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UNITED TO CLINCH ESCUDE DEAL
Monday 12 August 2002

A 4thegame Exclusive

Manchester United have clinched the signing of top French defender Julien Escude in a £4.3 million deal with Rennes.


JULIEN ESCUDE

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The 22-year-old left-back has agreed to join United and is ready to finalise his move once Sir Alex Ferguson and his stars return from Budapest where they take on Hungarian side Zalaegerszeg in the first leg of their Champions League pre-qualifier next Wednesday.

Final details are still to be thrashed out between United and Rennes, but it's understood the deal has been done in principal and will be completed well before the Champions League transfer deadline of August 31.

However, while it's unlikely Escude will be signed in time for the start of United's bid to re-claim the Premiership title from Arsenal, Fergie has clearly won his battle to persuade his board to release more cash after smashing the British transfer record last month with the £30 million capture of Rio Ferdinand from Leeds.

Fergie's persuit of Escude - aided by United's new Under-17 coach Brazilian coach Fernando Filiho who worked with the youngster at the French Academy - is another clear sign that he intends to fight main challengers Arsenal and Liverpool every step of the way this season.

Ferguson has been concerned at the lack of defensive numbers in his squad after letting Ronny Johnsen, Denis Iriwn and Ronnie Wallwork all leave at the end of the season.

But Escude, capped at Under-21 level with France, won't simply be cover - and that will place pressure on fellow Frenchman Mikael Silvestre who will find himself fighting for his place.
 
Originally posted by Dans:
<strong>4theGame?? Who are they then?</strong><hr></blockquote>
The official premiership website started by Carling. Used to be:
<a href="http://www.fa-premier.co.uk" target="_blank">www.fa-premier.co.uk</a>
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Some barclay official site

<a href="http://4thegame.com/" target="_blank">http://4thegame.com/</a>
 
I'd heard instead that Rennes wouldnt do a deal - their 'gaffa 'was crowing about it being too late to get a replacement so wouldnt sell. although it does seem the feller has his heart set on coming to OT so it's surely more a delay for more money rather than a deal-breaker. can anyone clarify?
 
Shud be a reliable enough site, but the thing is - none of the other 'usual suspects' have reported on the 'signing'. In fact they all reported that the talks have stalled! <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
 
Originally posted by Sharkey:
<strong>I'd heard instead that Rennes wouldnt do a deal - their 'gaffa 'was crowing about it being too late to get a replacement so wouldnt sell. although it does seem the feller has his heart set on coming to OT so it's surely more a delay for more money rather than a deal-breaker. can anyone clarify?</strong><hr></blockquote>

On the face of it it's exactly as you say it is, but surely Rennes figured out they can't really keep him under these circumstances. So I think the exclusive is probably on the ball.
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Originally posted by kkcbl:
<strong>Shud be a reliable enough site, but the thing is - none of the other 'usual suspects' have reported on the 'signing'. In fact they all reported that the talks have stalled! :confused: </strong><hr></blockquote>

Hey kkcbl, good to see you post here. SFT not enough for you? ;)
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£4.3m, I'm pleased with that, I said if we got him for less than £5m then we've done well. Interesting how they've linked him to Carlos Queiroz as a recommended buy from the French Academy.
 
If we really got him it's a good sign that we are starting to work on the depth of our squad. However, I hope this purchase won't prevent us from getting another striker.
 
So far only one site mention about this transfer :confused:

If it is true, I think this will be the last Man Utd transfer for this year.
 
It's good news if we have, won't be happy till I see him in a red shirt though.

£4.3m seems reasonable enough for young prospect like Escude. Then again, I've only ever seen him play the once...
 
Originally posted by Lion:
<strong>If it is true, I think this will be the last Man Utd transfer for this year.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Striker?
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Originally posted by blythy:
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Striker?</strong><hr></blockquote>
We've already said we want another striker, I don't see this changing that. However its possible there might be a sale or two to help ease the cost of bringing a striker.
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Ok, so if this is true, I think we will have enough back-up in defense with Escude coming in. I think Wes and O shea are going to rock this season.....

But I still think we should give 5 million (they are in financial trouble) to Derby for Malcolm Christie....Forlan may need another season and we cant afford to go into the season with only two strikers.
 
'm very happy that the Brazilian coach played a part in this. For too long Houllier and Wenger's French connections has seen us miss out on loads of top young French stars.

Even Cisse was saying how he'd like to play under Houllier most. Maybe the new guy can help sway some other French youngsters away from Liverpool/Arsenal (Cisse + Mexes PLEASE!)

Fergie left the number 9 shirt clear for a reason, he has someone in mind.

On going rumours of Ronaldo and Crespo, lets wait and se what happens.
 
I was more than happy to settle for Rio as the solo signing.

But.... Crespo and Escude too! That'd be like cheating.

I thought 'that' when we Bought Veron and RVN but that was different. Having won 3 back to back titles and all the "Fergy stepping down" talk our hunger was missing last season.

Its BACK! And we're looking stronger than ever.

Come on! :)
 
Apparantly Escude is a good player, i havent seen him yet. This must mean we wont be buying a crespo or a ronaldo, but as ferguson has sed we will buy a striker. So what striker will we get for £5-10million who will be able to play at the quality of United. I dont think Duff is up to playing at our standard.
 
Originally posted by Raoul:
<strong>hmmm. I was just on the 4th the game site and couldn't find this article.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Me too. Then I looked at how posted it. ;) Only joking, but they seem to have pulled the article. Ichk, you got the original link still?
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It's just from YESTERDAY. Go to the United page, then press 'NEWS' and it's one of the 12/8 articles, a few over 'Escude move stalls'.
 
<a href="http://www.4thegame.com/news/story/107443/UNITED+TO+CLINCH+ESCUDE+DEAL.html" target="_blank">http://www.4thegame.com/news/story/107443/UNITED+TO+CLINCH+ESCUDE+DEAL.html</a>

If you're really lazy..
 
Originally posted by kkcbl:
<strong>Shud be a reliable enough site, but the thing is - none of the other 'usual suspects' have reported on the 'signing'. In fact they all reported that the talks have stalled! :confused: </strong><hr></blockquote>

Hey kkcbl nice to see u here, just joined myself.
Anyway, yes the other sites say it has stalled but so does 4thegame but this is the latets new son the transfer.
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I think Crespo is too similiar a player to Ruud - what we need is a speedy, tall & strong targetman to knock the balls down - Ruud is not that type of player, unfortunately!

PS - Thanks lchk & FP!

BTW, I actually applied to join some 4-5 months ago but didn't realise OO is not 00 & kept typing in the wrong password! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laugh Out Loud]" /> ( FP would know I'm telling the truth since I'm a computer idiot! )

By the way, what's your username in SFT, lchk?
 
Originally posted by kkcbl:
<strong>I think Crespo is too similiar a player to Ruud - what we need is a speedy, tall & strong targetman to knock the balls down - Ruud is not that type of player, unfortunately!

PS - Thanks lchk & FP!

BTW, I actually applied to join some 4-5 months ago but didn't realise OO is not 00 & kept typing in the wrong password! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laugh Out Loud]" /> ( FP would know I'm telling the truth since I'm a computer idiot! )

By the way, what's your username in SFT, lchk?</strong><hr></blockquote>
So you think we need Heskey? ;)

I think someone more like Henry would be better.
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A Heskey-type will do fine - only he shud be be contributing his share of goals as well! :D
 
Crespo and RVN would be an awesome partnership. They're both smart enough to sort out their link play. Then there's the Veron factor; he being Crespo's buddy n'all.

Because of the way this deal could be financed it's by far our best (if not only) option to fill the No 9 shirt before the 31t (deadline)

It scares me to think of signing all three (rio,Crepo & Escude) of those - awesome :)
 
Originally posted by kkcbl:
<strong>I think Crespo is too similiar a player to Ruud - what we need is a speedy, tall & strong targetman to knock the balls down - Ruud is not that type of player, unfortunately!

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Think about why we need another striker, cos we cant depend on Ruud and Ole all year. If we went out looking for someone who would "be dynamite with Ruud" we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot cos we'd be relying on him again.

We need a striker who has presence up front when Ruud is out, it doesnt even matter about their strike rate. Its just that with no Ruud we're too lightweight and the movement and presence is minimal so our goal threats suffer.

So another Ruud would be great - someone to take over when Ruud is rested. It doesnt have to be a Ruud-type tho, Henry has a presence up front, Cisse, Ronaldo etc.
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Does anyone not think we're gonna get a striker?
 
We don't know what Fergie's thinking. He may well have a 4-4-1-1 in mind, or maybe he's planning on moving Giggsy up front again. I personally don't think we're going to buy a striker if we buy Escude.
 
Originally posted by Dans:
<strong>Does anyone not think we're gonna get a striker?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think we want a striker, but I'm not sure we'll manage to get one, and I am sure that we won't spend our money on someone shit just to make up the numbers.
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Originally posted by Dans:
<strong>Does anyone not think we're gonna get a striker?</strong><hr></blockquote>If/when we get past Zaleordg... the Hungarians I believe the PLC will release the cash to get someone, be it Crespo or whoever. However, I can't see them doing it 'til the CL group stage is a certainty as the loss of finance from non-participation will adversely affect the annual budget.
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Originally posted by Raoul:
<strong>We don't know what Fergie's thinking. He may well have a 4-4-1-1 in mind, or maybe he's planning on moving Giggsy up front again. I personally don't think we're going to buy a striker if we buy Escude.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Obviously we don't know what Fergie is thinking. We do know the following however:

1 - Kenyon said no more money - big money I presume
2 - We sold Yorke for 2.5 rising to 4 ish I think
3 - timeWe appear to be after a LB who we would purchase with the Yorke money plus a little more that I could see the board agreeing to
4 - Ferguson has been quoted as saying 4-5-1 is a great system and a successful one that needs
5 - Lazio owe us, either money or a player in exchange for wiping out the debt and perhaps 5m max (IMO)
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You forgot Fergie saying he wants a fourth striker and will try to do something about it before the end of the month.

Surely thats the number 1 thing?
 
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