Arturo Vidal

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Here's Sport Witness' take on the story:

Turin newspaper La Stampa are it again. Just under a week after they said Fernando Felicevich was trying to sort out a Manchester United move, which they say Arturo Vidal wants... they've now added an update.

La Stampa claim that Vidal has told some of his Chile national teammates that he wants a move to Manchester United. Some other teammates, say La Stampa, aren't so sure. The newspaper have been sure to cover every possible scenario. Again.

Of course, if Vidal has been telling his teammates he wants a move to Manchester United then that's great for fans of the Old Trafford club who want the player to arrive this summer. However, La Stampa reiterate that no official bid has been made by Manchester United yet and if it does arrive, and is enough, then Vidal will have to tell his club that he wants the transfer to happen.

It's claimed that Vidal will have to choose whether he wants to follow the 'romantic' ideal of staying at Juventus and choose honour, or plump for the money instead. That's a bit lofty from La Stampa, but they are based in Turin so will have a significant amount of bias.

The article is largely the same song and dance that has been going on for some time, aside from the teammate claim. It has to be wondered where La Stampa got that from and though it would be completely wrong of us to point any fingers with certainty, it's too tempting to avoid speculating.

Mauricio Isla will have been speaking to some Turin press recently regarding his move from Juventus to QPR, and he was of course in Chile's World Cup squad. Another 'suspect' could be Gary Medel, recently moved to Inter Milan. Then again, La Stampa could have heard it secondhand.

La Stampa also say that a wages offer of €12m has led to 'King Arthur' seriously pondering a move to British soil. There's more talk of Vidal's agent Fernando Felicevich meeting Juventus' great and good but if only half of the claims in the Italian media regarding Felicevich are correct then he may as well move in to the Turin club's offices.

Transfer fee talk is brought up again and La Stampa say Beppe Marotta, Juve's big cheese, wants €50m. That's despite the same newspaper saying less than a week ago it was €40m.

One day this will all end.
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The family that owns Juve also owns La Stampa, so if Fjortoft is telling the truth then i'd believe they would have access to Vidal before all other media outlets.
 
We've had sources from everywhere at this point although I can't help but feel like we're missing someone, has anyone been in touch with the guy who used to make Arturo's breakfast?
 
Feck me i'm not getting ahead of myself, but if the La Stampa report is true, we are going to finally see our superbly well-prepared bid go in
 
I have this upstairs somewhere. I'll go and ask him ...
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EDIT: He said we've signed him.
 
Spielmacher said:
Should Juve not allow him to take a medical with us before a official bid is made it would look like something isn't right with Vidal though.
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Not necessarily, IMO. Agreeing to a medical prior to a fee being disucssed is a pretty good sign a fee will be agreed, so they could say no on the basis of losing ground in the negotiation.
Summit said:
We'd still be paying the 47m though? If anything should show on the medical results I'd assume we wouldn't go near? Maybe we are still willing to take him if something shows up and use it as a bartering tool? I just can't see us going near unless we are confident from test results that he's ok.
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Again, not necessarily, IMO. If the medical shows some degree of a risk, however small, we might use it to pay a lesser fee, or to pay it based on appearances/performances etc. Plenty of clubs go ahead with deals that show issues in the medical, albeit it doesn't often come up on fees of this size. You just don't know how Juve view his injury either. If it's a real concern for them they may be willing to take their chances on sale rather than risk it. Who knows...
 
SATA said:
Feck me i'm not getting ahead of myself, but if the La Stampa report is true, we are going to finally see our superbly well-prepared bid go in
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We're probably one medical assessment away from the done dealio.
 
The "story" that United are unavailable to comment? I dunno, do we need to call United and ask if it's true? What if they're unavai-- ...oh.
 
For what it's worth, I went to a restaurant this weekend that my wife and I frequent and the owners are massive Juventus fans, pictures on the wall and all. I mentioned Vidal to the owner and he told me to feck off. xD
 
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Adnan said:
I'm in the gym training a client and checking twitter and this thread.:lol:
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You do know that makes you far better at your job as RedCafe's Twitter Man? Forget the client, I say. Get on the Vidal story, Adnan.
 
ThanksBoss26 said:
He's just put clips on his twitter page although I can't listen right now. I assume they prove it's true?
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They say that van Gaal is holding up the deal because of the knee injury, that La Stampa claim that personal terms were agreed. United are unavailable for comment.
 
United are refusing to comment on the Vidal to Utd link. So says the Woman working in reception at my Gym.:D
 
Loony BoB said:
For what it's worth, I went to a restaurant this weekend that my wife and I frequent and the owners are massive Juventus fans, pictures on the wall and all. I mentioned this to them and the owner told me to feck off. xD
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Juve are fecking HUGE in terms of supporter numbers. Practically every Italian I know (Italian restaurants, barbers etc.) who is into football supports them.
 
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