Mourinho admitted publicly that Chelsea never bid for Shaw. He said he could never justify paying an unproven teenager huge wages that were higher than some of his veteran, CL winning players.
We were the only ones who bid for him.
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We were the only ones who bid for him.
By this declaration we outbid them, during the discussions he realized that he wouldn't be able to match our offer.
Just like Ferguson said we were never in for Sneijder and didn't bid anywhere near what the others did for Hazard. Chelsea were clearly interested in Shaw [hence the need for Jose to justify an appriopriate wage for him] - he wouldn't need to do that if they were NEVER interested in him, they did look and ask, but we just made sure they didn't get him, by out bidding them.
Exactly.
Of course they were interested in him. That doesn't mean they ever put an offer on the table. They were probably interested in Di Maria and Falcao but never bid for them.
They were interested, were probably quoted a price, and said "feck that" and moved on.
Us outbidding them would be them offering £25m or something and us trumping it. Which didn't happen.
Because Mourinho said so.
We dragged out the Herrera deal over a season and ended up paying the same price.
We bungled the Fellaini and Baines deals and ended up paying more for Fellaini.
We had a good fee for Rojo and still ended up having to send Nani the other way.
Not to mention the overall confusion about transfer targets and who to go for, buying redundant players etc. Blind is likely the one deal that we did well on, might be because of Van Gaal specifying his intent and Ajax being a good, straight forward club to deal with.
Of course, Mourinho is the most honest man ever.
Shaw himself has said he's on nothing like the amount of money everyone says he's on, too.
He said he couldnt see Cuardrado fitting into Chelsea's team the other day, so you should take his comments with a pinch of salt.
It never works like that, from what i understand most of the time clubs only put one offer on the table, after having discussed with the other part. It's not a multiplication of offers "put on the table".
Mourinho, Woodward and probably begiristain and Wenger sat around a table with Southampton officials and we are the ones who made an offer who was interesting enough for the club and player.
I think I read the other day that he's on £50k a week. Some of the reported numbers for him were crazy, don't know how people actually believed it.
The idea of Mourinho complaining a cost is too high is hilarious after the way he lashed the highest totals in premier history in his first spell
Because it's United and negativity sells.
I read the same numbers, in november. It was on a newcastle forum, so not very reliable.
The transfers you are mentioning are from last year, this year we were quite quick.
Agreed. They're so much 'smarter' as a club these days. A different animal to before.
Not Ando 
And on that news, Greggs have declared the closure of 12 stores and 60 redundancies.
You've heard wrong mate, they're simply relocating.
The dream team is complete, 'SAC'.
Sanogo, Ameobi, Chamakh
Pardew is a genius.
They may not have bid for him they certainly looked at the potential of buying him prior to bidding.
Anyhow, why would you believe what a football manager says? They lie readily when its convenient.
That's one thing that is spot on - we've given far too many a underperforming player a "chance", when in fact, we should have been ruthless and shipped them out.
Wages probably come into it as well. I'm sure we got a ridiculous offer from a Russian club for Nani but he didn't want a reduction in wage. Offering 4-5 year contracts to players like Nani/Anderson isn't the best idea either.
So, we could have another fun deadline day?
No idea. Even if we have bid I can't see anything happening in this window, surely the summer only.Tell me he is reliable, please
In my mind Hummels is the number 1 CB in the World. Would be great for me if we actually signed him. Not seen any overly reliable sources reporting it though,
What I get from this is that the Italians are the biggest transfer muppets in the world.
What, like on eBay?
Football transfers don't happen like that. I don't really care what we paid, he's clearly good and has the potential to be very good.
The English sources seem to all have got their recent stories from sport bild, who aren't even particularly reliable themselves, are they?
FUR DEN SOMMER 
Of course he is, look how professional and hardworking he looks at that desk, in a real studio.Tell me he is reliable, please
Edit: he's also wearing a tie.
If signing him means the death of 352, fo'real, then pay 100m for Matt lad
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