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Manchester United Community » ManUtd.com » Transfer Speculation » Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric
  • 12 Jul 2012 2:14 PM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    The other two can go to Madrid and Tottenham. Bla bla. I do think I am talking to very naive young fans. I mean the point is that we can no longer attract the top players such as Modeic, Moutinho. It is ridiculously naive to say they can go to Madrid when the precise point is thatwe are impotent in our ability to affect their decision making. We are simply out muscled on the transfer Market. And you guys need to start seeing reality instead keeping your young heads firmly inside Urani.
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  • 12 Jul 2012 1:13 PM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    Modric is worth absolutely no more than 28-30! Anything over that is robbery. Moutinho is good but maybe one year younger and from reports I've read has a difficult transfer situation because he has a sell on clause from his previous club sporting, which means Porto are asking for 30-40 just to make some sort of profit on him!! There is no say he is even remotely worth close to that figure. I believe we are interested in Lucas as well and could very well buy him even at an inflated price because he is a young phenom and falls in line with our policy. The other two can go to Madrid and Tottenham respectively for all I care.
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  • 12 Jul 2012 1:00 PM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    The Mag1cian:
    Pijo:
    Cheryl Cole:
    Unfortunately we cannot afford the price any longer.
    Don't confuse incapability with disinclination. If we don't want to pay £40m for Modric that doesn't, by any stretch of the imagination, mean that we couldn't. If you went to buy a new TV you thought was worth £200 and the shop said "Actually, no. A few other people want this TV, so the price is now £400" would you still think that's a good deal? If the answer is anything other than "No" then you might want to re-think.

    If Madrid believe that Modric is worth spending £40m on, that's their lookout. But you can't assume that if we don't agree, it's because we can't afford it.

    Without a shadow of a doubt the best post I've read in a long time.

    I like Modric, but I honestly don't think he's worth £40 million. I'd give Spurs £30 million maximum for him, and anyway, who's to say that we're interested in either of them anyway?

    We might sign Lucas Moura this week, or Kevin Strootman. We might not even be interested in them, we can't know. We're just assuming that we're interested in players due to paper talk and iffy quotes from agents.

    Don't be silly. Of course we are interested in the likes of Moura, Modric, Moutinho. Who wouldn't. The problem is that we are not willing to pay competitive Market prices and will end up precisely like Arsenal , a very well managed business but lacking in flair and possibly in silverware also. No point in sticking our heads In the sand. Sir Alex has done fantastically well even though he has spent less than five other premier clubs in the last four or five years. Don't let SAFs guile and knowhow blind you to the hard truth. We have lost out on targets we would have captured previously and if this continues there is only one direction we will be heading and it's not up.
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  • 12 Jul 2012 1:00 PM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    The Mag1cian:
    Pijo:
    Cheryl Cole:
    Unfortunately we cannot afford the price any longer.
    Don't confuse incapability with disinclination. If we don't want to pay £40m for Modric that doesn't, by any stretch of the imagination, mean that we couldn't. If you went to buy a new TV you thought was worth £200 and the shop said "Actually, no. A few other people want this TV, so the price is now £400" would you still think that's a good deal? If the answer is anything other than "No" then you might want to re-think.

    If Madrid believe that Modric is worth spending £40m on, that's their lookout. But you can't assume that if we don't agree, it's because we can't afford it.

    Without a shadow of a doubt the best post I've read in a long time.

    I like Modric, but I honestly don't think he's worth £40 million. I'd give Spurs £30 million maximum for him, and anyway, who's to say that we're interested in either of them anyway?

    We might sign Lucas Moura this week, or Kevin Strootman. We might not even be interested in them, we can't know. We're just assuming that we're interested in players due to paper talk and iffy quotes from agents.

    Don't be silly magician!!!!! Of course we are interested in the likes of Moura, Modric, Moutinho. Who wouldn't. The problem is that we are not willing to pay competitive Market prices and will end up precisely like Arsenal , a very well managed business but lacking in flair and possibly in silverware also. No point in sticking our heads In the sand. Sir Alex has done fantastically well even though he has spent less than five other premier clubs in the last four or five years. Don't let SAFs guile and knowhow blind you to the hard truth. We have lost out on targets we would have captured previously and if this continues there is only one direction we will be heading and it's not up.
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  • 12 Jul 2012 12:46 PM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    silvester88:
    Maybe Moutinho wasnt our target just another rumor going round it happens.Dosnt mean we cant afford them when maybe we arent even in for that player know what i mean.At the end of the day who knows who we are after we keep things like that under wraps why come out and say yeah we are after him or him etc we dont work like that we like to things like that all secret and do our business quietly as possable if we can. I think AVB wants Moutinho as a replacement for Modric who looks set to leave Spurs with Real his preferred destination.
    Precisely what I said, as reported in Telegraph today, Madrid to buy Modric, Moutinho to Spurs. Open your eyes, Modric or Moutinho would be choice additions for any top club today, and for United especially as we are well short of controlling midfielder and lacking cutting edge up front. The myth is that we somehow clandestinely work our deals in dark rooms, it's total nonsense. Believe me We were in for Modric,but can not afford him, as we were for Sneijder, Hazard and others.We may not like the inflated transfer fees but we have to become competetive within it's reality. Wenger has done a great job at Arsenal but are the supporters really satisfied. We need to invest in and develop youth but we need to pay realistic wages and transfer fees if we want to continue to mount sustained challenges particularly in Europe.
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  • 12 Jul 2012 12:46 PM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    silvester88:
    Maybe Moutinho wasnt our target just another rumor going round it happens.Dosnt mean we cant afford them when maybe we arent even in for that player know what i mean.At the end of the day who knows who we are after we keep things like that under wraps why come out and say yeah we are after him or him etc we dont work like that we like to things like that all secret and do our business quietly as possable if we can. I think AVB wants Moutinho as a replacement for Modric who looks set to leave Spurs with Real his preferred destination.
    Precisely what I said, as reported in Telegraph today, Madrid to buy Modric, Moutinho to Spurs. Open your eyes, Modric or Moutinho would be choice additions for any top club today, and for United especially as we are well short of controlling midfielder and lacking cutting edge up front. The myth is that we somehow clandestinely work our deals in dark rooms, it's total nonsense. Believe me We were in for Modric,but can not afford him, as we were for Sneijder, Hazard and others.We may not like the inflated transfer fees but we have to become competetive within it's reality. We get has done a great job at Arsenal but are the supporters really satisfied. We need to invest in and develop youth but we need to pay realistic wages and transfer fees if we want to continue to mount sustained challenges particularly in Europe.
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  • 12 Jul 2012 12:35 PM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    Pijo:
    Cheryl Cole:
    Unfortunately we cannot afford the price any longer.
    Don't confuse incapability with disinclination. If we don't want to pay £40m for Modric that doesn't, by any stretch of the imagination, mean that we couldn't. If you went to buy a new TV you thought was worth £200 and the shop said "Actually, no. A few other people want this TV, so the price is now £400" would you still think that's a good deal? If the answer is anything other than "No" then you might want to re-think.

    If Madrid believe that Modric is worth spending £40m on, that's their lookout. But you can't assume that if we don't agree, it's because we can't afford it.

    Without a shadow of a doubt the best post I've read in a long time.

    I like Modric, but I honestly don't think he's worth £40 million. I'd give Spurs £30 million maximum for him, and anyway, who's to say that we're interested in either of them anyway?

    We might sign Lucas Moura this week, or Kevin Strootman. We might not even be interested in them, we can't know. We're just assuming that we're interested in players due to paper talk and iffy quotes from agents.

    How about sensational? How about superb? A goal from the realms of greatness!
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  • 12 Jul 2012 12:03 PM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    Shame, i really rate Moutinho, a great little player who does the defensive stuff very well, is very comfortable with the ball at his feet and has a good range of passing and good vision, i think he would be a very good addition to our squad. When you look at our midfield, you can see we lack pace, a good tackler and drive, Moutinho has all those qualities.
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  • 12 Jul 2012 11:38 AM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    Maybe Moutinho wasnt our target just another rumor going round it happens.Dosnt mean we cant afford them when maybe we arent even in for that player know what i mean.At the end of the day who knows who we are after we keep things like that under wraps why come out and say yeah we are after him or him etc we dont work like that we like to things like that all secret and do our business quietly as possable if we can. I think AVB wants Moutinho as a replacement for Modric who looks set to leave Spurs with Real his preferred destination.
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  • 12 Jul 2012 10:46 AM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    I really don't get where Modric is going to fit into their system. Real Madrid's mid-field is stupidly big and talented already. They're just going to keep on buying, greedy f**ckers!
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  • 12 Jul 2012 10:36 AM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    mb28mbrook:
    TRANSFERS!!!!!!!:
    haha ye right modric is not worth 40m more like 20m he is an average player most games
    I agree with you on the price, but he is FAR from average. His style of play is so under-rated by too many people, just because he doesn't get loads of assists and goals, doesn't make him any less important to his team. He controls games.
    I wouldnt pay more than 26 million for modric which if we got 6 years out of him is just over 4 million a year which is a bargin! But to say he's an average player is wrong he is just what we need
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  • 12 Jul 2012 10:35 AM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    Cheryl Cole:
    Unfortunately we cannot afford the price any longer.
    Don't confuse incapability with disinclination. If we don't want to pay £40m for Modric that doesn't, by any stretch of the imagination, mean that we couldn't. If you went to buy a new TV you thought was worth £200 and the shop said "Actually, no. A few other people want this TV, so the price is now £400" would you still think that's a good deal? If the answer is anything other than "No" then you might want to re-think.

    If Madrid believe that Modric is worth spending £40m on, that's their lookout. But you can't assume that if we don't agree, it's because we can't afford it.

    Pleasantly suprised by how well the youngsters are doing

    Keep it up lads!
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  • 12 Jul 2012 10:34 AM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    Cheryl Cole:
    So there goes another two of our top targets. Priced out by Mourinho and out manoeuvred by AVB, it's sad to see our (still great club ) reduced to second tier in the transfer Market. Without Sir Alex we would not have made the top four in premier league, in the last three or four seasons.hopefully the flotation on the NY SE will eventually free up some capital so that we can compete again but right now it is such a shame that at a time when we really need be rebuild with top quality our restricted budget,imposed by the Glazers' debt, is disabling us yet again. We do not want marquee signings just for the sake of excitation but we need to be realistic about transfer costs and wages right now. If we do not pay out realistically then Sir Alex will be embarrassed in his last few years at the helm. God knows how his successor will do if our budget continues to keep us non competitive.
    How do you know they are two of our top targets? Nobody has any idea who we are after. As for Modric who knows what he wants. We cannot do anything about certain things involved with transfers. He could want to play in Spain for example? 40m for me is too much i would rather see us invest it in a younger player. Moutinho for me is a competent player but far from the best around. Sir Alex may feel 20m is too much or he might not even like the player. Sick of people complaining about losing out on players when there is no proof we are actually trying to buy the players.
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  • 12 Jul 2012 10:27 AM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    TRANSFERS!!!!!!!:
    haha ye right modric is not worth 40m more like 20m he is an average player most games
    I agree with you on the price, but he is FAR from average. His style of play is so under-rated by too many people, just because he doesn't get loads of assists and goals, doesn't make him any less important to his team. He controls games.
    Been Hacked
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  • 12 Jul 2012 10:10 AM

    Re: Moutinho to Spurs as Real offer £40m Modric

    £40m bid for Modric paves way for Moutinho to Spurs! The story is from todays Telegraph and is not unrealistic, Modric would be an amazing addition to our squad as would Moutinho. Unfortunately we cannot afford the price any longer. We paid £32m for Berbatov yet can not pay over £20m for players who we vitally need today. The argument that the transfer Market is overpriced may have some credence, but the reality remains that City, Chelski, Barcelona, Madrid, PSG etc are dominating the market and setting the standard prices of transfers and of wages. We have to accept the reality of the Market or else we will expect the same fate as Arsenal, great manager and great effort but no silverware.
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