As RoM reported here back in November, it is looking more and more likely that Fabian Delph is on his way to Manchester United.
Leeds have already turned down a bid from Newcastle for the player, with Ken Bates hoping they could cling on to the talented teenager.
“Fabian Delph will be moving to Premier League – but we hope he’ll be moving with us via the Championship,” said Bates. “He signed a four-year contract until 2012 and he doesn’t want to go anywhere.”
Leeds are currently 9th in League One, suggesting Delph will be waiting some time if he wants to stick around and wait for them to get in to the top flight again.
Fulham had scouts at Leeds’ recent 3-1 win over Stockport, where Delph pounced on a miss-hit clearance from the keeper, finding the back of the net from 40 yards out. Fulham reportedly put a £6 million offer in for the lad.
In response, United have apparently offered to match the £6 million but have also included extra incentives. Depending on appearances and performances, Delph’s transfer fee could rise to as much as £12 million.
According to some reports, Ferguson would be willing to allow Darron Gibson and Rodrigo Possebon to go in the other direction on a temporary basis. Whilst Possebon has shown great potential, Gibson has been less impressive, although nevertheless already has three caps for the Republic of Ireland.
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And The Times writes that we’re spending £17m on the two Serbians.How can we afford that after the Berbatov deal and what we spent last summer?
Well, Memoria, apparently we can!
something is not true somewhere. either with the times story or this sone.
One too many times in the last couple of seasons we have closed in on an unknown young player with a suspicious high price only for him to get snatched by another club.It’s not only the media’s fault because if you remember our own website announced that we had signed Ramsey.I just wish that once in a while our own club would inform the fans what our budget is and what to expect.Maybe i am asking for too much.
What ever happened of our Champions League winners pot?? It was something like £60million. And thats not going towards our debt servicing so it must be available for SAF
As we know the Times report has some potential backing in the form of our website which did confirm that we had agreed a work permit for him…As for Delph…its all gossip at the moment…Last time I heard the lad was a winger and now he is a combative midfielder..is he United stuff…anybody seen any leedscum games?
Saad makes a crucial point – last year, when UTD won the EPL/CL double, they received a huge sum of prize-money. It’s probably impossible to trace this money because it, no doubt, went into a large budget that covers player purchases as well as salaries – of playing and non-playing staff – and all those other costs that a large business like MUFC has to deal with. More to the point, you have to spend money to make money – and, similarly, you have to maintain the flow of young talent because only a few will make the grade, the rest will be carefully inspected and because they don’t make the grade they will be sold on. That’s what happened with Ryan Shawcross, Sylvain Eubanks-Blake, Chris Eagles, and many, many others. The money received from those sales probably goes some way towards maintaining the “academy” and reserve teams but it cannot (and does not) cover the cost of talent-recruitment which is now a world-wide operation: Serbia, Brazil, and any other hot-bed of talent will be scoured for likely lads. We hear a lot about TheArse’s YoungGuns but I think that over the past decade UTD has been just as successful in promoting talent into its first-team and just as successful in sending large numbers of other young men on to successful professional careers, albeit at a lower level.
The report is not just in TheTimes but in several other “respectable” online sources – Guardian and Telegraph. So, it would seem that young Master Fabian Delph – what a fantastic name ! – will be given the opportunity to live out his dream-in-red.
MEN reports that the two Serbians have been signed, sealed, and delivered.
And, who could not notice all these reports quoting Ronaldo and Tevez who rubbish “rumours” that they are going to play-in-white for the Fascists ?
Do you think that the coincidence of the new year and SAF’s 67th birthday had anything to do with this flurry of good news ?
Possebon shouldn’t go anywhere! Class player who could definatly be used for Premier league matches i dont want to ever see him in that leeds shite shirt even if it is just on loan he’s far to good for them.
Possebon wont go anywhere… but i can see the likes of Gibson and Manucho going… and its prob the right level for them 2 to play…
Plus Leeds scum would prob go for that as they could afford the wages…
I wish we still had Dong so we could give them him instead.
BRING BACK DONG! he was the next Nistelrooy
If he does come, we’ll finally be able to update the ‘B’ in the shirt:
http://www.tshirtsunited.com/catalogue/tshirts/enemy/feederclub.html
He’ll fit in nicely will FaBian.
“Leeds are currently 9th in League One, suggesting Delph will be waiting some time if he wants to stick around and wait for them to get in to the top flight again”
Haha, nice one!
Money isn’t the issue, the champions league pot was sufficient to supplement any further deals. If things weren’t rosy could you see Fergie turning down the ten million plus on offer for Fletcher, or the ten million Sunderland offered for Johnny Evans. The way players values are going 6 million for a wonderkid isnt too bad, If one out of the group succeeds he makes the whole academy alot more financially viable. Everyone gawped at 12 million for an unkown Portugese kid, now if we see him we can expect anything up to 80 million, thats a good return in my eyes.
To be honest who the fuck is gonna want to play for any other bunch of cu nts as we are the most succesful team in UK, Europe and now the World… all managers and coaches now know that if we come in for any player they are probably going to go. ….Now the managers know we have a pot of of world and Euro winnings so they will ask the fucking earth for their players….So wily SAF goes after players he hopes will improve ….
Leeds united are just a feeder club to man utd!!!
“who the fuck is gonna want to play for any other bunch of cu nts as we are the most successful’
Agreed, but as much good as that will do us it just worry’s me that some players want to come purely just for that reason and to me that isn’t the right type of player for our club, what happens if we dont win something? they will be asking for their ‘dream move’ away which we seem to hear alot from footballers these days. now im not saying this lad is gonna be like that but theres others who will.
30 mill 4 berba, 32 mill 4 tevez, 16.4 mill 4 the serbs = 78-odd million? delph? i think not
How much did we get for Pique?
possebon is a very great player,he should have his chance in the premier league with manu,he’s ahead of the likes of fletcher or gibson.why fletcher is playing every game,although he scored a few goals early in the season.come on SAF possebon and anderson are better than him,watch fletcher carefully in every games he played he did nothing,no distribution and not quick,where as anderson can pass the ball nicely,long,short,through balls,he’s strong and has stamina even he has not score yet he give hundred percent,let them play,or the barca,real,ac milan can steal them.and buy fabian.believe me or not nowadays in football talents come first,see arsenal,ronaldo,scholes,giggs even rooney.but with some experience players.evans,possebon,fabio,welbeck,rafael,petrucci,macheda are in the mould of world class players.
Re Fletcher getting games; the fact is, SAF is well aware that Anderson is better than our kid Pele, but he also knows that youngsters can all too often suffer from burnout, especially when we’re competing for 4 trophies. SAF has given him break from first team action (and a vacation to boot) in order for him to recharge his batteries for the more important games in the business end of the season.