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Thiago Alcantara | Signed for Bayern Munich
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With a sexy name like Alcantara, sign him already!
He looked subdued today, clearly the United rumours are getting to him.
Him and Valencia can have a frown-off.
Isco looked class though. I really hope he isnt joining City.
Anyway thought Thiago looked good enough. Sign him up already.
Anyway thought Thiago looked good enough. Sign him up already.
Isco if a flair player, an attacker, Thiago keeps the midfield ticking over beautifully, his awareness of those around him is superb and he is disciplined as well as having great vision when the through ball is on.
Please excuse me if this is very off topic, but I ask with Thiago in mind.
When do you think the transfer market will really pick up? I know we have already seen City spend big on a couple of players, but City are boring as feck. When do you think the tasty stuff will start happening? Ie Bale, Thiago, Suarez, Ronaldo.. The big names.
When do you think the transfer market will really pick up? I know we have already seen City spend big on a couple of players, but City are boring as feck. When do you think the tasty stuff will start happening? Ie Bale, Thiago, Suarez, Ronaldo.. The big names.
July 17th I should imagine.
There's been quite a lot of activity so far, it just feels slow because there's little movement on our front. Bale and Suarez can happen whenever really, Suarez has the Confederations cup so you might see more activity after that - same with Cavani. Ronaldo will more than likely sign a new contract soon and we'll see where Thiago will end up after the U21s(my guess is he'll stay at Barca)...Isco to Madrid or City after the U21s also.
Looks decent but he's no Fellaini.
I agree. I didn't see any elbows being thrown, no headers won in that video. I doubt he would cut it in the premiership. I fear it will be too physical for him. Sign the big belgian instead.
Odds have slashed on skybet to evens. Muppet season lads *rubs hands*
According to Skybet, the odds for him coming here are 1/1 ?
http://www.skybet.ie/football/transfer-specials/event/15261012
I know it's nothing now, but what gives them the insight to make a decision like that?
http://www.skybet.ie/football/transfer-specials/event/15261012
I know it's nothing now, but what gives them the insight to make a decision like that?
I'll give you the credit of getting it first , as you have the proper tagline qualifications.
As far as I know, its purely down to the amount of bets they receive. So if I went and bet a million on him going to Liverpool, their odds would fly in and Liverpool would be odds on. They generally try to keep their finger on the pulse as much as they can and alter their bets based on that, but a lot of their info is info that would be available to us I'd imagine.
If the odds were anything to go by, we'd have had Sneijder, Sanchez, Lewandoski and Jose here already.
Odds can be a decent indication when they change out of the blue - not in line with newspaper reports or speculation, for example - the price of David Moyes becoming United manager dropped significantly about a week before Fergie announced his retirement.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs...oyes-joining-manchester-united-131155065.html
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs...oyes-joining-manchester-united-131155065.html
We dodged a bullet with Sneijder.
That gun is ready to fire again.
It's a combination of betting patterns and inside information.
Transfer betting is worth millions to the bookies so you can be sure they'll be keeping agents and people with inside knowledge sweet with any information that can give them an edge.
It's worth pointing out too that slashing of odds is also a good way to invite bets. With the papers indicating a player might move to a club, people start talking about it. Then, all of a sudden a players odds of moving to a club go from 10/1 to 4/7 on and some dilberts think its a sure fire sign that it's about to happen, better whack £20 on it...
This has been a very disappointing thread so far
Yeah, that's pretty much what I wanted to say. They don't go down for no reason, but the odds of someone like Thiago or Strootman coming here are always going to fluctuate around a specific level and then they may get cut every once in a while. I wouldn't trust odds as transfer information, but it can be an indicator. Sure Ronaldo was odds favourite go to Chelsea after that guy something Johnson(absolute knob btw) on twitter said it was a sure thing and every eejit put their money on him. That's all it takes at times.
You need to be patient. The odds have just been slashed. One more week before we get a definitive answer.
This signing makes too much sense for us to do it. City/Chelsea/PSG/Monaco will offer him a nice salary and he will be one that got away.
We are one crazy poster who is in love with the player a la wr8 and Sneijder away from this thread ending up in the classics.
That's being generous, too.
Manchester United join neighbours City in chase for Barcelona's Thiago Alcantara
10 Jun 2013 22:30
Champions' incoming manager Moyes hopes to snap up Spain U21 midfielder he had his eye on at Everton for £15m
Welcome to Manchester: United and City both have Alcantara in their sights
Ian Walton
New Manchester United boss David Moyes has launched a £15million bid to sign Barcelona starlet Thiago Alcantara.
Moyes has put chief scout Jim Lawlor on the case to set up a deal for Spain Under-21 skipper Alcantara, who is currently on duty at the age-group European Championship in Israel.
Midfielder Alcantara is available as Barca are willing to cash in for big money, and he is growing fed up at a lack of regular game-time.
The young star, who's also being linked with Manchester City, has been on Moyes’ radar before, but he was out of touch when he was in charge at Everton.
Now though, with the greater financial clout of United behind him, wheels are turning.
Alcantara is represented by Pere Guardiola, brother of ex-Barca coach and incoming Bayern Munich boss Pep, but the new European Cup holders have yet to make a move.
The Mirror understands that Premier League champions United have made contact with the Alcantara camp, with his father - Brazil hero Mazinho - open to the transfer.
United’s new manager has made progress behind the scenes and hopes to put an offer to both club and player shortly.
£15m for him would be a freaking bargain. For someone, because he'll clearly not come to us.
No surprise Moyes knows of him. Find it funny that we are after City's target seeing as we have been monitoring him for years.
Course not he's too big for a club like us.
Its the journos they can't talk about one of our targets without throwing fecking citeh into the mix
Lads gear yourself up for Leon Osman instead. Just know someone else will come in last minute and snap him up, sneaky Russians!
Thiago would be perfect for us in terms of quality, age, re-sale value, style of play and many other things. For that reason alone I can personally guarantee he will not come here.
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Please don't be so negative. We need good karma to get this guy. And btw I agree totally with the rest of your post.
We were massive favourites to sign Özil and Sneijder too. Doesn't mean much.
What on earth gave you that idea? The sheer lack of knowledge and importance placed to these novelty markets is astounding. These markets are only gimmicks. There are set up to generate interest and are a great way of attracting new accounts. The Lay to lose (dictates the max bets etc) on these markets are tiny. Any person looking to get a bet on say PSG in that Thiago market would struggle to get much more than £50 on at 8/1, as the LTL would likely be £500 on that market. Idiots could get up to £500 on United at Evens say. A £500 LTL is miniscule in bookies terms, this market is only a joke designed to get people interested in the bookie and perhaps go and bet on proper markets.
But it takes no more than a couple of new accounts to sign up and have a bet on one of the clubs for the trader to suspend the market. They will then restructure, and put the market back up with the clubs odds slashed (Strootman), and the bookie saying they 'seen a tonne of money for it'. (The monday before SAF retired on Tues, a major bookie had a few new accounts opened in order to put max bets, round 400 quid or so, on Moyes as manager. The bookie suspended, reported they had seen 'floods of money', and sparked a series of rumours that Fergie was retiring and Moyes was taking over. A day later we found out this was true. Guess how many of these new accounts and bets it took to spark all this off? You can count it on one hand.)
These markets are very rarely informative. And if they are, it won't be on behalf of tiny joke bookies like Skybet, who will try to take as little money as possible on something like this, but tweet the most often.
In dummy terms what the hell does all that mean.
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