The loss is far less if you discount the exchange rates and also the fact that 59 million included add ons based on Champion league's perfomance. Nevertheless 59 million was outright extortion by real notwithstanding our dire circumstances then. Pedro will be a valuable addition. No flair but can produce 12 goals a season. He has the right work rate,is well versed at pressing games and that winning mentality.Rafael rushed tackles, his injury records and vertical disadvantage were his major undoing. And at his age, he needs consistent playtime which could not be guaranteed with the arrival of Darmian. VG still needs to prioritize on CM. It's scary enough to imagine Blind is being drafted for the role and even more worse Jones and Evans are still around!

Every Utd fan is crossing his fingers that LvG does not think that the centre back pairings he has will enable him mount a title challenge when it was De Gea who actually salvaged most of the points that took us back to the CL, small matter of actually qualifying for it notwithstanding...

Smalling and Rojo can be decent, but Utd need a leader at the back, proven. Jones and Blind are not it. Evans should have already been shipped off along with other people surplus to requirements. Stones will come at a hefty price and may not be worth it, most English players aren't...

Last Sunday's humiliation might trigger some positive transfer response. Arsenal now linked with Grzegorz Krychowiak; who has a name so hard to spell and even harder to pronounce.

Don't bite your tongue trying to pronounce Polish names even though in just about all cases, they do not sound like how they look. Example is Grzegorz, simply pronounced as je-go-sh, Polish for Gregory

Chelsea to sign Pedro from Barcelona, poleni Man Utd fans!

http://www.espnfc.co.uk/...ite-man-united-interest?

[quote=TAZ]Chelsea to sign Pedro from Barcelona, poleni Man Utd fans!

http://www.espnfc.co.uk/...te-man-united-interest?[/quote]


Trust Mourinho to do such coups after another team has done the ground work...too bad he won't join, but that means Mata keeps playing.

Wonder who he will sub, since he wants game time before Euros...I have a feeling Oscar will be sacrificed...just like Mata was...

Its being reported that Pedro is already in London for his medical.

Pedro is a forward (bit similar to Chicharito) and i think he's being signed because of Diego Costa's fitness issues.

Ed Woodward better land Thomas Muller if he wants Utd supporters to like him again

Reports from various media already reporting that Byern have rejected an unofficial bid from Utd for 60M pounds for Muller, so hio afadhali tusahau, that's like Utd fans who thought Ramos would seriously ever consider leaving Madrid for Utd.

This is the point where we just accept we have lost that star appeal - even Di Maria came to Utd as a last resort last season.

Personally I prefer unknown signings like Darmian. It's very hard to get a 20 goal a season forward/striker who is in the open market. When people start saying Higuain is valued at 70M pounds, a striker who requires at least 10 clear cut chances to bury 1, then you know the footballing world has gone nuts.

I actually won't be surprised if LvG figures he has an adequate squad and instructs Woodward not to buy anyone else...until he's jolted back to reality by an injury to someone like Smalling

Matters Flamini. What's the latest? Or Galatasary read your post and decided otherwise..