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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://community.manutd.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Transfer Speculation</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/8.aspx</link><description>Your reaction to the arrival and departure rumours</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20917.1142)</generator><item><title>Re: bye-bye modric.</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102703.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:35:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2102703</guid><dc:creator>19reds89</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102703.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2102703</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;bwk:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;i dont think Madrid need him...while United do...it really doesnt look a much needed signing for them..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;

Madrid really do not need Modric and it would be nothing but a show of muscle in my opinion. I&amp;#39;m not entirely convinced we were ever in for him either. With SAF moulding Powell into that cm player, and ando seemingly coming back with no fresh injury worries, it would seem we are simply not in the market for a cm player. Right or wrong, that&amp;#39;s something the boss will have to live with AGAIN if the mid falls short of expectation next year as it did so miserably in the previous campaign.</description></item><item><title>Re: bye-bye modric.</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102699.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:30:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2102699</guid><dc:creator>Sephiroth Rising</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102699.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2102699</wfw:commentRss><description>Do not want this overrated mercenary rat any where near United.</description></item><item><title>Re: bye-bye modric.</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102692.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:23:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2102692</guid><dc:creator>bwk</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102692.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2102692</wfw:commentRss><description>i dont think Madrid need him...while United do...it really doesnt look a much needed signing for them..</description></item><item><title>Re: bye-bye modric.</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102322.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:41:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2102322</guid><dc:creator>Captain Marvel No.7</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102322.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2102322</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;garp01us:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;if Modric does indeed goto Madrid it shows what his true interest&amp;#39;s are and that is money! There is no way he&amp;#39;ll be a consistent starter for that team, there are at least 4 other mids already on that squad that are leaps and bounds better than Modric ever thought of being and they can actually score goals as well. Sniejder NO THANKYOU!!! Why is it allot of you are so desperate to bring in players who will destroy our wage structure and that are also past their best? is it simply to say that they play for us? I&amp;#39;d rather lock up Moutino and Moura than even waste a second on the other 2 mentioned!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;

Just how does Modric going to Madrid mean he is motivated by money?&lt;p&gt;

Given his ability, Luka Modric has been one of the lowest paid players in the Premier League in recent years, thats why teams are offering to double his wages. He is anything but a mercenary and he actually wouldnt come close to destroying our wage structure. Lets face it, Real Madrid have got masses of history, tradition, an unbelievable array of talent to choose from and a pulling power that is unrivalled throughout world football. They dont only offer Modric a chance to improve himself but they offer him the lifestyle and climate to go with it....&lt;p&gt;

Yeah why go to Madrid when he can go for rain sodden Manchester...That said, i would still love to see him become a United player.&lt;p&gt;

I just find it ridiculous that you think if a player chooses Madrid before United that he is motivated by money. If Modric goes to Madrid he may not play every week because Madrid dont actually NEED him whereas United do. If he goes to Madrid his challenge will be to earn a regular place competing against many other top midfielders targeting the same places. If he goes to United he will be a main feature of the team and i suspect will play on a more regular basis.</description></item><item><title>Re: bye-bye modric.</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102102.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:16:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2102102</guid><dc:creator>garp01us</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102102.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2102102</wfw:commentRss><description>if Modric does indeed goto Madrid it shows what his true interest&amp;#39;s are and that is money! There is no way he&amp;#39;ll be a consistent starter for that team, there are at least 4 other mids already on that squad that are leaps and bounds better than Modric ever thought of being and they can actually score goals as well. Sniejder NO THANKYOU!!! Why is it allot of you are so desperate to bring in players who will destroy our wage structure and that are also past their best? is it simply to say that they play for us? I&amp;#39;d rather lock up Moutino and Moura than even waste a second on the other 2 mentioned!</description></item><item><title>Re: Luka Modric Agrees Real Madrid Move says Marca!!! Come Sneijder</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102077.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:03:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2102077</guid><dc:creator>we'llbeback</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102077.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2102077</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Cleverbeck.:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;we&amp;#39;llbeback:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Cleverbeck.:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Why bump this ***thread?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;


Because someone created a new Modric thread, and this thread contains lots of merged Modric discussion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
It also includes the word Sneijder. As part of the &amp;quot;Anti-Sneijder Squad&amp;quot; or A.S.S, i&amp;#39;m offended.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;

Does ITMRS Know that you are moonlighting? Yep don&amp;#39;t think the mods did a great job when they was merging this lot. Should have been one of the more Modric devoted titles, but this one probably existed first so sorry about that. I fully support the A.S.S,</description></item><item><title>Re: Luka Modric Agrees Real Madrid Move says Marca!!! Come Sneijder</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102073.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:57:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2102073</guid><dc:creator>Cleverbeck.</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102073.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2102073</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;we&amp;#39;llbeback:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Cleverbeck.:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Why bump this ***thread?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;


Because someone created a new Modric thread, and this thread contains lots of merged Modric discussion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
It also includes the word Sneijder. As part of the &amp;quot;Anti-Sneijder Squad&amp;quot; or A.S.S, i&amp;#39;m offended.</description></item><item><title>Re: Luka Modric Agrees Real Madrid Move says Marca!!! Come Sneijder</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102072.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:56:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2102072</guid><dc:creator>we'llbeback</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102072.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2102072</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Cleverbeck.:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Why bump this ***thread?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;

Because someone created a new Modric thread, and this thread contains lots of merged Modric discussion.</description></item><item><title>Re: Luka Modric Agrees Real Madrid Move says Marca!!! Come Sneijder</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102062.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:52:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2102062</guid><dc:creator>Cleverbeck.</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102062.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2102062</wfw:commentRss><description>Why bump this ***thread?</description></item><item><title>Re: Luka Modric Agrees Real Madrid Move says Marca!!! Come Sneijder</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102042.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:41:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2102042</guid><dc:creator>Pijo</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102042.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2102042</wfw:commentRss><description>Good lord, it&amp;#39;s like the broken record society in here. Did people not get their fill of campaigning for Sneijder last summer?</description></item><item><title>Re: Luka Modric Agrees Real Madrid Move says Marca!!! Come Sneijder</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102033.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:36:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2102033</guid><dc:creator>we'llbeback</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2102033.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2102033</wfw:commentRss><description>bump as new thread has been created</description></item><item><title>Re: Luka Modric Agrees Real Madrid Move says Marca!!! Come Sneijder</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2085489.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:33:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2085489</guid><dc:creator>abhicool66</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2085489.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2085489</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Brittain 10:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Manunitedrule:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Mile Kuzmanovski:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stop the nonsense for Snijder. WE DONT NEED SNIJDER and we dont want to pay his huge wage demands.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;

Totally agree!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt; Those wage demands were truly disgusting. £170 k is what we offered him, on average it takes someone 6 years to make that, and they don&amp;#39;t even have that in 1 large sum. Honestly football is just too corrupt, I mean look at all these BS excuses like Drogba saying he wants to make football bigger in China. Everyone knows he couldn&amp;#39;t go e a flying f*ck about Chinese football. That sort of thing really irks me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;

THIS...
Drogba now wants to be the highly vaunted saviour of CHINESE football... LOL</description></item><item><title>Re: bye-bye modric.</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2085459.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:03:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2085459</guid><dc:creator>"RUTHLESS-REDS"</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2085459.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2085459</wfw:commentRss><description>when kagawa was signed,modric wasn&amp;#39;t even taught of anymore by me.the only new signin imo is a unexpected signin,thats not a marquee-super-star name.but will be a young promising player/star for the future.examples:ron,chico.someone with clear ability!!!</description></item><item><title>Re: Lucas modric</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2085390.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:01:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2085390</guid><dc:creator>Mutza_MUFC</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2085390.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2085390</wfw:commentRss><description>Just found this article, interesting story but no direct quotes so probably BS.

http://www.crunchsports.com/category/Soccer/Man-Utd-on-alert-as-Luka-Modric-Real-Madrid-CF-deal-hits-potential-snag-201206250019/</description></item><item><title>Re: Lucas modric</title><link>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2085042.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:49:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e364dc51-f0bb-4e59-b892-d54757f0c32e:2085042</guid><dc:creator>tommythecat</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.manutd.com/forums/thread/2085042.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.manutd.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&amp;PostID=2085042</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;caedus1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;if only Lucas and Modric morphed into 1 player Gill would already send 50m offer for him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;i think he&amp;#39;s referring to a rumoured love child of the 2...</description></item></channel></rss>