Gabriel Obertan is now a Manchester United player after completing a medical with the club yesterday, with the fee believed to be around £3 million.
The 20-year-old was sent out on loan by Bordeaux last season although Sir Alex Ferguson believes the winger is one for the future.
However, Obertan is carrying a slight injury so will not be taking part in the pre-season tour.
“Gabriel is a player we have tracked for a few years now, but because of his educational programme our efforts to get him here have always been delayed,” said Ferguson. “We are delighted to get him now as he is an exciting prospect. We like to get young players and develop them, and we will see that in Gabriel over the next two years.”
Obertan is as happy as the manager and hopes to prove he is worthy of a place in our team, after his current manager, Laurent Blanc, was surprised we were interested.
“I am very happy to join Manchester United,” Obertan added. “This is a big opportunity for me to play at such a great club. I am very excited to be here and I look forward to proving what I can do.”
King Eric – I can almost certainly guarantee that those calling for SAF’s head have been sat in the stands at OT.
I can see the attraction of seeing big ‘names’ play football, but I’d rather watch a good team than a good player. And that’s Man Utd
Have NEVER been sat in the stands at OT, sorry. Typo, blame it on the tiredness!
Love the way people on other websites are questioning the signing, mainly because he only cost 3 mill, but if Wenger had signed him the self same people would be lauding him as the new Zidane or Henry and telling the world that the ‘professor’ has done it again. I’m happy with him, it’s another risk free signing. So what if he is the next Bellion, what do we lose? 3 Million, big deal. We’ll almost certainly make a profit on him even if he’s only average, keep hoovering up the young talent Fergie (Rafael, Fabio, Ljajic, Tosic, Macheda, Pettruci, Anderson, even Nani) and let the Scummy brothers; formerly known as Real Madrid and Manchester City, try to show off spending vast quantities of cash, we don’t need to do that shit, we buy gifted, young potential and turn them into world beaters.
Slightly off topic, whats happening with Dodo, looked like we were getting him couple of weeks back, gone very quiet since?
we are getting loads of youngsters..hope some body turns to a ronaldo or messi…..but the special one will be adem lajjic…he will get the no 7 shirt
Manutd must not buy any argies or huntelaars…because we dont need them….we have to buy mid fielders who can hold up the game…..
What a bargain! But really is he good? The price tag speaks for itself but I’m hoping he can be like Blomqvist or Stam in our treble winning season. SAF bought them for peanuts and got the best out of them… So yeah I’m hoping.
Wonder if we got a discount because he came pre-crocked? We’ll soon have a sickbay XI as well as a reserve team. Interesting close season this!
@Dazjoe as far as I know Dodo is one of those “he will sign in January” transfers.
I have said on here before that I think SAF will pull off a few of his “who the fuck is he?” transfers like he has done in the past with Ole, Schmeichel, CR7 etc. Is Obertan one of these?. Are we seeing the transfers-in where we the fans are thinking, hoping for a Benzema, Eto’o, Messi. A superstar and Fergie just gets in some “who the fuck is he?” transfers which turn into gold nuggets?
RedHarry4Life.
Cheers for the info.
Bob Yazid.
Stam for peanuts? He cost over 10 million quid, which made him the worlds most expensive defender ever at the time! He’s still our 2nd highest defender after Rio, this despite signing 11 years ago.
so how about Nani now?
Obertsn seems to have the raw materials but needs to develop his decision making. Based on that under 21 reel, he seems to make the wrong decisions more often than not. I sure Fergie will sort that out though. Huntelaar would compliment the other strikers at the club and strike a nice balance while a ball winning, big tackling holding midfielder is now now a priority