Since we are trying to do business with Inter it probably will be enough. They dont have amasive rebuilding job to do and can afford to sell Sneijder at a reasonable fee because they have his replacement already on their books.
Wesley Sneijder
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Am I the only one that thinks he's not exactly what we need? He's obviously a brilliant player and would cure a lot of our problems but surely he would be out of position in a 4-4-2? I'd much rather get someone who sits a little deeper and is more accomplished defensively, unless Fergie believes he can be moulded to play there.
I think our problem is that we have plenty of midfielders that sit a little deeper, think we are crying out for one that can be creative further up the field.
Don't want him anywhere near the team. Acted like an absolute dickhead throughout the WC and this season for Inter. Has an air of entitlement to him that I think will do nothing good for the United dressing room.
Undoubtedly a talented player, but not who I would pick to come to United. For 25 million I suppose you would have to take him, seeing as that is peanuts in terms of transfer fees these days, but Christ I dislike him.
Undoubtedly a talented player, but not who I would pick to come to United. For 25 million I suppose you would have to take him, seeing as that is peanuts in terms of transfer fees these days, but Christ I dislike him.
Of course you can if you have the options available that they do. They have their payments made to them in all manner of ways. I can guarantee you that Rooney, for example, won't get a payslip every week with £160,000 on it (or whatever the figure is).
What do you mean moulded to play there? This was his position for many years at Ajax and played there for the national team. It was only at Real Madrid that he was moved wide and then put at the head of Inter's diamond. It may not be his best position but he's played as a genuine central midfielder before
you think top footballers are paying standard rates of tax?
They certainly do on around two thirds of their salary. I'm well aware of the image rights payments which allows them to pay the lower Corporation tax rate on some of their earnings but HMRC are currently attempting to close that loophole.
When I say a little deeper all I really mean is a midfielder which can provide creativity without having to have all his defensive work done for him. As far as I'm aware Sneijder has always had someone to do that for him and whilst he would obviously be a brilliant option and give us something a bit different he wouldn't really suit a 2 man midfield. Modric, Sahin, Banega are all examples of the sorts of players I'm talking about, all very creative but can hold their own in a 2 man midfield.
Fergies never bought specialised attacking midfielders, don't see why he would start now.
My guess is the rumour is a smokescreen for another similar type and cheaper player that maybe has the initials DC!
He is a very good player, I just don't like him. It is time to blood the team with our youth. Other than a keeper, I don't want us to buy anybody. They will end up being our white elephant. We already have one big white elephant.
He is perfect. Remember SAF once told players peak between the ages of 26/27 - 31. So he is at his peak right now. He has proven himself at the biggest stages of football. He will fit in perfectly.
If he's available at 25 million, we should take him immediately. This is value, and he's better than Modric for a start
Please describe to me how the team will shape up? How is his defensive aptitude? I have not watched him a lot, just youtube stuff mostly, against Spurs, world cup and I don't see how some of you are easily envisioning the perfect fit.
You don't think we'd have to offer Sneijder in the region of £250,000 per week in order to match his net salary at Inter? He was widely reported to have been handed an annual net salary of 5.5m euros by Inter (c. 11m euros gross or 220,000 euros per week) when he agreed a new contract back in October of last year. Some press outlets even suggested his new annual gross salary was close to 310,000 euros per week (c. £270,000).
If we take the 5.5m euros net salary (220,000 euros gross per week) and apply the UK's top rate of income tax (50%) and national insurance (13.5%) then we'd have to offer him a gross salary of nearly £12m pa or £240,000 per week in order to match his annual take home pay of 5.5m euros at Inter.
If you go back to mid-2007, when the pound was worth close to 1.50 euros and the UK's top rate of income tax was 40%, United would ''only'' have been required to offer Sneijder a gross salary of £7m pa or £140,000 per week in order to match his current net salary of 5.5 million euros. We could have afforded that! £5m less per year. That's £20m less over a four year contract.
Whatever the exact amount is that Sneijder's earning, it isn't hard to imagine that he's now one of the top 10 (probably top 5) best paid players in the world. He plays for a club with a history of paying their star players huge salaries and he agreed his latest contract at the age of 26, with his best years ahead of him, when he was just coming off a season when many, including the owner of the club he plays for, thought he deserved the world player of the year award.
How is Scholes defensive aptitude? Are you happy with that?
See, there is this thing about family,
you accept them. Now when the stranger comes in, the onus is on him to be better. I wanted to really know what you thought about the questions I asked. I was not being jerk.
This is just absurd Marchi.
Switzerland? So what would he do exactly? Train on his own over there and then use up his 90 day non resident entitlement when he needed to pop over to England to play a football match. Great plan. I can't see what could possibly go wrong.
See, there is this thing about family,
I wanted to really know what you thought about the questions I asked. I was not being jerk.
He is a playmaker. Scholes is a playmaker. Defense is not their first duty. Sneidjer is not too bad defensively. He tracks back kinda and helps out.
It sounds about right. There are a very limited number of clubs who could afford or could justify taking on his salary, so that drives the transfer fee down.
Terrible season for him
Yeah I think he is exhausted. Mourinho bought the best of him the last season. He has been playing continuously for sometime now.
He may take a pay cut if he wants to play in England. Not huge but I couldn't see him being unhappy with being on a pay with what Rooney earns, which I'm positive isn't the £250,000 headline figure bandied around in the media.
They really don't and image rights aren't the only way of doing it.
Arsenal
They don't want a keeper. Blood with yoof.
All this talk of him being too old is ridiculous, the guys just coming up 27, hes hardly past it. He one of the best players in the world, in his prime or just entering it, barring injury, we should able to get at least 5 years out of him at the very top.
For £25m, yes please....I would expect to pay more though.
For £25m, yes please....I would expect to pay more though.
Well - a midfield of Carrick and Fletcher behind Van der Vaart with Nani, Valencia and Rooney up front...
doesn't sound too bad
You are of course right - I wouldn't be surprised if people said the same thing about van der Vaart last summer
Why does this thread have so many pages? There's absolutely no chance of him joining United, not now, not ever.
Are you his agent?
What you're suggesting is to replicatie Wenger's policy.
no one is suggesting he is too old for us and wouldn't be good.
I brought up age this morning in relation to the fact that the club wouldn't spend big money on someone of age.
I brought up age this morning in relation to the fact that the club wouldn't spend big money on someone of age.
I have to sadly agree. People here are already drawing up teamsheets for next season with his name on it.
Don't be dense he is a perfectly viable target at a reasonable price. I mean its not exactly fairytale stuff is it?
We're never going to spend £25million on a single player this summer. Perhaps £20million at a stretch for a goalkeeper, but for anyone else there no chance IMO.
Not sure how you arrive at that conclusion?
Berbatov, Hargreaves, Veron were all really young then?
Well we can assume that we'll be around £20million poorer once we've bought a new keeper, which is our most impending target. Following that do you really see us spending another £20million+ on a single player, more so considering the debt we're in?
We'd be willing to spend £20m on a 20 year old goalkeeper but not £25m on a european cup winning playmaker? It'd be a bargain. He'd probably be way more expensive than that for that reason.
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