It seems a few are jumping ship after todays updates. I wish there was a facility where we could see which side of the fence posters in here are on. I'm firmly settling down in the 'We're signing him' camp until the window is closed.
Arturo Vidal
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I am pessimistic about this, but Jackson is a names on a dart board journo. He knows nothing.
Anyone is realistic but we need to give the big money. If we offered 50m for Vidal, Juve would accept it. Why are we playing around, only offering 4m more than we offered for Shaw and Herrera? Vidal is worth more than that.
What's next, we go for Hummels and start playing around at the 20-25m mark? We need to secure these deals with big money. That's why City get everyone.
Actually we've behaved quite professionally unlike the fabregas farce last summer we've either kept quiet during negotiations or we were never in for him in the first place.
Best to wait till 1st September before we start to panic, look at how Van Gaal managed Vlaar imagine what he could do for the likes of Cleverley.
Nothing to be alarmed about regarding Marotta's comments. The concern is that this drags on too long and other clubs join the race.
I believe some people genuinely go from excitement to frustration in a matter of hours. If Vidal is signed it's great and if not big deal.
Not saying he is there yet, but how about Barkley? I personally would prefer Vidal, but...
Like LvG woke up today, "You know, I don't fancy Vidal today, perhaps I feel like some De Jong...."What a load of Absolute Bollocks from Jamie Jackson. Now VIdal was a Target of Moyes ?
When he himself was writing till yesterday he was LVG's main target.
In a nutshell what the feck is going on, please?
It's currently off.
Juve press conference mentions that Vidal is not for sale and that he's happy at Juve. Also there was contact from important clubs about him but no talks have happened over Vidal.
Juve deny Vidal for sale, Caf meltdown, floppy cock everywhere like that Magaluf vid.
That would be an incredibly unbalanced midfield considering Barkley is an attacking midfielder. Vidal is excellent defensively while also being good going forward and a box to box midfielder. We need that defensive quality in our midfield so we aren't too gung-ho.
Is Martinez worth 35 million to Bayern as a makeshift CB ?
Jesus reading this thread some of you are not going to make it through the next month.
Have faith more positive stuff has come out that negative over the last few days.
Have faith more positive stuff has come out that negative over the last few days.
The club have said feck all about Vidal or any other potential transfer (no leaks) - so how are they lookin like mugs?
We dont know whats truly goin on, but i have alot of faith in Mitten when it comes to this story & he pretty much called it earlier today (pre-presser), when he said his sources at United informed him that they arent interested anymore for some reason.
Lets just wait & see how it all pans out though...
How so? The club hasn't even mentioned that were in for him, and it seems the press were all briefed a similar line.
2013: 'Oh, how embarrassing, we've publicly pursued players that have not signed for us, we look like mugs!'
2014: 'Oh how embarrassing, we've said absolutely nothing to suggest we're in for a certain player, and his club has said he's not joining us. We look like mugs!'
No one has any idea. Media have hyped the crap out of this with very flimsy reasons for doing so (other than internet hits and newspaper sales) and nothing was said in the conference that wasn't expected and doesn't give anything away.
Hard to keep up with all the drama
Most certainly is. Its like "Eastender's" on here sometimes..
Some can't cope with the inevitable crash and burn after a failed transfer. We've enough to get excited about already, without getting upset about a player that isn't even ours. Still a chance he will sign anyway.
When did he say that? I don't think it was in the video that was posted earlier...
No Mitten said that the Club are briefing Journos that they are not interested. He also defended his sources from yesterday.
Can someone post the latest update from Mitten.
It's off, 5 hours ago it was on and no doubt in 5 hours time it will be back on.
How about Luiz Gustavo really impressed me in the world cup, he's gettable and wouldn't cost a fortune either.
Yep, when I saw video of Marotta saying these words I wasn't sure if they were genuine. But now that a news website has transcribed them, I believe he has said them.
I still think this is all very weak:
We’ve never put him up for sale... Vidal showed that he is happy to continue with us...
It's nothing we didn't already know. Not saying this is going to happen, but I just don't see this presser as having told us much at all.
Just lock the thread until Vidal gets back off his hols. Otherwise some people are going to send themselves spiralling into depression.
You don't know how true that is.
To be honest Sully, i was more concerned about Juve's deal with Irtube (or whatever his name is) falling through (goin to Roma apparantly). I gathered he might have been Vidals replacement?
He only signed for Wolfsburg last summer and Wolfsburg got in the champions league. Considering they are quite rich, I doubt they would sell for under £30m really. No reason to for them. Same with Ricardo Rodriguez. We should have gone for him last summer when he was leaving bayern.
Edit: they got 5th, not 4th. Still doubt they'd sell for cheap.
Iturbe is a wide forward, not a replacement for Vidal.
Yep, that isn't him saying that his sources have told him we're not interested any more. That's him saying that the club have briefed that we aren't interested anymore, him not giving an opinion on whether he believes that or not, and him defending his sources who up to yesterday were telling him they were confident of a deal being reached. At least that's how I read it...
have we even made an official bid ? or is this all been massively wound up by press reports and sodding twitter.
They finished fifth. They're in the Europa league. Gustavo also has a buy-out clause, rumoured to be anywhere from €25-35m.
Same thing for Christ sake..
Surely more chance of getting him than Vidal, even without CL i'm sure we are a more attractive club than Wolfsburg.
Ohh really? Definitely thought they made top 4. Or actually it was schalke, completely forgot who it was.
Cheers..
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