Manchester United have been linked to Ghana midfielder Anthony Annan in the press, a long with several other clubs. Like Aaron Ramsey, who recently signed for Arsenal, Annan grew up supporting United. Arsenal have recently requested that the player joins them for training.
The midfielder has been in England undergoing a trial with Blackburn Rovers, however Paul Ince has yet to seal the deal for the player who is tipped to be the next biggest thing out of Africa, following in the footsteps of his national team mate, Michael Essien.
If you need convincing any further, Anann poked John Obi Mikel in the eye during the recent African Cup of Nations, which I’m sure could inspire a jolly chant or two when the rent boys come to town.
After being out muscled from the Essien deal by Chelsea, is now the time for United to dip in to the African market?
“I know that Racing Santander, Blackburn and Arsenal are interested,” said Annan. “I have not heard anything about the United interest myself. I let my agent manage this. United was my favourite club as a child. If I get the chance, it would be a dream for me. I cross my fingers that something will happen in the next days.”
By all accounts, this player is supposed to be pretty special, and at 22-years-old, should have a long career ahead of him. However, in contrast to the barren period around 2005 and 2006, United are now packed to the rafters with talented central midfielders. Paul Scholes is the only one of these who is likely to have said goodbye to his United career in the next couple of years, with Anderson (19), Owen Hargreaves (27) and Michael Carrick (27) all with plenty of time in our shirt.
However, with a transfer fee likely to be around the £1.5 million mark, is it worth us putting in a bid? Or will Arsenal end up with another United fan on their books?
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wat an idiot. why limit urself to one club. how embarrasing would it be if Utd don’t want you?!
It does not matter the fan of club u belong’but the love of playing well in u.u can be the best at any club,if i may ask do u start playing with manutd?
Couldn’t agree with you more Mike. Anyway, utd have like 9 central midfielders or somthing. He’d be playing in the stiffs for the next couple of years at least. I think Blackburn would suit him, If he’s as good as people are saying, he could move on next summer and probably take his pick of club.
Didn’t Mikel say something similar? Why don’t you annouce that Utd have signed him- that would be funny AGAIN.
Manchester United may be his dream team, but if he wants a better shot to play top-class football than Arsenal would be the way to go. United’s midfield is packed from top to bottom with class but the midfield at Arsenal is where we need to get more bodys in.Just too many good midfielders at Man U for him to go there in my opinion.
Arsenal will surely make u the best in africa in a couple of year.just feel emanuel Adebayor,after 2 season.i am confident that he’l get chance 2 play very well than united,as wenger prefer young talent to experience leg.
Smart lad, that should rile the Arse fans, however do we WANT him? I don’t really know yet, i still haven’t seen anything that says Man Utd are interested except on this site
Yes Gerry – it would be good to make £8Million profit on a player that hasn’t ever played for the club
Why not get Gary Neville to show him round the training ground while ferguson’s busy. . .that should clinch the deal.
Fancy that. A Man U fan that doesn’t live in Manchester.
marc, love your orignality.
We don’t need to dip into the African market and we don’t need another young midfielder. I will never be angry if we sign a player from anywhere, but now is the time to use our four world class midfielders, with their back up and after that let the reserve players get the chance they need and deserve.
Another excellent one-eyed piece by the luminaries at ROM.
Although perhaps Arsenal don’t care if the player (Annan) is a ManUtd fan as much as you lot might that Christiano is a Real Madrid fan
I wonder if you’ll spend more than the ‘rent boys’ this summer on Moody Berba (although I think he will do well for you if you keep him dosed up on Prozac, and don’t leave it to Rio to remind him when he has to take drugs tests).
How do you guys think you will do in the first few months of the campaign without PizBrunaldo ?
Never heard of him till Blackburn had him on trial,so i can’t say anything,but if he’s anything near his country man in Chelsea,we should bring him.we dont want to miss on a(good )player again.
he’s not our class
You lot wanted a midfielder a few weeks ago when Ramsey was still with Cardiff. Not sure Arsenal or Man U want him though. From what I’ve seen of him I don’t rate him. When people say he’s the next Essien either they’re just repeating what others have said, or they’ve seen the video of him jumping into a tackle with both feet and studs showing. The prem is toppers with aggressive talentless prats, we don’t need another.
Typical Blackburn player – hence the trial.
I think united need an african player like him and i believe he will do well. Shut up gunners thats his dream club
Signing him with no intention of playing him regularly just to keep him away from other teams is something that Chelski does, not United. I dont give a F about how cheap he could come, I would only sign him if I honestly thought he could contribute to the side and push for a starting role in the CM. And how knows if he can or not, but I’ve seen Andersonsonson and Possebon and it would take some talent for him to come in and push them around.
But then again…if he loves the club maybe he would tell Madrid to get fucked if they came knocking in three years time (which unfortunately i dont see andersonsonson or possebon doing). And you gotta give the kid some props for poking that dirty cry baby in the eye! Brilliant!
anyone that pokes the big fat rent boy mikel in the face and spurns arsene “the genius” wenger is ok in my books
isn’t he a bit old for wenger to be signing anyhow? doesn’t he usually go for them younger???
id much rather have fletcher as backup and give the likes of possebon and hewson a chance in the easier games .
wtf!:(
I would rather have him than Ronaldo at list he loves the club. Eventhough he is not as good as that bitch.
Well signing him would boost United’s fanbase in Africa regardless of his mediocrity. Not that the Glazers care about that sort of thing of course.
Two smug Arsenal digs in a day! Great site guys, keep up the good work.
Forget about poking that good for nothing in the eye.We from Nigeria dont even like him talkless of loving him.If Annan will contribute to the growth of the team,let’s go for him.Who knows,he may continue poking him in the eye.VIVA MAN UTD.
You cant blame the lad for dreaming about playing for United. He poked Mikel in the eye you say aswel? Well I have already taken a shine to the lad already. Have to see him in action first
Sorry I’m not a Man U fan but for goodness sake -
Stop playing the tribal football Footylatest game
He’s another wonderkid you’ll probably never hear of again but who might be great.
You know nothing about him so why might you want him -
Just cos some website somewhere and his agent say three other teams are interested?
Arsenal have been linked with about 100 players in the close seaon they’ve bought nearly no-one – they probably won’t buy him, even now everyone knows they need central midfielders they’re still linked with Inler, Alonso, Barry plus some other guys I’ve forgotten and probably six other wonderkids and Veloso and Krancjar unless everyone else has forgotten about them now.
Maybe no-one will buy Annan maybe he will be the next Essien one day -
but you’ve got Anderson now. If Man U aren’t already interested, why should you be now? (and if they are, why would they tell you?)
Just forget about it, I would.
I’m sorry but of course its a reasonable fee. He has tremendous upside and he seems to be able to fully handle the physical play. Looking at numerous clips and having seen him play in the African Cup of Nations I think he would be an excellent signing and give us a great talent of the future. We lost out on Ramsey, we lost out on Mikel, we lost out on Essien, I think its time United got a great African talent who wants to play for United. I think he will fit in and be a good addition to our mid-field. He may not play much but I think he would upgrade the backup for Anderson, Carrick, Scholes, and Hargreaves. We need to continue to bring in some younger players as we have, and it has paid dividends since Fergie started with Ronaldo in 2003. We need to be able to rest Carrick more and need to have midfielders who can create in the midfield in a different fashion. He could play in the Carling Cup, early FA rounds, some EPL matches, and possible a CL if we do well in the Group stage. I hope we can wrap this and the striker search in the near future so we can have more options for the early stages of the season. Its a busy campaign and we need more players than ever to take care of business and bring home the FIFA World Club Cup and UEFA Winners Trophey which all came early on in the season.
annawho?
DO DO DO SUPER AARON RAMSEY
he could have gone united, but didn’t cos they’re shite
he signed for the arsenal cos we’re fucking dinamite
THERE’S ONLY OOOOOOOOONE AARON RAMSEY
OOOOOOOOOOOONE AARON RAMSEY
WALKING ALONG, SINGING THIS SONG
WALKING IN A RAMSEY WONDERLAND
^^^^Typical gooner retarded Arse in brain talk. Keep piling up the youngsters, we’ll be piling up the trophies….fair trade. There should be a trophy for youngest team ever lurking around in FIFA HQ somewhere.
there’s only one team in london –
Bertie Mee said to Matt Busby,
“Have you heard of the North Bank, Highbury?”,
“No” said Matt, “You cockney twat”,
“But I’ve heard of the Stretford Enders!” – you disgusting piece of pigeon excrement. Now fuck off to an Arsenal forum where you can jizz off to your shite injured team, that wins fuck all. Again. & Again. & Again…………… & Again.
Hahaha, all these wounded sarcastic Arsenal and other fans coming on here to pout because a player actually would love to come and play for us instead of Blackburn or the goonsters. By the way Gooners, you defy logic. You say you need Annan for your midfield, because you have not got many good MF’s, so what does that say about Ramsey, who you were all on here in your droves after you signed him, saying you had beaten us to a world beater – yeah right!!!!!!! Poor old Adebayor, he wanted out of Arsenal too, but no club followed up for him, otherwise he would have ran as fast as he could from the Emirates.
well i havent seen annan play yet.so i wont comment on the lad as yet.but do Man Utd need him???the answer is no.our midfield is very deep.we have scholes,hargreaves,carrick and andersonsonson.then there is fletcher and oshea as backup.it seems many people forget about that other brazilian magican – Rodrigo Possebon.this kid has got so much talent!!!he is definitely one for the future.in a years time,he will be competing with anderson and co in midfield.and he’s just 18…not 22.aaron ramsey is a muppet.thats why he chose the gooners.c’mon,give me a break.this kid aint special (well he’s special in the english media’s eyes).he’s just another good british player.monsieur wenger can stalk all those young players he wants.it still wont bring him any trophies.even though mourinho was an arrogant twat,he was right when he said “wenger hasnt won a trophy in years,yet he is said to be a legend”.LOL LOL LOL.unbelievable. viva saint alex!!!
Oh it’s a children’s site! Now it all makes sense. Keep up the good work guys.
Your inflated, undeserved ego just can’t get over losing Ramsay to a team where he’ll get a better and more fruitful future. Get over it. The future of the English game for the forseeable long-term future is Arsenal! That’s why I rate Ramsay as a very intelligent lad, not committing to a future with a team that’s a yanks plaything, nearly £100,000,000 in debt.
Jeoff said, O its a childrens site. It does become one yes, when we are inundated with baby Gooner fans, who are never away from this site. What, nothing of interest going on at the Gooner websites then?. If you want to keep migrating here, which most of you seem to, then you better apply for a Republik of Mancunia passport, and be warned, there’s a big rejection rate for illiterates.
Did you not say this about Ramsey. I believe that you expect everyone to think as highly of utd as you do. COME ON THE GUNNERS
Is Ruud Van Nistleroy going to Arsenal?……….I know it is true…..Marca are thinking of printing it
Let’s get the chorus going Ruud For Arsenal……….It’s good as the rest of this summer’s crap press
“Jeoff said, O its a childrens site. It does become one yes, when we are inundated with baby Gooner fans, who are never away from this site. What, nothing of interest going on at the Gooner websites then?. If you want to keep migrating here, which most of you seem to, then you better apply for a Republik of Mancunia passport, and be warned, there’s a big rejection rate for illiterates.”
Heard of Newsnow? I’m sure you have, you seem of reasonable intelligence. It’s always fun to pop over to this venerable site and smile wryly at the unsubstantial stories that rather childishly exist only to poke smugness in the direction of whoever the tenuous links refer to.
You expect the responses to be anything but similar to the original content? Keep sieging and smugging gents, it reminds us of the pitfalls of supporting a football team.
Got to love this banter! All warming up for a splendid season, especially after Terry saying he thinks the U’s have peaked… that coming from the old age home at the Bridge. Cough-cough-splutter.
Gooner here to remind you that a 22-year old is what Wenger would regard as recruiting “experience”. It might just double the average age of our squad. You have to smile every once in a while!
@ Erichero – Chelsea pensioners have been suddenly been put in a new light
Annan is a class player. I know him well from the Norwegian league, so go for it! He`s actually MUCH better than Mikel was, when he was playing for FC Lyn Oslo. See ya on Sunday!!