Mario Fernandes for me - RB who can play CB, voted best foreign player in Russia and should be available on the cheap with the current Russian crisis - probably under 10m.
Manchester United - January transfer window 2015 (twitter blacklist applies)
- Thread starter Devil may care
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss Amad saving our blushes in a win against Southampton as well as our now annual loss at home to Brighton. They discuss Amorim's post-match comments, revisit how mid-table we may or may not be, and discuss some transfer news.
Agreed. It's hard to make those with red-tinted spectacles see this, though.
If that Tor-Kristan guy is right and Schar is available for 5 million...
I haven't seen a ton of him but when I have he looks to be a comfortably better passer than anyone we have at CB (Excluding Carrick cameos, obviously). No real idea about how he'd do at the actual defending part of the job.
If we don't go for him, surely someone like Arsenal or Liverpool, who both need a depth CB, will.
I haven't seen a ton of him but when I have he looks to be a comfortably better passer than anyone we have at CB (Excluding Carrick cameos, obviously). No real idea about how he'd do at the actual defending part of the job.
If we don't go for him, surely someone like Arsenal or Liverpool, who both need a depth CB, will.
Yeah, Schar looked good any time I've seen him. For the price that's been mentioned (5-12m) he'd certainly be a better gamble than someone like Ron Vlaar.
ITK season is upon us.
If you accidentally followed these accounts in their early days it wouldn't be that hard to trace their real owner.Usually they have their real Twitter account follows their "ITK" account so in this case you only need to check who's the only Edward in that following list.
Vlaar would be free (in the summer) & is proven to be a good premiership defender, so how exactly would it be a better gamble, than paying a fee for a player who has never played in the premiership?
Simple. Ron Vlaar's appearance record so far this season looks like this: OOOXXXXOOOOXXXXOOOOO. Notice the amount of x's? Those are the times he's been out injured. That's just one more PL game he's featured in than the injury stricken Chris Smalling. Vlaar also has advancing age and a ridiculous history of nasty injuries on his record (broken foot, cruciate ligament, bacterial infection, medial ligament, cruciate ligament again and a calf problem he's been dealing with for the last few seasons at Villa).
In fact, while he has actually put in a decent amount of appearances at Villa considering all those issues, his stop-start fitness issues have seen the Villa fans complain about their inability to get a settled back four. Sound familiar?
So while Vlaar is indeed a good premiership defender he is also one who would be extremely unlikely to stay fit for an extended run of games if we signed him. That makes him a bad gamble at any price given that the one thing we need above all else is a CB who can actually stay fit.
So, without having seen anything at all of Schar, it seems pretty obvious that a defender with a chance of staying fit would be a better gamble. Especially given that even if Schar was a failure we'd likely still recoup most of the fee we spent on him anyway given his age.
Isn't Laporte slow?
He has two working legs. What more do you want?
Not sure about his speed tbh. Hummels is slow as well. It depends if LvG wants speed or if they are good on the ball. Only he knows what he wants from his players.Has anyone else missed this guy?
Guardian is going with it too
http://www.theguardian.com/football...united-seamus-coleman-transfer-target-everton
It's Jamie Jackson, so take with an appropriately sized pinch of salt.
Jackson's source was probably Agent Edwards.
Over the next few weeks we are going to be linked with everyone as per usual! I don't think there will be much activity, if any to be honest but I do love all the speculation!
Stop posting tweets from stupid "agent" accounts or similar. This might not be the twitter thread but the same rules apply, we're not giving these dickheads the attention they crave.
We could offer Dortmund a bit more than his release clause in hopes of being allowed to talk to him before everyone else...
Edit: I meant Reus
Edit: I meant Reus
Those guys are in a relegation battle, no way would they sell now.
Even if they were willing to, it's pretty much in his hands where he ends up. If he doesn't want to come to us, and go to Bayern/Madrird/Chelsea etc. then he'll just end up there.
Yup. You can forget signing anyone from Dortmund this window.
Clyne wouldnt be too expensive. His contract runs out in 2016 so he is within the last 2 years and his price will begin dropping as a result. He would be a good shout for us. Much needed pace to the attack.
I hope Adnan is back for this window, he was a monster in the summer regarding Twitter!
Aren't they still in the CL also?
Yeah, won the group too.
Are you Ed Woodward? We're you in charge of the Fellaini deal? Why the feck if his release clause is x would we offer x+. Surely as soon as you offer the fee then it gets activated regardless?
Because his clause isn't active yet. If we offer more than the clause now instead of offering the normal amount in the summer, BvB might sell him early for more $$$.
As soon as the summer comes, every team that offers the release clause money will have the opportunity to speak to him and then he could go anywhere.
Ooh. Better do as Rado-N says,
If you don't do as he says, he'll get his dad to beat up your dad
With regards to Vlaar - I dont like his injury record. He will become just another glass defender to add to our collection of glass. Furthermore, I dont actually think he is particularly good. Just because he is dutch, doesnt make him World class.
We need to look very closely at the potential signing's injury record.
If he he is already injury prone and we sign him and he gets injured - we only have ourselves to blame.
Both Godin and Cuadrado have release clauses that are under 30m and would do wonders for our side.
Agreed on Godin, not sold Cuadrado at all.
Godin, has mentioned that he wants to stay at Calderon for the foreseeable future.
What the feck is your problem? If you have a problem with the rules of the site I can simply revoke your posting privileges?Ooh. Better do as Rado-N says,
If you don't do as he says, he'll get his dad to beat up your dad
Considering you've only been here 5 minutes you might wanna wise the feck up.
That is someone put right back in their box. Well done mate.
Ooh. Better do as Rado-N says,
If you don't do as he says, he'll get his dad to beat up your dad
With regards to Vlaar - I dont like his injury record. He will become just another glass defender to add to our collection of glass. Furthermore, I dont actually think he is particularly good. Just because he is dutch, doesnt make him World class.
We need to look very closely at the potential signing's injury record.
If he he is already injury prone and we sign him and he gets injured - we only have ourselves to blame.
Just curious, how old are you?
I wonder if that is like when Ronaldo wanted to stay here or Suarez wanted to stay at Liverpool or dozens of other times a footballer says something but doesn't actually mean it.
SAF said he wouldn't sell a virus to real then Ronaldo left. There are countless other examples.
Money changes everything, if we pay his release clause and double his wages we have a very decent shot at getting him. I think he should be our #1 CB target.
Cuadrado has been off the boil this season but last season he led the serie a in completed dribbles and we really need someone fast on the wing who can open up space. His release clause makes him all the more attractive. If we can get someone better Id be happy with that as well...but Cuadrado can be got in January.
I agree that we need a player of that type but I'm not sure there's a rush for one in January, I think we can get top 4 as we are and evaluate attacking options in the summer to go for the title next season.
Because genius, the release clause doesn't activate until the summer. Offering a higher fee to Dortmund means we could start talking to Reus directly from January; we get a headstart on our rivals.
Good reason not to sell in January