Could This Summer be Absolutely Mental (Transfer Wise)?

dev1l said:
manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Football-News/2011/May/Gill-expects-busy-summer.aspx
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Link not working. Heres the full blurb
Gill expects busy summer

Chief executive David Gill says United fans can expect the Reds to be busy in this summer's transfer market.

Gill told MUTV: "We've been working very hard over the course of the last 12 months to understand which positions we need to fill and identifying the players [we want] and trying to work on it.

"Gary [Neville] has retired already and Edwin [van der Sar] is retiring. We've been doing a lot of work on a replacement for Edwin to determine who we want to replace him. I think we're well on the way with that. There are other areas as well as with Paul [Scholes] still to decide what he wants to do.

"So I think it'll be slightly busier than normal but that's good. What Alex has done so successfully over the last 25 years is to reinvent the team slowly by bringing in new players and integrating them with established stars. That's what we'll continue to do.

"We get a buzz from bringing in new players and we're looking forward to a busy summer with relish."
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I think it will be great for the PL as a whole if every club strengthens their squad with higher quality footballers.

Spurs to be the odd club out, like many have already said... they will have a tough time attracting quality players let alone keeping the ones they already have. They don't have the glamour/history/prestige of the traditional big 3 and they don't have the spending power of a Chelsea or a City.

KM said:
Outside England- Juve, Roma(with new owners) and Inter are looking to rebuild.
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it's going to be exciting in Italy, Milan are also looking to rejuvenate their squad too
 
Just what was needed to whip the troops into a frenzy.

Gambit, the Transfer Forum is yet to take off this time around, this is a call to arms. I hope you use it as such.
 
Let the CL final get over and the real football will start. The Transfer Season :devil:
 
Lance Uppercut said:
Just what was needed to whip the troops into a frenzy.

Gambit, the Transfer Forum is yet to take off this time around, this is a call to arms. I hope you use it as such.
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I will, but i will wait till the window resumes before I open the kings court.
 
"We get a buzz from bringing in new players and we're looking forward to a busy summer with relish."
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Who would have thought Gill and Ferguson are transfer muppets!
 
wr8_utd said:
I've not even started warming up. When the summer is upon us you'll be banished and forgotten.

Who has the Tagline again?
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Taglines do not make you the muppet king!
 
'there are holes we want to plug up. I'm looking at 3 signings to improve our quality in the team.' SAF.
 
Fergie's just ignited our season :drool:

2-3 signings to improve the quality of the squad :D
 
Both he and Gill said that a while back. Call yourselves muppets? Pffffffffffffffffttttt.
 
Keeper, midfielder and winger, by the looks of things. But knowing Fergie, he'll surprise us.
 
Gill always love to play football manager at this time of year
 
Lance Uppercut said:
Both he and Gill said that a while back. Call yourselves muppets? Pffffffffffffffffttttt.
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well he hasn't exactly announced any new strategy. Same as the last few seasons. The difference here was in the interview, he made a point about the great youthe we have coming through and the wants the players to come in to shore up the gaps left by vds, Giggs and scholes as they near the end of their careers.
 
gambit28 said:
well he hasn't exactly announced any new strategy. Same as the last few seasons. The difference here was in the interview, he made a point about the great youthe we have coming through and the wants the players to come in to shore up the gaps left by vds, Giggs and scholes as they near the end of their careers.
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They both said we would be bringing in 2/3 new players a while back. It was simply repeated tonight.

Raise your game, boys.
 
Has this turned into a 3 way contest with Lance's entry into the race for Muppet King?
 
Manchester United confidently expect to begin their summer transfer business by signing Raphaël Varane from Lens in a continuation of their policy to recruit potential stars of the future rather than established category-A players.

Varane is regarded as one of the outstanding young players in the French game after breaking into the Lens team at the age of 17. Now 18, he was unable to stop them being relegated from Ligue 1 but has been commended for his mature performances after establishing himself in the side over the past two months.

Sir Alex Ferguson's scouts have been regular visitors to the Stade Félix-Bollaert during that period. Formal talks have opened between the clubs and, subject to a fee being agreed, the deal is described as being very close. Lens initially asked for around £10m for a player who signed a new contract in February to tie him to the club to 2015. United want to pay less and the latest discussions have centred on reaching a compromise and the structure of the payments.

After that, Varane's advisers have floated the possibility that he could go on loan to another club, possibly Paris Saint-Germain, next season. The player's concern about moving to Manchester is that he will not get many first-team opportunities, but the early feedback from Old Trafford is that Ferguson wants him to get to know the English game.

Varane, a France Under-21 international who has also represented his country at Under-18 and Under-17 level, is described by the Lens youth-team coach, Eric Assadourian, as a "truly first-class player". Fast, strong and competitive, he stands at 6ft 3in and his ability in the air is reflected in the headed goals he has scored from corners in two of his past three games.

Varane played those matches as a defensive central midfielder but it is his performances as a centre-half that have brought him to the attention of Ferguson at a time when Rio Ferdinand can no longer be guaranteed to play a full season and Wes Brown is out of contract next summer and contemplating ending his long association with the club.

As well as Nemanja Vidic, Ferguson also has Chris Smalling and Jonny Evans to provide extra competition for the centre-half places. Yet Ferdinand's recurrent injury issues have meant the 32-year-old is used sparingly these days while Brown, at 31, has played only seven league games this season, not even qualifying for a championship medal.

In Varane's case, there was a need for United to act quickly, in the knowledge that Arsenal's manager, Arsène Wenger, is also acutely aware of the teenager's emergence. The player has had other offers from France, Spain and Germany and Lens have no appetite for trying to persuade him to stay now they have been demoted to the second tier of French football.

The fact Varane can also play in a holding midfield role will also appeal to Ferguson, especially as Owen Hargreaves's contract at Old Trafford runs out next month.

Ferguson has placed particular emphasis on United's scouting network since it became clear the newly crowned champions no longer have the financial muscle to challenge Manchester City and Chelsea in the transfer market. The emphasis now is on identifying young players who can form part of the club's future without necessarily costing vast sums of money. Cristiano Ronaldo is the prime example and, more recently, Smalling is also in that category, costing £10m from Fulham but relatively unknown when the deal was arranged in January last year.

If everything goes according to plan with Varane, the emphasis will switch back to finding a replacement for Edwin van der Sar. United's interest in David de Gea of Atlético Madrid has cooled a little in the past few months because of his erratic performances and Van der Sar is recommending the club go for the man who has replaced him in the Holland team, Maarten Stekelenburg of Ajax.
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Well not a Sneijder but we'll get there.
 
KM said:
Has this turned into a 3 way contest with Lance's entry into the race for Muppet King?
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He's like Arsenal. Lots of initial promise before he falls by the wayside after the inevitable mid June slump ;)
 
I reckon the priority will be a Goalkeeper, Defensive Midfielder, and a player who can play a number of roles across the front line.
 
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