Sounds like PSG have come in late to this, his info was probably right at the time he got it.
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Sounds like PSG have come in late to this, his info was probably right at the time he got it.
Yep. That's the genius behind any of these predictions. If they don't go through you can just say "things changed, I was right at the time". We had a ITK on here who used to say the same if I remember correctly.
The reaction towards him as been well ott, he's just going off what he's told, if you were a journalist and someone from United told you it was virtually a done deal would you keep it to yourself or get paid for writing the story?
Has Lucas gone to PSG?
To a point i agree but i just feel he was gullible with believing it was a done deal, he is not exactly a rookie reporter and bearing in mind what happened last year he should've been a bit more cautious in his report.
Thought so, so why is every cnut grieving?
Have you not been in many of these transfer threads? Its bipolar...bouts of initial exuberance mixed in with a giant pity party
Reading on twitter ( yes I know, might as well look at my tea leaves ) that we're now eyeing up Isco as an alternative. I must say that I would be delighted with that as the lad looks superb when I've seen him play. What's more his release clause is 16m euro. That's value.
Not really Fergie's style to sign an alternative player if he can't land the player he really wants.
Was gonna start a thread to ask the question but might as well do it here. Can anyone ever remember Fergie signing someone different, when his main target falls through?
Was gonna start a thread to ask the question but might as well do it here. Can anyone ever remember Fergie signing someone different, when his main target falls through?
Andy Cole
Ronaldo? Bought after failing to land The Goofy One.
Dwight Yorke after Kluivert after Batistuta?
Didn't we first try and get Kluivert before landing Yorke?
Poborsky after Anderton?
It's actually happened quite often in my head at least. Mostly with strikers during the 90s.
was that really the case? It didn't seem like it. Besides the fact they were/are two completely different players in different positions, I think fergie would've moved for ronaldo regardless of landing ronaldinho or not.
veron after wenger not entertaining any bids for vieira? I distinctly remember the original plan in 2001 was to try to get vieira up here to partner keane.
Powell after Pogba?
Was Bosnich our main target?
Was Bosnich our main target?
Not really the same. If he had always known Cole was available then I am sure he would have been first choice. It really did seem mental that Newcastle would sell after the season Cole had.
Senna after the initial Hargreaves turn down, although we decided to pull the plug on that in the end.
Right little bunch of United historians on this page.
Wouldnt Lucas himself be an alternative to Hazard? I can't imagine if we'd have gotten Hazard we'd be pursuing Lucas at all.
Brophs after brewlio; not quite the same as we landed both in the end.
feck off. brewlio was the afterthought.
Dion Dublin when Shearer said no?
He'd actively been pursuing Collymore and it fell through when Frank Clark was off with flu and couldn't take the call.
That actually does not bode well. Couldn't get Shearer, so we signed a striker from Cambridge United. Can't get Lucas so now what?
Was what I was going to say
I think it's always the case that we have a position in mind that requires strengthening and then we have 3 players in mind in an order. If Fergie can't get any of them then he won't sign someone just for the sake of it, but if he can get one of the players identified then he's happy.
Obviously this doesn't account for when that special player becomes available or when someone else makes a move and we have to go earlier than we'd like, but overall I think there are always alternatives, it would be poor planning not to, surely.
We can't even be sure we'd be in for Lucas if we managed to get Hazard
Exactly.
Hazard and Lucas are valued around and seem to be the top 2 in the pecking order, perhaps Isco is the third but at just 16m it could be far better VALUE.
Yorke after Patrick Kluivert?
Anderson after Mikel? I just wanted to join in
Heh. Maybe I should have started that thread after all!
Dwight Yorke (Kliuvert)
All these examples are showing is that when we try to sign a big name we get knocked back. Maybe he should do them in reverse order, then third choice signing, would actually be our first choice.
This very thread as your answer.
After failing to capture Hazard he's now trying to land Lucas. I think.
Maybe we'll get Schneider.
Ashley Young (Alexis Sanchez).
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