So is he signed yet? We don't seem to be making any progress on this one and frankly as we stand do seem a little short on options. One still gets the feeling that United as a club could still do better than having a protracted pursuit of a player whose club just doesn't seem interested in contemplating an exchange beyond the realm of economic reality. I am worried that we do appear to have placed our all of our eggs on one basket.
In as an excellent a player Fabregas is, I still don't think he will provide what we have lacked in the past, that is dynamism in the middle of the park. We need box to box and defensive midfielders and I don't think Fabregas offers that. He excelled at Arsenal when playing alongside guys who freed him of his defensive and positional duties and we already have what he offers in Kagawa and Rooney. Moyes and Woodward need to shun this apparent need to sign a big name and focus on signing the right players, ones that we are so desperately short of.