Man Utd January '06 Transfer Targets and Rumours Thread

Does ManU want to bring in any new players before they find a replacement for SAF?

 

Well, its gotta come.

Fergie out someone else in. I'm sorry but its got to happen. I'm not saying now, maybe we should trudge to the end of the season, but he's got to go unless he TOTALLY changes things around.

Add another CB to ADD competition to the guys, even Rio is playing not so well now. Just someone to give the guys competition.

Oshea out, Fletcher out, Scholes out(unless new manager who knows how to use the guy).

You know, maybe we should just go ahead into the rebuilding stage, and put the kids out there for the season.

Bring in Rossi more, Richardson, Jones, Spector, Bardsley, Smith.
Buy Gooch, buy some more youth, stick them in there. We might as well, it may get a little worse (cant see it really) but the guys will get experience, though hopefully not too much.

 

I agree that's an issue. My guess is, if we can limp to the 4th spot at the end of the season, you'll see SAF out and a new manager with a boatload of cash to make him look good.

 

I don't know how much credibility this deserves from David Pleat in his review of the Utd - Boro match:

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The full article is here:

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There are comments about Duscher somewhere but Obodo is news to me. In all honestly, both seem to be bargain basement, short-term solutions. Although to be fair, that might be what we need.

 

Duscher's got the experience (both general and CL), and it's probably a good thing he's rumoured to be joining us after Beckham left or he might request a transfer Dunno too much about Obodo...

 

I would rather have sulley Muntari instead of Obodo. Muntari is a great box to box player, who can score as well.

 

I say lets sign Richard Dunne, I know he's only 9 years old, but he seems to have spirit.. that can take you some way. Hes an Everton lad, but that has worked for us before...

 

If we keep playing like we have been playing lately
no one will want a transfer to Man United.
We played like the walking dead against Middlesborough!

 

Sounds like Frankenstein.. a whole team of O'Shea's?

 

Can We Please Go Out And Get Manuel Fernandes.

Please. We Have To.

 

Well since you asked nicely.....

 

Wow, i thought i typed that in all caps, what happend? Anyway.

I watched this kid play a couple games on the television. He is the next best thing. He can pass very accuratly, he can win balls, and is very athletic, he has a powerful shot, and his positioning is phenominal.

 

Is there anyone else that has seen him? I may be getting ahead of myself, but why not? We are looking for a capable replacement for the centermidfield position. He fits what we are looking for. We cannot find anyone else. We already let Essien slip away. We cannot let another.

Though others would cry, oh he is from a latin stlye of football and would find it hard to adjust, that logic is thrown out the window seeing as how, if you want to make it, you can.

 

Manutd.com the official website has already mentioned the transfer rumours involving Fernandes.. no worries man. : p

 

Tell us about him Benni.

 

Excuse me, but i get a little excited when it comes to actually finding peices of the team.

Manuel Fernandes is 19 and he is a CM. Some of my friends say he is a box to box two way player. Solid defensively, and even though not built like a massive defender, does well in the air. He gets compared to Claude Makalele by Jose Mourinho. That leads me to believe he is already on Chelsea's radar as Maka isnt getting any younger. He is an excellent passer. He can start attacks, he distributes well. Needs to learn that he can control the game. He doesnt seem to want to ever slow the game down, when in the heat of the moment. That can be worked on. He always makes himself an option, for his teammates, and his movement is great. I read that he shots are like cannon balls.

What i saw in the match was a young Roy Keane with more flair and not scared to shoot, but does so too often maybe. That comparison to keane maybe a little premature after two games, but i will continue to watch him. He received his first call up for the national team this half of the 2005.

 

Theo Walcott - anyone his age that can play the way his has in the hackfest known as the fizzy pop surely is something special.

 

What position? Wilkinson said that Walcott was better than rooney. How bold of him.

 

He is an attacking mid-cum-striker, iirc. He could be a winger, and if he is we should definitely pick him up, but I'm not so sure if we need a young striker at the moment.

Shame the Carrick & Pedersen rumours never materialised, but wachagonnado? I am struggling to think of any Fizzypop players that would suit us in the right positions at the moment, though. Maybe Ashton as a targetman (he is far, far better than the overhyped Andy Johnson)... or that young Irish CB at Brighton.

 

Manuel Fernandes is much more talented then Makelele, you are right he does have a cannon of a shot. Remember that sweet volley he scored for Benfica against Villareal a couple of weeks ago? almost Rooneyesque. Although I could almost guarantee that Chelsea will intervene, Mourinho has been tracking him ever since he's been at Chelsea.

 

OH, THAT manual Fernandes. Yes I recall the announcers on ESPN nearly claiming he the second coming of Pele during our game.

 

Has anyone heard anything new about Obi??

With everyone trying hard to come up with targets in January, his presense or lack thereof will have a huge impact on who and what we pursue.

 

Manuel Fernandes and Obi Mikel would be as solid as you get in the center of midfield in a 4-4-2. Both can defend, both pass very well both can create.