Klaas-Jan Huntelaar was a player who topped many United fans’ wishlists for years, although his big move to Real Madrid seemed to signal the end of any possibility of him coming to United. If we were going to get him, then surely it had to be when he made his first big move away from Holland, but apparently United weren’t going to pay the £17-23m Real Madrid were prepared to fork out.
However, Huntelaar must have been thinking he had made a mistake when his team opted Lassana Diarra in their Champions League squad at the expense of the striker.
After 20 appearances, Huntelaar’s agent, Vincenzo Morabito, has claimed that the player looks like he’s on the way out of Madrid but won’t be sold on the cheap.
“If Milan or other clubs want Huntelaar they will have to pay what Real Madrid are asking for,” Morabito said. “They player is wanted by many clubs, it’s just a question of price at the moment. Real Madrid will not be offering cheap prices to anyone as Florentino Perez has instructed Jorge Valdano not to let players leave for less than what they want for them. Those who are keen know the prices. Manchester United? Maybe, why not? But I repeat, Real Madrid have set the price and whoever wants Huntelaar has to show up with the right money.”
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Just wondering, why did the Ronaldo deal not include a couple of other players aswell, im sure that Huntelaar could have been part of the deal.
how old is he?
You’d think Real Madrid would cut us a deal..
25 years old
ive wanted this since ruud got the boot
andd ive voiced it busby knows how many times on this site
and also i think about 1999
ole cole,finishers
yorke teddy, strikers how just play behind astriker
owen huntelaar,finishers
rooney and berba, strikers how just play behind a striker
Add to the deal Schnejder and Robben and I would be very happy!
Okk Come on Fergie..Play it tough..Feed the circus some peanuts(20 mil) and get the boy…
Milan dont have it in them to buy both ade-boo-hoo-hoo-yor and Huntelaar …
And Citeh are going for Puyol now..the arabs have lost it..Sparky is certainly helping Citeh going bust in the next 2 years..Legend..R.E.S.T.E.C.P…LOl..
SAF never does things the easy way – EVER! If indeed the Huntelaar story is true. We could have negotiated a good deal with Madrid for the Hunter and Sneider maybe, the only Real player who stood out in Real M’s walloping by L’poo. Whoever said that Fergie could be trusted to spend the Ronaldo money well, errrrr I don’t think so, so far lol!
It will be nice to have Hunt, and buy another midfilder (proven),because yesterday we bought Gabriel Obertan from Bordo for 8 mln he is 20 years old
Do we need more strikers? Wazza-Berba-Owen, plus we need to give games to Kiko and Welbeck, to get them some more experience at this level?
Didn’t United change their whole system to accomodate RVN?
Won’t signing Huntelaar revert back to those days?
Isn’t he just a Dutch Peter Crouch?!
Who wants Fascist rejects?!
Think I’d say no thanks to Huntelaar.
I agree with you AlphaRS
@AlphaRS
Agreed.
Cant see this 1 happening, Augero better option.
we need a big signing, and i just cant see it happening
huntelaar might be a good shout because he would fit into the rotation
i would like united to sign a midfield ball winner, somebody that will sit in front of the defense and tackle. like owen hargreaves but with knees.
im not very optimistic…
Man Utd made a right decision not to do barter trade.
Real Madrid was desperate to acquire Ronaldo, but we are not too desperate for Huntelaar. He has himself to be blamed for his choice to play for Madrid. He was the one who dumped Utd. If his smartass agent feels he is good enough to put on a Red Devils jersey, he should come begging! To be honest there are many available players out there dreaming of playing at OT!!!
Glory! Glory! Man United
don’t know much about him but if utd thought he wasn’t worth 20 mill last year why would he be this.just paper talk i;m guessing
Huntelaar is quality – a faster version of RVN and an excellent finisher – he’d be a very good buy even at £20 million. They probably didn’t include him in the original deal with Ronaldo as United would want as much cash in the bank as possible before the 30th June – I have a funny feeling this is actually the last day of their financial year and it would make the books look good for the last season .Now we are into July they will start spending money as this will come out of this years finances. Thus making the Glaziers look better than they really are.
If we get him and we also now have Owen ( another class finisher – when fit) We can look forward to winning the title for a historic 4th successive year.
I might not like Owen as a person ( I think he’s a cunt to be honest) but he is a great goal scorer.
Ohhh_Ahhh – Exactly what I was thinking.
I’m not sure whether he’s go for the team. We be taking players which Real Mardid don’t want and we sell them our best player. It’s like our club are taking players which they don’t want. This is a bad feeling for me. As to why he didn’t come to United instead, and went to Real, let him regret over this.
very average! offers nothing different to owen and the 20million quoted everywhere is insane with madrid desperate to sell him should be considered at half that perhaps, but i doubt fergie’s looking at more strikers now
Isaidso What are you talking about mabye he does’nt want them players trust in SAF.
I have always been a fan of Huntelaar but what is the point of signing him now we have Owen? Berba, Rooney, Owen, Welbeck and Macheda are surely enough forwards, we seem to have amassed a large squad without any stand out talent.
TheVirus have a slew of Dutch players “on offer”, having made it perfectly clear that these guys will be frozen out if they don’t agree to leave. The three best are: Robben, Sneijder, and Huntelaar.
I know it’s an unpopular choice but I think the best bet would be Robben – very one-footed but what a great left peg and extreme speed/skill with the proviso that he makes Little Mikey look like a specimen of health.
Sneijder is a terrific player, too, but I don’t see how he’d fit with the rest of the squad.
Huntelaar would be like a younger, taller, more healthy and Dutch version of Little Mikey
seriously, has anyone who wants this joker seen him play or are you just lookin at his goal record in a shockingly poor dutch league? The very same league that boro flop afonso alves tore up by the way. This guy is NOT GOOD ENOUGH. No pace, poor movement, poor technique, doesn’t contribute at all outside the box. I’ve seen this guy play several times in the flesh on my trips to amsterdam and also on tv.both he and luis suarez ain’t united class, in fact, the only player i’d take from holland is affelay. And why spend 20mil on a striker when we alreay got 5 and we need wingers and midfielders more (silva/young/mata/de rossi/yaya toure?). In fact, we need to say the debt off more than we need this reject.
Obertan signed yet? Having a medical I think…
I’m a big fan but we should’ve got him last year instead of berba. He’s younger, cheaper and a proper goalscorer. Not sure I see the point in signing him now even though i do rate him.
@stephen…
i would put your last sentance this way……without any standout talent in midfield…which is very important if we are to win any titles
im not interested in signing him, coz he doesnt suit to our system, hes lack of pace..i think we wont go for aguero since we have owen n rooney already,,another striker could be as tall as huntelaar but wiv a greater pace..we need this kind of player to finish some crosses from our wings but not ruining our game speed,,gignac wud be better option..stronger,faster,n maybe cheaper..
I would be happy to just get Wesley Sneijder now and stick with the strikers we have – Rooney,Berbster,Owen,Wellbeck and Kiko. There would only be Aguero who I would take to Old Trafford, striker-wise. Wesley Sneijder would add real quality to our midfield options though
Instead of Huntelaar, who might want to play more often with his age, why not just get Van Nistelerooy back? He probably wouldn’t mind being on the bench now with his age. And if you can say Huntelaar is a scorer, Van Nistelrooy is a Proven scorer! Plus he’d be cheap I think
Willie red nut, you should read the posts properly, because I said IF IT IS TRUE SAF wants Huntelaar, he could have got a better deal no doubt while negotiating the Ronaldo deal. Also I am not one of these blind followers who BELIEVES Fergie always gets it right in the transfer market, he doesn’t mate, and any unbiased United fan knows it. Most of us could post a list now of Fergie cock up transfers, as we could post a list of transfer successes lol!
on the flip side of 20million being too mush
imagine if sir alex brought in a proven out and out winger in valencia which allows rooney to do his thing up top a proven stiker in micheal owen who if fit is well worthy of playing for united and a proven hitman like huntelaar for the price of only 37 million
not being held to ransome over the prostitute and selling ronaldo for an upfront 80 million thats a profit of 43million and getting rid of 2 plaYers that we know had a bad attitude at times but it could of been alot different and worse in the dressing room. no matter how good you are if your a prima donna , your bad for the team.,
so 20 million or should i say 37 million to straighten up a team that have won 6 trophys in the last 3 years is not a bad sum of money
Any news on toure or any midfielder yet?
i dont get the point…why everyone is still discussing about buying a forward…and forget about the position where we are in crisis according to me…Defensive MF…other than fletcher…on whom we cant rely for the whole season…even though he just had a blinder of a season …
yaya toure is the one we have to sign….but i dont see it possible….because he just signed contract extension with barc.
I don’t we need Huntelaar now that we have Owen.
Both are considered to be lethal finishers, and while Huntelaar has age and speed on his side… he’s too similar to RVN and we’ve moved on from playing that kind of game/formation. I think Owen’s the one with more the prove and we’ll get a lot more out of him.
But I wish we could get Sneijder or Van De Vaart from that mob… they’d be a good longterm replacement for Scholesy.
ancha, Couldn’t have put it better myself!
I think with Toure it would depend on Barca signing Mascherano.
if we are to get anyone from madrid…..i would prefer sneijder….he would provide more goals from midfield…which is lacking in our team
I’d rather we get Costa for the £20 million and then go for Sanchez!If we get another forward,it has to be Aguero!Toure in the midfield!Sounds like Hargo is 50 / 50 as to whether he plays again!!
i think barcelona will not be getting that scouse argie cunt….as pool is demanding around 50 ml…and i guess barcelona are not willing to spend even half of that or may be around 30mil….it doesnt seem happening
Just heard that french lad is haveing a medical. y are we buying! him even his boss larry white is shocked. We need someone with a pair of balls in the midfield barca made a show of our midfield in rome and we cant wait,
No more attackers needed. We have to work on our build up play, so either a central attacking midfielder or another winger should be our next and (depending on Hargo’s fitness) final move.
i dont understand why some are so mad about getting costa….i heard that he is nt a regular even at gremio…and from what i saw…i think it will be a flop buy…if we are to get him for 20mil.
costas!, agree with you mate….but i wont put my money on hargo playing atleast half of the season…so i would say…a cover in that position is far more important than a winger (keeping in mind that we are goin to sign the 20yr french winger)
Ever since i heard about that French winger, the words David Bellion have come to mind. When you hear that even Blanc was surprised at the move, it adds to my concerns. But i will wait to see him first.
At the moment, our wingers are the biggest puzzle we have. Valencia is unproven at a big club, Nani could turn up this season more fired up than ever or he might not, Park is reliable but not the man who will offer that something extra in attack and we don’t know how much Tosic or Giggs will be able to help. That’s why i said that we will need another midfielder who will make a difference. But i do agree that if Hargo’s problems continue, we have to look for a midfield enforcer. Fletcher can’t do everything by himself. Besides, Fergie might want to use him on the right more often and rely on him cutting inside when we go forward. Like he did while Ronaldo was injured last year.
offer dippers fc 50 mil for stevie g, they wont turn down n we will destroy everyone thus leavin e dippers e shock of their lives. that will be class!
RedHot Anwar – No thanks mate!
to me fletcher…is useless on the wing…waste of his workrate..which is required in the central midfield……
and i accept that…right now…most of us have doubts about our wingers…but..i think valencia will come good…and to me we only need another quality winger…and keeping in mind that we are going to get….serbian wonderkid LJajic in jan…we can give nani the run of games we need till jan….by then i guess…wings problem will be solved
I still don’t understand why we accepted the first offer that Madrid made for Ronaldo. We knew he was leaving, and SAF had quoted $100 million for him. I would have thought it would make good sense to say $80 million + Huntelaar to make up for some of the goals that Ronny scored for us.
Now if we do buy him we have to fork over 20 million, which basically makes ronaldo worth about 60. Which is cheap considering how much they will make off merchandising.
i hate stevieg more than anyone in premier league..no thanks!
redhot anwar
you’ve just made me vomit.
vile.
Redhot Anwar
im going to give you credit and say very funny joke mate
pleeeeease tl me that was a joke
This french kid has scored 3 goals in about 80 games… thats worrying….but must have sommat about him to win the Toulon Merit Award.
He’s quite highly rated in Football Manager!
@isaidso Fergie does make mistakes but he makes more rite ones than wrong ones. The problem some united fans have, is weve been spoiled down the years.
I hope we are all wrong about this kid, but footage I have seen abount him does not fill me with confidence!
Better get a midfielder instead of piling on attackers in the squad, we do have rooney, berba, welbeck and macheda, now owen added to the list. One defensive midfielder, say Veloso, one good attacking one (hmm no name here
) and a winger like Silva would be great for the team
DUTCH PETER CROUCH. Now that’s massively unfair to him, he’s a much better player than Huntelaar, but signing him won’t make sense after signing Owen.
@United_Macedonia
Obertan is only 3million apparently
@ancha
Costa isn’t a regular HOWEVER young players in Brazil often don’t start. Its a tough Physical league they play in, and they seem to often try and protect their players development. However when he has started he has by all accounts been great, including a Man of the Match performance infront of Stam. The Twins for example didn’t play a single first team minute, Dodo I don’t think has played a first team minute either and may not have by the time he joins us. Possebon never played a senior game, Anderson played just 19 in Brazil (and 18 in Portugal). In fact if you check alot of the South American footballers playing Europe not many of them made regular appearances before the age of 20 by which time the best have already moved to Europe
And for the millionth time its $21million USD not £’s
This is going to be another gamble but if the price is rumoured to be 3mill it cant be a bad one as he has great potential wheter he realises that its another matter but he’s at the right place to develop…….I think (well Nani was treated quite unfairly last season in my eyes)
As for the Hunter he’s an excellent marksmen, who started to prove that at the back end of last season after his injury, and the lack of faith placed in him by whichever MADrid manager it was at that point in the season? I believe he’d be a good signing, he scores all sorts of Goals. The thing is we’re not really lacking too much up top at the mo unless that is Welbeck or/and Macheda get loaned out then he’d be a great addition.
What we really need is as many people have said is a top quality CM as who knows if Hargo will come back anywhere near the required standard expected of a top player??
Look forward to seeing what ocurrs in that department myself…..I think between Petrucci and Rooney we’ll have an AM sorted for the coming seasons we have the youngsters in place but a couple of marquee signings to help replace the old boys would be nice!!
The money on this french kid, Valencia, and Owen (freemans)… only equates to the money we was gonna spend on Tevez, so there is £80m at least still available.
Why not go for both Schneider and Huntlaar… for a combined £35m transfer fee..
That still leaves you with £45m in the pot… and you got 2 quality internationals… both who score goals, champs league and internation experiance, and both not in there prime yet, coz i think they are about 25.
Seems like good business if you ask me, and with them being dutch, they will speak English, and Dutch, and English weather climates being the same… would mean an easy transition.
Sounds like good business if you ask me, then you can hold back the £45m towards next season… and spend it on someone special after the world cup…
@SCHNEIDER
I think you make a lot of sense.
However, do we really need Huntelaar?
We have plenty of strikers in my view and should not wrap the youngsters in too much cotton wool this season either.
Lets get the midfield awesome looking.
A couple of 40million type quality holding midfielders is worth every penny.
Maybe we can get this without laying out 80millin though and perhaps should go to Brazil for a couple of Possebons mates who we can polish and sharpen.
Good call failsworth…..Yaya toure wouldn’t go amiss at DM though!!
@FAILSWORTH DEVIL
Oops I meant you when I said at Schneider – must have him on the brain!
Too much Dutch !
seems most people have forgotten that owen is fucked by injuries & wayne usually gets one that’ll keep him out for a few months. as for wellbeck and macheda? i really don’t think wellbeck is good enough & it’s too much to expect of macheda right now. therefore we need hunterlaar. those that say he aint good enough, he scored in 8 in 20 games for madrid, when not given a full chance and has 13 in 23 at international level. he is more than good enough. and remains injury free for the most part.
i also agree when need our midfield bolstering, however adem ljajic is coming in january, and although young already looks an excellent player. as for a battling midfielder, lets just hope old curly hairs knees are better!
I dont see how MADrid think they’ll recoup the money that they spent on him?
A) They need to trim their bustling squad as it’s fit to burst
B) Huntelaar’s value would’ve dropped as he didn’t play alot and they want rid!!
C) They’re Homo’s!!
Please not Huntelaar!! Although RvN was awesome, the team was more one dimensional with a targetman. Love the dynamic play when he left. Eto’o, Aguero or Villa will be a better option… but imo, United need a winger/midfielder/goalkeeper more than another striker at the moment.
Never understood why some people claim they dont want to sign other teams “rejects”. So he played for Real Madrid for a season and it didnt work out for whatever reason big fukin deal, it doesnt mean hes become a shit player overnight. If he or any other player can add ANYTHING to our team for the upcoming season then i dont give a fuck if he played for the local pub team the previous season. Besides he didnt reject the chance to join us when he left Ajax, as far as i know we never made a bid for him.
Instead of huntelaar man u should sign van der vaart. he is a prfect playmaker and also scores goals. like xavi in barca i think VDV will be a hit. Man u are buying too many wingers there was no point bringing in the french starlet.we have tosic and to be frank i would like to see tosic play. but i still think man u will buy atleast one big name player as we have money to spend. I hope he is either vdv or even huntelaar.
For what it’s worth, I’m agreeing with lots of others. Surely, we’d do better spending money on someone like Sneijder. Still not convinced about Owen but coming round a bit – I just hope his arrival doesn’t put others off – hardly a major coup.
Who knows we might end up singing…
‘He’s Michael Owen, He’s Michael Owen
Fergie has ripped out all his scouse
Won’t play for Benitez
outscores Argie Tevez
please bring wee Micky off the bench!’
For everybody crying out for a new central midfielder we have a perfectly good one in Fletch. Vastly under rated. If he was better looking and Dutch everyone would love him.
Huntelaar has a very impressive goal to game ratio. Beating that of RVN. I think it would be a good option, leaving Rooney to play on the top!
to all..
no doubt bout him being a scouser but imagine this, all this summer e dippers are havin a shout bout being e next champion. having a go at stevie g wld somewhat deplete their chances n morale. sentiments aside, e lil prick is a worker on e pitch. he get goals too. somethin which we hav been missin from midfield apart from cr7. SAF did wish for e lil prick to replace keano back then.it does sound like a joke but hey give some tots to it. i hate e lil prick to bits even more the rotten club. but after owen it just struck me…cheers!
FERGIE SIGN HIM UP
FERGIE, FERGIE SIGN HIM UP !!!
A snip at 20 mil, we should of signed him last summer for sure, scored shitloads of bicycle kicks…great finisher of the ball….The footage on the net only concludes this……….Would love him @ United !!!! Now for cover for Hargreaves in Midfield and i would be happy with our signings this summer…Yaya Toure springs to mind.
@theboy
What needs to be remember is that while he scored 8 goals in 20 games the goals were as follows
February 15, 2009 – Sporting Gijon 0 – 4 Real Madrid
Klass Jan Huntelaar (37)
February 21, 2009, 19:00 UK – Real Madrid 6 – 1 Real Betis
Klass Jan Huntelaar (15)
Klass Jan Huntelaar (24)
March 7, 2009 – Real Madrid 1 – 1 Atlético Madrid
Klass Jan Huntelaar (57)
March 14, 2009 – Athletic Bilbao 2 – 5 Real Madrid
Klass Jan Huntelaar (47)
Klass Jan Huntelaar (61)
March 22, 2009 – Real Madrid 3 – 0 Almeria
Klass Jan Huntelaar (53)
Klass Jan Huntelaar (66)
So he scored 2 in 3 games
Betis – 18th (Relegated)
Bilbao – 13th
Almeria – 11th
And 1 against
Gijon – 14th
Atlético Madrid – 4th
So only one of those goals was against a side in the top half of the table. His international goals have also largely come against weaker sides. And in Holland he was playing in a weak league that saw Alvez and Kezmen score more than him. The Spanish League is a step up but even then when you watch Huntelaar his style of play clearly suits Spain more than England. And finally he will be 26, he should be at the peak yet he wasted his football education playing in the dutch league
I’m not against signing him if we can get a really good deal but we are better off spending large money on someone else or just giving Welbeck and Kiko a chance imho
We dont need Huntelaar, we have 5 strikers already, 2 of them very promising, and of course Rooney. 3 of our strikers are much better than Huntelaar. No need to get him.
For everyone saying we shouldn’t sign Madrid rejects,
what do you call Owen then?
truly we dont a nistel rooy type….we dont need any more wingers or strikers ..fergie pls sign snieder or vdv or toure……..or put a 40 m bid for cesc or try’
out ribery……..
adem lajjic a real prospect..the next nedved..will surely be a success…
we have nani,tosic,macheda,welbeck,possebon.then why?
now 100m+6m-16-3=87m…almost 90 m….try to bring a superstar…i know its against untd policy..but its a crucial time..
Let me make it clear,though.I don’t want Huntelaar nor think we need him.
we must not loose our grip on CL….for that young players wont be enough..we must atleast buy a superstar….fabregas…ribery..snieder//toure…aguero..
@ vishnu1729
Dont know how everyone else feels but for me our top priority every season has to winning the league, the CL is a bonus.
belfast77 – Agree completely mate, number 19 is THE most important thing for me this season. Anything else is a bonus.
im sur if fergie wanted him he would have tried 2 get him in the ronaldo deal. we dont need him – just watch owen shine. and we dont need another episode of tevez, fergie is going to start with rooney and berbatov.
RM paid £20m for him and he was a flop. Perez is being his usual arrogant self if he thinks he deserves his money back. UTD should offer £12m, be prepared to go to £15m and no more.
However, RM have a huge debt after buying 3 star players – UTD should in no way help them to balance their books. The Dutch players who went to Madrid 12 months ago thought they’d hit the jackpot playing with a ‘prestigious’ club like RM. They must all be wondering how they could be so silly to fall for such bull-shit – all have wasted 12 months of their careers. Let this be a warning to others who follow that route.
Some years ago Perez said that only 1 transfer in 3 is successful. I wonder who the 2 failures will be from Ronaldo, Kaka, and Benzema?
@belfast77…i thnk if unted to become a major force than ac milan in europe…we have to do well in europe..SAF once said he would like to end up with more CL trophies..so i said for that purpose young players are not enough…
The only reason i find in signing younger players ..so when SAF retitres he can hand over a team with young blood and talent..he will not allow wht happnd to chelsea when jose left
I’v being doing my homework on KJH and have to say, I think he’d work perfectly … his overhead kick specials and powerful work, would combine really well with Berba and Rooney or with Owen when used … I have a desire for David Villa for pace but if we can’t get Villa I would be happy to welcome Klaas-Jan …
I suspect Huntelaar wasn’t part of any negotiations with Real because one can only speculate that SAF was targeting Benzema.
Like many, I rated Huntelaar with his time with Ajax. But he’s been unfortunate at Real. While it might be harsh to suggest that he’s another RVN, the point behind it remains a legitimate concern: exactly how will he fit into the the Utd way of playing with fast interchanging strikers? What will he bring to the party?
I suspect SAF will not be going for Aguero. Aguero likes the Spanish climate too much and being Maradona’s son in law wont help given how much time Maradona whispered Tevez to move on from Utd. Aguero may be a great player of skill and style but I’m not sure he’ll be suitable for Utd’s needs.
In a way, I’m glad that we didn’t get Benzema. Sure, I rate him and would have loved to him. But if his comments are anything to go by, then he would only use Utd as a stepping stone to Real.
Don’t we want players who actually want to play football for Utd? I would rather develop young players like Oberton and Macheda etc into the Utd way.