Transfers Pt 2

May 20th, 2007 | by: Jan |

This title will be seen more often in the not too distant future…

Bayern person (can’t really think of his official title, but I do know the Bayern board hates his guts ) Franz Beckenbauer declared that Owen Hargreaves will leave to play for Manchester United for at least 23 Mio Euros. (That is 10 M Euros more than Ajax wants for Sneijder… What the hell??). That money will/could be used to buy Arjen Robben from Chelsea. The left footed magician is said to have a troubled relationship with Mourinho (can’t really tell from what I see on telly though) and his effectiveness is questioned with The Blues.

Why doesn’t Man Utd go for Sneijder?? They need some intelligence in midfield. Giggs is over the hill-ish, Scholes is the only player with a brain on Man’s midfield (with all due respect for Fletcher and all those other players there…). Add Huntelaar and Sir Alex is in business.

Got an interesting comment: it seems Manchester City is getting some fresh money in and are looking to sign either Ranieri or Adriaanse to put City back where they belong…

Tags: Arjen Robben, Co Adriaanse, The Netherlands, Wesley Sneijder

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Comments

By carrington | May 21st, 2007 at 4:20 am

there is more and more speculation that huntelaar is going to man u for 12 million. i reckon that will be a good move for him!! will be good for the dutch national team. with 3 top strikers playing for real,man u and liverpool

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By carrington | May 21st, 2007 at 4:20 am

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By Lerkot | May 21st, 2007 at 5:06 am

Because they were looking for a defensive midfielder. Not a creative one, they got a couple of those.

By Jan | May 21st, 2007 at 5:58 am

He Carrington… … There certainly is more and more speculation about Hunter goin’ to Man Utd LOL

Lerkot, who are the creative midfielders at Man Utd? Scholes, yes. Giggs, on his way out, but yes… But other than that? Don’t want to sound disrespectful or anything, but are we talking Carrack, Fletcher? I don’t see it…

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By Rami | May 21st, 2007 at 12:17 pm

plus carrick is a defensive midfielder.. Jan is right. they need someone who can start partially replacing scholes.

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By Igor | May 22nd, 2007 at 12:34 pm

ManU isn’t interested in sneijder for a few reasons, first they have been after hargreaves for a while and he is definitely their main targer. Secondly, the two are pretty different players, meaning that ManU would not view sneijder as a cheaper alternative to hargreaves. Therefore, they would have to dig very deep in their coffers to afford both players. Also hargreaves is english (technically anyway) so that makes him a more likely transfer target for a premiership club (for example arsenal who doesnt have a lot of english players are often critisized for that, think of PSV in our case as well). And perhaps most important, I think that the man u scouts are smart enough to realize that sneijder is easily injured and therefore not well suited to play in the premiership.

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By Igor | May 22nd, 2007 at 12:44 pm

…plus i think that sneijder will do very well in la liga, the guy has the skills and vision to really be a star in the type of football played in spain, so i hope he doesn’t end up at manU.

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By goose | May 22nd, 2007 at 12:49 pm

and hes got the built to play in Spain
btw; Valencia are the first club to make an official bid on Huntelaar (which Ajax declined)

think Sneijder will end up at Valencia

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