All summer Nemanja Vidic´s agent, Paolo Fabbri, has been denying transfer rumours linking his player with a move away from United to another top European club.
However, Catalan radio station RAC-1 and El Mundo Deportivo reported Fabbri as saying: “It would be a dream for Vidic to play for Barcelona. He would be delighted to join them, as he wants to play in La Liga. We have to take a close look at the situation. But things are complicated at the moment. Manchester United have just lost Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez, and they do not want to lose another important player.”
Vidic’s agent has spoken out again today.
“This is not true,” Fabbri said when asked about the comment. “I never said these things. Nemanja is happy in Manchester. If Barcelona do make an offer for him then it is up to United to make a decision.”
It´s all a bit fishy really, isn’t it? I think it’s fairly obvious his agent has been up to something but hopefully now it will just amount to nothing. There’s no way the club would sell Vidic but we certainly do need to be prepared for next summer. The Times is reporting that we are putting together a new deal which will give him a pay rise and increase his contract past 2012.
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vidic looks loyal to me.no probs about his attitude.hope he comes back soon
heres a tribute to neemania
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd3RgfP-10M
just chuck the missus vidic
youve got enough money to find a younger, more attractice one
Shit, what is going on here.
I wont start with the old “I’d play for united for nowt” and I know full well foreign players will not have the desire for united as a brit, but we cannot atract the likes of benzema, ronny left, seems vidic wants to and whats all the bollocks with Carrick?? I hope thats all bull as I rate him so highly, why the fuck would any english player want to leave????
It’s very simple. If he wants to move, we tell him no and that’s that. Typical of the moronic tabloids to jump on a story like this.
Everytime there have been rumours about Vidic leaving they have been denied, what more do people want? There’s clearly nothing going on.
hi costas good morning
I agree wid u that it is a tabloid story.bcoz nothing serious is on in the market they are creating a story to sell their copies.Vidic has never said he wants toleave us.A bit like fabregas.he has grown tired of saying he does nt want to leave yet the tabloids cant stop their shit talk.same wid vida.
Morning AIG. I think he has even said in an interview that despite his wife’s demand, he doesn’t want to leave. At the same time, one can hear their wife moan for so long…
@costas: lol
I’m with Red Dave, kick the moaning spoilt cow out and get yourself a good Manchester girl that doesn’t mind the rain….. I’ve got a sister that works for the Gas Board. Wanna meter?
should be offered a new and improved contract as soon as possible.
i think these football agents should be scrapped. they are the ones who make the most noise.
Haha! I can also recomend some norwegian ladies LOL After the rainy summer we have had recently I am sure Manchester would be a piece of cake…
ffs, stop recommending girls. his wife is pregnant along with Coleen.
I reckon Vidic deserves to be one of our highest paid players. I’m sure Sir Alex will offer him a good contract. Vidic can be a legend if he sees out his career at United, no question about it.
This really shouldn’t be an issue. Vidic deserves a salary bump. We have the cash. Give him what his performances over the last year deserve. Increase his contract to 2012 and if Barca or those Real cunts do come calling. Tell them to fuck off!
I don’t where this stuff comes from , the last I knew his agent was called Silvano Martina
whats the story with carrick? Just taught he was left out at the weekend, he is supposed to start tonight with ando.
cant afford to lose vida with rio injured more often than not it would leave us pretty limited in centre defense.
this is nothing but the oldest tool used by agents to get their players a pay hike and themselves sweet commission. toss a soundbite and count on tabloids and now even the internet to take the bait hook, like and sinker.
20 million plus yaya toure or no deal.
No smoke without fire as they say.
Gudjohnsen @ 11:22 – If Vidic is as good as Rio then he should be paid as much as Rio.
But I also agree with Marley @ 12:49: “no smoke without fire”. Something is going on here and blind loyalty is not likely to be a hard currency with non-British players.
If Vidic really wants to leave – for whatever reason (wife/wages/taxes/rain, rain, rain) – then watch for SAF to make a move for cover sooner rather than later. If SAF goes for Ryan Shawcross then you know that a deal has been cooked with Vidic which will not be dissimilar to the one that he brokered with Ronaldo in the summer of 2008 – “give us one more year and let us give your chosen purchaser a firm, no-haggle price”.
Unlike some of you, I don’t think that Vidic is irreplaceable. The center back who is most valuable is Rio Ferdinand because he can defend without leaving his feet, as SAF said in admiration of a much older Paolo Maldini a few years ago. Jonny Evans can do a good job covering for Vidic. And there’s lots of experienced, quality depth in Wesley Brown and John O’Shea while Craig Cathcart didn’t look half-bad against Valencia. Note that all of these guys are “British” – we’ll include the Irishman in that category even if it raises the ire of Republicans !
What’s unsettling about this rumour – apart from the fact that it won’t go away – is that it points out the mercenary nature of professional footie. A Portuguese from Madeira or a Serb has no inherent loyalty to UTD, Manchester, England or the EPL. They’re here for the money and for them it’s all about “net income” so that the changes in UK tax law have changed the tilt of the playing field, as it were.
IF there’s no basis to this latest version of the rumour then it gives one pause to wonder why SAF has kept Vidic in cotton-wool during the run-up to the season and in the first game. The only credible explanation is that because of the length of the season – and his experience of the past few years – SAF wants to get these guys into peak condition and do whatever is possible to keep them in peak condition. After the shambolic performances in Milan a few years ago and then again in Rome last May, SAF knows that he can’t go into the most important games of the season with key players who aren’t fully match-fit. The margins between “playing condition” and “fully match-fit” were enough to turn competitive games into routs. I doubt he’d make the same mistake a third time.
I have to agree wiv denton davey he can be replaced, if its a choice between rio and vida id have rio every time.
IT SEEMS TO ME MORE LIKE A CHOICE BETWEEN UNITED & BARCA ATM though it´s not more difficult a bit question, is it?!
VIDA – U R STAYING HERE, DONE & DUSTED … (… & I couldn´t care less what your wife thinks of UK weather cause I guess she is more then happy to spend what you bring home every week …!!!)
sorry
to all english speaking – I guess it should have been:
“… what you´ve been bringing home every week…” (I think at least – difficult to catch this your present perfect tense as we don´t have anything similar in my language & express sentences of similar meaning in comletely different way …)
How much is the tax in the UK? How much does the government take away from a player who earns 100K a week?
Does anyone know the tax rate in Spain?
I know for sure that Fergie has high hopes for Evans. But I want to keep Vidic if that’s possible. If he’ll be sold next summer we’ll get top dollar for a 29 year old player (he’ll turn 28 this year in October). But when does his current contract run out?
Of course his agent wants to get him to move cos he’ll make a shit load of beans from it.
Either way even if he’s putting it out there so Vidic gets a better contract at the end of the season,he still stands to make money out of him.
Agents dont give a flying fuck about loyalty.
I think Vidic knows that he’s at the best club in the world though.
I thought I’d read he’s received increased wages. And he’s come out several times this summer to state he’s staying at Old Trafford.
Nemanja, if Ana is giving you strife, call me. Wouldn’t hear a single complaint.
whats the story with carrick folks? is there something fishy afoot?
The tax works something like this
in the uk at the moment you earn (weekly) up to about £125 tax free, up to £720 at 20% tax then after that earnings are taxed at 50%.
In spain the top rate of tax for foreign footballers for first five years will be 23%
Thats some huge difference.
on £100000 thats £99157 at 50% £49578.50 Top rate tax (dont forget the normal tax, about £143.
Dont know if the thresholds are the same, but £99157 at 23% is £22806.11
So very simply, thats £26772 more tax here.
£27000 more tax a week, 5 years = £7,020,000.
I can see the attraction!!!!!!
I should say at the moment top tax is 40%, not %50.
My bad
but next financil year its going to 50%
sorry
TAX TAX TAX MY BOLLOX
VIDIC LOVES PLAYING FOR MANCHESTER UNITED
AND GETS PAID VERY WELL TO DO IT
WAGE – EXCELLENT
PLAYING FOR UNITED – PRICELESS TO THOSE WHO RESPECT THE BADGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Ja8F9pu7s
GHTT,
I’m one of the first to play for united for nothing, or a t least a nominal £30K a week (well, got to eat).
But as someone mentioned, a serb or portugese (or spanish, french, german) does not have the affinity to an english club that a brit does.
And an extra £27000 paid out in tax each week for the same salary, you can see why the Spanish league have the edge.
Jermaine Pennant want to zaragosa (spelling). He earns £40K a week there, a club here would need to pay £80K to give the same pay in his hand.
If Vidic earns £100000 a week in spain , it would be around £200000 to give him same Net pay in britain.
So not a level playing field
Not a slight on Vidic, fucking great player, but they do look at the bank balance at the end of it all.
mancstan
but there are alot a players like vidic out there that no what the grew up living on what they get paid now and the chance to play football at (one of?) the worlds biggest club(S?)
how much money do you think after 80 million ronaldo would rooney go for if he was sold to the highest bidder
and imagine his wages if its an over seas job
but he plays for manchester united he loves playing for manchester united he plays for the biggest club so his image is worth more on posters adds in his home land
its all money thats no accounted for but its also the fact that he wants to play for manchester united
why dont fifa or uefa punish radio stations or newspaper for surfacing rumours, vidic should off load his agent cause he aint going anywere for a long time,
“If Barcelona do make an offer for him then it is up to United to make a decision”
This last line tells that Vidic may just want to leave, otherwise it would read “If Barcelona do make an offer, Vidic is not interested”.
Honestly I think he’ll move on next summer. I’d agree with others though that Rio is more important to the team, and that he deserves to be paid more than Vidic – he’s been at United for 7 years now, he deserves a loyalty bonus!
GHTT,
I agree with all you say, am only pointing out the facts about the tax issue (maybe a few quid out here and there).
UK are introducing the new 50% top rate next year, it is 40% at the moment.
In spain there top rate was 43%, its going down (or recently went down) to 23% (that is for top foreign talent!!! Pennant!!!).
UK had a slight edge, now a huge gap.
Where would the up coming talent from say Brazil head??
I know, I love united more then the Mrs, but the simple economic facts are going to take top talent away from uk and to spain, Benzema anyone??????
Very good point mancstan. This is what I was wondering about, thanks for this info.
No probs Gudjohnsen.
It is a major worry about the tax. Vidic issue asside, but this really favours the spanish clubs when it comes to attracting top players.
mancstan
i understand compleatly with what your saying and you’ve backed up your points with some very educational figures
but i just have the belief that vidic is one of the good un’s
has everyone noticed vidic and his agent have come out every time when there has been speculation and denied it. especially when the story is this intence unlike ronaldo who did not do that.
When Rio is fit and playing then i think that he is more important than Vidic. Question is… when is Rio actually fit? We cannot loose Vidic.
@manutdchampions2008
Yes but when a rumor keeps appearing again and again, there is usually an element of truth in it. The last paragraph of Scott’s article sums up the situation well I think
@Red Dave
“just chuck the missus vidic”. Had a laugh to that one. Bang on