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Not about him as a player, but that cost Utd a few millions.
I'm sure there are more teams willing to take Valdes on loan and Standard won't be paying much of his wages anyway.

I just don't think we should be doing a favour to a team that helped us losing money.

These things are part of football. Liege just took advantage of the fact that we couldn't agree a compensation fee with Spurs after Fryers had spent the whole summer training with them. His contract was up and another club signed him. Don't see anything wrong with that and I definitely don't think they've cost us anything.
 
More likely that his wages have been a huge stumbling block in shifting him.

If we're going to have to cover his wages one way or another we're better off having the option to call on him in an emergency than just pay him off and gift him to another club.

I wouldn't be surprised if Woody saw him as a former champions league winner and gave him a 150k a week right up.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if Woody saw him as a former champions league winner and gave him a 150k a week right up.

Monaco were paying most of his wages apparently which is why we were happy to take the punt and let him train with us.
 
Why would he be on high wages? He was coming off a long-term injury, didn't have a club, and basically needed us more than we needed him. Is everybody at the club useless at negotiating?
 
Not seen the papers say that. They're going on the lines of mean ol' van Gaal waving his willy around and treating Barcelona legend Valdes terribly. Its caf members who said about the undermining/arguing stuff.

Fair enough if they say that, haven't read anything on this I think. I just assumed.

My logic says that it's not true though, based on seeing pretty much every one of our players who left us got in fight with van Gaal, so it's unfair to blame Valdes alone in this and call him cnut based on nothing. That and him obviously showing lot of respect for United.
 
Fair enough if they say that, haven't read anything on this I think. I just assumed.

My logic says that it's not true though, based on seeing pretty much every one of our players who left us got in fight with van Gaal, so it's unfair to blame Valdes alone in this and call him cnut based on nothing. That and him obviously showing lot of respect for United.

I've heard from a few people involved in the club that unsurprisingly the problem with Valdes wasn't just about his refusal to play for the u21s. He also had multiple rows with members of staff and with Hoek in particular and refused to do things he was asked to do in training because he thought he knew better but the final straw was when he began undermining Hoek with the other players. He was toxic to have around the squad so was removed from the first team picture but the club still have to fulfill their contractual obligations such as providing him with training. The sooner he's out of the club the better.
 
About time the cnut fecked off. I'll be glad if I never see his face again.

No, no, no! :nono: More a case of another example why van Gaal needs to feck off as soon as possible. I would be absolutely apoplectic with rage if we landed somebody like Cavani (which is being mooted and something I would very much welcome by the way) and van Gaal somehow managed to bugger it up with his excellent inter-personal skills!
 
No, no, no! :nono: More a case of another example why van Gaal needs to feck off as soon as possible. I would be absolutely apoplectic with rage if we landed somebody like Cavani (which is being mooted and something I would very much welcome by the way) and van Gaal somehow managed to bugger it up with his excellent inter-personal skills!
Yep it was van Gaal's fault that Valdes decided to act a brat and defy Hoek and try and undermine the coaching staff.
 
No, no, no! :nono: More a case of another example why van Gaal needs to feck off as soon as possible. I would be absolutely apoplectic with rage if we landed somebody like Cavani (which is being mooted and something I would very much welcome by the way) and van Gaal somehow managed to bugger it up with his excellent inter-personal skills!
Cavani is absolute piss.
 
Yep it was van Gaal's fault that Valdes decided to act a brat and defy Hoek and try and undermine the coaching staff.

Yeah yeah I get it...you heard it from somebody who knows somebody who lives next to somebody who was the gardener for somebody at the club who told them everything. Do you have a definitive source??
 
Yeah yeah I get it...you heard it from somebody who knows somebody who lives next to somebody who was the gardener for somebody at the club who told them everything. Do you have a definitive source??
No he heard it from me and I heard it directly from more than 1 person at the club. If you choose not to believe it thats entirely up to yourself but not a whole lot of point having a go at him over believing something I said.
 
Maybe, it's in case LVG gets sacked. The new manager may want to use him as the no.2. Not sure he'd want to be deputy but the guy doesn't even make the bench under LVG.

I thought of this myself. I don't get why we wouldn't just sell him for a few million given the fact his relationship with Van Gaal is beyond repair. Perhaps it adds to the rumour of Van Gaal stepping down at the end of the season.
 
Standard Liege!

Surely he didn't think he'd be playing in Belgium when he left Barca. Nobody want's him.
 
Manchester United and Standard Liege have reached agreement for the temporary transfer of goalkeeper Victor Valdes, effective until the end of the current season.

The Spain international and former Barcelona shot-stopper signed for the Reds in January 2015 and has made two appearances for the club - making his debut as a substitute in the penultimate game of last season at home to Arsenal (1-1), and then starting the final match of 2014/15 away to Hull which ended in a goalless draw.

By moving to Belgium, Valdes becomes the fifth United player to go out on loan this month after fellow goalkeepers Sam Johnstone, Dean Henderson and Kieran O'Hara and striker Ashley Fletcher.

Adnan Januzaj, Will Keane, Donald Love and Joel Castro Pereira have all returned to the club in recent weeks while Liam Grimshaw and Ben Pearson have both made permanent moves to Preston North End.
 
Victor Valdes holds no grudge against Louis van Gaal, despite being made to train away from the Manchester United first team this season.

The former Spain goalkeeper left United to join Standard Liege on loan for the rest of the season in January having been frozen out by Van Gaal last summer after it was claimed he refused to play in a reserves game at the end of last season.

But Valdes passed up the opportunity to criticise Van Gaal, instead choosing to express his gratitude to the Dutchman for offering him the chance to complete his rehabilitation from a serious knee injury at Old Trafford.

He said: “I don’t have any problem with Louis van Gaal. He discovered me when I was 20 years old. He was the only coach who, in that moment, said ‘I want you in the first team’.

“And after my knee ligament injury, he was the first to approach me about playing for Manchester United.

“I am thankful to him and will never forget that. He gave me my first game after my injury.

“It’s very simple. I had two options, stay in Manchester but not play or go to Standard or to enjoy my football, the fans and, above all, to get back to feeling like a footballer and to be able to train every day.

“I went for the second option. I’m very happy.”
 
Such an ungrateful cnut, feck off! Oh, wait...
 
So, he is back in Manchester? Poor chap. Hopefully we'll find him a new club this summer (or he can accept the role of a second keeper under the new manager, which is highly unlikely)
 
So, he is back in Manchester? Poor chap. Hopefully we'll find him a new club this summer (or he can accept the role of a second keeper under the new manager, which is highly unlikely)

His contract expires this summer and I don't think we'll use our option for a further year.
 
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