Madrid are preparing a £95m bid for Rooney

I agree that rooney is the proverbial heartbeat of the team!

But no player is ever bigger than the club, and hypothetically those three would definitely be considered as being able to strengthen united in replacement of rooney!
 
We'd have to be fecking mental to even consider selling Rooney.
 
when you have money, you want to bring in players of Rooneys ability so what would be the point in selling him? Yes 95million....well first there's no offer on the table. It's easy to say sell, when someones off form. As soon as he starts scoring and playing well, he's priceless on the pitch which by is worth a tad more then 95million pounds. Besides as soon as you sell anyone for that sort of money, you get clubs asking for silly money and in that sense there is no value.
 
I don't think they would spend that much on him. Way too inconsistent to be Madrid quality. They would probably offer us 40m at most, and we'd take it as we'd have no choice.
 
I don't know why the posters on this board are so concerned with price values. Whether were buying or selling players, we should be looking at the influence of the move on our squad rather than worrying about the bank.

We sold Ronaldo for an astronomical fee, and it's nice to have money but there's no point in selling if there's no way to replace a player.

Obviously Ronaldo wanted out, so it was definitely a plus to cash in on him while we could, but Rooney has assured the fans and public that he wishes to remain at United. He's obviously our marquee player and an intricate part of our system.

Selling him, at the moment, for any amount of money, would be completely ridiculous.
 
It wouldn't surprise me at all if FFC made a substantial bid for Rooney in January. Jose has been hinting for years that he wants to manage Utd..as our board doesn't seem interested and SAF shows no sign of retiring, this is probably part of his evil plan to export Utd piece by piece to the Spanish capital. Apparently his neighbours have complained of strange noises coming from his rented mansion late at night ... the significance eludes them but apparently sound like:... Mwuhahahah :devil:
 
According to some italian website called TuttoMercatoweb and that unbelievably correct website(sarcasm) called Transfer Tavern, its been revealed that we have inserted a £25million buyout clause on his latest contract....that of course Real Madrid would like to activate in Summer

Surely thats not the club of his dreams though???:nervous:
 
Andersonsonson said:
According to some italian website called TuttoMercatoweb and that unbelievably correct website(sarcasm) called Transfer Tavern, its been revealed that we have inserted a £25million buyout clause on his latest contract....that of course Real Madrid would like to activate in Summer

Surely thats not the club of his dreams though???:nervous:
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£25,000,000 :lol: Andy Carrol just went for 35!
 
Andersonsonson said:
According to some italian website called TuttoMercatoweb and that unbelievably correct website(sarcasm) called Transfer Tavern, its been revealed that we have inserted a £25million buyout clause on his latest contract....that of course Real Madrid would like to activate in Summer

Surely thats not the club of his dreams though???:nervous:
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Total and utter nonsense.

Buy-out clauses are usually several multiples higher than the players current value.
 
Andersonsonson said:
According to some italian website called TuttoMercatoweb and that unbelievably correct website(sarcasm) called Transfer Tavern, its been revealed that we have inserted a £25million buyout clause on his latest contract....that of course Real Madrid would like to activate in Summer

Surely thats not the club of his dreams though???:nervous:
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:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Total and utter nonsense.

Buy-out clauses are usually several multiples higher than the players current value.
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See as you say that, how come Spanish clubs always insert one in their players contracts regardless who they are?

I say its scaremongering by some media sites to enable them to link us to every striker going
 
Andersonsonson said:
According to some italian website called TuttoMercatoweb and that unbelievably correct website(sarcasm) called Transfer Tavern, its been revealed that we have inserted a £25million buyout clause on his latest contract....that of course Real Madrid would like to activate in Summer

Surely thats not the club of his dreams though???:nervous:
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25 Million? :lol:
 
Andersonsonson said:
See as you say that, how come Spanish clubs always insert one in their players contracts regardless who they are?

I say its scaremongering by some media sites to enable them to link us to every striker going
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It's not the existence of the clause I'm calling nonsense. It's the size of it. Buy-out clauses are deliberately set absurdly high to stop them being exercised unless someone is willing to pay a stupendous sum of money.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
It's not the existence of the clause I'm calling nonsense. It's the size of it. Buy-out clauses are deliberately set absurdly high to stop them being exercised unless someone is willing to pay a stupendous sum of money.
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Ha no i knew what you meant from the start don't worry. Though "JOE T" must have some really good sources :lol:
 
Andersonsonson said:
According to some italian website called TuttoMercatoweb and that unbelievably correct website(sarcasm) called Transfer Tavern, its been revealed that we have inserted a £25million buyout clause on his latest contract....that of course Real Madrid would like to activate in Summer

Surely thats not the club of his dreams though???:nervous:
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:lol:
 
Not even remotely true.

If a buyout clause exists it's sure to be double if not treble the figuring being reported.
 
So. He signed a new deal so the club could get more money for him when they sell him in the summer...and he inserted a 25m release clause?
 
Pogue Mahone said:
It's not the existence of the clause I'm calling nonsense. It's the size of it. Buy-out clauses are deliberately set absurdly high to stop them being exercised unless someone is willing to pay a stupendous sum of money.
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not always, it depends on the bargaining power of the involved parties

Imagine this scenario: a club from an average league wins promotion to the Champions League. they have a important player which they want to keep due to European games. the player has a few months left on his current contract. if any club bids for him, he could leave but he may also think that playing for that club in the European competition would promote him and allow him to leave for the better club. so what he does is that he signs a big contract with a relatively small buy-out clause to when his team gets knocked-out from Europe he can leave the club whenever he wants (providing that anybody wants him). If he stays he's left with a big contract. This happened a few times in Poland you know.

Now, how this could apply to Rooney.

Fergie made it clear that for some reason he wanted to keep Rooney. Rooney might have actually wanted to leave but he figured it out that announcing that during the Rooney-gate would left him play either in reserves or watching games from the stands. he also was cup-tied at that time so his negotiations position would be weaker.

Fergie didn't want to unsettled the team during the season so he offers Rooney a big contract. Rooney doesn't know if he is going to stay or not nor did he want to leave during the season so despite getting a big contract he includes the buy-out clause so he is independent from United's will. Imo he had all the cards during these autumn negotiations.


to sum it up: United are left with world-class striker at least until the end of the season and will recoup at least 25 mil should Rooney leave. Rooney gets a big contract with a relatively small buy-out clause. Win -win.

I wouldn't rule out the existence of 25 mil buy out clause

Edit: imo this vey low 25 mil buy-out would justify the 200 k per week contract. these insane amount of money is a counterweight so Rooney doesn't leave to early or there are only few bidders ready offer him similar terms. i bet Rooney knows that.
 
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