Morgan Schneiderlin | BBC: Morgan Schneiderlin is currently having a medical at Manchester United.

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hbgreg said:
Having said that, De Gea apart, Madrid seem to always pay the selling clubs valuation of a player. Which in turn makes their transfers go through quick.
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Considering the clubs financial power, I think United should be doing the same here, especially if we're only £5m shy of what they're asking. We've probably saved triple that amount just by binning Nani and Falcao off the wage bill. And if they're only asking for £25-£30m, it's not out of the realms of possibility that another club could step in and pay the asking price. Arsenal, perhaps? PSG? If Juve are losing Pogba, Vidal and Pirlo in one swoop, then they're a possibility. Maybe even Bayern, with Alonso and Schweinsteiger getting on a bit? I can't imagine we are the only club looking at him.

We must be totally convinced that Schneiderlin is 100% intending on joining only United if we're content with making Southampton sweat over the fee.
 
Sam said:
More quotes due at 10.30 tonight apparently. Presumably been embargoed until then.
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Nate Dogg said:
Seriously...
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Sparky Rhiwabon said:
If so then they will be about potential acquisitions not sales.
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Embargoed doesn't mean juicy. It's just the stuff from the press conference with newspaper journos who keep their stuff quiet so they can sell papers based on them tomorrow, instead of them all coming out during the previous day.
 
RedStarUnited said:
We have too much access to bids now. Its killing the muppets. I doubt Madrid came and offered us 80m straight for Ronaldo without any negotiations. But we never heard anything about any bids then, so it probably seemed more straight forward than it really was.

Having said that, De Gea apart, Madrid seem to always pay the selling clubs valuation of a player. Which in turn makes their transfers go through quick.
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According to Fergie they did. They'd promised Ronaldo he could leave that summer, United were expecting a bid and a £80m cash up front offer came in and we accepted it straight away as we felt it was a fair offer and fair to honour the agreement with Ronnie. Ferguson has since said we should have asked for double and it still would have been a steal.
 
Unless they're looking for £40-50m, we should not be haggling/stalling or whatever the feck we're doing at this stage. He's exactly what we need and is worth at least around the £25-30m range.
 
At least we now know there is a genuine interest and that some of the reports about a bid were correct.
 
Shark said:
Unless they're looking for £40-50m, we should not be haggling/stalling or whatever the feck we're doing at this stage. He's exactly what we need and is worth at least around the £25-30m range.
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This. Unless we were not serious.
 
Alex Crook, a Southampton FC journalist, reckons he'll go on tour with them tomorrow but still sign for us.

Knowing our luck he'll go on that tour and come back bloody injured.
 
Pexbo said:
According to Fergie they did. They'd promised Ronaldo he could leave that summer, United were expecting a bid and a £80m cash up front offer came in and we accepted it straight away as we felt it was a fair offer and fair to honour the agreement with Ronnie. Ferguson has since said we should have asked for double and it still would have been a steal.
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By that point (summer 2009) we had already been talking and fending them off for years, no? Id imagine, in 2008 we told them 'come back next summer with a world record fee and you can have him'. We never actually heard any bids or negotiations were taking place before the transfer.
 
ThanksBoss26 said:
Alex Crook, a Southampton FC journalist, reckons he'll go on tour with them tomorrow but still sign for us.

Knowing our luck he'll go on that tour and come back bloody injured.
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That would just be so pointless, we need him for our tour if we're serious about him.
 
Shark said:
Unless they're looking for £40-50m, we should not be haggling/stalling or whatever the feck we're doing at this stage. He's exactly what we need and is worth at least around the £25-30m range.
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My guess is that the £25m fee is media bollocks, or at best planted in the media by Southampton.

Southampton will want us to keep coming back with new offers as they can keep rejecting them and keep the price going north.

As it is, we've bid £20m and not come back with another offer meaning his value is kept low. I'd bet my house if we'd bid £25m by now that would have been rejected by now.

So we bide our time a bit and allow Southampton to realise that they're going to lose him and they're best off accepting a lower bid with time to get his replacement in than to force a higher bid and be forced to panic buy and over pay for his replacement.
 
ThanksBoss26 said:
Yeah, frustrating. I suppose they're only in Austria and Holland so a pretty short journey back if we ever agree the fee, but I know what you mean.
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They must be looking for £30 m +, because there's no way we'd play silly beggars if it really is £25 m, he's worth that, £30 m + maybe not.
 
C'est Moi Cantona said:
They must be looking for £30 m +, because there's no way we'd play silly beggars if it really is £25 m, he's worth that, £30 m + maybe not.
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He is definalty worth £25m, £30m is excessive

Hope they could settle for something in between if they want more than £30m I can see us looking elsewhere altough I must admit I don't know where.
 
If Southampton demand £25M plus then we should pull out of the deal.
 
Southampton might well find themselves with a problem with the player if they don't let him go this summer. He was pretty angry last year by all accounts.
 
Nate Dogg said:
If Southampton demand £25M plus then we should pull out of the deal.
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And go for which other defensive midfielder? Because the market is looking weak right now for them and we will be fecked if we enter next season with Carrick as our only defensive midfielder..
 
United22 said:
And go for which other defensive midfielder? Because the market is looking weak right now for them and we will be fecked if we enter next season with Carrick as our only defensive midfielder..
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I think Southampton know that but I also reckon we know the player wants to come here = deadlock. It's become a case of who'll blink first I guess.
 
Nate Dogg said:
If Southampton demand £25M plus then we should pull out of the deal.
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You know you pay extra because you are buying from a domestic rival. I'd happily see us pay £27.5m or something for Schneiderlin if that is what it took. DM position is crucial for this year and there aren't many good ones available at the moment and none are as suitable as Schneiderlin.
 
NoArroJusBeta said:
You know you pay extra because you are buying from a domestic rival. I'd happily see us pay £27.5m or something for Schneiderlin if that is what it took. DM position is crucial for this year and there aren't many good ones available at the moment and none are as suitable as Schneiderlin.
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Spot on. We are playing a very dangerous game
 
He ticks all the boxes and is by far the most suitable DM for us, IMO. A player we will get great value from if he goes on to play for us for another 8+ years.

We should pay what it takes. If we back out at £25m, who do we go for instead? Do we pay slightly less than £25m for a player who isn't as good as Schneiderlin? That would be a poor move. I can't see Southampton expecting more than £30m for him, and even at that price, it's not a bad deal, given the lack of alternative options.
 
We'll end up signing Schweinstiger instead for £15 million.
 
They got 12.5m for Clyne in his last year, so I'm sure they're looking for 30m+. I think it's a fair deal.
 
I'd happily pay £29.9m but £30m would be a joke.

In fact, I think I'd even tell them to feck off at £29.95.
 
They will probably demand at least 28m, that is what we paid for Fellaini. I can't see them selling him to us for anything below 25m. 25-28m is a fair price when you consider his age, qualitites and that he is proven in the PL.
 
Shark said:
Signing both of them would be fairly logical. Too logical for us.
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My sentiments exactly. We'll probably just end up buying another couple of wingers or a few more #10's.
 
LennonNL said:
I see you have a bad case of short-sightitis.
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No I have a bad case of knowing who is the better player.

A couple of years with a world class player even if it'd be a risk with his injury record is a risk worth taking, Schneiderlin as well would be good, but a straight choice? Schweinsteigier all day long for me.
 
We must be waiting for some sort of cheap release clause to fade, so we can pay an extra 10 mil.
 
Ugh they're practically handing him to us, why isn't it sorted yet.
 
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