Frazier Campbell turned out to be the key link in organising the Dimitar Berbatov deal to United. Once the price had been agreed upon, Daniel Levy was determined to see Campbell, who Hull had previously bid £7 million for, went to White Hart Lane as a part of the deal.
It has emerged since that Steve Bruce showed up at Campbell’s hotel where he was staying with the England Under 21 team, in a last ditch bid to lure the player to Wigan.
However, as soon as Ferguson learned Campbell could clinch the Berbatov deal, he ensured our 20-year-old striker was moving down south.
“I was up since half past seven and had so many calls,” Campbell said. “At one point it was looking like I was going to one place and then things would change and then I would be going somewhere else. But I’m really excited to be going to Tottenham. They are a big club, with a good manager and they are building a really good team. It’s disappointing to leave United but when you get a chance to play for a club like Tottenham you have to take it. I would have liked to stay at United but with Berbatov coming in the gaffer felt I might be better served going somewhere else to get some games.”
Whilst collecting £7 million for the player could have proved to be good business, this is a better scenario for United if the player does have what it takes, which his stint at Spurs should certainly prove one way or another. If he is good enough, then he will have a year’s Premiership experience under his belt.
In the poll on RoM yesterday, less than 10% voted they thought it would have been in our best interests to keep the player at Old Trafford, giving us a 4th (5th, including Manucho) striking option. So we’re happy, I imagine Spurs fans are happy, but Daniel Levy isn’t. Shame.
not happy about this if it’s just a loan, although some people are saying it was only a loan as time ran out, and a deal for the permanent transfer has been agreed?
if it is just a one year loan then i imagine we will only use him as a sub when needed, and sign someone else in Jan (Arshavin maybe?) as it is hard to get excited about a player that is not yours.
a year in the reserves or warming a recaro will do him the world of good!. poor kid was told to join us, Wilberforce just turned in his grave. still, we’ll all be laughing when red-nose blows a gasket after the sulky bald bulgarian sparks up a benson on the back of the coach. great player he may be but the attitude of a coked-up ballerina. just don’t touch his f*ckin hair band.
Campbell has significant upside – he showed that in the game v. Newcastle. Selling him at a discount would have replicated the folly of letting Rossi leave for what is, in terms of the relevant economics, chicken feed. If it turns out that Campbell does well down TheLane then his value might double, or rise even more. If he hardly gets a sniff of game action then he can’t be sold for less than Kieran Richardson, can he ? So, the upside would yield, say, fifteen million; the downside would generate five million. That’s a great difference and would make the over-payment for Berbatov disappear at a stroke. SAF is a canny old fox, eh ?
We’re not happy, training up another player for you and proving him? Hopefully we’ll find some way not to use him.
Not one Spurs fan I know is happy with this deal, we are grooming your striker. If he proves to be dynamite you get a proven youngster, if he is rubbish, no loss to you bar a few million re-sale, where some clubs are so stupid they think a United reject of any measure is worth money (Everton thinking Saha and Neville are worth buying).
I am happy Berbatov was sold for £30m, I think that is good business, but I think it is probably £20m plus £10m if United beat brazil 8-0 in the world cup final while Berbatov balances a pint glass on his nose and scores a hat trick.
This deal should not have been done without cash up front, and the legal action still sanctioned. As for Campbell, if this deal does not offer an option for a permenate sale then I truely think United have got all the benefits.
We are just a feeder / academy for Manchester United. I knew we didn’t like the gooners but this is ridiculous.
I can imagine Spurs supporters not being happy. It IS a win-win for us and I would be really pissed if the boot was on the other foot, but its not, lol. I can’t imagine that they haven’t negotiated some kind of first option on Frazier Campbell, even one without a specific price attached to it. If not then Levy has been a silly billy and we get a raw kid turned into a top-flight English striker for nowt. Nice one.
why didnt spurs fans get this upset about Pool and Keane??
Cos we’re better than pool and Berbster is better than keane
Yes
Shame you are all too happy to support an arrogant club and manager who think it is perfectly acceptable to break the rules of the game by talking to a player and having him undergo a medical without his club’s permission
I bet you hypocrites whined about Ronaldo and chant “CASHLEY” at Ashley Cole.
look pal ask sevilla about tapping up , ask palace about giving them a fair deal
berbtaov wanted to come to the prem lge and european champions get over it, you had a good deal out of it now buy arshvin and a decent holding midfielder in jan and youll be fine
as for breaching the rules spurs have made noises about reporting lpool about keane united about berbatov and chelsea over arnesen yet you never take these complaints all the way?
why is that? is levy the hypocrite just after more cash to make him shut up and go away thats the way it looks if you want to have a moan have a moan at your own board