Inter do not need money. They are filthy rich. I doubt that we would get him for less then 30m.
Wesley Sneijder
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Inter do not need money. They are filthy rich. I doubt that we would get him for less then 30m.
I hear Stoke are also interested in replacing Glen Whealan with him
It's getting stupider by the minute in here
Shut up and go make your husband Marek some food.
It really is, isn't it?
Don't bid - We're doomed
Pay 30 mill - We overpay
Pay 20 million - We're skint and are purposely bidding low so that the offer is rejected
Just wow.
Sneijder is a great player but whether he will fit our system is something I'm not too sure about.
Of course they are, but getting in contact to declare your interest is a very different thing.
Thats the first step of negotiations.
The fact that Moratti has not come out and said "there is no way we will ever sell Sneijder" is actually very promising in my opinion. He doesn't want "to look into it in case he is tempted". That sounds to me like he feels Sneijder has his price.
He'd be a great signing, even if we paid a premium for him. A top player in the prime of his career and someone who would work well as a midfielder in a one striker setup.
I had a senior moment and thought he was dutch
So, that's a good thing in our favour
I'm trying to figure out at what point did fergie suddenly become a hate figure as well. It's worse than it was last year and this is the mains.
30 Million Euros? That's £25m, I'd wank myself silly if we got him for such a fee.
As a player, I have no doubts about his quality. He has proven to be a fantastic player. My issue here is whether he can operate in a 2 man midfield. We do play 2 strikers in 80% of our matches in the Premier League. If we were to bring him in only for the CL and those remaining 20%, it'd be a waste.
He does seem to have the skill set and the attributes to be in a 2man midfield but he really hasn't played in that position in his entire career
No, not really. I doubt we'd get him for around £20m for example. How long as he got on his contract by the way? I bet he's just trying to improve his contract with Inter. . .
€30 million for a player who could become WPOTY doesn't look too steep
He has 3 years left on his contract
He has 3 years left on his contract
Oh hang on a second.... has Ferguson stummbled across some "Value"?
3 Years.
That was my initial thoughts but in that scenario it's usually an agent that comes out and says that a club are interested.... not the man he's going to be negotiating the said contract with...
He is. It was posted a couple of pages back. He has 3 years left on his contract, but he wants a pay hike and Inter are apparently going to offer him one.
And that 30 million is just an example. Its just funny how people think transfers and the process behind it is so easy as saying 'look Fergie, even a blind man can see we need a quality midfielder. Go out and splash 30 million on Sneijder.' There is no way to please some people. Especially since the window hasn't even opened yet, let alone ended.
20 million is sure to be rejected. But its how you start negotiations. Instead of being cavalier and offering 30 million
I'd be willing to bet that if we got him, that Berba's days would be numbered and we'd go to a 4-2-3-1 with Sneijder playing in the middle behind Rooney and alongside Nani and Valencia on the wings.
Why would Inter sell him is beyond me. This isn't happening muppets.
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I also would like to see him at United, but don't think it will happen.
Even against the likes of Blackburn and Fulham at Old Trafford?
He's apparently been spotted in the Roadchef by Crewe on the M6. On his way for a medical before he flies back out to SA. I heard it from a sauce close to the player
Exclusive: Sneijder offer doc leaked
By Ed. Wed, Jul 7, 2010
Secret documents leaked to United Rant conclusively prove Manchester United has made a bid for Inter Milan playmaker Wesley Sneijder. The Dutch international, currently at the World Cup in South Africa, is thought to be Sir Alex Ferguson’s primary transfer target this summer as the Scot aims to regain the Premier League from Chelsea.
Sneijder has proven an astute purchase since joining Inter from Real Madrid in a £12.4 million deal last summer. The former Ajax midfielder led Inter to a Serie A, Italian Cup and Champions League treble in his first season with the club. One of the players of the tournament, Sneijder has led Holland to the 2010 World Cup final, scoring four goals.
The faxed offer represents Sir Alex Ferguson’s attempt to find value in the transfer market.
By Ed. Wed, Jul 7, 2010
Sneijder has proven an astute purchase since joining Inter from Real Madrid in a £12.4 million deal last summer. The former Ajax midfielder led Inter to a Serie A, Italian Cup and Champions League treble in his first season with the club. One of the players of the tournament, Sneijder has led Holland to the 2010 World Cup final, scoring four goals.
The faxed offer represents Sir Alex Ferguson’s attempt to find value in the transfer market.
Ben Hibbs is reporting that we've made an offer?
If that's the case then what's really happened is they've set an asking price of five million and we've said that it's too much.
If that's the case then what's really happened is they've set an asking price of five million and we've said that it's too much.
This won't be the first of these rumors.
United always tap up a number of players to find out what the relative costs are before settling on the best value for money.
Sneijder offers great value and fills a lot of needs. He's not too old. He can fill the void in taking free kicks left by Ronaldo's departure. He fills an attacking mid void left by the decline and changed role of Scholes and the fact that Fletcher while greatly improved is not a natural goalscorer. Plus he's a winner and a gamechanger.
I'm not holding my breath, but I do think the club would be willing to pay for those attributes, especially if it takes United back up to the top again.
United always tap up a number of players to find out what the relative costs are before settling on the best value for money.
Sneijder offers great value and fills a lot of needs. He's not too old. He can fill the void in taking free kicks left by Ronaldo's departure. He fills an attacking mid void left by the decline and changed role of Scholes and the fact that Fletcher while greatly improved is not a natural goalscorer. Plus he's a winner and a gamechanger.
I'm not holding my breath, but I do think the club would be willing to pay for those attributes, especially if it takes United back up to the top again.
To be honest the only reason I can see him leaving the Treble winning European Champions is if he knows that Rafa is utterly clueless.
I reckon he could handle a 2 man midfield against them.
It's funny as the caftards doing the most whinging that were not after anyone are the ones who are now writing this off.
we had the same needs last year, sneijder had the same quality, and he would've been even cheaper.
Fergie is known to rate a player and then want him for quite some time (berba).
There can be only two answers if our interest is genuine:
1. Fergie/our staff didn't scout him enough in years prior (which is not a good sign).
or
2. We needed the full 80 million quid to strengthen our financials for the bond issuance which occured later.
I happen to think fergie still has an eye for a player (no matter how shit berbatov is), so I think this smacks of being handcufed by the glazers again.
Now the bond issuance is taken care of, we have that 'credit facility' to use to pay 3 times the amount it would've cost to get sneijder last summer.
This kind of short term idiocy on the financial side smacks of glazer handcuffs and incompetence.
Erm no we didn't, we needed a winger, nobody expected Carrick to have as bad a season as he did last year. We all thought Anderson may finally step up. Hargreaves was meant to return. It's only hindsight that has shown we need an attacking mid.
Maybe for you, but I and many on here have been banging on about bringing in a quality attacking midfielder ALONG with a winger last summer (which is why so mny wanted robben/sneijder double deal in the ronnie deal).
Banking on hrgreaves, carrick, anderson was always going to fail.
It's amazing how details / assumptions can be twisted to make it all about the Glazers and our lack of funding.
When journalists print it - they are mocked.
Things from last season have changed. For one last season it was expected to have Hargreaves for majority of the season.
Secondly - it was no where expected that Carrick would be as off form as he was for the entire season.
Also, last season the lack of progress of Anderson may not have been anticipated. Perhaps they thought he'd have more of an impact.
There are a lot of reasons other than the whole Glazer handcuffing that may have precluded for us not going for Sneijder that seem more plausible.
Also, our scouting isn't 100% - how many players over the year suddenly just come to the fore and you wish damn - we should have gone in for him when he was cheaper or more available to us.
When journalists print it - they are mocked.
Things from last season have changed. For one last season it was expected to have Hargreaves for majority of the season.
Secondly - it was no where expected that Carrick would be as off form as he was for the entire season.
Also, last season the lack of progress of Anderson may not have been anticipated. Perhaps they thought he'd have more of an impact.
There are a lot of reasons other than the whole Glazer handcuffing that may have precluded for us not going for Sneijder that seem more plausible.
Also, our scouting isn't 100% - how many players over the year suddenly just come to the fore and you wish damn - we should have gone in for him when he was cheaper or more available to us.
Yeah like it caused us to fail when we won the league and CL with them.
Well as long as you and others on here were banging on about it then yes obviously Ferguson should have purchased him last year when he had the chance regardless or not as to wether he we were actually after him.
that was in 2008, a year before summer 2009. when hargreaves was fit (now permacrock), when carrick wasn't mentally shattered, and anderson still hadn't shown anything.
based on a FULL season of 08/09 football, an attacking midfielder was required.
What, no there wasn't we'd won the premiership, made it to back to back champions league finals and were reeling from the loss of Ronaldo. At no one point did it become clear we needed a new creative midfielder.
He would be great for us, but its not going to happen.
We dont have the cash to take a player like him from a team like Inter.
We dont have the cash to take a player like him from a team like Inter.
If he's bought in. Then does it mean adios to Carrick and Berbatov?
Wow mystic meg, nice of you to show up. Don't you think that United and SAF would know the going rate for a player like Sneijder and if so then surely they'd know if we could afford him or not before we entered a bid for him.
Well like I said - there are more plausible scenario of SAF thinking those 3 players along with Scholes and Giggs (who was supposed to play as an attacking midfielder but, got shifted to the wing more due to problems with Nani not fully making the spot his own) than a case of lack of money / Glazer handcuffing.
We also ended up making our bids for Obertan/Diouf at the time which would have been close to what RM wanted, so if Sneijder was really on the radar as a player we wanted last season and money was an issue - then would have bought him instead.
Nevermind that we supposedly were bidding 25 mil+ for Tevez or Benzema.
Most likely scenario is last season that SAF didn't see the need for Sneijder and maybe from what he saw or reports were given to him didn't think he'd anything different to what we had, so didn't go for him.
So if anything mistake was on big mistake on believing Hargreaves being fit and really no blame to put in not knowing that Carrick would have a poor season or that Anderson would regress, regardless of Caftards saying they knew they would suck for us.
The whole Glazer handcuffing is really grasping for straws.
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