okay fair enough, not something recent then.
Ander Herrera is a Manchester United Player!
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The FA still uses a fax machine.
cause sky sports have never been wrong about anything before...ever!
As explained to me, Cooper has nothing to do with Sky Sports.
Imagine if he turns out to be our Vidal
I thought he was their Manchester based reporter?
What's poor and embarrassing about going down the legal route to get a player when a bid is rejected?
Seriously, some of you need to give your head a wobble.
Have City or Chelsea ever signed a player using this buy-out clause? The Costa deal would have met the same difficulties, unless Atletico Madrid accepted a bid for the same fee as the release clause. That deal hasn't been finalised either.
Basically, stop talking bollocks.
I do expect the deal to go through, but I get the worry over a possible saga, atleast the player wants to join us
Many companies still do. Electronic signatures are not recognized by law in some countries.
Well said. So many drama queens in here!
Imagine if he is Vidal
ah don't get me wrong but SSN is comical! the amount of crap they talk they are bound to get it right sometimes!
It looks positive, but then again so did it too last summer... I hate the transfer window and 99% the stories are just that... no truth to them at all! So until he is posing for photos with utd jersey held up... take nothing for granted!
well are we sure the fee has been paid? if it so cut and dry why wasnt it announced?
i dunno what happening exacly, no one seems to, but thier is some kind of hold up, and at the moment it seems pretty clear that he is currently still a bilbao player, so we should respect that.
how many more times, it's not SSN. Cooper was just talking to them. He's an extremely reliable source when it comes to Utd.
I never take anything for granted mate. I'm just working with the evidence at hand here - and everything points to the lad signing for United.
He didn't travel to Carrington and successfully pass a medical, plus agree personal terms last time. Basically, we've done this transfer the wrong way round is all!
His passing stats aren't accurate because of the system that Bilbao plays. They press high up the pitch and Herrera prefers to play a lot of risky passes which can lead to goalscoring opportunities. I think its a good sign. We moan about Cleverley when all he does is play safe and gets around 90% passing accuracy and now when we're finally signing a midfielder who's brave in his game we're complaining about his passing accuracy.
Like you've said before he's surely not worth the price that we're paying but I'd rather overpay then miss out on yet another target.
So was the RVP transfer but we pulled it off and reaped the rewards. He's a good player this Herrera - worth all this hassle imo.
SAF said himself and Wengers phone conversations went on for months on end. I'm sure that was complicated as hell.
This time last year we had Guillem Ballega tell us it was a done deal... He too is a respected journalist, got that wrong!
Sky sports journalists or not, these things can easily fall apart for many reasons... just being patient myself about it.
Catching up on everything that happened this morning. All we've discovered is that the people at Athletic are WUMs.
Balague is useless. Remember when Falcao was a done deal for us? He knows feck all.
Derek is woodwoods cheerleader
But yeah we're comfortable he's signing. Not seen him so will be good to see him in pre season, especially with so many of the first team being available to play
I was just responding to someone who said he may have to pay the fee more than expected, I just said why did we bother? If he knew this was going to happen. For me I just want united to sign a CM player, a top class one is badly needed. Heck we need 2 and we have not wrapped up the one of the 2 yet, which could be a worry as we reach July 1st
We'll get him eventually, hopefully sooner rather than later though.
Marca article today:
Ander Herrera's move to Manchester United is about to become a fact. The as yet Athletic player will sign for five seasons with Louis Van Gaal's team. Firstly, however, he must deposit the €36 million stipulated in his buyout clause with the Professional Football League (LFP). United wanted to avoid the hassles of sending a cheque to the LFP, proposing a simple loan deal, but the idea was met with the rotund and vehement 'no' from the Basque club.
United left the player high and dry last August after it first seemed the club was willing to pay the rescission clause amount. This time round, things look a lot more promising.
To start with, Herrera has travelled to Manchester – something he didn't do last summer. Also, the deal drawn up that (to be announced very soon) includes the midfielder chipping in to buy his freedom. He will not have to do so up front, but will have it taken out of his new salary -a lot more than he has been getting with Athletic- according to the British press, between €60,000 and €110,000 a week.
Athletic, meanwhile, have made an official announcement explaining that, "we wish to communicate that the club has this week rejected an offer made by Manchester United, set at €36 million, to buy the federal and economic rights of Ander Herrera."
I'm guessing the bolded part is the complications issue. It should be sorted out soon enough.
Ander Herrera's move to Manchester United is about to become a fact. The as yet Athletic player will sign for five seasons with Louis Van Gaal's team. Firstly, however, he must deposit the €36 million stipulated in his buyout clause with the Professional Football League (LFP). United wanted to avoid the hassles of sending a cheque to the LFP, proposing a simple loan deal, but the idea was met with the rotund and vehement 'no' from the Basque club.
United left the player high and dry last August after it first seemed the club was willing to pay the rescission clause amount. This time round, things look a lot more promising.
To start with, Herrera has travelled to Manchester – something he didn't do last summer. Also, the deal drawn up that (to be announced very soon) includes the midfielder chipping in to buy his freedom. He will not have to do so up front, but will have it taken out of his new salary -a lot more than he has been getting with Athletic- according to the British press, between €60,000 and €110,000 a week.
Athletic, meanwhile, have made an official announcement explaining that, "we wish to communicate that the club has this week rejected an offer made by Manchester United, set at €36 million, to buy the federal and economic rights of Ander Herrera."
I'm guessing the bolded part is the complications issue. It should be sorted out soon enough.
If he joins Barca (who are reportedly interested in him too) and has a good season with them - i'm sure you'll be saying: why didn't we bother. My point being that good players are worth the effort, the club would surely have prepared for all of this and working at it.
What is going on? Sky saying our bid had been rejected
We are paying 36 millions for him?
I know that, my point was for them to feck around and say we are not going to pay it, really does say it all about the clubs inept performances tieing down top players
Sending a check? Really? I highly doubt that is how transactions are made for 36m euros...
People getting "embarrassed" and worked up about a minor hiccup in a transfer thats on the verge of completion, 48 hours after it even was made public, need to give themselves a good hard slap. There's no pleasing some people.
Agreed Last 2 clubs that did business with Bilbao (Juve and Bayern) had huge issues. And the latter are Germans as well...
Didn't Juve have to wait a whole extra year to get Llorente?
I agree, @Cina personally I don't rate him...but goes to show how easy it is for journalists to get respected tag line...
He never said that to be fair.
We've already waited for a year since the last deadline day and yes think Llorente was done ages before he actually went to Juve. Atleast from the Jan window till the next season if not a whole year.
Read the thread. There's an explanation on every page.
Someone give me an update, it's not falling through is it?
James Ducker just said on Twitter it's basically done and dusted and we'll announce it within the next 24 hours.
Ducker just said it'll be done in 24 hrs
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