Rafael da Silva has signed a new four-year deal with Manchester United today.
“I am so happy to sign a new contract,” Rafael told the official site. “I love playing for Manchester United, there is a great team spirit here and a real desire to win. My time here has been unbelievable; winning two league titles, a league cup and a Club World Cup has made me hungry for more trophies. I would like to thank Sir Alex for his belief in me and I would also like to thank the fans for their support.”
Rafael’s brother, Fabio, is likely to go off on loan next season, whilst Rafael will be competing with Phil Jones and Chris Smalling for a place in the starting XI.
“Rafael is one of the club’s brightest young prospects; he has no fear of playing and has great belief in himself,” said the manager. “The boy has developed immensely since joining United, his energy and enthusiasm are a joy to watch. Rafael has all the attributes to become one of the best full-backs in the world and I am delighted he has signed a new contract.”
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Forza Da Silva !!!
And we love you playing for Manchester United young Raffa.
Afternoon dip shits!
Great bit of news, love the lad…….Got so much passion about him its unreal…..Will never forget his consolation goal at Arsenal and his game against the gunners along side his brother….
The kid oozes class
Fabio: I love Playing Call of Duty.
@Cedars: “Headshot for Tevez” was class as well
What a player!!! And he is Man Utd trough and through!
Ok – genuine rumor
Apparently Modric and Baines are the only two players we are looking at. Levy wants to sell him to the highest bidder outside the Prem. Player wants United. Madrid unlikely to cough up 40 mil or use Sahin as part of the deal. Has all the makings of a “- gate” or a “saga”. BUT, the bottomline is this – if the Modric deal doesn’t happen, we aren’t looking at any other midfield signing.
You heard it here first
jeet the boy who cries wolf?
@Zibbie: While you were away…….
………..Cedars and I have decided to sell Rooney, and buy one of Cavani/Llorente/Higuain/Benzema/Falaco
… curse all you may, you cannot overrule the Indo-Lebanese Covenant
Nice one Rafa. Love this kid.
@Jeet
“if the Modric deal doesn’t happen, we aren’t looking at any other midfield signing”
For me, that’s where the credibility snaps. How could a club be pursuing as big a name as Modric, without having any sort of backup plan? We wanted Nasri, but had Young ready as backup. We wanted Hazard, but had Kagawa ready as backup. How could we be back serious enquiries about a player that woud unquestionably walk into our first XI, while at the same time accepting that if he didn’t come, we’d just make do with what we’ve got?
could we be making*
Zibbie – where I grew up, it was tigers…
…In the cities, before mobile phones, if children got late from school, parent feared a traffic accident. In the Sunderbans, they feared tigers.
Jeet cool do not forget Nani, Vida and Welbeck
Still only 21 too. A lot expect him to be the finished article but he is still very young. Competition with Smalling and Jones? Not for me. Rafa is actually a right back.
@Kanchelskis: I don’t know mate, I don’t half (or make that 99%) of the shit that gets strewn around in silly season. All the smilies are meant as “Caveat Emptor” – take my rumour posts seriously at your own risk
Jeet I saw a program of Sunderbans and its people who live with tigers who hunt humans. They wore masks on the back of their heads to have two faces.
*believe* half
KE brings logic to our young guns, Jones last year just 19, at 19 I slept 4 hours a night, partied got layed played NCAA football. If I made 10 k a week I would have blown my chance. IMO
@Zibbie: Scary shit place…you travel in boats through a maze of creeks that are 15-30 meters wide. Tiger jungle on both sides. They can easily spring and in a few powerful strokes attack people in the boat. Worse with low tide, because people actually wade through the swampy creeks. And at high tide, you can’t dip your fingers in the water. Mini sharks come and snap your hand off – their teeth are so sharp you wont feel a thing for a few seconds till you notice the water going red. I’ve seen a village where there’s not a single man who hasn’t been maimed by tigers. Another village which is called “Widowvillage” cos all the men have been taken by tigers. Eerie enough to make grown men shit their pants.
PS: I’ve seen that porogram too – quality production. Big fan of wildlife programs on TV.
Fabio has joined QPR on a years loan.
I was a huge Jungle Book fan.
Hey wolfie.
19 be well.
How I love this man! Delighted that he’s decided to sign the new contract, hope he will become our out and out first XI right back next season!
Fabio on loan. Imo is a good thing, separation for the twins.
Aw, that’s nice.
Afternoon fellas. Good to see us sign Rafa up for a while now lets do the same with Nani. Hope Fabio gets 36 league starts next season but you never know with QPR, the Tranmere of West London.
@ King Eric- Hello mate, did you go to one of the Stone Roses concerts this weekend?
As for Fabio, hope he has some match practice but in all likelyhood, they will buy 2 more left backs by the time the window is closed. Why we are doing business with this mob again is beyond me.
Notorious – Hello mate. You well? No sadly not pal. Mike went . Would have loved to have gone. Seen Ian Brown a few times. Last time at the G Mex with the Shaolin monks on stage! A real front man. Doing taekwondo and shit on stage. Gotta love him and Mani!
With the twins separating it means they no longer dress the same which gives them separate identities.
Their lack of professionalism effectively costs us the league … and we loan them a player who started a CL final (and was probably our second best that day).
How does that work?
@ King Eric – Got in at 9am just got up an hour ago. Mani is a fucking legend, turned his guitar around and had Mani United written on it. Swiftly prompted United chants around the park. Glad I witnessed it. Even John Squire smiled a bit!!! Don’t believe the hype – Manchester is well and truly red, every tram I was on United chants, was one woman who was leads fan who tried banter and got serenaded with
“We all hate leads scum.”
Quality.
I must admit QPR does not inspire me! Why the fuck do we loan players to a team who are wiling to get as many players as they can.
NRD – I was asking about you and Mike? Seems it was a great few days. Everyone on twitter was buzzing about how good the Stone Roses were. I’m not sure if they’re planning on doing an album, but after this success they should.
Zibbie – Alright pal!
This is the best news we’ve had in the close season so far.
More excited about this than the Kagawa signing or the Powell signing (no disrespect to either of them).
Rafael is awesome. Who can forget him squaring up to Tevez in that derby?
F**king awesome.
I only hope we don’t lose his brother what with all this talk about loan moves and signing Baines.
I can remember Fabio putting in some absolutely storming shifts at left wing when we needed cover, and I’ve always wondered why he doesn’t seem to get more chances.
Well happy to know he will be stopping for next few years at least.Hope if his brother is loaned he is played as a midfielder as I can see big things for him in that position rather than left back.
King Eric @ 15:53: “Competition with Smalling and Jones? Not for me. Rafa is actually a right back.”
Count me in. I love his attacking panache – but, still, I’d like to see SAF set up the team with a 3-5-2 formation with Antonio Valencia and Ninja Evra as “wing-backs” and Rafael as their primary back-up.
For me, the big disappointment of the EuroFootieFinal was that Prandelli didn’t go back to the 3-5-2/5-3-2, which stifled Spain in the earlier match.
@ WRN – It was epic mate, was right at the front and got to shake hands with Remi and Ian Brown. I read they were planning on doing an album will definitely be seeing them again if they do something next year. Didn’t think there would be much footy banter going on but there was loads of it. Truly historic event.
Jeet
Can’t blame the club, Modric is the only player who could get a game in our midfield. *Sigh* There’s just no value for money these days.
no Becks big news.
@kanchelskis
Hi mate. Personally I feel they were even more unprofessional in how they handled the Macheda loan. When you do business (especially with a club like Man UNited), you should honour it. I don’t care how much trouble they were in down at the bottom, when a club loans you a player, the purpose behind it is for said player to get games under his belt. I am not saying they shouldn’t have bought Cisse and Zamora. Why did they inquire about Kiko then?
Some young guns here who know how to get stats please get SAF record for transfers cost per year and who they got. Since Billionaire boyz club joined the state clubs of Real and Barca to go after every big payer. SAF has done well, spent big in a good business scene. All this blubbering in silly season is a contagious fucking Virus. 50 million last fucking year spent.
Powell best young British Talent.
Kagawa one of 5 best mfer’s available.
LICK ME!
EAT ME!
CHEW ME!
I’M A BIG BLACK JELLYBEAN!!!!!
GO ROONEY!!!!!!
11:10 TO SOON FOR vODKA?
@Costas
its simple, mark hughes did not enquire about macheda and certainly did not sign him on loan, it was done before he arrived. Mark Hughes knows who fabio is, and obviously appreciates his ability, im sure he will play lots of games next season as he could of easily gone abroad but he has stayed in england to hopefully become a manchester united great.
we can only hope!
11:10 way to soon for Vodka so I waited till 11:20 salute!
SAF and Sparky spoke I’m sure. A plan of development in place.
@obertanthenewstar
Been a while since I’ve seen you here pal. Pleasant surprise. How’s the search for a new username going?
I realize they went through a manager change during that month and Hughes didn’t approve of that move and wanted something different for his attack. That’s why they should have cancelled the loan in my opinion. Or, they should have told Hughes that they had to honour a deal with UNited and wouldn’t buy any more strikers. Or that they would only buy one. Imagine how Fergie felt when he got the news on the final day of the transfer window. Macheda never played another game after February 1st. Anyway, I hope you are right about Fabio. It’s just that we should have loaned him to another Premierhsip club. As matter of principle more than anything.
MG hello, my back pain at a 7 today, Vod Kanockers and some cronic
@Costas
That was pretty much entirely to do with the manager change.
He came in under Warnock, then a matter of weeks later, he’d been sacked and Hughes was in place. Hughes – as was his prerogative, wanted to put his own short-term survival plan in place, which didn’t involve Macheda. That, plus the injury, made it pretty much the worse loan ever, but I don’t think it was necessarily all QPR’s ‘fault’…
Kebab has some sweet spring Lamb over the weekend.
Butchered it with friends. Had some heritage piggy laying around made a stuffing with that dehydrated wild morals and hen of the woods, in Japan called maitaki fresh herbs saved the drippings for basting and a hot vinaigrette. Fresh spring veggies wow.
@Costas
Sorry – just realised I’m way behind on that discussion. Feel free to ignore my witterings!
Michael Laudrup has been sacked as manager of Swansea City after spending £30million on a goat.
Turns out he signed the wrong Nani.
Kebab on top of most if not all Man Utd stuff hehe.
HEY mg HOWS THE EYEBALL…….
TB on a consistent basis you make me laugh out loud. Thanks.
@Zibbie
Sounds like a full meal.
Hope you take it easy on the vodka though. I once puked my guts out drinking that piss. 
@Kanchelskis
Ah, it’s ok. I took your post under consideration. I understand the position Hughes was in and I honestly don’t blame him about any of this. I just wish QPR handled it differently.
Rafael Da Silva will be BIG.
The target for him is to hit the heights of Cafu, Roberto Carlos and Daniel Alves.
To do this, he needs experience, a big club, a supporting manager, fans that support him, good coaches and from himself the hunger to learn and improve every match.
Nobody knew who the fuck Cafu was before he was 27 years old, Dani Alves gained recognition as a very good Right wing back when he was 24/25 back in 2006. Roberto Carlos was sold by fucking Inter Milan in his youth because they thought he was dead wood at the age of 22 !
Rafael Da Silva has been at our great club for 4 season, this will have done wonders for his education. To be honest Rafa is 21 and a fucking kid, I expect big things from him when’s 23/24 years onwards.
Just like we gave Ronaldo,Rooney, Fletcher,Welbeck (still), Rio etc lets give this boy a chance to mature into the complete product. Being a defender is hard itself and being a wing back is demanding and draws a lot of criticism, just look at other wing backs in Rafa age group, they ain’t any better than him.
I don’t need to say “the boy will come good”, I know he will !
Papii!!!
Just stay out from injury ffs!!!
NRD
Did you go last night pal? I went Saturday. Nailed a group of city fans on the tram up there who tried a rendition of Championes!! Got well and truly drowned out by “my old man said be a city fan”. Quality. John Bishop was in front of us in the pit. About 500 of us giving it “you scouse bastard” to be fair he had a good laugh about it.
Manchester is indeed red. Anyone who tells you different is a fucking idiot aka city fan
Evening reds around the world,
great news this,
indeed Rafael can be the best full back, he has got the skills and desire, time will make him the best!!
Good luck to Fabio as well, hope sparky brings the best outta him..
now we can expect a signing for left back position,.anytime soon..
Rafa is sheer joy to watch on the field…love the kid
NRD – “Mani United” Fucking quality. Bet it was superb. Is Reni still on drums? Giggs 12 aka Deano has a photo of himself with Mani outside a boozer in London the day of the Champions League Final last May. Top bass player .
Clint – Spot on pal. Alot forget he is STILL only 21 soon to be 22 this week!
I see “Zibbie” has returned to RoM
That cubs was a grandmotherfucker ….never felt comfortable talking to a cub, made me feel like a paedophile.
Mike – Ha. John Bishop. To be fair I quite like him. Seems ok for a dipper.
Good to have mydick back.
King Eric -
Tbh, I’d rather have Rafa over the likes of Kyle Walker,Richards,Van Der Wiel etc. Some recently was crying out for a experienced right back in the shape of a French Debuchy – as good as he is and the likelihood of him improving our squad, I cannot see SAF strengthening in an area where he has Jones and Smalling as cover, yes they are very young, but the young only become good with game time and it’s their time to be thrown into the the pan and to be seen how they cook.
Nearly 22 wow, time flies cannot believe Rooney is 26 turning 27 and Ronaldo’s already 27 years old. The kids we drooled over are now the experienced heads of today.
@mikekelly12 – Yes mate went yesterday. Thats brilliant about John Bishop, most banter I came across was pretty friendly although some sea cows near got all upset when Mani showed the Mani United on his guitar but they all got drowned out.
@King Eric. Reni is still on drums hat and all, they all did this group hug thing at the end. If there is any friction still, it didn’t show in their performance.
What happens if we don’t get Baines yet we have loaned out Fabio?
i may be alone in this, but i dont get the bains tranfer. There has been alot of talk about it and it seems to be on the cards. I guess im still pissed at missing out on jordi alba……… still if he comes i will support him lik all the other players.
Fucking made up for Rafael. Now for him to get GNev’s #2 shirt and make it his own.
Lee Martin’s @ 19:56: “i may be alone in this, but i dont get the bains transfer.”
You are NOT alone – no one is in favour of it, especially at the quoted price. Ridiculous.
Lee Martin’s Winner – we didn’t miss out on Jordi Alba though, did we? He’s a Catalan, presumably boyhood Barcelona fan who spent seven years on their books as a kid. There was no chance of any other club in the world getting him once Barcelona came calling.
Miss out on Jordi Alba? There’s no chance for us to sign him once Barca came in, he has Barca DNA mate & i wouldnt want us to sign a player just to sell him 2-3 years later…
Agreed My Name is Red:
Rafa for GNev’s No.2 shirt and the RB position his for the season! (injuries permitting!)
Forza Rafa!!