Is this a legit quote?
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Is this a legit quote?
It'll be interesting to see who our second option is.
Wow! If that quote is accurate it shows United are no longer in safe hands. Wasting weeks in a pointless effort to buy a player who wasn't for sale. Amateur night in Manchester.
We're just pretending we've given up in order to catch them unawares with a surprise bid. They'll have no idea what hit them.
Doesn't look good. Perhaps explains why we've shut our mouths all of a sudden. Season fast approaching now; perhaps we're not going to be sorting this midfield issue out as we all wanted to.
One thing I'll say is, why did Martino say what he did after the Santos game? It seemed on at that stage, so how can it have gone south so quickly?
Well that's that then.This entire thing has been weird.
Looks like Cesc will have to put in a transfer request then.
To the schweinsteiger thread!
Huge fecking waste of time. Could have tied up a realistic target by now and had them training with the squad for a couple of weeks.
What a farce this has been.
What a farce this has been.
Is this serious?
Can't be! Surely?
Is this serious?
Melodramatic but serious. Unless you offer a truckload of money, or the player is prepared to force the issue, there's no point trying to sign a player his club don't want to sell. If you do pursue such a player, you make an attractive offer and, if rejected, look elsewhere. You do not waste half the transfer window upping an initially paltry offer by small increments.
Andy Mitten seems to be implying that this is just Barca toeing the party line. Says that Cesc is still United's priority. This just doesn't look feasible. I just want us to get new faces in ahead of the new season - our opening fixtures are extremely taxing.
Thiago, Fabregas....
To the Xavi thread?
To the Xavi thread?
Gawd, you are serious!
@Will- Clubs can have multiple negotiations on at the same time. It isnt as if we cannot work on other deals till we stop trying to get fabregas in. For a player of his quality, you make sure you leave no stone unturned even if that means going back and forth 10 times.
Of course they count on Cesc. When the manager looks to put someone on in the 60th minute, he'd better be perched on that bench good and ready.
I wonder what the feck that urgent business was.
@Will- Clubs can have multiple negotiations on at the same time. It isnt as if we cannot work on other deals till we stop trying to get fabregas in. For a player of his quality, you make sure you leave no stone unturned even if that means going back and forth 10 times.
Berbatov was a deadline day transfer and the usual rhetoric out of Spurs right to the last minute virtually. I would pay no attention any of this shite until Moyes says he has pulled out.
Ohh this is making me so emotional.
Gawd, you are serious!
Your use of
s is devastating. Your local debating society would be delighted to hear from you.When did £5m become a "small increment"?
Are you one of those fans who reckon we should have monstered in with a £50m bid on day one?
I actually thought we'd get him.
ffs.
ffs.
Well you're making a fair few assumptions there. Firstly how do you know we've not been considering other targets? Given the two other strongest rumors we've been linked with were Thiago and Garay neither of whom arrived as expected its probably good to take newsreports skeptically as to who we're in for. We've no idea what else the club has been up to. Maybe they've other players lined up but have been waiting to see the outcome of this bid.
I really don't know what people want. Should we only target players at smaller clubs looking to step up, or players clubs don't want anymore? Aren't we allowed to be ambitious? Spurs didn't want to sell us Carrick or Berba yet it happened, with Berba on the last day of the window. We don't want to sell Rooney to Chelsea but it may happen. I mean Barca sold Figo to Real, big money but Figo was a much better player. Is them selling Fabregas more unlikely then that? Why can't we try and target players at bug clubs? It's not like we bid for Messi. We've tried for a player who is playing a lot yes, but is not really playing in his favored position often and when push comes to shove is unlikely in their first 11. Fabregas has avoided making any statements since our interest became serious which suggests he himself would be open to the move even if his mind isn't set on it. Surely we should try in that case? If it doesn't come off whats the harm? If it does we've just signed an absolute top class player.
Fabregas isn't a ridiculous target, a difficult one no doubt but not ridiculous. I'd much rather know the club would try for him than not at all. You can question the amounts of the bids, that's fair enough, and even then we've offered more than they bought him for and he certainly hasn't improved since he left, but personally I don't see the problem in trying for him at all.
Well, at least that saga/suffering would be shorter, because Bayern´s and Schweinsteiger´s answer would come fast: "Nope."
As I said at the time, a lot of people were seeing what they wanted to see with them quotes from Martino.
Common sense post, Ash_G.
Mmm, disagree. He said that the decision is Cesc's - that's pretty clear as far as I'm concerned.
THE ENDWe've heard the confidence we have of signing him, we've had the Moyes disclaimer that he was never confident about signing him. We've had the papers taking both sides.
We've heard from about 10 players saying he'll never go.
We've heard from their director and manager saying he won't go, but then saying it's down to the player.
We've analysed heavily why he won't go. We've analysed heavily while he will go.
But we still don't really know anything.
I expect on about August 29th Fabregas will finally come out and say that he is happy to stay and always was.
We've heard from about 10 players saying he'll never go.
We've heard from their director and manager saying he won't go, but then saying it's down to the player.
We've analysed heavily why he won't go. We've analysed heavily while he will go.
But we still don't really know anything.
I expect on about August 29th Fabregas will finally come out and say that he is happy to stay and always was.
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