What's Sergio Canales up to these days?
Ander Herrera is a Manchester United Player!
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He is actually quite similar to Wilshere in terms of play style, being some kind of hybrid between CM and AM and very well rounded. This type becomes more and more common. Gündogan and Thiago are other top talents with that style.
The problem is that while being similar Wilshere is better or has more potential in pretty much every aspect. Herrera is simply one drawer lower than him. This does not make him a bad player, far from it, because Wilshere is together with the two above mentioned top talents the best the world has to offer in terms of CM talent. If he would not be that injury prone, he would have probably reached Gündogan´s level by now.
Isn't his release clause 36 million euros? If so, that's close to 31 million pounds and still behind Berba's price by a tiny bit, so we wouldn't break our record fee.
Who cares if we break our transfer record?
Is he worth that much or are we getting mugged because we are desperate?
All this football is putting me off my true love, accountancy.
Exactly.
Even so, Berbatov was £30.75m. Ander would work at marginally less.
I don't care about the price, if he's good enough then sign him.
I don't care about the price, if he's good enough then sign him.
Somewhere in the middle I'd imagine, a good player we're going to end up paying a premium for, but nothing ridiculous like some deals.
Our defence is fine. Our attack is fine. Bar Carrick, our midfield is devoid of quality.
Hi Woody.
Nothing to do with us probably, I think Bilbao are just the worst to deal with and make everyone pay the release clause if they want the player. What I'm guessing really, but if we really did bid 30m as an opening bid, I can't see us not following up on it and just bidding the release clause.
I think he's at Valencia, he has stalled. He went to Madrid too soon he should have went stayed at Racing for a couple more years.
I don't see how that's funny?
I think he's laughing at Canales' stupid decision, not what Jaffy said.
Wrong, its a running joke on this forum that you ask about Sergio Canales career at irrelevant points in time, the laugh was because somebody responded with factual information.
The true mark of a web forum is the number of in-jokes it has developed.
If I remember correctly, The Sergio Canales joke came when a poster actually bumped his thread asking about his career during the match vs Aston Villa which confirmed us as champion 2013. The poster asked the question while RVP was scoring his hattrick.
Just saw this. Apologies if it's been posted before.
I feel like if we're playing this game (assuming we go up to the 36 mil release clause) that we should have snapped up Asier Illaramendi earlier in the summer.
It's so difficult to find good players suited for the deeper midfield 2.
It's so difficult to find good players suited for the deeper midfield 2.
Sky says our bid for herrera was rejected
Or does everybody know that already
Or does everybody know that already
http://squawka.com/news/2013/08/30/...-toure-transfer-scouting-report/2013083019327
He made more tackles than Yaya Toure, Lampard & Wilshere combined last year
Is today going to be another hectic day? Or transfer activities simply stop because there is the football going on?
Ah, yes, hanging around together at doping control, just before you... Ah, never mind.
Be surprised if we hear anything this weekend, with the football going on, this is going Down to Manic Muppet Monday .
I don't even believe we'll sign one player never mind the four mentioned.
Amazing how two days ago none of these journalists knew we were even interested in herrera or de rossi yet just 48 hours later they all have acquired in depth knowledge about the value of bids we are going to put in. Amazing
Are you seriously questioning Ogden's knowledge of our transfer dealings? 
To be fair the Herrera bid was made public by Bilbao and so was his release clause, after having a bid rejected so close to the clause you'd think we will just activate it now.
De Rossi is world class, he may be getting on a bit but even if its just for a couple of seasons he'd add so much to our squad.
Found a video of Athletic's President talking about the Herrera bid: http://www.marca.com/videosmarca/?v=BSjhUNzMgkM
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