he was one of their best players last season. seems crazy if true.
he was one of their best players last season. seems crazy if true.
Surely that has to be £45million in wages to make Vidal go to a non champions league club.
Quite. Why would one of the top 3 midfielders in the world in the prime of his career would leave Juve for non-champions league Utd?
If he's available I'd be amazed if Real/Barca/PSG/Chelsea/City weren't in for him.
The question is whether those clubs are looking for another CM and also whether he believes we have a reasonably good chance of being back in the CL next season.
Also we are rumoured to be offering him £200k per week, which probably helps ease some of his worries ☺
I'm not on a wind up, I just can't see it. At 27/28 and having worked hard to become a very top midfielder wanted by all, I just can't see him going to a side outside of European competition next year.
Also, I'd be pissed if I was Vidal and offered 200k a week knowing Rooney is on considerably more.
Maybe we will have to offer Vidal 300k to get him to join. I really don't know but if the club sanction it, then I would be 100% sure that it makes financial sense for us to do.
Quite. Why would one of the top 3 midfielders in the world in the prime of his career would leave Juve for non-champions league Utd?
If he's available I'd be amazed if Real/Barca/PSG/Chelsea/City weren't in for him.
Very pleased. I reckon there were no offers because the scouts have seen nothing of note this season. Obviously he's very young and could improve but I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't even playing Championship level in a year or two.This will put @Pesam at ease.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28110781
Derby County: Will Hughes signs new four-year deal
1 July 2014 Last updated at 11:57 GMT
Teenage midfielder Will Hughes has signed a new four-year deal with Championship club Derby County.
The England Under-21 international has regularly been linked with Premier League sides, including Liverpool, since making his Rams debut in 2011.
Hughes, 19, played 48 games last term as Derby reached the play-off final.
"He is a promising young talent and we're looking forward to working with him over the next few years," said Rams boss Steve McClaren.
Hughes, who joined County as an academy scholar in 2011, was encouraged to stay with the Rams by Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers when the teenager was linked a move to Anfield in November 2013.
He scored four times last season and was named in the PFA's Championship team of the season.
Hughes is the fourth player to commit to the club in the past week, following Jake Buxton, Craig Forsyth and Jeff Hendrick.
I'm sure Leeds United thought the same thing 😉
It does. Either he's been told about some prospective new signing which is likely to sideline him more often, or he's been tapped up, or both.
Mirror
Guardian
- Manchester United passed up on James Rodriguez when he would have cost them just £5million.
- Colombia hero James Rodriguez was offered to Manchester United in July 2010 for around £5m as a teenager, only for United to pursue other options.
Haha! From Pogba to Rodriguez to Bebe.... A genius...Ferguson actually decided on Bebe instead I believe.
Liverpool, meanwhile, will attempt to upgrade their defence following the £25m signing of Adam Lallana by finalising interest in the Southampton centre-half Dejan Lovren and the Chelsea left-back Ryan Bertrand this week. The Anfield club’s summer spending reached the £40m mark on Tuesday when the England midfielder Lallana completed his protracted move. He joins his former Southampton team-mate Rickie Lambert plus the Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Emre Can, £4.5m and £9.85m deals respectively, and there is likely to be further cause for alarm at St Mary’s once Brendan Rodgers commences the overhaul of his defence.
The Croatia international Lovren is the Liverpool manager’s leading central defensive target and is believed to be keen on a move to Merseyside despite rival interest from Tottenham Hotspur, now led by the former Southampton coach Mauricio Pochettino.
Liverpool’s attempt to sign Alberto Moreno remains at deadlock with Sevilla demanding £20m for the left-back, £4m above the offer on the table, and insistent that their financial problems have been alleviated by Rakitic’s sale to Barcelona. That has prompted Rodgers to rekindle his interest in Bertrand, who impressed the Liverpool manager on loan at Aston Villa last season. He will test Chelsea’s resolve to keep the 24-year-old, following the departure of Ashley Cole and their having missed out to Manchester United on Luke Shaw, with an official approach this week.
Rodgers is also pursuing Benfica’s £25m-rated Lazar Markovic and Lille’s Belgium striker Divock Origi as he looks to bolster Liverpool’s options for their return to the Champions League next season.
from the guardian . fucking bertrand.