One of the bigger shocks for Manchester United fans when the transfer window closed wasn’t which players we hadn’t signed but which players we hadn’t sold or loaned out.
Having brought in David de Gea and Anders Lindegaard, it seemed certain that Tomasz Kuszczak would be on his way out.
The 29-year-old made 10 appearances for the club last season, including a particularly shaky performance on Ewood Park on the day we won the 19th title.
Kuszczak has today claimed that offers did come in for him, with a move to West Brom one of the rumoured possible destinations, but the club would not accept them.
“I am angry and disappointed with the way I am treated,” said Kuszczak. “I had a few good offers. The problem was the club who wanted to sell me for £4 million.”
Man Utd News 24/7
I don’t know why we don’t let him go. It could free up a few pounds in wage. No disrespect to him though, the guy just not good enough.
1st btw
Tomasz Kuszczak has been shooting his mouth off for the last 6 months. Not surprising that United are disinterested in his personal desires and expectations any more.
Compare this with Wes Brown, who NEVER complained publicly for being completely excluded despite an excellent career at United. He bit the bullet, trained hard, kept his chin up, and was rewarded with an ideal transfer at a low price with a top wage.
Kuszczak gets no sympathy from me.
Kuszscak got his chance and didn’t take it. Mouthing off won’t endear him to anyone.
Elland Road ?
Ewood Park…. !
Wasnt it?
This is the style and culture of the club. If you are in, you have to obey the “law”.
So, he doesn’t feel he’s worth the 4m asking fee? Way to sell yourself short Tomasz
Don’t know what it says for his confidence if he believes he was priced out of any transfer move at 4 million. I gte his anger though. The fact that he won’t play football for another season means that he won’t make the regular Polish team this summer.
At the same time, I don’t know what it says about our club that we valued him 4 times as much as Wes and just as much as JOS. That’s ridiculous in itself. If we didn’t get any offers for 4 million, we should have dropped the price tag and sold him to whatever anyone offered. I don’t see how it helps the club to have a disgruntled player like that in our ranks.
@Costas
Very good point mate….
Also the fact that the longer we keep him on our books, the longer we have to pay his wages unnecessarily…so a lower fee would have been preferable to paying his wages.
Can he be sent out for loan even now ?
get over it Thomas get your head down and train hard and wait for your chance, how bad can it be being at the greatest club in the world!
end his contract by “mutual consent” i say, have rid.
Get him out on loan WBA, then strike a deal for next year.
I think players can be loaned out for some weeks yet.hope this is the case for kiko diouf gibson and kuz for their own sake
Can’t say I have much sympathy for Kuszczak too much whining in the press, definitely not the right attitude for a united player. I am also pretty pleased that we held out and wouldn’t accept any less than what can only be described as a reasonable fee. Makes a change to United letting players go for much less than they are worth.
Ajo Paul
He can be loaned out to a non-Premiership side. In England, clubs from the Football League Championship to the Football Conference can loan in players from 8 September to 25 November.
Yup, doesn’t sound right. I don’t think the club would’ve valued him at that asking price though, despite personally thinking he is still a better keeper than half the keepers in the Premiership and is easily worth that amount. But the fact that we kept him over Foster, who went for 4mil too, means that asking price is not over the top.
Hope a club comes in for him, he has been patient throughout his years here, and he deserves to move on to a new club without any hassle.
No sympathy too, the lad was never good enough especially on his distribution. All he does is save a shot and kick the ball upfront which ultimately ends with the opposition and back at his feet again.
I guess that’s what he calls wanting to play literally
…and take Darron Gibson with you.
@ Costas. Take the same view as you mate. Clearly wasn’t given an opportunity like say Ben Foster and IF he’s right about the transfer tag of £4 million then I’d be pissed off too. Him running his mouth is nowhere near as bad as the argie troll and the other argie cunt Heinze.
Considering how many keepers we let go for pennies. This one surprises me.
Barthez was paid £5 million to leave. Lost pretty much all the money we paid on Taibi, Ricardo, Howard, Carroll. Then consider how we are shit at selling players and getting reasonable fees for them.
e.g Brown £1 million! Ruud at £10 million. Saha free transfer.
Something here doesn’t add up. Since when are holding out for more money on a keeper who’s never going to play and thats been clear since December last year when Lindegaard came in.
I’m angry and disappointed every morning when I wake up and see ‘Little Whiteside’.
Dear Tomasz,
Complaining about it a month after the transfer window is closed is about as useful as shutting the barn door after your wife’s already pregnant. You should have been a bit more pro-active man.
Your pal,
Anders Lindegaard.
I actually feel for the guy – he’s pretty decent, never going to be Utd. #1, and god knows there’s no shame in that. I think he probably pissed off SAF or a few other folk, and that’s why the club feels its ok to let him stew. As several others have pointed out we have always let players leave at less than fair value, so I cant believe he would be held back for pure commercial reasons.
PIG blew it last year mouthing off about number 1 or out.We’ve all seen him not good enough to be number 1.Hard to feel sorry for anyone making at least 20k a week and living the life of a pro footballer.
If Utd figure he’s worth keeping for a 3rd string if a club didn’t match the 4mill valuation don’t see a problem with that,the lad just needs to shut his mouth.
While Kuszczak complains about the goalposts being moved, other players just get on with life, making a difference wherever they can:
Club chairman Stuart Maclean, 32, said: “It caused a problem because we had 30-odd kids who weren’t able to play football before the start of the season, so it was mayhem. But now Scotland international Darren Fletcher, 27 – who grew up in neighbouring Mayfield – has gifted £1850 to cover the cost of two new sets of goalposts after reading the story in the Evening News.
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Fletcher-moves-the-goalposts-for.6836181.jp
It is true that £1850 is not a lot of money to Fletcher, but it’s the thought and effort that counts.
smartalex – well done Fletch top man!
GAZ – Fletch is THEMAN!
@Red Devil
Hi mate. Not only that. If we were hoping to get 4 mil for him, another season where he plays few games will only decrease his price tag. So I don’t know what we are hoping to achieve.
@Notorious
Well that’s what I don’t understand either. We bought 2 keepers in 2011 and Fergie made it obvious that they are his 2 first choices. Why keep PIG around? To punish him? Imo fans are often too quick to jump at the defence of the club and the manager without thinking about every parameter. Kus has sat with his thumb up his ass for 5 years now. And this is the season before the Euro finals, a competition in which Poland rarely participate. Why not let him go elsewhere and try to force his way into the Polish side? Like you said. It’s not like we know how to sell players at the price they are really worth.
We can sell him to Shitty. They love taking our players.
Loan him for a few months and sell in January 2012 for 20 mil.
Sell Gibson for 20 mil to Shitty too.
Reduce the club debts with the money.
Costas – Hello mate. There is obvisouly a reason Fergie hasnt sold him, why would we hold out for a couple of million? Like you say as fans we arent aware what goes on sometimes.
Gotta agree with Costas et al. The club isn’t always right, and this is one of those cases where I don’t see how the club could emerge in the right. He’s not good enough for United but I’m pretty sure he’s correct in saying he would have plenty of suitors for a reasonable price. 4 million for a player you have basically made clear you don’t want/need is taking the piss. Its either a case of penny pinching where the club decided running out his contract is cheaper than selling him for the amounts being offered, or just punishement for i don’t know what. It might be the former, but in either case its not a nice thing to do. I don’t see how the club could come out of this spotless…
Sir Alex wouldn’t keep a player for punishment lol what a punishment being forced to stay at Utd.Pretty obvious sees PIG as a decent num 3,if clubs don’t think he’s worth 4mill don’t see why Utd should sell him for less just to make him happy
@smartalex maybe Fletch should have given that money to PIG to shut him up lol XD
anyway i agree 100% with Costas. We should have sold him anyway, maybe should have let him go for free..
but i think it is better if we can listen to Fergie’s side of story first.
Totally agree with Costas. We’re not a petty club, it doesn’t matter if he’s mouthed off, we should have sold him. I can understand Fergie wanting some experience in that position but surely the negativity of Kuszczak’s mindset would outweigh any benefits of experience
In any case, I’m pretty sure Ben Amos is number 3, so there’s no way Kus will ever get a look in, even on the bench this season. Why you need to hold on to a guy at his age to just play in the reserves is beyond me.
I’m with Costas. I don’t see how it helps to keep him around. And 4 mil is a significant fee for a run-of-the-mill goalie. He’s no better than that.
But isn’t his contract up soon? As far as I know, he signed an extension back in 2008 to keep him at OT until 2012. Sounds like he’s due for a free pretty soon. Anyone know the real the story on that? If he is due for a free in another year or so, then the story of us rejecting offers sounds even more bizarre. And he would pocket a nice chuck of change on a free. I just don’t get any of it.
Whiteside says:
I’m angry and disappointed every morning when I wake up and see ‘Little Whiteside’.
You can’t mention Whiteside without saying his age….. it just criminal.
@Stateside Aussie
Yeah I think he’s in the last year of his contract. Here’s what I could find:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/sep/15/manchesterunited.kuszczak
@King Eric
Hi mate. I am sure Fergie does have his reasons, but whatever they are, they obviously don’t reassure PIG. Going by his comments earlier in the summer, Kuszczak is 3rd choice. It’s obviously a demotion. And we are not talking about Berba going from 1st to 3rd choice. In a goalkeeper’s case that’s very hard to come back from. People say that he should shut up and fight for his place. Again, it’s not that simple. De Gea and Linde leapfrogged him in the pecking order as soon as they joined. And that’s fine. But why keep Kus around? Just to have back up in case both come down with an injury or one of them doesn’t meet expectations? That’s a lot to ask out of someone who on paper thought that Edwin’s departure would open the door for him and who also desperately wants to play a lot of games this season.
One last thing. Kuszczak is the 3rd player (after Gibson and Berba) that stayed with us even though his contract runs next year. Neither player looks like being offered a contract extension, so I agree that it’s interesting to find out Fergie’s logic behind this.
@wayne
Hey mate. I’d pay to play for United in the Reserves and I wouldn’t see it as punishment. However, PIG isn’t like you or me and he has a career to think about. Don’t know whether we were ambitious in our asking price, but now he will leave for a free transfer next summer or for less than 4 mil in January. So I don’t know what was the sense in not budging from that price tag.
@Costas you make good sense mate,has to be a reason maybe PIG’s wage demands were high but i don’t think Utd are doing it to spite him.
With De Gea and Lindegraad being untested rookies at the start of this season, SAF had to keep Kuzak around as the only keeper with premier league experience in case the other two did not make the step up. Also in a case of injuries he is not a bad back up.
I think De Gea and Lindegraad have both now shown they can make that step up and I expect Kuz to be sold in Jan. SAF is just giving the young lads time to grow into the role while having an experienced player who is a known quantity to fall bank on. Kuz has made some good saves for us.
I think this is smashing, if not a bit unusual. Kuz seems to have gotten under a few peoples skin and now he is in the trophie cabinette on a pike. Shut the freek up lad! I agree with the posters who compared this to Wes and O’Shea, kept their noses to the task and club rewarded them with plum deals. Kus is just screwing himself further as noone wants a player who takes the piss on his own club. Get on with it. You will be off soon enough.
Look at the folks on here dissing the P.I.G. We certainly have some twats/idoits amongst us in the faithfull. He’s waited patiently for years, these are arguably some of the more important years of his career and he is being wasted with us. I sympathise with the fella to be honest. I can see where he’s coming from. I hope he gets some football, somewhere.
Trade PIG, Gibson,Bebe & Mame —->For Wesley Sneijder
Sneijdergate part 2: Bald Knight Rises
@wayne
That may be another reason why he didn’t leave. As others hav said, maybe there’s more to this story than what PIG is letting on.
It seems that Kuszczak and United’s valuations are Poles apart.
Perhaps they need an equator.
The Notorious PIG will receive a wrap on the knuckles for this outburst! Warning!
“Who the fuck is this, paging me at 5.46 in morning, crac a dawning, now I’m yawning…
Thomas….you are shit. Get over it.
I agree with Tomas!!!
i’m also ‘angry and disappointed’…..
THAT HE’S STILL AT THE BLOODY CLUB!!!
Redlife says:
Thomas….you are shit. Get over it.
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@Redlife
did you become MUFC fan this summer to call him shit? Lad made some good saves for us. He’s not top class but still he’s good enough to play in PL. Just because he’s angree because he’s desperate to start playing regularly doesn’t mean we should smash him.
And he’s right about price tag – next summer he will leave for free… think twice before posting some “shit”.
maybe we can sell him to one of those Russian club
They still have about a month of transfer left 
bet he’s going in january, and may be berbatov to follow as well