Bastian Schweinsteiger | Signed for MUFC - confirmed.

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His age does put me off slightly but man, we've needed someone who can do the biz and is experienced. Excited.
 
settembrini said:
You're not.

His age and injury problems make this a pretty silly signing imo. It's been four years since he played an injury free season and now he's turning 31 and moving to the most physical league where he won't have a winter break to help him out physically. He also seems to be costing a hell of a lot for an old player in the last year of his contract who Bayern aren't keen on keeping.

Schneiderlin would have been a far better signing.
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We can buy him aswell.
 
evra said:
This is like Utd selling Scholes at 31, Pep's the best manager in the world but I don't understand this decision.
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And they lost Kroos last summer. Two of the best. If not at least 2 of the top 5 midfielders today.
 
Summit said:
Well the other end of that is, we just let RvP got for about 5?
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But I'm sure Bayern would be happy to keep Schwein for another year, unlike United who I would guess are happy to get rid of RVP considering he is on such high wages and produced very little for 2 years in a row now.
 
Revan said:
He was (reported) on 220k/week and was one year older than Schweinsteiger. He also had became a bit bad.
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Still better than Rooney IMO, but whatever. This is tigers thread. Thou shall not derail...
 
Summit said:
Well the other end of that is, we just let RvP got for about 5?
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RVP's supposedly going to be on £240k per week at Galatasary compared to Schweinsteigers £140K, makes a pretty big difference in how much teams will be willing to pay in transfer fees.
 
vodrake said:
RVP's supposedly going to be on £240k per week at Galatasary compared to Schweinsteigers £140K, makes a pretty big difference in how much teams will be willing to pay in transfer fees.
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Aye, fair point there tbh.
 
Happy for you guys BUT can we all agree that you should get his name right now.
I know. A long German name but stay with me

Bastian SchweInsteIger ;) no Schwensteiger or Schweinsteger more please
 
settembrini said:
You're not.

His age and injury problems make this a pretty silly signing imo. It's been four years since he played an injury free season and now he's turning 31 and moving to the most physical league where he won't have a winter break to help him out physically. He also seems to be costing a hell of a lot for an old player in the last year of his contract who Bayern aren't keen on keeping.

Schneiderlin would have been a far better signing.
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On his last four seasons he has played: 36, 45, 36 and 28 games. An average of 36 matches per season. For comparison, on his last four seasons before his initial retirement, Scholes played 34, 35, 38 and 33 matches or 35 matches on average per season (bear in mind that Schweini averages around 10 matches for Germany, something that Scholes didn't). No-one ever said that Scholes was a player who got injured a lot.

Schweini isn't injury prone. Last year was his only season when he had injury problems. Still played 28 games though.
 
This is great. Should be a top addition to the squad.
 
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evra said:
This is like Utd selling Scholes at 31, Pep's the best manager in the world but I don't understand this decision.
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That's a good comparison - like us selling scholes in 2006. He still played a major role in us winning a Champions league, getting to two other CL finals and winning the league a number of times too. Though Bastian has had a worse history of injuries. As a number 6 though and with a bit of Giggs yoga mentoring, I'm sure it'll be fine.
 
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