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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.
 
I see fat Frank is probably coming to Melbourne City as well.

Tim Cahill & Josh Kennedy next.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 ☺
 
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.
 
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.

No I know you aren't on a wind up.
I guess we won't know if he is willing to take a step out of European football for at least 1 year possibly longer until he either does or doesn't.

I remember reading somewhere that the 300k Rooney deal is quite unique. In most contracts players are paid a basic wage and more for the club to use their image right in merchandise etc etc..
But Ronney has another element to his contract where he has effectively handed over his personal image rights to United to push on his behalf. Apparently it is this unique element of his contract that really pushes up the value of his wages.

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. Because whatever about anything else the club knows how to make money out of football like no other 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.

Given enough money, and if they believe that the club is on its way (back) up perhaps.

Tevez, Silva and Toure all left their clubs and joined City when City wasn't in Europe (Tevez), or only had Europa League to offer (Silva, Toure), so it's not like it's not been done before. Now they may not have been the top 3 or top 5, but they were very good players.

So it's not inconceivable in my opinion. Of course, if the likes of Bayern, Real, Barca, etc. get involved, then Man Utd would be in a weaker position, but I think one season out of the CL isn't that big a deal, provided they can convince the player that the previous season was just a blip.
 
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.
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.
 
I'm sure Leeds United thought the same thing 😉

Leeds spent borrowed money they didn't have or earn in order to improve their position.

United still made 110m profit last season and even without European football it will probably be above 100m season due to new TV money and commercial deals.

There are definitely some parrells but there are probably more differences
 
If you spend enough money, players will believe you're on the way up.

Vidal won't join
Kroos won't join
Strootman won't join

But maybe if tell Vidal you are buying Kroos, and you tell Kroos you are buying Strootman etc etc
Then maybe they'll all join I guess.
 
BARCELONA sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta has revealed that there have been offers made for Chile star Alexis Sanchez, with Arsenal and Liverpool interested.

Sanchez has been linked with a host of top European clubs after another fantastic season in Spain, scoring 21 goals and assisting 17 in all competitions.
Arsenal and Liverpool remain favourites to bring the 25-year-old to the Premier League, with reports in Spain claiming he would prefer a move to the Emirates.

And now Zubizarreta has confirmed that Sanchez could be on his way out of the Camp Nou this summer. "Regarding the future of Alexis Sanchez, there have been offers for the player," the 52-year-old said. "But I do not know how it will all end - we are looking for a solution which will be best for everyone."

Sanchez's value will have inevitably gone up since Chile's impressive campaign at the World Cup, exiting to hosts Brazil in the last 16.
 
Mirror

  • Manchester United passed up on James Rodriguez when he would have cost them just £5million.
Guardian

  • 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.

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.
 
If we sign Bertrand I'll lose all faith in our transfer committee, Rodgers and humanity at large.
 
from the guardian . fucking bertrand.


Didn't you just know we'd end up signing him? Got that sinking feeling as soon as I heard he was Rodgers' favoured alternative to Moreno a couple of months ago - just seemed to be that one shitty link that wouldn't go away, like Crouch and Downing before him.

I mean, I presume he's shit, because I don't remember ever seeing him play. Am I being unfair?

Anyway, it's made especially disappointing given just how many promising young left backs there seem to be right now. Ben Davies just went to Spurs for exactly the money quoted for Bertrand, for a start.
 
Bertrand....fucking hell.
I guess Enrique will continue unopposed on that left back spot. Which is a good thing actually because I rate him.
 
Guillermo Ochoa

A number of clubs have enquired about the 28-year-old's situation following the expiry of his contract with Ligue 2 side Ajaccio and incredible World Cup performances for Mexico

Jorge Berlanga, the agent of goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, has confirmed that a lot of interest has been shown in his client.

Liverpool are rumoured to be among the clubs to have enquired about the 28-year-old, who is out of contract after his deal with Ligue 2 side AC Ajaccio expired.

The goalkeeper, who spent three years with the French club and made over 110 appearances, has been capped on more than 60 occasions for his national side.

"Many clubs are interested in my client but we still have not received any concrete offers,”" the agent is quoted as saying by TuttomercatoWeb.

"Now it is normal that many clubs will be interested in him after he played so well at the World Cup."

Atletico Madrid and Arsenal are also said to be interested in signing the shot-stopper but the Mexico international has revealed his desire to stay in France, which has led to talk linking him with a move to Monaco.

Ochoa has also expressed a desire to play in Germany, claiming that he "dreams" of plying his trade in the Bundesliga.

"I dream of the Bundesliga," he told Bild. "It is definitely one of the world's strongest leagues. It would be really great if I could present myself there."
 
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