Wesley Sneijder

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KiD CaNtO said:
Neither club are in any rush to be honest, we won't allow ourselfs to be held ransom by Inter, while they'll only sell if a big offer comes in.

So I can't imagine any potential deal not dragging out.
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Well. I said a while ago that Inter DID want to sell, that Sneijder DID want to leave and the we DID want him.

Since then Inter's public stance has gone from - he's definitely not leaving and he wants to stay so why should he leave to everyone's available at the right price.

Sounds like his father has said he wants to join us as well.

If rumours about Inter being interested in Tevez are true then I can see this happening as early as next week. Think we'll pay up to £35m and they'll possibly buy Tevez for that.
 
mufcwarm92 said:
The Scholes interview further up the page is a great one. I'm finding all these Scholes interviews bizarre given his famous hatred of the limelight, but they really are illuminating and it's great to hear how confident he is with what we already have. You don't get much more of an expert than the greatest midfielder of his generation.
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Scholes is awesome and it's great seeing him out there giving interviews. His words about Anderson are great to see, he has the talent to be world class, hopefully his head will allow him to get there.

Having said that, do you really think that a member of the United coaching staff would come out and say that the quality of our midfielders is below par compared to our rivals?
 
KingMinger22 said:
Fergie said 5 senior players retiring ''freed up the finances to bring three in''. I found that quite revealing as the line from Gill was we had decent money to blow... i.e. more than £50m considering our rather frivolous spending and losing Ronaldo and Tevez...
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Fergie was almost certainly talking about wages. We have always had a strict policy of wages not going over 50% of turnover, and that's just smart business sense. Considering three of those five players (Scholes, Gary and Edwin) were retirees and we didn't really get all that much for Wes and O'Shea, it wouldn't make sense for Fergie to be saying them leaving gave us the money to actually make the new signings of £50m plus.

The five of them leaving would've opened up around £400k a week I'm guessing. I'd then guess that the three new guys are on around £160k between them, so we'd still have something like £240k to play with. Probably more as I'm pretty sure I remember reading our wages were only around 48% last season. That doesn't mean we can comfortably blow it all on one player though, as that would have the knock on effect that a lot of other players would use that to say they should be earning more.
 
MadDogg said:
Fergie was almost certainly talking about wages. We have always had a strict policy of wages not going over 50% of turnover, and that's just smart business sense. Considering three of those five players (Scholes, Gary and Edwin) were retirees and we didn't really get all that much for Wes and O'Shea, it wouldn't make sense for Fergie to be saying them leaving gave us the money to actually make the new signings of £50m plus.

The five of them leaving would've opened up around £400k a week I'm guessing. I'd then guess that the three new guys are on around £160k between them, so we'd still have something like £240k to play with. Probably more as I'm pretty sure I remember reading our wages were only around 48% last season. That doesn't mean we can comfortably blow it all on one player though, as that would have the knock on effect that a lot of other players would use that to say they should be earning more.
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Considering we have lost Neville, Bebe, Hargreaves, van der Sar, Brown, O'Shea and Scholes - and in addition we will probably also see Gibson or / and Kuszczak - my guess is we will slash more than £500k in wages off these players. But I assume we didn't pay Welbeck and Cleverleys wages last season - so they will come into it - and in addition improved contracts for a few players will reduce it further

But yeah I would agree with you - I would say isolated, we could afford to give someone £200k a week without increasing our total wages from last year!
 
lysglimt said:
Considering we have lost Neville, Bebe, Hargreaves, van der Sar, Brown, O'Shea and Scholes - and in addition we will probably also see Gibson or / and Kuszczak - my guess is we will slash more than £500k in wages off these players. But I assume we didn't pay Welbeck and Cleverleys wages last season - so they will come into it - and in addition improved contracts for a few players will reduce it further

But yeah I would agree with you - I would say isolated, we could afford to give someone £200k a week without increasing our total wages from last year!
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Neville - £80k
Hargreaves - £80k
van der Sar - £60k
Brown - £40k
O'Shea - £40k
Scholes - £80k
Bebe - £1

Or thereabouts...

That's almost £400k in wages.

I am guessing the new ones are on about:

Young - £80k
de Gea - £50k
Jones - £40k

More than £200k saved.
 
The Irony of this thread title does make me chuckle. The same people that are generally ridiculing posters for being "muppets" are now saying "this is the transfer forum, please take it seriously"
 
I like to dip in and out of the transfer forum from time to time bearing in mind the following

1. I never have any rumours to offer the transfer forum
2. I don't believe the rumour-mill to begin with

So my time is ad-hok in here
 
Kinky Melinky said:
I like to dip in and out of the transfer forum from time to time bearing in mind the following

1. I never have any rumours to offer the transfer forum
2. I don't believe the rumour-mill to begin with

So my time is ad-hok in here
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ad-hok - is that a chinese advertising guy?
 
CnutOfAllCnuts said:
Neville - £80k
Hargreaves - £80k
van der Sar - £60k
Brown - £40k
O'Shea - £40k
Scholes - £80k
Bebe - £1

Or thereabouts...

That's almost £400k in wages.

I am guessing the new ones are on about:

Young - £80k
de Gea - £50k
Jones - £40k

More than £200k saved.
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Thought Young was well over £100K, £115K or something, could be wrong though I get your general point. I wouldn't have thought Jones would be on on quite that much.
 
CnutOfAllCnuts said:
Neville - £80k
Hargreaves - £80k
van der Sar - £60k
Brown - £40k
O'Shea - £40k
Scholes - £80k
Bebe - £1

Or thereabouts...

That's almost £400k in wages.

I am guessing the new ones are on about:

Young - £80k
de Gea - £50k
Jones - £40k

More than £200k saved.
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:lol:

Made me laugh.

Doubt Jones and De Gea are on that much though. Hernandez and Smalling were on under 20k at first I believe.

And I hope to god Young isn't making more than around 80k per week, he is not worth 100k +
 
It looks like Inter are the ones wanting to sell (to get Tevez?) rather than us wanting to buy right now.

It's certainly a strange one.
 
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But Sir Alex Ferguson's interest in the [B]striker [/B]appeared to have waned last week with Sneijder’s wages and transfer fee proving prohibitive.

What!? This won't solve our midfield problems at all. :wenger:
 
This is typical mexican stand off.Its obvious we want to buy wesley schneider and its obvious Milan want to sell.However neither party wants to make the first move.If we make the first move the price goes up about £10m,and if Milan approach us the price goes down about £10m.Eventually both parties will see sense and meet somewhere in the middle.fingers crossed.......
 
honcho said:
This is typical mexican stand off.Its obvious we want to buy wesley schneider and its obvious Milan want to sell.However neither party wants to make the first move.If we make the first move the price goes up about £10m,and if Milan approach us the price goes down about £10m.Eventually both parties will see sense and meet somewhere in the middle.fingers crossed.......
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Inter.
 
honcho said:
This is typical mexican stand off.Its obvious we want to buy wesley schneider and its obvious Milan want to sell.However neither party wants to make the first move.If we make the first move the price goes up about £10m,and if Milan approach us the price goes down about £10m.Eventually both parties will see sense and meet somewhere in the middle.fingers crossed.......
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Paris? :angel:
 
So Tevez's reps have arrived in Milan? This should get things moving...
 
Why does everyone think that Inter getting Tevez means they've to sell Sneijder?
Inter might not be financially in the greatest shape, but they're one of the biggest clubs in the World, I can't see them being under too much pressure to sell? Or maybe I'm wrong...
 
KiD CaNtO said:
Why does everyone think that Inter getting Tevez means they've to sell Sneijder?
Inter might not be financially in the greatest shape, but they're one of the biggest clubs in the World, I can't see them being under too much pressure to sell? Or maybe I'm wrong...
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You probably are.
 
KiD CaNtO said:
Why does everyone think that Inter getting Tevez means they've to sell Sneijder?
Inter might not be financially in the greatest shape, but they're one of the biggest clubs in the World, I can't see them being under too much pressure to sell? Or maybe I'm wrong...
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This isn't aimed at you in particular but as whole you often see these comments. Size does not equal wealth. Inter are a club with massive financial issues and regardless of their size, if you don't have the cash, you can't buy. They're also at a disadvantage where they can't use their stadium in leverage for loans like ourselves, Madrid and Barcelona for example. So yes, they are being under pressure to sell if they want Tevez. Not only do they not have the cash to buy upfront with his sale, they also can't really borrow much more then they have. As much as Barcelona, Madrid, City and Chelsea try to make you think, clubs don't have bottomless pits of cash reserves. More so those not owned by a Sheik. If the Spanish economy cannot recover either then you'll see the big two get alot closer to their rivals in terms of players as well and a few known players from the big two get sold on for more economical players that won't demand massive salaries.
 
marchi-91 said:
This isn't aimed at you in particular but as whole you often see these comments. Size does not equal wealth. Inter are a club with massive financial issues and regardless of their size, if you don't have the cash, you can't buy. They're also at a disadvantage where they can't use their stadium in leverage for loans like ourselves, Madrid and Barcelona for example. So yes, they are being under pressure to sell if they want Tevez. Not only do they not have the cash to buy upfront with his sale, they also can't really borrow much more then they have. As much as Barcelona, Madrid, City and Chelsea try to make you think, clubs don't have bottomless pits of cash reserves. More so those not owned by a Sheik. If the Spanish economy cannot recover either then you'll see the big two get alot closer to their rivals in terms of players as well and a few known players from the big two get sold on for more economical players that won't demand massive salaries.
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Makes sense, just hate the idea of a big club having to sell first to fund transfers.
 
Right lads, we are obviously gonna get him, I'm off to get a picture of Sneijder's face tattooed on my cock
 
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