Yeah, I was a little harsh, sorry. It's really baffling though, surely it must be sorted by saturday.
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2 things to be sorted out then. Probably won't be in time for Burnley like this.
The beef is between Sporting and that investment group that gave them the money to buy Rojo. Nowt to do with us. He signed here and is 100% ours.
This is very frustrating.
Rather annoying that all the details haven't been sorted out yet. Even more so when we are short of defenders right now
He has acquired a work permit,according to Man Utd Insiders.
"Acquired" makes it sound well dodgy. Got it off some bloke in the pub did he?
Sweet - can't wait to see him play!
I´m sure he´ll prove to be a great buy for us but I remember the early days of Vidic and Evra so we have to be patient with this lad. He won´t be Mr Fantastic from the start off I think
Odd. Why won't we announce something like that ?
For those wondering why the work permit wasn't sorted out before we signed him, how do you imagine that would happen when he wasn't our player then?
They should call it "turd" party ownership … it gets so messy!
Are we gonna have to give this one back to the shop?
you won't find a better place than the caf where patience is a virtue of the (very) few
We're in a bit of trouble if it isn't sorted before Burnley. Smalling, Rafael and Shaw injured, no Rojo, Evans isn't match fit. That leaves Jones as the only remotely experienced defender and only unproven youngsters as back up or at full back. What a mess.
Let's not pretend we weren't expecting Rafael, Smalling and Evans to be injured. The club knows our defenders are made of glass. In fact, I'm shocked Jones isn't on the treatment table either.
Doyen on the move?
Is currently in Madrid and still not got his permit as per LVG's presser.
LvG saying he is in Argentinian [Madrid] Embassy working on his permit (seems like he was saying he was working in the embassy for his work permit - weird i know). Issue being that he has an Argentinian passport where as ADM has an Italian passport.
Why Madrid though? What didn't he go to the Argentinian embassy in the uk?...also how does it take nearly two weeks to get a permit, I can't remember this ever happening another player.
It's not as if he qualifies under exceptional talent...
He played in a World Cup final. We've got permits for non internationals before.
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/work-permits.380683/
Worth a read on work permits for anyone who wants to know
Worth a read on work permits for anyone who wants to know
Didn't say it wasn't possible, but pointing out, he obviously wasn't granted an easy quick one...
No idea mate...just relaying information to those who didn't watch the presser.
God this is a pain in the arse isn't it. Still find it silly that there isn't some kind of exemption when it comes to professional footballers in the UK. I believe there are in most of the other top leagues no? I base this solely on football manager.
This has been one of the more convoluted transfers I can ever remember us being involved in.
So I guess he will have to wait till next week to play?
If he gets it done before 3 PM tomorrow, he can play. It's still a possibility.
Can anybody explain something....
He's been training with us, right? In what way dies that not qualify as working, but playing a match does?
He's been training with us, right? In what way dies that not qualify as working, but playing a match does?
He can be trainning while not registered. I guess under the same logic as trials?
I'm guessing we can't register him with the Premier League until the work permit is place? Hence he can't play a match.
Probably can't pay him either but nothing to stop him training with the team meanwhile.
Could be completely wrong though. Making assumptions here.
We could loan him out to Molde or Twente for 3 yrs, waiting he gets an european passport
Apparently Malta have a scheme where if you're resident for a year you can buy an EU passport for £1 million. Last resort send him there and then buy him Maltese citizenship. Once he's an EU national he'll be able to play here freely.
True. I guess he didn't play 75% of Argentina's official matches in the last two years. But it doesn't explain why he had to travel to Spain and go to the embassey there. Normally it's just a regular appeal process.