Wayne Rooney will shag one of the local birds, and in 18 years time, they'll have their own Basque superstar.
They said that they won't sell Cesc and Cesc said that he isn't even thinking of leaving.
I will be amazed if we pay more for this lad, than we offered for Fabregas. 
He is similar to Carrick, probably a better athlete at his age. He's not going to be a goal threat but he is very capable, creative and efficient in possession. Alongside Carrick in a 4231 we would have improved our starting eleven significantly.
£34m bid would fecking show them though.
He's very good, very creative although not really in terms of creating goals, but he is capable of defense splitting passes and is more attack oriented than Carrick or Cleverley are. He has a good shot too. He's 24 and off the back of a rather underwhelming season so I'm not sure he'll ever be a world beater but he'd be a top acquisition for us. He's also quite physically strong so I don't think he'd struggle to adapt.
We need to learn that this is standard fare nowadays though. It might be a bit "embarrassing" that he's our record signing but if we mean business moving forward we're going to have to break that transfer record regularly over the coming years. I mean look at Real and Barca's top transfers, not to mention the likes of City, Chelsea, Napoli etc.
So let's do this. Reach the release clause and get done with it. Kid is great. And we need a CM.
Dunno. Why clubs want the money? cnuts.
Sorry, wrong, not the tax it's the VAT. So 21% in Spain on top of €36m is €43.56m!
Hold on tight - we've got our thread for the rest of the window
I will be amazed if we pay more for this lad, than we offered for Fabregas.
It's more than we've ever offered for Messi either.
Aye, but if we tabled a 40m bid, then barca may just have accepted, which then may have made Fab feel not wanted. Anyway, that's done and dusted.
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