Hector Herrera

Offtopic: He played Centre Midfield against us Cina last year at Old Trafford in the tight 1-0 win. He played very well and Fulham I think were denied a clear last min penalty?

Ontopic: Wonder if we'll still go in for him if Liverpool put a bid in? Depends if we really want him I suppose.
 
From Tom Marshall( @mexicoworldcup)-
Various sources now reporting 22-year-old Hector Herrera to Porto is done, that he will go in June and the contract is for five years.
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Also should add Porto is said to be adding Mexican Diego Reyes as well. Some on here were impressed with him during the Olympics
 
Porto, have a pretty good scouting network.

Probably will sell Herrera on for a profit in 2 years.
 
Herrera's style reminded me more of Fletcher.
 
According to reports in Mexico Pachuca have received bids from Porto, Lyon and United for Herrera
 
If we are interested in a defensive midfielder (even if Fergie says no signings in Jan), then why not Lucas Biglia? If you believe reports, Anderlecht would let him go for just over EUR10m.
He'll be 27 in Jan, but he's got lots of experience (Argentina international & Champs League). Ok he'll be CL-tied, but if Carrick is the only midfielder we have that has a defensive profile, why not spend EUR10m for a good defensive midfielder?
And please no comments about him not being good enough!
 
manusteve said:
If we are interested in a defensive midfielder (even if Fergie says no signings in Jan), then why not Lucas Biglia? If you believe reports, Anderlecht would let him go for just over EUR10m.
He'll be 27 in Jan, but he's got lots of experience (Argentina international & Champs League). Ok he'll be CL-tied, but if Carrick is the only midfielder we have that has a defensive profile, why not spend EUR10m for a good defensive midfielder?
And please no comments about him not being good enough!
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Wrong thread mate
 
manusteve said:
If we are interested in a defensive midfielder (even if Fergie says no signings in Jan), then why not Lucas Biglia? If you believe reports, Anderlecht would let him go for just over EUR10m.
He'll be 27 in Jan, but he's got lots of experience (Argentina international & Champs League). Ok he'll be CL-tied, but if Carrick is the only midfielder we have that has a defensive profile, why not spend EUR10m for a good defensive midfielder?
And please no comments about him not being good enough!
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Because he's not as good as Gago. In which case its obvious whether he's good enough for us
 
Mexican outfit Pachuca claim a club from England has expressed an interest in their midfielder Hector Herrera.

The 22-year-old is expected to be on the move in the not too distant future, with Porto and a side from France also keen on acquiring his services.

Speculation suggests that the Premier League side in the running is Manchester United, with Sir Alex Ferguson having enjoyed success in the Mexican market before - when snapping up Javier Hernandez.

It is believed that an offer of around £9million would be enough to secure the services of Herrera, a man who helped Mexico to take gold at the 2012 Olympics Games.

"At this moment there is no concrete offer on the table, but there certainly is a lot of interest," Pachuca president Jesus Martinez told ESTO.

"Porto are not the only side in the race. There is also a club from England and another one in France.

"Pachuca plan to sell Herrera in the summer of 2013, but it will have to be a good deal for the club."

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/8346214/
 
Didn't they claim that we were interested in the summer too ?

Only for Sir Alex to come out and say \he didn't know where the rumour came from.

IIRC they said Liverpool were keen too.
 
A call to the phone number listed for Nicholas Blair on the official listing for Fifa agents licensed by the English Football Association takes you through to the London office of his mother, Cherie Blair, where there was no response, official or otherwise, to reports of his maiden million-dollar deal in European football.
The career path of the middle son of the former prime minister is well-known but the suggestion that he made around $1m (£630,000) from a deal involving the Mexico midfielder Hector Herrera from Pachuca, in the country's Primera Division, to Porto has caused raised eyebrows in the agent fraternity. Could a rookie agent with no background in football as a coach, scout or player pull off a deal of that size, even with his gold-plated family connections?
Reporters in Portugal have been briefed by Porto since the summer that when it came to dealing with Pachuca, the 27-year-old Blair handled negotiations on behalf of Herrera. In an intriguing collision of worlds, it would appear that a 23-year-old kid from Tijuana has placed his trust in an Englishman who spent his teenage years in 10 Downing Street.
As is common in transfers of this sort there will be no official paper trail and the trend is that the economic rights of the player, essentially his ownership within the framework of football, are likely to be split between investors and his club.
In England, the agents licensed by the FA are arguably the most heavily regulated in the world. Asked why so few of them did deals in Mexico, one British agent replied: "I don't want to find myself buried up to the neck in sand in a Mexican desert."
Mexico has a reputation for being a difficult market and "Nicky" Blair and his company, Magnitude Sports Limited, will have had to be sure of their connections to ensure that they were paid commission on the deal – in that region of the world, ordinarily 10 per cent of the value of the player's contract. As a perk, that is paid on top of the player's wages.
Any dealings with Porto will involve the club's shrewd technical director Antero Henrique, although it is Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, the formidable 75-year-old president, who has the final say. It is with Henrique that Blair would have been obliged to negotiate not only Herrera's personal terms but his own fee.
Over the last decade, Porto have been arguably Europe's most successful trading club, selling the likes of Radamel Falcao, Hulk, Anderson, Deco, Ricardo Carvalho, Pepe and James Rodriguez as well as earning significant compensation payments from Chelsea for managers Jose Mourinho and Andre Villas-Boas. But they have often owned just part of the players' economic rights with third-party ownership, banned by the FA, rife in Portugal.
Blair himself is understood to work with his friend Gabriel Moraes, whom he met at Oxford University at Magnitude Sports Agency, which claims to have offices in Brazil and Mexico. Such management companies in England are generally a loose confederation of agents who, while sometimes working together, have been known to poach clients from one another.
What is not in doubt is that Blair passed his FA agents' exam, which is a requirement of anyone, with an exemption for lawyers, wishing to sign off deals involving English clubs. These exams encompass 20 multiple-choice questions, have a 50 per cent pass-rate and are one way in which the FA tries to regulate an industry with a wild-west culture.

In deals involving English clubs, the FA acts as a clearing house for the money paid, including transfer fees and agents' commissions where the norm in the UK is a fee worth 5 per cent of the player's contract. Only when the governing body is satisfied that the paperwork is in order is the money released and the transference of the player's registration completed.
In Mexico it is safe to assume that those kind of checks are not required. Mexican players have not moved to Europe in the same kind of numbers as South Americans because of the relatively high wages paid by the top Mexican clubs, although that is changing.
Magnitude Sports' website says they represent Brazilian players from Desportivo Brasil, an academy that exists to produce players purely for the transfer market and has no senior team. It is owned by the unfortunately named Traffic.
Cherie Blair is a director of Magnitude Sports. In his autobiography, the FA chairman Greg Dyke recalled how, in his days as a Manchester United director, she once rang him to ask him to get her a discount on a United shirt for her oldest son, Euan. He duly obliged.
Magnitude also represents Marco Fabian of Chivas Guadalajara, who could be another potentially lucrative transfer for Blair. But if Fabian comes to an English club, the scrutiny on the size of the agent's fee will be much greater than it was for the Herrera deal.​

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...junior-join-top-flight-of-agents-8935785.html
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I thought people might be interested in this.
 
Yeah he's been Mexico's best player in the opening 2 games real quality on the ball and got plenty about him physically, surprised he hasn't attracted more attention from clubs around Europe.
 
great determination, aggresion, stamina - with this already would be a starter but hes good pretty good technique and good shot in him..but as someone said in different thread he will cost nonsense after world cup, because Porto "doesnt sell"...surely they dont want Young as part of a counter deal?
 
m1y2 said:
great determination, aggresion, stamina - with this already would be a starter but hes good pretty good technique and good shot in him..but as someone said in different thread he will cost nonsense after world cup, because Porto "doesnt sell"...surely they dont want Young as part of a counter deal?
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He had a very irregular season for Porto. The highs were high, but the lows were really low for this player. I remember him being sent off in a CL match in the first 5 minutes. He started playing in the B team, but by the end of the season he got a starting spot. I'm sure he'll have to fight for his spot next season too.
I think he could be attainable for United, but I doubt Van Gaal would even consider him. I'm sure he has his eyes on players he personally knows (cough Strootman cough).
 
Looks like a good player... and agree doubt LVG would consider him. Having said that he plays much better than Cleverley (just for comparison).
 
Eila said:
He had a very irregular season for Porto. The highs were high, but the lows were really low for this player. I remember him being sent off in a CL match in the first 5 minutes. He started playing in the B team, but by the end of the season he got a starting spot. I'm sure he'll have to fight for his spot next season too.
I think he could be attainable for United, but I doubt Van Gaal would even consider him. I'm sure he has his eyes on players he personally knows (cough Strootman cough).
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I havent seen him in a single match apart those two i Brasil but he caught my eye, and he seems to methat if he can be motivated and handled well like he obviously is under mexico coach Herrera he can be great addtion.. but hard to say some players pop up and then disappear. I remember Efrain Juarez had a great tournament 4 years ago and now he plays second fiddle back in Mexico league.. but I heard he had some problems with injuries...

Anyway Herrera looks to me one of the best Ive seen so far at world cup in his position.. and as for strootman, yeah I think VG will go for him but not as soon as in january, may he recover well from injury, however we need players now!

But perhaps hes just one of those players VG wont go for.. I just cant wait for who he brings in, I think we will have minimum of one surprising signing.
 
The time to get him was after the Olympics. Now that Porto have swooped, forget getting him for any kind of reasonable fee.
 
Still looks mostly average to me. Has he been any better than Guardado who Valencia loaned out to get him off the wage bill? I dont really think so
 
Ekeke said:
Still looks mostly average to me. Has he been any better than Guardado who Valencia loaned out to get him off the wage bill? I dont really think so
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Guardado looks much more comfortable as a shuttler or whatever you call a wide-ish central mid. He`s always been talented, just sort of lacked a position.

Valencia used him all wrong. If given time, a midfield of
Guardado-Parejo-Feghouli with the right DM behind them would have worked real well, I reckon.
 
NoPace said:
Guardado looks much more comfortable as a shuttler or whatever you call a wide-ish central mid. He`s always been talented, just sort of lacked a position.

Valencia used him all wrong. If given time, a midfield of
Guardado-Parejo-Feghouli with the right DM behind them would have worked real well, I reckon.
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He didnt do anything as a left winger for Valencia. He passed sideways and had no ideas to open up a defence.

No surprise really that they moved him back to left back as they did with Alba, but Bernat was simply more impressive defensively and offensively from the position and so Guardado lost his place. There was nothing wrong with having him as a backup, but financially it made sense to send him out on loan to get rid of his wages. I didnt see any of him while he was on loan for the 2nd half of the season to Bayer Leverkusen, but I gather from his 3 starts he didn't impress anyone there either.
 
Devil may care said:
Certainly has a great engine, we've missed a player like that since Fletcher took ill.
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It seems like when reading through the old posts, fergie's attitude on CM players was like trying to avoid taking drugs LOL. Even though his last 2 champions league defeats, was because our midfield was just not good enough
 
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