Mario Mandzukic is being monitored by Manchester United and Arsenal after Bayern Munich confirmed that Robert Lewandowski will join the club at the end of the season.
Moneybags Monaco are keen to snap up contract rebel Thomas Ince from Blackpool in a bargain deal.
Lille's Salomon Kalou is eyeing a January return to the Premier League, with Liverpool and Tottenham showing an interest.
Manchester City youngster John Guidetti is a loan target for Aston Villa, West Ham, Sunderland and Stoke.
Newcastle are to rekindle interest in Borussia Monchengladbach's Luuk de Jong. The Holland international was the subject of an enquiry from Stoke also.
Liverpool are closing in on the signature of MK Dons midfield starlet Dele Alli.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has moved to make midfielders Magnus Wolff Eikrem of Heerenveen and Mats Moller Daehli of Molde his first signings at Cardiff.
People keep saying MU's squad is mediocre except Rooney and RVP, but it's definitely good enough to finish in the top 4, at least on paper. A sign of a good coach is the ability to bring out the best in players, even the mediocre ones. It's about knowing their strengths and weaknesses, and developing a system that can bring out the good in most of them. Moyes, so far, has failed to demonstrate this. For example, against Swansea, he played Kagawa as CAM and then decided his team should just boot things into the box to create chances. What?????
You only need to look at what managers like Rodgers and Martinez has been able to do with their squads to see how Moyes is lacking in this. I know he's been unlucky with injuries (then again, so has a lot of teams), but he simply is not a top coach. And for people who keep saying Moyes deserves the same patience that Fergie got when he first started at MU, that's a load of old tosh. This is a different time and MU is a very different beast. If he keeps going like this, I'd be very surprised if he still has a job by the end of February.
Then again, as an Arsenal fan, it's hilarious to see MU faltering so much. I hope he gets to see out his 6 year contract.
On January 06 2014 18:10 Maenander wrote: I hope Gladbach can get a decent amount of money for de Jong, he was Bundesliga's transfer flop of the season when they bought him.
Dude was OP as fuck on FM13 though. Gladbach are my bogey team in FM because of him+Patrick Herrmann.
I'd say that I don't want Mandzukic on my team because he's a dirty cunt, but considering how much I wanted Arsenal to sign Suarez during the summer, I'd welcome Mandzukic with open arms.
On January 06 2014 20:13 Telcontar wrote: People keep saying MU's squad is mediocre except Rooney and RVP, but it's definitely good enough to finish in the top 4, at least on paper. A sign of a good coach is the ability to bring out the best in players, even the mediocre ones. It's about knowing their strengths and weaknesses, and developing a system that can bring out the good in most of them. Moyes, so far, has failed to demonstrate this. For example, against Swansea, he played Kagawa as CAM and then decided his team should just boot things into the box to create chances. What?????
You only need to look at what managers like Rodgers and Martinez has been able to do with their squads to see how Moyes is lacking in this. I know he's been unlucky with injuries (then again, so has a lot of teams), but he simply is not a top coach. And for people who keep saying Moyes deserves the same patience that Fergie got when he first started at MU, that's a load of old tosh. This is a different time and MU is a very different beast. If he keeps going like this, I'd be very surprised if he still has a job by the end of February.
Then again, as an Arsenal fan, it's hilarious to see MU faltering so much. I hope he gets to see out his 6 year contract.
He's not even unlucky with injuries he let RVP play the whole game when he couldn't and that's why he got injured again... I agree with you that Moyes doesn't deserve tbe same.amount of time Ferguson got. Ferguson had alrrady proven himself to be a champion caliber coach at Aberdeen while Moyes only trained Everton
Arsenal and Roma target Toni Sanabria has been told by Barcelona that he will not play again until he makes a decision on his future.
Juventus have joined Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur in the race for young Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata but the Spanish giants do not want to sell in January.
Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes has still not announced who will be his new club but it is expected to be Monaco or Manchester City.
Manchester United and Arsenal are interested in Mario Mandzukic but Bayern Munich have no interest in selling the striker.
Stoke City and Trabzonspor target Mame Biram Diouf has gone AWOL at Hannover.
Wolfsburg expect Chelsea to give them a cheap deal on Kevin de Bruyne.
The agent of Tottenham Hotspur's Erik Lamela is expected in Italy on Monday to talk with Inter Milan officials over a possible deal.
Roma have refused a few offers for Miralem Pjanic.
Giuseppe Rossi's new knee injury could rule him out of the World Cup.
Leandro Paredes is not pleased about moving on loan from Boca Juniors to Roma as he feels he could still play a role for Boca.
Ajax are closing in on loan deal for Benfica's Ola John.
Cameroon star Eyong Enoh has stopped negotiations with Antalyaspor, as Hull City, Crystal Palace and Eintracht Frankfurt are showing interest.
New Cardiff City boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is set for a €2.5million (£2m) swoop for fellow Norwegian Magnus Wolff Eikrem.
France international Maxime Gonalons has not ruled out a move from Lyon to Rafa Benitez's Napoli.
Onyekachi Apam has cancelled his contract with Rennes, who the Nigerian defender joined in 2010.
sacking moyes isnt going to do shit for man utd atm. i dont think any supporter of man utd wants to see the club turn into chelsea or man city. our whole team is playing shit this season, minus rooney and maybe rvp. hopefully we get some transfers done this window otherwise were going to have to wait till next season to see if the team can still win things.
Why isn't anyone pointing at RVP and saying he is finished yet? xD
I mean when Yanited bought him i said they would get 1 year out of him then he would just die again. He is one of the most injury prone strikers since Michael Owen? This could be it for him, he might not make the recovery he needs to be able to play week in week out again. Remember he only had that one good season at Arsenal which was the first in years after being plagued by injury. To then get signed by United have another full year and now is injured constantly. Also fears the Moyes training method might be "to strong" for him as wrote about earlier during pre season.
If that is the case and RVP is going to be struggling for fitness for the rest of his Yanited career (And we know he isn't young anymore, currently 30, 31 in August) and Rooney leaves in the Summer due to not signing a new contract. Yanited go from having a little to having nothing and need to completely rebuild. Also then how do you attract people to your club if your not in the Champions League and possibly not even in Europe all together? Yes they have a big name and a big history, but a player doesn't care about these things now a days? It's all about Champions League football and winning things?
On January 06 2014 23:49 evilfatsh1t wrote: sacking moyes isnt going to do shit for man utd atm. i dont think any supporter of man utd wants to see the club turn into chelsea or man city. our whole team is playing shit this season, minus rooney and maybe rvp. hopefully we get some transfers done this window otherwise were going to have to wait till next season to see if the team can still win things.
This man.u is not just an above average team they were 20 years ago. They can't just blindly trust a coach loss after loss. If they can't stay competitive in PL/CL, their financial size will be dwarfed. I will be surprised if he sees the season out unless he dramatically improves.
On January 07 2014 00:22 Pandemona wrote: Why isn't anyone pointing at RVP and saying he is finished yet? xD
I mean when Yanited bought him i said they would get 1 year out of him then he would just die again. He is one of the most injury prone strikers since Michael Owen? This could be it for him, he might not make the recovery he needs to be able to play week in week out again. Remember he only had that one good season at Arsenal which was the first in years after being plagued by injury. To then get signed by United have another full year and now is injured constantly. Also fears the Moyes training method might be "to strong" for him as wrote about earlier during pre season.
If that is the case and RVP is going to be struggling for fitness for the rest of his Yanited career (And we know he isn't young anymore, currently 30, 31 in August) and Rooney leaves in the Summer due to not signing a new contract. Yanited go from having a little to having nothing and need to completely rebuild. Also then how do you attract people to your club if your not in the Champions League and possibly not even in Europe all together? Yes they have a big name and a big history, but a player doesn't care about these things now a days? It's all about Champions League football and winning things?
/Conspiracy rant over
Like I said in my last post Van Persie is injured this long because Moyes played him too early. He could only play him for 60 minutes but let him play the whole game vs Newcastle and the next game he got injured again. I knly have the Dutch source but I'll link it anyway.
On January 07 2014 00:22 Pandemona wrote: Why isn't anyone pointing at RVP and saying he is finished yet? xD
I mean when Yanited bought him i said they would get 1 year out of him then he would just die again. He is one of the most injury prone strikers since Michael Owen? This could be it for him, he might not make the recovery he needs to be able to play week in week out again. Remember he only had that one good season at Arsenal which was the first in years after being plagued by injury. To then get signed by United have another full year and now is injured constantly. Also fears the Moyes training method might be "to strong" for him as wrote about earlier during pre season.
If that is the case and RVP is going to be struggling for fitness for the rest of his Yanited career (And we know he isn't young anymore, currently 30, 31 in August) and Rooney leaves in the Summer due to not signing a new contract. Yanited go from having a little to having nothing and need to completely rebuild. Also then how do you attract people to your club if your not in the Champions League and possibly not even in Europe all together? Yes they have a big name and a big history, but a player doesn't care about these things now a days? It's all about Champions League football and winning things?
/Conspiracy rant over
Like I said in my last post Van Persie is injured this long because Moyes played him too early. He could only play him for 60 minutes but let him play the whole game vs Newcastle and the next game he got injured again. I knly have the Dutch source but I'll link it anyway.
"'Ik denk dat als ik hem eraf had gehaald mensen zouden zeggen: Wat doe je nu? Je staat 1-0 achter en je haalt je topscorer eraf', aldus Moyes. 'Ik denk dat dat het verhaal vertelt over waarom ik hem liet staan.'"
This just tells me that Moyes has allowed the media pressure to get to him. He basically came out and said "I was more worried about being grilled by the press than my player's health."
Also if I was Hernandez or Welbeck I would be pretty pissed reading that; Moyes obviously doesn't trust either of them even against Newcastle's mediocre defense.
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