Berbatov at Old Trafford tonight
There’s less than four hours to go and I imagine you, like me, are sitting at your computer desperate for any updates.
If someone had told me yesterday that we’d be in a bidding war with Manchester City, believed to be around £33 million, for Dimitar Berbatov, I would have laughed in their face. Is this really happening?
All summer we have gone back and forth with Tottenham Hotspur, lodging two official bids but getting no joy. Spurs value the player at £30 million, whilst United were intent in spending ‘only’ £25 million.
So in an attempt to save us a few quid, we’ve put off finalising the deal until the last day of the transfer window. Spurs aren’t even playing Berbatov any more and have already spent the money they will get from his transfer, so obviously they want to sell him. United figured they’d try their luck and see just how badly Spurs wanted to sell him. Badly enough to lower their asking price by a few million?
This is a plan that would have worked as well… if not for City being bought by multi-millionaires who are willing to splash their cash on everyone! As as well bidding for Berbatov, their owner claims they have also tried to sign David Villa and Mario Gomez.
Now that City have had their bid accepted and seemingly United haven’t offered any more money, we’re left to wait and see what happens as the clock ticks down.
Is the fact that United haven’t made another bid indication that they’re not interested in stumping up cash for another British record this summer? Did Berbatov have talks and complete a medical at Carrington without Spurs’ permission? Only time will tell I suppose.
However, United will be left to regret not stumping up the cash earlier, as now, if we do manage to sign the player, we are looking at an even larger transfer fee than Spurs were initally looking for.
I will keep you updated.
edit. 9.05pm Sky Sports News say Berbatov has completed the medical and is returning to Carrington. And apparently a year long loan for Campbell to Spurs has been agreed. But your guess is as good as mine.
edit. 9.40 Sky Sports News showed footage of a very happy Berbatov at Old Trafford now shaking hands with David Gill.
edit. 10.45pm Sky Sports News showed more footage of Berbatov still at United in an office with David Gill. Suggestion is the deal is done. Watch this space!
edit. 12.10 am The transfer window has closed and whilst it is believed the deal has gone through, we’ve yet to hear any official confirmation.
Only time will tell – and there’s not much more time left in the window so I guess that I’ll have to go back outside and sit in the garden for a while longer.
Berbatov is a very good player but, hey, he’s 27/28 and that usually is past the high-point in a player’s prime. So, for me, I’d go up to 25 million but no more.
Is it so bad to have to rely again on an attacking trident featuring Rooney, Tevez, and Ronaldo with Nani, Giggs, Campbell, and Manucho as the prime backups ? I don’t think so – and there are other fish in the ocean.
As to Spurs – can they have planned this any better ? Did they plan this last-day excitement or have they just been lucky ? And, of course, do we really give a fiddler’s fuck about Spurs ?
Yeah, it is a weird one. Spurs will be laughing at this big time. I’ll be happy if we sign him at any price, just because it’ll make pure sense.
I was feeling very optimistic yesterday and today I still think he is destined for United. City may have just become the latest English club bought out by foreign investors but there s only one real team in Manchester.
Berbatov will be much more value at the club he wants to play at than at a club which has just bid the highest. If he wanted to play for a team that are challenging for 5th / 6th or even 7th place, he’d have wanted to stay at Spurs!
yeah.
i thnk berba will sign for man utd.
no team in dis world better thn man utd.
(curently c.leaque champion lorh)
If we get Berbatov great, if we don’t so what, we’ll battle on and win the lot without him. No player in history is bigger or better than United.
why would berba move from tot to man city.. think about it!
Nobber… apart from Cristiano of course
Thw art of selling by Totteringnam…..not for nothing are they known as the jewboys of London….remember they got a shitload of dosh for Robbie Keane …. well it was from a club with more money than fricking sense but they are still hyping a player who i dont feel is worthy of 15 mill let alone 25 and as for the ludicrous offer by Shitty City ….jeez blues he wants Euro football not to be fightin relegation …..why do you think he wants to leave London and the cockerneys?
Fuckin hell……
pdm…Quite right mate its nothing more than a step sideways
Tom F…lol quite right too, we are nothing without the god that is Ronny..hmmz me thinks back to Best, Law, Charlton, Robbo, Cantona and all the rest
p.s Ince is still a t**t
It’s obvious that Spurs will accept City’s bid and would rather sell to them, but luckily for us, Bebratov has his heart set on Old Trafford and some Champions League football. This deal could have been better for both United and Spurs if it wasn’t for both Spurs’ unnecessary stubbornness and (no intentional anti-semitism) money-grabbing Jew-like tendancies, and City’s obvious plan to scupper United’s well known transfer plans.
It’s strange how City with their new bank account could bid for any striker in the world, but choose to go for their rival’s target. It shows how City can be immature and unprofessional.
We are monitoring the situation in Nigeria as you are doing over there. I must confess that United fans here are anxious to hear the fianl statement on where Berbatov will be playing his football outside White Heart Lane. I am sure we would get him in spite of City’s readiness to waste their petrol dollar.I am also sure United can do without Berbatov and any attempt to meet the asking price as well as weekly take home may spark ill feeling among United’s main players who do not earn as much.
Lagos, Nigeria
Ben are you secretly Mel Gibson posting on RoM?
I am quite enjoying how busy this blog is tonight! We are all in the same boat. We are all so restless and excited over what may happen in the next.. THREE hours… argh!
As a spurs fan i hope manu win the battle for his signature as realistically we will not challenge top four and selling to city will will decrease our chances of a uefa cup place. It will also pretty much guarantee your lads will top the gooners. As much as i love Berbs it is only right that his talents grace CL football. Good luck, and i hope the hairdryer will keep berbs in his place.
SSN NOW SAYING : BREAKING NEWS DIMITAR BERBATOV UNDERGOIN MEDICAL AT MANCHESTER UNITED.
Manny – Look at the update on the article from a bit ago
Medical completed.
After hearing that Campbell will be going somewhere, whether it be Wigan, Hull or where ever… the only deal I saw possible was a year long loan. So that sounds about right to me. Although we’ll be without him for a year, it would work better for us in the long run as he’d play much more at Spurs….
but who knows..?
Berbatov will be coming to us for sure. Fergie will handcuff him to the furniture at Carrington until midnight to stop Hughsey having a chat with him, lol. Spurs HAD to have agreed a deal with us. All this talk of Fergie having had no permission to speak with Berbatov has got to be bollocks – How could we sign him without Spurs’s go-ahead? Levy must have accepted a deal before the citeh bid came in but he just hadn’t levelled with the spurs fans (out of shame).
I agree with most others here that we have paid through the nose for the player but I just didn’t want us to suffer the indignity of being gazumped by those scabby losers at eastlands. I would have gone for Huntelaar at the outset, but having become resigned to us buying Berbatov, started to quite look forward to us unveiling him as a United player. He will freshen up our front line a bit and will score some magic goals. Lots of them hopefully. Let us hope that we didn’t get shafted too much on the price and look forward to a bit of Cantona-style oo-la-la. lol
I really cant wait to see him wearing United shirt,and to give the bastards from Citeh the “up yours”.
Done and dusted .
@ SCOTT THE RED : YEAH MISSED THAT MATE SOZ
Gawd City got money to play with
City money to play with doesn’t stack upto me, amazingly on the day of the transfer deadline they suddenly start making £30m bids for players who they know they have no chance of signing.
citeh fans need to remeber the old saying if it sounds too be good to be true it usually is too good to be true.
I learnt from a close friend to Mr sparky(ex_legend) that berba,had just phoned him and said: NOT A CHANCE.
The spurs fans need not feel downhearted….THEY GOT EMILE HESKEY A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A- HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! (God, imagine that? I almost feel sorry for ‘em, lol)
Not long left ,more stressed now than when the missus had the kids we always pussy foot about (remember Ronaldhinio?) all I can say is that I felt sick when I heard Citeh was in for him!!!! (Class over cash anyday)
faster.. sign.. up.. Berba… i losing… my sleep… because of you… (Malaysia time is now 6AM)
in india….3.25 am…how much longer ?!
LOL it gets better…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/mancity/2662221/Manchester-City-agree-34.2-million-fee-for-Robinho—-Football.html
I THINK WE SHOULD START THINKING OF NEW CHANTS FOR HIM
FFS why do United always leave it to the last minute…or 90 mins +4 he hee hee
Yeah, I really didn’t expect another Tevez style transfer.
Berbatov could have done with a pre-season at Carrington and I only hope he has been keeping fully fit. I wonder how long it’ll take for him to gel with our attacking department?
What!? Robinho is going to Manchester City? Wow, if this is true I will be laughing in my sleep.
Football has become a crazy thing.
Robinho for City and Berba for Utd is one big laugh for Chelsea! ..also one bigger laugh for Ramon Calderon!
It’s all well and good City agreeing a fee with Madrid, but City agreeing personal terms with Robinho is a whole different matter. It’s like as if Barnsley offering 100m to Barca for Ronaldinho, OBVIOUSLY Barca would accept…
City had no chance whatsoever of signing Berba. All thy may have achieved by all this fuss is inflate further already inflated price for the palyer.
As for Robinho signing for City. What a sad soul. Only yesterday he was declairing his unreserved love for Chelsea, and then he suddenly falls in love with City’s newly found Arabian petro-dollars.
Its all tabloid myth and mystery til tomorrow…I think its funny myself. I love football, I love United but the game today is fucked up. oh balls i’m starting to sound old… /me danders off on my zimmer frame lol
will we get confirmation by 12 mn ?….i really wanna sleep
iam really nervous
I doubt it Anant but you only got 10 mins to find out mate
By the time Maurice Watkins (MUFC Solicitor) has finalised things it will be tomorrow morning before its public…If it happens of course.
I may be wrong but I recon you should get some shut eye bud
N0bb’s
I’m up for work at 4am… and I know it’s unlikely that we’ll hear anything before tomorrow afternoon…
Still I’ll stay up til around one… waiting!
right . thanks bro . 10 mins it is then before a couple of hours of anxious sleep . dreamin of berba!
ssn – calderon says robinho agrees to citeh switch
why are they taking so long to confirm that berba signed for utd ?!?!?!? im dying here
Despite all I just said… I am going to sleep!
Berbatov is a United player as of now, and Manchester City have broken the British transfer record.
What a difference a day makes… Funny stuff!
someone make a chant along the lines of – ”citeh – theyre such a massive club!”
edit. 12.10 am The transfer window has closed and whilst it is believed the deal has gone through, we’ve yet to hear any official confirmation.
^^ Like I said guys, happy snoooooozies to ya cus I cant see anything being confirmed tonight. Ya never know maybe we will get him……But……
Make of this what you will
http://www.thesoccerblog.org/premiership/video-ex-spur-berbatov-shakes-hands-at-old-trafford/
N0bbs
Maybe, he was just visiting and we’d ran out of toilet roll? hmm just a thought…
done deal and it’s confirmed at Tottenham official website.
Yep all done folks, we have a new forward
Didnt take too long to announce I eat my hat … w00t
What??? Man Utd ever having an easy transfer? Wipe your mouth!