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Posted August 11, 2011 00:12 · last edited March 18, 2021 07:50

Paulinho wrote:
Eric Cantona wrote:
Whether you and I want him in the team or not, you can't deny we have been trying to sign him, David Gill has been speaking to Inter regularly, we just won't pay his wage demands.� If he lowers them, he will come.


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Sorry dude I'm not convinced that's happened at all. Two days ago Wesley comes out and says there have been 'infomal chats between contacts' or something similar. To me that doesn't amount to the CEO ringing their CEO with a 'we'll pay whatevs if we can agree on a wage'.

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A couple of the papers in England�have run with the story we will sign him all summer, regardless of Ferguson and Gill's statements,�pretty much�to the contrary. It may happen and you may be right, but I don't think what I have seen reported so far as solid evidence that the deal will happen.

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I should say I have nothing against Sneijder, he is a world class player. One of the very best.�I'm just looking at the squad and trying to see what Ferguson is trying to do with Rooney, Hernandez, Cleverley�etc., and I don't see how it works with Sneijder.

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However if he does arrive I will love watching him launch our title defence and have another crack at the Champions League.


I have to agree with you Paulinho. I would absolutely, 150% love to see nothing more than Sneijder in a United shirt this season. If you think in terms of history, Sir Alex isn't one to go confirming a transfer before the contract has been officially signed. An obvious exception to this principle was de Gea. Sir Alex confirmed de Gea would arrive, at least a month before he'd signed any contract or passed the medical. In that month, de Gea tried to quash these confirmations through his lawyer. The difference with the Sneijder situation is that Sir Alex has publicly stated that we aren't bidding for him. I know this may be just because we don't want people to know what we are doing, but I don't have a good feeling about this one. I hope I'm wrong and we do get him. I think all these secret meetings between CEOs are just press babble looking for a story. David Gill was photographed at one of the Universities they visited (Harvard??) on the very SAME DAY that those stories emerged that he was having lunch with Moratti in Milan!

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Paulinho wrote:
Eric Cantona wrote:
Whether you and I want him in the team or not, you can't deny we have been trying to sign him, David Gill has been speaking to Inter regularly, we just won't pay his wage demands.� If he lowers them, he will come.


�

Sorry dude I'm not convinced that's happened at all. Two days ago Wesley comes out and says there have been 'infomal chats between contacts' or something similar. To me that doesn't amount to the CEO ringing their CEO with a 'we'll pay whatevs if we can agree on a wage'.

�

A couple of the papers in England�have run with the story we will sign him all summer, regardless of Ferguson and Gill's statements,�pretty much�to the contrary. It may happen and you may be right, but I don't think what I have seen reported so far as solid evidence that the deal will happen.

�

I should say I have nothing against Sneijder, he is a world class player. One of the very best.�I'm just looking at the squad and trying to see what Ferguson is trying to do with Rooney, Hernandez, Cleverley�etc., and I don't see how it works with Sneijder.

�

However if he does arrive I will love watching him launch our title defence and have another crack at the Champions League.


I have to agree with you Paulinho. I would absolutely, 150% love to see nothing more than Sneijder in a United shirt this season. If you think in terms of history, Sir Alex isn't one to go confirming a transfer before the contract has been officially signed. An obvious exception to this principle was de Gea. Sir Alex confirmed de Gea would arrive, at least a month before he'd signed any contract or passed the medical. In that month, de Gea tried to quash these confirmations through his lawyer. The difference with the Sneijder situation is that Sir Alex has publicly stated that we aren't bidding for him. I know this may be just because we don't want people to know what we are doing, but I don't have a good feeling about this one. I hope I'm wrong and we do get him. I think all these secret meetings between CEOs are just press babble looking for a story. David Gill was photographed at one of the Universities they visited (Harvard??) on the very SAME DAY that those stories emerged that he was having lunch with Moratti in Milan!