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

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Ananke said:
This.

Negotiations/Contracts take a long damn time. It doesn't matter how quick one side wants it to happen, if both sides aren't on the same wavelength it'll chug along. Plus if you start giving the vibe that you're desperate, you'll get taken to the cleaners. It's a long transfer window and this has already picked up quickly, just because something isn't happening today, tomorrow, next week (or isn't being reported) doesn't mean it's not happening.

Websites/Papers/Twitter talk so much bollocks about who we're bidding on everyday just to get attention/clicks. Trust in the club to get it done. I personally think we'll nail some big signings in the coming month. Just because I don't see minute to minute, day to day progress on them with more news has no reason to make me think Woody is just sitting on his ass and tickling his balls.
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Gazza said:
United's relationship with Southampton sounds very solid.

With Shaw last year; no bickering or to-ing and fro-ing. But IIRC it wasn't a case of waking up one morning and finding out we had agreed a fee. There was some initial media talk that United were going in strongly for Shaw, then it quietened down a bit, before the signing was confirmed. Am I misremembering?

I have a feeling the same thing is happening here.

We should remember that we are buying another club's player and the fans of that club want to see their club fighting to keep a player. They don't want to see Southampton take the first bid they get any more than we want to see United accept Real's first offer for DDG. But for all we know Soton and Utd have not only agreed a fee but agreed a strategy for breaking the transfer too.

United either want Schneiderlin (in which case a deal has been done and we're just letting Southampton play out the string for the sake of their image) or we don't and the media are just making stuff up. I will go for the first one.
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Both good posts. We tend to get sucked into this false vortex of expecting "progress" each time we visit the forum. That's not how it works. Things happen behind the scenes that none of us are aware of, so best to just be patient and see what develops.
 
Sure didn't it take them a week to find out we had put in a bid? Clearly they aren't going to be able to give us minute-by-minute updates because they haven't a clue what the latest is. They aren't apart of the negotiating.
 
Raoul said:
Both good posts. We tend to get sucked into this false vortex of expecting "progress" each time we visit the forum. That's not how it works. Things happen behind the scenes that none of us are aware of, so best to just be patient and see what develops.
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Simples.

None of us, that I am aware work closely with Woodinator. We will never know the details involved in buy or selling a player with three parties involved. One can only assume that its a lot orders of magnitude more complex than we can fathom

Even those of us who have done any simple and complex agreements before, know that its never a linear process.
 
So, any chance this will be done today? Ya know, like all the media outlets said it would! :lol:
 
NotoriousISSY said:
If Saints really do have this set price of £24-25m and we're legitimately interested it is becoming a bit strange that there is little progress at this stage.

If you piss away £32m on Luke Shaw and pay £28m for Ander Herrera, I'm not entirely sure what the reason for the stall is on this? It seems a fairly reasonable asking price for a player who has been on an upward curve in English football since he made his move.

But I try to avoid going full muppet, so here's to hoping it's nothing to worry about and all will be sealed in the near future.
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Shaw was brought in as a young prodigy with over 10 years that we possibly could get from him. Herrera was more established and is the better player of the two. The only valid example would be Fellaini, but everyone there knows we overpaid for him.
 
tombombadil said:
Well, you're going to have to man up. Now it could be Wednesday next week. :D
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Tom was one of my favourite characters in the LOTR. You sir, are the opposite. Don't tease :(:( It can't go on till Wednesday, it just cannot!

@Dracula - I've a good feeling too today :D Its Fridaylin today!
 
Looking at reports, you'd question if this is happening at all now, never mind today. Not a single reliable source reporting anything of note.
 
Shark said:
Looking at reports, you'd question if this is happening at all now, never mind today. Not a single reliable source reporting anything of note.
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The best person for this is that Simon Peach the Southampton fan- if he says its done its done- other than though no source is reliable, not ssn, or any of the red tops or broadsheets. All clueless regarding Utd.
 
Nothing new here...
I have to say I thought LVG and Woody had it covered and would act swiftly at the start of the season..
I have to say I am getting a bit worried..
 
If something is going to happen i suspect it will be next week at the earliest.
 
Nate Dogg said:
If something is going to happen i suspect it will be next week at the earliest.
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It is looking that way although by his own admission it seems like he was led to believe it would all be sorted by the end of this week when he gave that interview.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Gah. Still nothing. Can a friendly mod maybe do us all a favour and lock the thread pending a concrete update? Or is that a bit extreme? Only I reckon I'm one of many who checks it every time it's bumped and those dozens of tiny disappointments can get a man down...
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What's happened to you 'ol Pogue!? :lol:

Full muppet. :drool:
 
arthurka said:
Nothing new here...
I have to say I thought LVG and Woody had it covered and would act swiftly at the start of the season..
I have to say I am getting a bit worried..
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They have to go the selling club and just take the players off them, right?
 
Keep checking this thread every time someone posts hoping we have signed him :( doesn't look its happening today as predicted, when do the squad fly out for pre season?
 
Have we ever announced a signing while on tour?
 
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