Multiples times this summer. He really should not be a Tier 1 source anymore.
Bruno Fernandes | United not interested due to doubts over passing ability
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He got pretty much everything he said for us wrong apart from Maguire which is something even Indykalia could get right. Even the links to Lukaku with Inter which broke day before, came from some other Milan based journalist and not Di Marzio. He's been awful for a lot of stuff and yet he'll keep being treated as God on here.
Shall we stop signing attacking midfielders?
Clearly we already have. Looking forward to January when we sign Ake and Lewis Dunk.
At one stage he was 25/1 to stay at Sporting, but I presumed that was when their window closed and not the English one.
Might have jumped the gun buddy
Yeah that’s what I’m thinking. Most places seem to be up until 3rd September when the other windows close.
I can see him returning to Italy, maybe Roma or Milan, for around €45m.
If the late bid is true we will most likely go back in for him in January.
Bet on him to staying at Sporting with Paddypower
Is it settled, though? Usually it takes in the whole transfer window in Europe. I still think he’ll go somewhere.
Where does he fits in for you? if Eriksen stays you'll have him,Lo Celso and Dele as attacking midfielders. That's alot even without Bruno.
Thank you Sport Witness. I was having Bruno withdrawal symptoms and feel a lot better now.
Sounds like Sporting CP want too much money. ~50 mill is about right, i don't see anyone coming in at 80 but who knows, European clubs have made some big buys while PL clubs haven't.
Sounds like Sporting CP want too much money. ~50 mill is about right, i don't see anyone coming in at 80 but who knows, European clubs have made some big buys while PL clubs haven't.
I doubt we did. This sounds more like the agent trying to drum up interest in his client. Probably hoped by saying we were interested would spark a biding war.
Yeah, was settled yesterday. Was on English window. Safely withdrawn.
You do realize that United wanted Tielemans to wait till Pogba's situation was sorted and he didn't want to wait. Also, we were whoring ourselves to get Longstaff which made no sense at all. We wanted to save 10m by getting Longstaff for 25m and instead paid the price of not getting any midfielder at all.
You literally have no way of knowing if any of that is remotely true.
Eriksen is gone if not in the next few weeks defo on a free.
When does he contract end? Early or late 2020?
Excellent. I’d have taken a bit of that too as it did seem like the hype-machine was in full effect. Although I really like the player.
I doubt it was true, it wasn’t like Levy was keeping secrets yesterday, we were getting blow by blow accounts from journos of your business. His agent and/or club are desperate to shift him so I’m sure that was for the benefit of other foreign clubs for the next two weeks. No one reliable has picked it up.
With the season he had I'm really surprised he didn't go.
It's standard that a contract ends on June 30th so Eriksen has less than a year left on his contract.
I called it back in March.
The only thing that was different from previous seasons is that the Portuguese media linked him to Tottenham at the last minute, rather than Real Madrid.
Since when did that stop any of these idiots.
End of the season, June, I think.
Why is it so implausible? Just cause it’s little Tottenham?
No, because Bruno is an overrated player being whored around by his agent.
The point being made is that there were never any original links to United that came from United affiliated journalist - only from Sporting mouthpieces.
The links to Tottenham also originated from the same dodgy sources. Which makes little sense since Spurs affiliated journalists were relatively talkative about everyone other than Bruno.
I dont think we bid at all
he was one of the easiest players in Europe to sign and I think 40/45m might have done it such was the noise from Portugal for him leaving
strange - I hadn't heard of the player 12 months ago but he does look very talented the few times I've seen him play.
he was one of the easiest players in Europe to sign and I think 40/45m might have done it such was the noise from Portugal for him leaving
strange - I hadn't heard of the player 12 months ago but he does look very talented the few times I've seen him play.
Is Bruno overrated? I guess it depends how you look at it.
For a 70 million euros asking price, he's obviously overrated. He's not worth that much.
For 40 million euros in 2019's market, he's righty rated.
He's a pretty good player, for sure a top5 player in Portugal in the past 2 seasons.
There were links to Utd, but they backed out because of the asking price. No official bid.
Tottenham definately made an official bid of 45 million euros to Sporting, which already triggered the 5 million clause in BF's contract (if Sporting refused an official bid of at least 35 million euros, they'd have to pay 5 million to Bruno Fernandes).
There's a huge rivalry between Benfica and Sporting. Since João Félix was sold for 126 million euros, Sporting fans have an hard time accepting BF's sale for 40 million (even though that'd be a fair price). Sporting's president knows this, which is why he didn't take Tottenham's 45million bid.
Now Jorge Mendes is involved so don't be surprised to see a deal completed that sends him to Monaco, Valencia or Atletico.
Paul Hirst in The Times
I don't believe this
Passing stats is something they could have checked first before even being on any pursuit.Yeah, but it paints us as clueless so has to be true...or something.
I always felt this had a clear Gaitan/Garay vibe. The daily fluctuations in news just don't correlate with realistic negotiations.
Poor man's Kdb, looses possession of the ball often. That's why the club didn't go in for him, high risk and not too good at ball retention
It figures why we lost interest in him. If true, I'm glad we didn't get suckered into the hype and make a panic buy. I have to watch more of him.
It makes me wonder what United's scout report on Ndombele was.
A midfield partnership between Ndombele and Pogba would've been absolutely beautiful to watch.
Anyways, off to the next.
This.I don't believe this
It's not like we would go so far then be like 'oh we just checked his passing stats and don't want him now'
That's the thing, though. We were never in any pursuit of him.I don't believe this
Sources???
I suspect this one originated up a cows back passage like 99% of everything we read.
I suspect this one originated up a cows back passage like 99% of everything we read.
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