United ready to bring in new full-back

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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed he intends to sign a new left-back.

Ferguson has loaned his main cover in the shape of Fabio to Queens Park Rangers for next season.

He has a number of youngsters capable of filling in, but with Patrice Evra the only senior left-back he is ready to bolster his options.

Everton's Leighton Baines has been linked with a move to Old Trafford all summer, and Ferguson admits he will be looking at that area.

Asked if he would be signing a left-back he confirmed: "Yes. We have two young lads we gave a bit of time to against AmaZulu [their first pre-season friendly] but they are young.

"Patrice will be all right. He's shown he has a resilience about him and has a great attitude to playing, but he is 31 next month."

Ferguson admitted it can be an issue attracting a player when he has to compete with Evra - who is a virtual ever-present when fit.

"That's a possibility," he said.

"But we are not at the stage where we're assessing that. It's not an easy decision to make."
 
I give this thread 5 more posts max before it descends into a 'debate' about central midfield.

On topic, I hope we've got guarantees about Fabio receiving some decent playing time at QPR or that will be a complete waste of time again (a la Rossi at Newcastle).

Peronally I would've liked to see Fabio stay here and get games when Evra needs a rest.
 
If we don't sign a midfielder our left back area will explode so the debate will be academic
 
Where does he actually say t?
 
The feck? Where does he say we are definitely going to sign a LB? If anything:

"But we are not at the stage where we're assessing that. It's not an easy decision to make."
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I think that LB is almost certainly Baines. No one else is really in the frame at the moment
 
Ive interpreted that as

Asked if he would be signing a left-back he confirmed: "Yes. We have two young lads we gave a bit of time to against AmaZulu [their first pre-season friendly] but they are young.


Yes, we will be signing a left back, we do have two young lads but they are young, so we need to sign a left back because they're too young to be in the first XI permanently.
 
StanleyCupboard said:
"Patrice will be all right. He's shown he has a resilience about him and has a great attitude to playing, but he is 31 next month."
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He turned 31 on 15th May... that said, he will be 31 next month.. and the month after that too.
 
Context:


ON SIGNING A NEW LEFT BACK

Evra has played non-stop for five years and Fabio has gone to QPR. Do you have to bring somebody in?

Yes. We have two young lads we gave a bit of time to (against AmaZulu) last night but they are young. Patrice will be all right. He’s shown he has a resilience about him and has a great attitude to playing, but he is 31 next month.

Is it difficult to attract players because they see Patrice playing every game?

That’s a possibility. But we are not at the stage where we’re assessing that. It’s not an easy decision to make.
 
prateik said:
He turned 31 on 15th May... that said, he will be 31 next month.. and the month after that too.
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Yes, well done. He didn't say Evra was TURNING 31 next month, he's saying he'll be 31 when this season begins. He's putting his age in context of the season ahead.
 
Have a sneaking suspicion that we will go after Ally Cissokho of Lyon. Available for 7m apparently. Good age and experience, and also a good backup.
 
MPTutd said:
Have a sneaking suspicion that we will go after Ally Cissokho of Lyon. Available for 7m apparently. Good age and experience, and also a good backup.
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He is rubbish from what I've read/heard.
 
So really, we aren't ready to bring in a new full-back at all.
 
It all depends on Brady and Blackett. I hope they perform well, we really need a reliable FB but Fergie would rather promote one of the young lads. £15m for Baines is daylight robbery.

Oh and Patrice is already 31.
 
StanleyCupboard said:
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed he intends to sign a new left-back.

Ferguson has loaned his main cover in the shape of Fabio to Queens Park Rangers for next season.

He has a number of youngsters capable of filling in, but with Patrice Evra the only senior left-back he is ready to bolster his options.

Everton's Leighton Baines has been linked with a move to Old Trafford all summer, and Ferguson admits he will be looking at that area.

Asked if he would be signing a left-back he confirmed: "Yes. We have two young lads we gave a bit of time to against AmaZulu [their first pre-season friendly] but they are young.


"Patrice will be all right. He's shown he has a resilience about him and has a great attitude to playing, but he is 31 next month."

Ferguson admitted it can be an issue attracting a player when he has to compete with Evra - who is a virtual ever-present when fit.

"That's a possibility," he said.

"But we are not at the stage where we're assessing that. It's not an easy decision to make."
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are you signing a left back....? yes....

.........but we are not at the stage where we are assessing that....

OK So......
 
Evra will still be 1st choice. Evans like Sheasy was before him is more than capable of stepping in now and again to give Evra a rest etc and we have Blackett and Brady as well. I think we're fine in that position.
 
I reckon Izaguirre at Celtic would be worth a pop, younger than Baines, probably half the price, and would be decent back-up.
 
Sarni said:
He was never an option.
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I doubt that's true (what with Fabio having gone on loan) ...

... which is why Fergie, by all accounts, seems to be rather upset about his departure.
 
GlastonSpur said:
I doubt that's true (what with Fabio having gone on loan) ...

... which is why Fergie, by all accounts, seems to be rather upset about his departure.
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:lol::lol::lol::lol:

I was waiting for this, Glastonshit to come along and 'gloat' about nicking a player from our reserves :lol:

You really are a sad little feckwit of a man. A fwiw, Fryers is average, at best. I doubt Fergie was 'upset' in the slightest.
 
GlastonSpur said:
I doubt that's true (what with Fabio having gone on loan) ...

... which is why Fergie, by all accounts, seems to be rather upset about his departure.
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I doubt he gives a feck. Fryers never played for us outside of Carling Cup and was never really rated highly, he was bound to leave for a much weaker club at some point. Fabio is a much better player and Ferguson didn't think he was ready, he would be in for a left back regardless of Fryers departure.

You do realise we didn't even offer him £20k a week that he demanded and that's why he left?
 
GlastonSpur said:
I doubt that's true (what with Fabio having gone on loan) ...

... which is why Fergie, by all accounts, seems to be rather upset about his departure.
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You're a tool. He's average, at best. He wouldn't have gotten a look in here. I doubt Fergie gives much of a feck that he's gone.
 
Glaston does take a lot of unnecessary flack on here sometimes, but fryers is 100% not good enough to be our backup left back next year.
 
Sam said:
:lol::lol::lol::lol:

I was waiting for this, Glastonshit to come along and 'gloat' about nicking a player from our reserves :lol:

You really are a sad little feckwit of a man. A fwiw, Fryers is average, at best. I doubt Fergie was 'upset' in the slightest.
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Yet another poster who apparently thinks that chucking around personal abuse is clever ... when in fact it just draws attention to your lack of substance.

My original post merely pointed out that, on top of the loan-out of Fabio, Fryers has also left you .... thus further underlining the need for you to sign a LB (which is what this thread is all about).

And there I would have left it ... except that in response I was told that Fryers was "never an option". So in response to that, I said that this seems unlikely to be true given all the many reports that Fergie wanted him to stay ... and also given your lack of other, better LB alternatives.

You interpret all this as "gloating".

I interpret your interpretation as "somewhat defensive-aggressive paranoia". But don't worry - that's a common form of behaviour from those who resort easily to chucking around personal abuse.
 
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