fabregas?

Originally Posted by redhegemony

and how do we know this to be so?

because it's been widely reported on here AND on twitter.

Bit of a big difference between £35m and €30m. They really haven't got a clue.

Originally Posted by Shooter McGavin

Might as well offer £50m for messi while we're there

Yep. May as well just do what shitty did on the arrival of the current owners, just draw up a list of players and send offers of £5-10m less than you think they are worth to their clubs and see what happens. IF they don't all get rejected, don't answer the phone for a few days. Hopefully, word that the club in question is in fact willing to sell will reach the ears of proper clubs who will get in there and get the player bought without United having to embarrass themselves further by finding a convenient excuse not to pursue the deal.

£#%&!ing £#%&!ers.

Originally Posted by dunk

It makes you want to £#%&!ing weep. :shakehead: ffs. The richest club in the World in terms of revenue, resorting to making token bids for players they know they can't have to save £#%&!ing face after being too £#%&!ing cheap to pay the going rate for the player we actually wanted, again.

I hate every £#%&!er involved.

nailed it.

This is a face saving exercise & nothing more.
Bayern swat us to one side & take our main summer target away so we suddenly decide to bid £30+mill for a player in his late twenties ...as if they're going to let another midfielder leave ffs
Embarrassing.

"We tried to get Thiago & Fabregas so clearly the money is there" :shakehead:

Loving the idea that of two talented midfielders at Barca we've really only been interested in the older, more expensive, unobtainable one.

Originally Posted by MJ Ramone

nailed it.

This is a face saving exercise & nothing more.
Bayern swat us to one side & take our main summer target away so we suddenly decide to bid £30+mill for a player in his late twenties ...as if they're going to let another midfielder leave ffs
Embarrassing.

"We tried to get Thiago & Fabregas so clearly the money is there" :shakehead:

This.

Utterly disgusting behaviour from United. They know full well that Barca won't sell him, but are putting up a front after the Thiago balls up.

Instead of these constant £#%&!ing PR exercises, why don't they get their shit together and start acting like a football club.

I backed the Moyes appointment, but it's looking more and more like that he's been seen as a yes man whilst Woodward and the Glazers bleed us dry.

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Because bayern did !!

We'd been chasing the little @#%&! for 3 years and couldn't find 10M to drop on him...

Fabregas hahshahshaha 35 million.

£#%&!ing shite,

We may have been third choice all along...maybe nothing at all to do with money but his personal preferences as advised by his influential agent.

It's all media bullshit there will be maybe a dozen people who know the full extent of the story tossers on the Mail/Sun etc aren't in that bunch..

Only United could put in a £30m bid for a worldy midfielder and still act like @#%&!s by doing as such.

Originally Posted by Neo

Utterly disgusting behaviour from United. They know full well that Barca won't sell him, but are putting up a front after the Thiago balls up.

Instead of these constant £#%&!ing PR exercises, why don't they get their shit together and start acting like a football club.

I backed the Moyes appointment, but it's looking more and more like that he's been seen as a yes man whilst Woodward and the Glazers bleed us dry.

It's so obvious.

Briefing the press again with a bid we know will fail, just like we did with the Baines bid which we knew was below the valuation.

State of these @#%&!s running the place.

fergie will be spinning in his grave.

Originally Posted by Blagger

Only United could put in a £30m bid for a worldy midfielder and still act like @#%&!s by doing as such.

He isn't a 'worldy' he's very good though. And the reason they are @#%&!s is that they know it won't be accepted and that Barca don't want to sell and he doesn't want to move. And, even if Barca did, Arsenal will be there to pick up the pieces. It's a cowardly £#%&!ing move, and the intention behind it from United is clear from the fact that news of the 'bid' has been 'leaked'. If the interest was genuine they'd be saying £#%&! all.

£#%&!ing %@#$&!s.

I don't believe in publicity stunt bids, we're not City of 2008 and 2009.

If the bid is genuine then Fabregas has given the OK. Chances are the bid isn't genuine, not cos of us lacking cash but I doubt Fabregas is gonna give up his hometown dream only 2 years after arriving, considering how hard he fought for the move(gave up wages, refused to train at arsenal etc).

Haven't you lot already gone through this routine for Fabregas once this summer?

The Thiago thread will actually look clued up by the time you've finished in here, no doubt

We might not believe in them saffers, but United seem to be dealing in them these days.

definitely briefed by the club. All outlets reporting now including telegraph and guardian

Originally Posted by saffers

I don't believe in publicity stunt bids, we're not City of 2008 and 2009.
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quite right we're not, we're Manchester United of 2013. The same United that has played along with the Ronaldo pantomime.

Originally Posted by dunk

It's a cowardly £#%&!ing move, and the intention behind it from United is clear from the fact that news of the 'bid' has been 'leaked'. If the interest was genuine they'd be saying £#%&! all.

Absolutely.
If it was a genuine bid they'd be keeping it behind closed doors - "we don't talk about players at other Clubs" ..suddenly, 24hrs after being humiliated by Bayern they're publicly slapping down a £30mill bid for Fabregas:shakehead:

£#%&!ing bullshit.

Originally Posted by dunk

It makes you want to £#%&!ing weep. :shakehead: ffs. The richest club in the World in terms of revenue, resorting to making token bids for players they know they can't have to save £#%&!ing face after being too £#%&!ing cheap to pay the going rate for the player we actually wanted, again.

I hate every £#%&!er involved.

That we didn't want to pay an extra £6m for Thiago is utter BS. His old coach came in for him, at Bayern, his agent being the brother of his old coach. Cards well and truly stacked against you.

Are people really pushing the 'glazers are tight' shit again, thats way more embarrassing than just admitting we got snubbed...

Originally Posted by rafabio

definitely briefed by the club. All outlets reporting now including telegraph and guardian

well that's £#%&!ing that t....hang on weren't all these outlets reporting we'd signed Thiago?