Fabregas
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Jamie (@Vault Dweller) are here to talk about United's dreadful home defeat at the hands of Big Ange's Tottenham Hotspur. Should this have been the end of Ten Hag? How long does he actually have left? And does Nik finally want ETH out?!
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If the amounts reported thus far are accurate, I'd say surely not more than fifty. If we had reason to suspect they're holding out for a record free, I assume we would've launched a more substantial bid initially - if we had been interested at all with that knowledge, that is.
Fifty, I reckons. We shouldn't fork out more than that either. He's not Jebus.
This isn't playing out too well is it? Unless Fabregas asks for a move, I think it's over and done with. Too bad really as he'd be a good fit here.
Better than betting our season on Carrick not getting injured again.
We're still doing the latter even if, by some miracle, we do sign Fabregas. There's still nobody who can do Carrick's job in his absence and we haven't really been linked with anyone, either. Though Moyes did say he'd like a more defensive type of CM as well so here's hoping.
Honestly, if we want a Barca midfielder, we should try for Song instead of Fábregas. They might just let him go.
This is one of the weirdest transfer sagas our club has been involved in.
When is the last time we've made such open offers for a completely unobtainable player?
When is the last time we've made such open offers for a completely unobtainable player?
No, it doesn't look too promising. Unless we know FAR more than I think we do, this comes to down a price. And I think that price will prove too high. We'll see. I'm not too fussed about this, to be honest. He's a very good player who would no doubt improve us (he would improve our CM significantly, only a madman would deny that), but I don't think our future success depends on the pizza thrower. He isn't Jebus, as I said - nor is he Messi or Ronaldo.
I just hope we don't spend too much time and energy on this. We'll need to set our sights on someone else immediately if this one falls through.
Hargreaves? But he was desperate to come and we got him a year later so still not quite like this.
Cesc would be easily the best cm we've had since Scholes and Keane were at their peak, I think we'd be entirely justified in spending 50m on him. Would Barcelona be able to resist an offer that big? I doubt it. Only question is whether the club is willing to back their talk by making that kind of bid. I actually think they might.
We don't need a star midfielder. Alex Song would be good. Modric too. We need somebody though.
Except he's not completely unobtainable.
He isn't?
just close the thread...
Can't wait to the season to just start and all of this transfer malarky to be put to rest...until January anyway.
It's like someone close to you being in life support, and you know they have no chance of making it.
"Just pull the plug..."
Oh, look. Another circle. Let's go round in it, shall we?
We need quality. However considering how shit our CM is (bar Carrick and Cleverley who is good cover), we can afford one/two good midfielders knowing that they will improve us and make us look less desperate. I agree with you players like Modric, Verratti or Gundogan are a step to the right direction.
Exactly, this is just embarrassing now. I said it felt a bit Man City before. Definitely feels it now. Love to be wrong cos Cesc is superb but really...
Some of you lot are easily upset and embarrassed. How do you deal with, you know, actual life?
Wow, didn't know there was an app for that. I'd have just taken the car myself.
Is that all it was? Feels like 9 weeks.
It is not off until Fabregas says again that he wants to stay.
9 and a half weeks for some....
Actual life is easier, you are in control of so many aspects of your actual life, you can make decisions and often can have an influence on the decisions that others make about you. As football fans, however, we are so powerless and helpless. We have zero influence over anything, we are weak yet we have the crazy emotional attachment.
Neither are supermodels Elvis, but I doubt you ever had sex with any.
Respek.
Can I just ask
Why is there such a difference of opinion on Rooney and Fabregas, we can't compare Rooney's desire to leave and Fabregas, as we simply don't know Fabregas' intentions, he's kept a silence on the matter thus far compared to Rooney's 'angry and confused' briefing to the media
But why are people so adamant Rooney will leave, but Fabregas will not arrive when the circumstances are more or less identical
Owner club has rejected bids
Owner club has said they're not for sale
Owner club has a new manager they wouldn't want to pull the rug out from underneath
etc
I just don't get why people are so convinced one way for one, and the other for the other
I expect both to happen personally, just don't see how people can be convinced it is one going and one staying
Why is there such a difference of opinion on Rooney and Fabregas, we can't compare Rooney's desire to leave and Fabregas, as we simply don't know Fabregas' intentions, he's kept a silence on the matter thus far compared to Rooney's 'angry and confused' briefing to the media
But why are people so adamant Rooney will leave, but Fabregas will not arrive when the circumstances are more or less identical
Owner club has rejected bids
Owner club has said they're not for sale
Owner club has a new manager they wouldn't want to pull the rug out from underneath
etc
I just don't get why people are so convinced one way for one, and the other for the other
I expect both to happen personally, just don't see how people can be convinced it is one going and one staying
Ed, simple: Rooney is known to want to leave the club, Fabregas isn't. You say we don't know his intentions, but we do know Rooney's.
Agreed, but I hope that Moyes already has a plan B in place and is not focusing all his attention on Fabregas. Who can say if the latest comments from Barcelona are calculated to jack up the price or whether they are determined not to sell at any price? Posturing and bluster are all part and parcel of transfer dealings these days and it's really hard to work out what's going on. The media spin it this way and that so that you never know what the truth is. How I wish that all our transfers could be like Eric's was.
Anyone who is embarrassed by the club trying to sign this guy is quite frankly a bit of a tool.
Its all a big smokescreen for Bale! 
A complete waste of time, as I've said weeks ago. Let's move on!
Shouldn't we leave that decision to people who are privy to the fact Fabs coming?
Some fecking morons in here. Put a couple of bids for Fabregas in after years of complaints about our midfield and some say its embarrassing.
No ones embarrassed by trying to sign him. Any embarrassment is from trying to sign him so publicly when it appears he has no intention to join us.
No gambling for me, Matt. Just a lovely bike ride around Fallen Leaf Lake, a bit of tooling around then back home for dinner. Sensational weather here right now. Beyond belief.
I'm going to a United event tomorrow in Hong Kong, should be quite a few officials/ex-players there, I wonder if they know anything about this saga...
Has he said so? Did you hear if from his mouth? Nothing is embarrassing except for people on hear who all seem to work for our board.
I though most of us muppets wanted United to adopt this new gung-ho Madrid attitude.
Ha! Gaaaaaayeee.
So what part of that are some clinging on to.
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