The Manchester United Thread X

I don't believe that. Herrera is nothing special at all, wouldn't expect to pay anything more than 10-15 for him, so United bidding as much as they bid for Fabregas seems unlikely.

I just want the window to close now, all we're being linked to are bad deals.

Apparently Buttner is joining Besiktas on loan http://www.turkish-football.com/news_read.php?id=5096

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Seems the Bilbao president has just confirmed we've bid a whopping €30m for Hererra... Said he wants us to pay the full clause.

Woodward apparently spotted at an airport according to Twitter.

To be honest in the current market paying around the £30 million to acquire him isn't such a bad deal especially as we really need someone who can play the defensive midfielder role. But if we're gonna go all out to buy him then why bid for Fellaini? Doesn't make any sense. We've got Rooney and Kagawa fighting for the attacking midfielders/behind the striker position. So where will Fellaini exactly play? The only reason I thought we're going for Fellaini was that Moyes might play him as a DM but that doesn't seem to be the case if we're after Hererra now.

Herrera isn't a DM, and he's not really a CM. He generally plays quite far forward in the midfield, sort of inbetween where you'd find Cleverley and Kagawa. I'd class him as an AM. He can and has played further back, though.

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Sky sports saying we are closer to the Fellaini deal which may mean we have given up on Baines.

So we've bid on Fellaini, Herrera and De Rossi today if you believe the reports, the first two are definitely true though.

Herrera's unlikely, and De Rossi even more unlikely, I'd say.

I said just after Moyes' appointment that Fellaini would move to you lot in the last week of August, it was always going to happen. You'd go after a midfielder/attacking target to replace Rooney and eventually you'd get Fellaini. So Rooney probably won't leave but you get Fellaini at least. Don't understand how Fellaini will fit in, but it's better to have him than not to, I guess.

I think the main reason we haven't signed anyone is that Chelsea/City/Monaco/PSG/Madrid have all paid stupid prices for players so the market right now is inflated to the extreme, a couple of seasons ago for instance there is no way a club like Everton reject bids of £28m and £36m for players like Baines and Fellaini, and there is 0 chance they would have felt able to call the former bid insulting either, but when they see players like Fernandinho going for £34m and Bale for £86m, et al, they think they can get much much more than the asking price for players, unfortunately this seems to have hit the asking price of the players we want more than others, largely I suspect because we aren't going to pay stupid money for players who aren't worth it like City and Chelsea, but also because we are looking at better quality players than Liverpool or Tottenham as examples. I think this is also probably behind Arsenal's lack of spending, both clubs have been left a bit miffed by clubs asking for them to pay City/Chelsea prices for players when they don't really see the value in doing so, City or Chelsea can afford to waste money because they have oligarchs to turn on the money tap, for clubs that don't it really puts more pressure on to find value, the problem is that in this market value just doesn't exist.

Who have Chelsea bought this season for a stupid price?

Willian isn't worth anything like £32m, debatable whether Schurrle is worth £18m as well really.