Manchester United officially unveiled summer signings Javier Hernández, Bébé and Chris Smalling at an Old Trafford press conference today, with manager Sir Alex Ferguson claiming that nobody in the market is better than now available in his squad. The trio, signed for around £25 million atage 20-22, represent the club’s future said Ferguson.
Ferguson, who is effectively under orders from senior management to invest in youth and not established players who have no resale value, said that bringing players to the club from a young age creates loyalty.
“We’ve seen with Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Gary Neville, and later O’Shea, Fletcher and Wes Brown that young players develop and have a good loyalty towards you, they appreciate the education you give them as coaches,” argues Ferguson.
Those of a more cynical nature might argue that Cristiano Ronaldo’s £80 million transfer to Real Madrid provides the true template for United’s current transfer policy.
Perhaps more controversially Ferguson, who has repeatedly declared that there is no value in the transfer market on the day German midfielder Mesut Özil signed for Real Madrid in a £12.4 million deal, said that nobody that he had seen could offer a “quantum leap” improvement in United’s side this season.
Javier “Chicharito” Hernández
Of those players already brought to the club, 22-year-old Chicharito has already become a fans’ favourite after bright performances in pre-season games against an MLS All Star XI, former club Chivas Guadalajara, the Airtricity League XI and Chelsea in the Community Shield. The striker signed for around £7 million, which United announced in April. He has scored 10 goals in 17 internationals for Mexico.
“It’s like a dream. I am living the dream that I’ve had since I was 10 years old,” said Chicharito, who said his home début for the club was wonderful.
“I’ve always seen these players like Scholes and I want to be like them. I want to grow as a human and a player and the most important thing is I want to win championships.”
Tiago Manuel “Bébé” Dias Correi
Meanwhile, surprise signing Bébé, aged 20, joins from Vitória de for €9 million – £7.4 million – after United’s former assistant manager Carlos Quieroz recommended the winger-cum-forward. The player is yet to play at any level above the Portuguese third division, although Guimarães claims that Real Madrid was also among four clubs bidding for the winger who was available on a free transfer less than two months ago.
Indeed, Ferguson admitted that he is yet to see anything of Bébé, having signed a player before watching him play, even on video, for the first time in 24 years as United’s manager. “Sometimes you have to go on instinct,” and the judgement of United’s scouting department, Ferguson said.
Bébé’s rise to the top of world football took the football world by surprise in the past week but it’s an opportunity that the player intends to capitalise on.
“I feel very good. It’s an opportunity that has been given to me and I must grab it,” said the winger, now sporting short hair after Ferguson apparently ordered the player to remove the locks he wore just last week.
“The strong Portuguese links here were a big thing for me. Ronaldo played here and he became a great player. Also, Nani and Anderson are here and I want to be like them and work hard to become a good player.”
Chris “Appalling” Smalling
United announced a £10 million deal, rising to £12 million, for former-Fulham central defender Smalling, 20, in January. The 6’5″ defender has the raw talent, with pre-season games demonstrating his pace, passing ability and physique. However, the inexperienced defender’s form has dipped markedly since United announced the move last winter, although England Under-21s selected the player last week.
“They gave me my chance and a lot of support,” said Smalling of his time at Fulham who discovered the giant defender playing non-league football less than three years ago.
The relative value of each signing is, of course, dependant on their success or failure at the club but there are no guarantees. After all, younger players such as Giuseppe Rossi, Gerrard Piqué and Diego Forlan failed to make the grade at United before establishing themselves elsewhere.
Indeed, it is tempting to ponder exactly what value Ferguson is really looking for?
Özil, his compatriot Sami Khedira and the brilliant Dutchman Wes Sneijder each cost their clubs about the same fee as Smalling will eventually draw from United’s coffers. UEFA Club Player of the Year shortlisted Diego Milito was available on a free transfer last summer.
Value indeed.
Look if you’re so p**sed off with the set up at OT and Fergie’s policy, why don’t you slip off to Gigg Lane with the other whingers and support FCU ?
And take your friggin Norwich colours with youz.
Fergie’s prog notes last nite are bang on the button to a lot of us.
I’ll wager that Özil washes whiter and not much else in long-term.
@Tired Red – Here you go again – somebody doesn’t agree with you its “fuck off and support another team.” How about instead you going fuck off and join the other Glazer flag waving sycophants over a ManUtd.com? Thanks.
Hey Ed,
from the outside you have to realise that your posts have become very biased. It’s kind of like what has happened at Gizmodo, they’ve gone from Apple evangelists to Apple haters.
I know you don’t hate Man U, and likewise i don’t expect you to look the other way regarding the Glazers, but there must be a way to report on events without your clear agenda shining through.
I want new, young players so i like these signing, although I wish we had signed them with more time to bed in before the Giggs, Scholes & Neville retire.
Oh and I like the way you responded to @tired Red with the same childish nonsense instead of giving him a reasoned response. But hey, it’s your website.
@Day – it’s not the BBC, why shouldn’t I express my opinions? And I do almost always offer a reasoned argument (there’s 800 words of it above by the way) but I’m sick, utterly sick, of flag waving Glazer lovers telling me who I should support. I support United and if that’s the best Glazer fans have got (almost always it is) then they’re much better offer reading the club’s PR spin. I don’t believe that being a supporter involves burring my head in the sand to what’s going on at the club and I don’t believe Ferguson is either absolved from blame nor telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but either.
i’m on the same pg. i struggle to understand why we did not move for ozil when CM (assuming scholes won’t play 2x a week) is still screaming for a creative, goal scoring mid fldr. great show against magpies, but face it – our mid fld really could’ve used the ‘value’ addition to truly compete with the top sides of europe
excellent article ed……the vast majority of us see no value in what fergies been saying…as great as he is, he’s becoming nothing than a smokescreen for the glazers real motives towards our great club
LKHF
For the record – and just for those without a sense of humour as I’m sure there are plenty – the reference to Smalling as “appalling” is a joke based on the other two having nicknames. Joke. Geddit. Please don’t post if your point is about that.
HOW CAN YOU SAY SMALLING IS APPAULING etc.
To be fair he has been pretty shite since signing for us. It’s gonna take a while with him.
Well, Sidders, you just purse up yer lips and say
“smalling is appauling”
I mean. You know how to whistle don’t you?
Speaking of Bebe, is it true that Fergie has made him cut off his cool hair?
@sidney – apparently so yes!
I like how the views and opinions differ from fans and seem to constantly change, Firstly there were the views that the club were broke and that this was all the glazers fault and we would struggle to compete.Now the fact that the club have spent close to £25m the majority of fans still seem unhappy because the manager hasn’t spent it on the right players. How many so called fans have written Bebe off before they’ve even seen him kick a ball, how many have called Smalling a flop and a waste of money despite the fact he has very little experience in football never mind in the top flight. Why are so many fans and pundits quick to judge a player when they know so little about them?. My advice is either get behind the team and support them or f*** off and support some other club because your views and half hearted support is not needed!!
@Jon – Typical. Don’t like the views of other fans? Tell them to fuck off and support somebody else.
Oh and for the record, although it doesn’t fit your version of events, United’s net spending this summer is just under £10m.
7 plus 6 plus 7 equals 20. Doh
@ Tired Red
Hernandez, Smalling & Bebe in for about £24.4m
Tosic, Cathcart & Foster out for about £14.4m
But hey, let’s not let the facts get in the way of your story.
So. You’re the sort who’ll only be happy if we break the bank and get some prima donna with an ego bigger than Franny Lee’s arse.
Great. Let’s do it a la Chelski, Ciddy and Rafa.
Then we’ll be free from any more whingeing and this site will have nowt to rubbish on about.
@Tired Red – who said that anywhere on this site? There’s hundreds of articles and none say anything like that. But hey, you’re all for making shit up aren’t you.. and then telling everybody to fuck off and support Norwich if they don’t agree with you.
@ed
it is true that likes of ozil,khedira,sneijder were available for similar fees to the ones we have paid for the above 3.i like you am not happy with fergie’s no value for money remarks but i think the point here is that all these quality players who are available for relatively cheap fees do not want to play in the premiere leauge as 1)its hardest league to play in 2)awful english weather 3)crazy salary the likes of real and barca are willing to pay
so i think fergie can only sign those players from overseas for relatively cheap fees who are not really proven stars.in last few years the only players whom we have bought which were proven quality are rooney,rio and berba(well he is class that you can’t deny)and the only reason they signed for us was bcoz they were already playing in the same league.only quality players who won’t mind playing in the premiere league are the ones who only care about the cash they are paid and thus will end up at city or chelsea as the likes of utd and arsenal will never pay anyone salariea like 150000 a week. so i think it is going to be like this.we will keep on signing unproven talents and hope at least a few turn out to be ronaldo’s.
There is one major “however” to all this though.
If Ferguson wins with these players.
It’s all fine and good to criticise him for siding with the Glazers over the fans… I still don’t understand it myself… but when it comes down to “on the pitch” matters, all that really counts is whether or not we win the title, proving he was right all along.
And let’s face it, it wouldn’t be the first time.
Jon….Fergie hasn’t even seen bebe kick a ball…7.5 million on a whim….crazy
Yeh. But when Ciddy spend 125 million on overrated expensive whims and then still win f**k all, you nobheads all howl that we are Glazer crazy not spending ‘owt.
Or r u trying to tell me that this is further evidence of Fergie-Glazer spin?
Oezil’s preference was to join Madrid. Do you think if we offered €18m, he’d have changed his mind? It was Oezil’s choice and we knew what he wanted, so what was the point of bidding? No-one else bid.
As for our three signings, it’s great that we are buying younger players. It’s what United is all about.
No it weren’t.
His dream from a kid was to play for Barca.
Until Real came in and offered him more loot.
Greedy goggle-eyed Turk.
We’re better off without ‘im, that’s for sure.
One World-Cup-Match-Wonder-Kid.
Werder are laughing all the way to Bundesbank.
“Özil, his compatriot Sami Khedira and the brilliant Dutchman Wes Sneijder each cost their clubs about the same fee as Smalling will eventually draw from United’s coffers”
Ozil would have asked for much more at United. Remember England’s tax laws? Might have been one of the reasons, i guess.
@Adi – not necessarily. The Beckham law is being phased out in Spain for new signatures.
I disagree: Yes Ozil’s fee was value but he always wanted to go to Spain if the comments made today by his father are anything to go by so whether United offered terms or agreed a price with his current club is a moot point as his heart was always elsewhere.
As fans we automatically assume that a decision is made on footballing reasons alone but unfortunately not. Life style choices family considerations etc all come into play. If it were for pure footballing reasons alone Ozil would have signed for us because of the reputation we have for developing young players as opposed to Real Madrid who tend to buy the ready made article but yet he chose Madrid. Only time will tell if he made the right choice but it may be that over that same period of time a Cleverley or a Bebe will have us talking about Ozil in the same way we compare Ronaldo and Ronaldinho or Shearer and Cantona.
Believe!
How so? Bebe, Hernandez & Smalling comes to more than £20m
Fergie chatting more shit about the youth http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/aug/17/alex-ferguson-transer-market-spending
“There will be a time when we have to buy a more mature player,” Ferguson said. “At the moment, this is a young players club. But they will grow old too. In 10 years’ time, we will be looking to replace them. Hopefully they are there in 10 years’ time. That is the object in terms of having a long-term vision for the club.”
What fucking planet is he living on? LKHF
United’s transfer strategy has definitely changed in the last couple of years. The current emphasis on cheap unproven youth (not experience top quality proven youth like Gourcuff, Ozil etc.) has the Glazers’ stamp all over it. They’ve had a word with Fergie, I’m convinced, and consequently the direction of the club has changed drastically.
Great. That’s one problem solved.
Sidders has the footballing expertise to take over from Fergie, when he retires, and steer us to another era of glory.
@Sidders
Hernandez, Smalling & Bebe in for about 24.4m
Tosic, Cathcart & Foster out for about 14.4m
I have to agree with John Smith about Ozil.
It seems to me that he was determined to play in Spain… we never got a look in.
@ed- I have nothing against people giving a valid opinion or constructive view but when so called fans instantly slag off a new player when all at times they’ve got to go on is a youtube video I find it really annoying. I’m also well aware of how much the club have spent and recoup’d but as many fans don’t look at how much the club recoup rather then what they spend hence the £25m on new players signed. @captainhormone, The funny thing is your comment makes you sound like the type of person who says it’s crazy but if the player turns out to be fantastic you will say what an inspired signing!. Why can’t fans just reserve judgement and wait to see how players progress? I mean fans were saying who is Hernandez and why have we signed him?,now everyones banging on about how he’s somehow gona be the next Ronaldo! give me a ******* break!!
@Jon – so it’s ok to support United now is it? Well as long as somebody a) agrees with you or is b) positive and dare not question! To question the club’s policy has nothing to do with supporting the team on the pitch. I’ve been going to Old Trafford for 25 years but something still stinks about United’s transfer policy at the moment and I don’t see why I can’t say that.
I usually side with you with the whole Anti-Glazer issue and the apparent lack of signings but the gloom on this article borders on the absurd. Ffs we just presented three players who are now United players who we should now back regardless of whatever feelings we have against Fergie/Glazers policy. There should be some excitment. Instead of focusing on who we should have bought blah blah we should look at who we have and move on. I’m sure if we hadn’t bought Bebe and he went on to shine at Madrid, you’d be here 2-3 years from now complaining how we didin’t sign him when he was available for £7m. Or Hernandez for the same value. We should support the players and see how they turn out before resorting to such pessimism.
Amen to that.
And so endeth this lesson.
How many times will people make fool of themselves questioning united’s greatest managers decisions!
kk, they’ll keep at it until one day they can actually say “Told U So”
@Tired Red – False logic. “Fergie’s the greatest manager ever so if he says the Glazers are great and suddenly decides he’s only interested in value how can he be wrong?” Fergie’s a politician who is going along with what he has to right now. Do you think he’d be buying kids if he had a choice? No. Not as if he wasn’t happy to spend big on players in the past in case you’ve forgotten.
Like in ’96 I suppose.
I am sure Fergie’s biggest regret is that he didn’t have so many kids to win nowt then.
@Tired Red – He’s also broken the British transfer record five times. This is a man whose never been concerned with value until the club finds itself 712.5m in debt.
Maybe not, but CQ has… and he said sign him up.
No No Alfonso.
He say “Baby, Wind him up”
Any United fan questioning fergie is not a United fan. simple as that. Its quite shameful actually that anyone would and its what youd expect from the berties or the scousers. Some united fans dont realise how lucky we are to have him. Dont care how long you have been a fan if you cant back SAF your stupid and maybe chelsea is the club for you.
Careful now Colly.
Else you’ll invoke the auto response.
“If you don’t agree with me, why don’t YOU f**k off and support someone else”
Now, where’s me favourite green-and-gold teapot cover?
Npt that ‘orrible red-and-white thing. So old.
@Tired Red – No you weren’t listening – I said go fuck off and read ManUtd.com. Suits you much better.
And I said Go and support FCU or friggin Norwich.
Suit YOU better.
If you wanna give sh*t then be prepared to take it back.
25 years! Friggin Kid !!
@ Tired Red – Sure, happy to. Unfortunately you’re just a cunt who thinks he can decide who supports who. I hold the delete button. Goodbye.
What the fuck you on about?
My simple hope is that Fergie is saving all his pennies so that we can buy Rodwell next summer. The reality is that Carrick, Fletcher, Scholes and Cleverley will have to do a lot of work in the middle of the park this year. Not even going to count Gibson as he is total pish.
It does seem like madness for Fergie to sign a player when he hasn’t even seen videos of him play. Has SAF ever adopted such a policy towards signing a player in the past? I struggle to think of an example.
Whether you support it or not there is clearly a dramatic change in transfer policy for United and it would seem it can only stem from the financial situation the club finds itself in.
I would love it if all these young players go on to be world beaters but there is a long list of foreign bought youngsters signed by Fergie who never made the grade. At least in the past the squad was able to be supplemented by the signing of more established players along with the younger rawer talent but I fear this is well and truly over.
3 fantastic young signings, Chicharito is already a legend in my eyes and will guide us to european success, Smalling is quality back up in the mold of a younger Rio, thou not seen much of Bebe beside clips, i believe the portuguese kid will be a fantastic recruit. Chicharito and Bebe will be our wild cards- exposive talents.
@a.parker – Seen anything of Bebe live Aj? No thought not.
just because you don’t agree with your club’s transfer policy does not mean you do not support the gaffer and teh team. where’d you get that from?
i’m fully behind the great manchester united, but am not one to blind fold myself and not question this concept of ‘value’ in the market.
You’ve let your anti-Glazer stance cloud your entire view of the club and the manager, and it makes for increasingly boring, pessimistic and agenda-driven reporting. Nothing gets published on this site without a dig at Fergie and the Glazers.
Ozil and Khedira would have been nice, but they went to Spain. Get over it. Sneijder? Yeah, he’d have been nice too, but wanted a move to Inter and still wants to stay there now. And Milito wasn’t free, he went as part of a cash + player deal with Genoa.
You seem to have a fantasy wishlist of players you’ve seen and want us to buy, and if Fergie signs someone outside of this list you get uppity and blame it on the Glazers. The market DOESN’T have value at the moment. Just look at the idiotic sums splashed by City on Milner, Balotelli and co. Barcelona unable to pay their players’ wages because they spent so large.
If Fergie had signed Solskjaer back when this site existed, you’d be kicking up a fuss and demanding to know why we hadn’t bought Stan Collymore or Dean Holdsworth.
Just relax, stop viewing the club with such disdain and trust the judgment of the manager and his scouting network.
@Clayton Beardsmore – what fantasy list of players has been printed on this website? None. Happy for you to put a different view but basing your argument on false reporting of my opinions weakens your position completely.
I’m sure lots of other clubs were saying the market didn’t have value when United spent £30m on Rio, Veron, Rooney and so on. But in truth there’s value everywhere – Ozil, Khadeira, Sneijder, Milito, Canales, Cole… I can go on. That’s not a list of player I wanted, its proof there’s value. City aren’t getting value but that’s clearly not the point. What there isn’t is funds to build a squad and compete. My bet – when Neville, Giggs, Scholes, van der Sar, and Hargreaves leave next summer we’ll still not invest then either.
ffs….tired red must be that tiresome aj cunt….i know its him as my eyes get cancer when i read what he writes
jon….you don’t know me dont judge me….i dont think hernandez will make it either….nor smalling…….
i’l be happy to be proven wrong though
WELL SAID THAT MAN…SPOT ON!!
KK springs to mind as well
captainhormone. that other guy i nothing to do with me, i hasnt been here all day so are you obsessed with me or something. Ed, chicharito is 6m, smalling 10m, bebe 7.4m – 23.4m. foster 6m, tosiç 8m, cathcart 350k – 14.35m. thats the facts feller. all 3 of our signings are great buys and stars for the future, we never wanted sneijder/khedira/ozil and its media rubbish. our transfer policy is a good system and fergie will spend big when he decides not fans.
Seriously unfair nickname for Smalling and equally poor attempt to justify the nickname as humour. Personally, I have a preference for supporting all of our players and indeed our manager.
im liking the casual LKHF references, its exploded into modern society and refuses to go away
peter…tbf, smalling is shit though
Are captainhormone and AJ the new Charles and Diana
will this end in a car crash.
Great article.
Truth of the matter is, we can’t attract fuck all. Which is why Fergie has to spout all this PR bullshit.
Just resign yourselves to seeing ‘no-names’ turn up at OT, either disappear into obscurity or move onto Real or Barca in 4 years time. Meanwhile, resign yourselves to seeing the top talent decide to play for other teams. And when I say play for other teams, what I really meant was that they’d prefer to sit on the bench and play second fiddle to other players rather than play for us.
wheres the value in paying big money for two players whove barely played the game smalling and this shit haired spacky cunt, under an LKHF government no such follyness will take place, all signings will be well researched and improve the team in the immediate and long term, and we can guarentee the signatures of both jack rodwell of everton and the return of cristiano ronaldo, now of real madrid, we will also find the mysteriously disappearing 80m and invest it in a cure for whichever disability we determine the most comedic
You know that rape scene in irreversible? well, im not Monica Belluci
except downs..too funny to cure it
LKHF
Clayton, thing is the vast majority of our recent signings (bar vidic, evra) have been shit…we are signing more and more no marks….when we signed ole, we were also signing the Keanes, coles, yorkes, sheringhams, Ruuds and stams of this world too….now we are signing players, of whom some ranters have had more football experience of…..
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Oh well we missed out on Ozil, Silva and Cole. 3 players who could have definitely upgraded the squad.
TBH transfer fees were never the issue on any of those, the main problem was the wages. Madrid, City and Liverpool were prepared to splash out on a weekly basis, United were not.
In a way it is good to see United setting the example by not spending silly money, but still without the Glazers United would actually generate the money to be able to spend big. Other clubs are simply overusing their overdraft or have some billionaire to bail them out.
Chicarito already a legend?? Will guide us to European success?? Fuckinell… Smalling in the mould of Rio, he’s black you see and plays the same position.
Sometimes I wonder why Fergie continually peddles his bullshit, and then I read posts like yours and AJ’s and I realise that there are an awful lot of gombeens out there ready with large spoons to lap it all up…
Mmmmm, pass the salt would you please..
All this criticism of Ferguson and the Glazers is entirely justified, in my opinion…
But I don’t much like the criticism of Smalling and Bebe… they may be inexperienced, and they may even turn out to be shit in the end… but come on ffs…
Smalling is a big young lad with obvious potential, and Wenger was interested as well… and let’s not forget our premature opinions of both Vidic and Evra… both proved to be great signings eventually.
And Bebe… was supposedly signed on the recommendation of Carlos… who Fergie just gave a character reference for in court, who is still very good friends with Fergie… surely there must be something to him. Another big strong, athletic, young lad…
Even if their signings are the result of the Glazers telling Ferguson to shop on the cheap… I don’t believe for one second that Ferguson would buy complete nobodies, without some suspician of potential… and I also don’t believe the Glazers would sanction money spent so foolishy.
Fuck me… let’s give them an honest chance, before we label them shite.
I offer wonder if there are sad little brats out there, then I read TGR and know there are sad anti-United twats acting as supporters of my wonderful club so he can run his sad immature mouth. Sir Alex peddles the truth and sad children like you cant handle it. piss off back to where you come from, I bet chelsea or those bitter rags of wastelands. Chicharito is a star, Smalling and Bebe are good players. I wonder how may of these ‘fans’ on this site actually support Manchester United, very few I bet.
I thought you had taken your ball and gone home AJ… Sir Alex peddles the truth?? Did you agree with him when he said the Glazers are wonderful owners? A simple yes or no answer will suffice… you can manage that can you not?
ALF……ITS ALRIGHT SAYING ALL THIS SHIT THAT HE SAYS, BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS HE WONT FUCKING PLAY THEM ANYWAY……..
its all a load of bollocks…signings, talk, everything…..Glazers have fucked us over big time
And AJ…
knock knock
cue the immature attacks by “adults”.
nice way in twisting others words feller. I back Fergie nomatter what, the problem is with the glazers and yet you dont seem to get it as you think you can attack the greatest manager in the game becaue of what the glazers has done. the debt is because of those fucks not Sir Alex. the protest is aimed at ridding the glazers and sorting out the debt try listening to MUST as their only aim is ridding the glazers and a brighter future, not attacking the club, players and manager. does anyone here understand?
utd is aj’s wonderful club
does that mean, no it couldnt
surely
malcolm?
SACK FERGIE THEN MOLEST YOUR FOOT LKHF IS AFTER YOUR BITCHASS
I UNDERSTAND YOU ARE A RETARD AJ
LKHF
Ok AJ I will ask you one more time..
SAF said, and I quote “THE GLAZERS ARE WONDERFULL OWNERS”
His words, not mine. Do you think they are wonderful owners? Yes or No…
It’s a very simple question for a very simple person.
Gal, you might as well try sucking blood from a stone then get any sense from this child!!!
Sir Alex Ferguson loves Manchester United and is doing what is right for the club. anyone who thinks he is on the glazers side are morons as he stands on the side of the club and defends both the glazers and the protesters and anyone who thinks different are simply ill-informed. Sir Alex should never be attacked and real supporters will never do so, which brings me back to the question of how many here are actual supporters of United?. the people of target are the glazers and the glazers alone.
oh aj, starting to change his tune somewhat
LISTEN MALCOLM I SUPPORT UTD NOT FERGIE INFACT NO I SUPPORT LKHF UTD, THE UTD THAT NEVER WOULDVE SACKED KEANE KICKED RUUD AND HUGHES OUT OR SIGNED MICHAEL OWEN
Fuck off back to your mothers teat Aj you cum stain off a whores abortion..
captainhormone, how old did you say you where ’36’ as calling me a retard shows otherwise. I am not changing my tune as I pretty much hate the glazers, I wont allow anyone do to attaçk ManUtd or Fergie. TGR, I believe glazers have backed Fergie and left him to do his job and that is what he is on about when he defends them and it that respect yes Fergie is right but overall the glazers are horrible owners. there’s your answer. now you lot can go on how you plead as I have other things to do.
lol
AJ you are a twat are you not
AJ you might be interested in reading this article from the imusa concerning comments made by sir alex fergusson about the green and gold campagin .
http://www.imusa.org/newsarticle.php?id=298
by the way i don;t agree with them . maybe in your eyes that makes me less of a united fan but i can live with that.
@Linda.. Unless it has pictures, pop up ones and lots of them at that, I fear you are wasting your time…
Great article United Rant but I think the whole “SAF can’t see the value in Sneijder, Milito, etc” is a bit old.
It was last season and we can’t buy everyone. On the same logic Kaka, Xavi, etc would have been great value years ago.
he doesn’t have a crystal ball and signings like Vidic, Ronaldo, Evra, and the Da Silvas (maybe a bit soon to call) should make you trust his methods a little more.
@OllieWillieFC – my point has never been we should sign all these players, my point is there’s value everywhere, even for big name established players. It’s a fallacy that’s used to mask the financial reality at this club and it’s pissing me off that Sir Alex, greatest manager ever, is out there lying to the fans on an almost daily basis. What’s worse, some people actually fall for it. Right now we’re signing kids only because the Glazers want to be able to sell them on. You mentioned two Vidic and Evra who were already established internationals.
think smallings fee was inflated by fact that hes homegrown. same thing happened to the dippers with glen johnson.
as for value weve got bebe AND hernandez for roughly same price as ozil.. not to mention that their combined wages wont come close to what ozil was wanting.
like fergie said in interview, theres no-one out there who is definately going to get us to another level, so why not take a punt on a couple that might in 2/3 years time?
Do you honestly believe that?
FFS AGAIN..WHERE ARE THEY FUCKING COMING FROM??
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are ye all united fans ere r wat da fuck am i missin? fergie wont come out publicly n say da glazers r a bunch of cocks dat r ruinin da club wit debt, he may tink it privately but dats it, cud u imagine da headlines united wud get 4 all da wrong reasons…simple fact is fergie is holdin dis club 2gether, every1 wants da glazers out wit debt n all dats a sure fuckin ting but wat ave we won since they took over?? 2 champions league finals back ta back! dis is wat fergie was on about wen he said da protests wud ave a negative effect, stop bitchin n moanin bout sumtin ye cant change n jus get on wit supportin da club…r find a fuckin new 1!!
@united – English, do you speak it?
Linda, I have already seen what they had to say and whether you agree or not is up to you, your clearly more of à ManUtd supporter then troubled little children like TGR, this kid haves some serious issue’s he needs to work out. captainhormone, once again you expose your so-called age of mid 30’s as a lie, how old are you really because I am guessing you ad TGR are between 10-13 as that is how your posts come of. stupid little children.
One point some seem to forget here no Player or Manager is bigger than the club, I support Manchester United which was there before Sir Alex Ferguson came and will be there after he came.
Some people need to accept that in the present climate where fans are divided as to what is better for the club that there will be opinions poles apart in how the manager should behave. Some will support what happens regardless others will be vehemently against respect and accept the view of the other person and the world will be a better place but don’t call somebody less of a supporter because they don’t accept your views.
Once upon a time Sir Matt Busby was considered the greatest Manager of all time at Manchester United, then along came Alex Ferguson who took the club to even greater heights and at some point in time probably later than sooner even the achievements of Alex Ferguson will be eclipsed by another Manager.
At the end of the day we are supporters of Manchester United Football Club !
It’s right that we have to support the club, not Fergie or particular players, but do you really think you know everything better than him? It makes me wonder why you are so sure Sneijder, Özil, Villa etc would all fit in the team so well and have their best performances here. And also why you say those 3 players have no value. I just don’t see your point. OK, buy whoever you want and let’s see what happens. It’s like that. Why can’t some fans be just a little bit positive? You guys doubt any new youngster every time. Why can’t you believe we bought them for some real reason? Oh and you say they might not make it. And what if they don’t make it? If we bought 20 young players and one of them became the new Cristiano Ronaldo, I would be fucking happy, even though the other 19 wouldn’t make it. And yes, I agree with Fergie. I don’t see any player we could get, who I would call a “genius”. Sneijder? Are you kidding me? You’re talking about him as if he was like Zidane back then. He’s a very good player, but he’s nowhere near that. He’s just not a “must buy”, believe it or not. And yes, as supporters you can have a different opinion from that of the manager, you can even tell that, you can even protest, but NEVER SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT THE PLAYERS, BECAUSE THEY ARE OUR PLAYERS, WHO MAKE OUR TEAM AND IF YOU DON’T RESPECT OUR TEAM, YOU CAN FUCK OFF! Clear enough?
just seen a story saying that sòme middle east businessmen has joined the red knights and that the group could wait 18mths to buy the club if need be. Ed, you act like you know whats going on there, any truth to the story.
@Aj – Thanks for the dismissive tone there Aj. Anyway, this is the Goal.com story you’re referring to I believe so I’m taking that with the pinch of salt. Having said that the RKs did attract some seriously heavyweight interest before including attention from China and the Mid East. But remember, this is a group of people trying to achieve two things 1) Return a significant chunk of the club to fan control at some point down the line, 2) Pay a fair market rate given the debt and club profitability. The issue has never been raising money, the issue is where it comes from (i.e. not debt, not 1 investor) and the Glazers’ price.
It’s clear we have little money and are spending it on younger players in the hope they turn into a money-making project like Ronaldo turned out to be.
If the club really wants to save money they should be looking at not paying Owen Hargreaves a good wage when he hasn’t played regularly for 2 years.
gotta be dismissive on these stories Ed as you can never be sure what is real and what isnt. we read everyday stories that hasnt any truth at all so this could be another one of those, we all heard what MUST intend to achieve but the real question is, can they successfully remove those glazers?. I’m nit a big fan of protest as you know but I am a big fan of the idea and intentions of getting rid o the glazers and sorting out the debt. with any luck the glazers will see sense within the new few months.
**** I am NOT a big fan of protest. **** with any luck the glazers will see sense within the NEXT few months. I had to correçt these two areas as mistakes were made and I felt I had to correct them. come on glazers sell up, I know MANCHESTER UNITED is valued at £1.2b ($1.8b) but the glazers want £1.5b and the red knights want tto pay apparently between £800m-£1b, somethings gotta give and I believe at some point the glazers will accept £1b for our club as the knìghts are unwilling to up their price.
Aj….so if we dont protest the glazers will just up and leave yeah….oh, ok then…dont bother applying any pressure as AJ reckons with any luck they’ll sell for a billion in a few months anyway…oh the green and gold campaign is pointless according to the fountain of knowledge that is AJ…and he’s just commented that he wants the glazers to sell up…that message must be shaking the very foundations of old trafford and have old Malc’s families ring pieces squirming
Thank fuck for you AJ…..glad to know you’ve got our backs
FFS
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The Glazers are here for the long haul,trying to hold on as long as they can till their pot of gold is realised – mobile broadband showing United matches around the world, free of EPL regulations to share the cash.
75,000 last Monday, plenty of AON shirts, pies scoffed and the Megastore full.
Only a crazy offer of £1.5-£2 billion will shift them
The Glazers will need fresh investment eventually
And when they do their position will be significantly weaker than it was this summer after they secured the £500m bond
So that’s the time to make another bid – when they need more dosh
And by this time performances on the pitch might have been affected due to a lack of major investment, and they will have probably spent some of our profits on the PIKs
aj is malcolm
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captainhormone. did I say the protest is pointless, did I symbolize anywhere the prtest should stop, no I did not. I stated that I am not a fan of it so once again you show what a delusional idiot you are. rip bri and gary coleman, grow up. once again people here exposes themselves as nothing more than clueless little children.
For me it’s a real problem.
My love for United is equalled by my loathing of the Glazers.
As much as I want the Glazer gone… I also want them sent packing in defeat, not with a big fat profit… and I see no scenario where we get our club back and they take a loss.
United fans are too addicted to success to suffer a few lean years in order to drive the price down.
One day we will rid United of these parasites… but it will be a bitter victory, as the Glazers will, without doubt have made a fortune.
Urrrggghh… just the thought of it stirs the bile in my gullet.
what’s with rip bri and gary coleman stuff about
you smell of fart
AJ, are you a complete moron… The Ed was thanking you for the dismissive tone you showed HIM not the article.
You have to be one of the most naive, gullible and clueless people I’ve ever come across.
@ ed, can u not read r did i not put in enough pics 4 u?
TGR. look in the mirror mate, seriously did your parents abuse you? where you bullied? does your life suck that bad? because for some reason you appear to be a moron who gets his rocks off by trying to insult others over the internet. grow up you stupid immature children.mandeep, I can honestly say your just a stupid kid so I dont give a damn what you think. infact I give give a damn what a gullible clue braindead anti-united idiot kid like TGR thinks either.
Haha, pricelss… Your rebukes consist of nothing but repeating what I’ve said to you. You could also do with using spell check every now and again, because your spelling “sucks”
hahahahahahahaha and your a freakin moron who cant do shit you thick anti-united bastard. and before you go running to mommy I want to make it perfectly clear that I am not angry or pissed off in anyway, I am putting stupid idiotic uneducated little people like you in your place you stupid little kid.
Ah the mommy insult… I used that about 10 posts ago. Seriously AJ, you haven’t got an original thought in your head… Leave it now, you are doing the impossible and making yourself look an even bigger idiot than you already look.
yes you do because you “give give” a damn. bet you you got bummed bummed by an alien named boris?
Here, I think we need to cut AJ some slack. I am fairly certain, judging by the type of spelling and grammar mistakes that he makes, that English is not his native tongue. It is understandable that he might miss Ed’s point. United’s the one that needs a smack upside the head for writing in cellphone speak.
There are enough slaps to go around Rob… Plenty in fact..
AJ – giving hope to inbred children everywhere
he just goes to prove that the language of talking bollocks is pretty much universal…..like i say he talks shit and what he writes give my eyes cancer
oh aND HE’S A CUNT TOO…..
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Possebon set to join Santos
Load of shit, the lad had potential
The Gimps will see no point having him on the wage bill. Potential but essentially just another water carrier and we’ve got plenty of those at the club.
come back AJ we need more of you in our debates
i’m with alf on this. we might disagree with the transfer policy but at least give the kids a change to show us what they’ve got before we dismiss them completely.
the only players available on the market, at a decent price, that we needed were ozil and cole. ozil had previously stated he wanted to move to spain and cole does have a significant injury history. we dont really know what went on behind the scenes, but for various reasons we didnt sign either.
but we know that fergie has some money available to spend, and he chose to spend it on those 3 kids. so lets give them a chance
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