Baconface given £60M transfer kitty?

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Manchester United, accused by Wayne Rooney of lacking transfer ambition, were prepared to fund over £50 million of spending last summer to sign Gareth Bale and Franck Ribery.

The offers for the Tottenham youngster and Bayern Munich superstar were both rejected.

Understandably, manager Sir Alex Ferguson will not be sharing his list of transfer targets with members of the Old Trafford dressing room. But Fergie, and the Old Trafford hierarchy, must have bridled at Rooney’s suggestion that the club’s transfer sights were being set too low if they wanted to continue winning major honours.

Ferguson had been given the green light by United’s controversial owners, the Glazer family, to spend £22 million on Bale and in excess of £30 million on France international winger Ribery.

Where is the money coming from?

 

[john@staustell]

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Manchester United, accused by Wayne Rooney of lacking transfer ambition, were prepared to fund over £50 million of spending last summer to sign Gareth Bale and Franck Ribery.

The offers for the Tottenham youngster and Bayern Munich superstar were both rejected.

Understandably, manager Sir Alex Ferguson will not be sharing his list of transfer targets with members of the Old Trafford dressing room. But Fergie, and the Old Trafford hierarchy, must have bridled at Rooney’s suggestion that the club’s transfer sights were being set too low if they wanted to continue winning major honours.

Ferguson had been given the green light by United’s controversial owners, the Glazer family, to spend £22 million on Bale and in excess of £30 million on France international winger Ribery.

Where is the money coming from?

Isn't the ITK rumour that they do actually have this cash in an a/c and it's the 'post-Fergie transition fund' in order to attract Morinho or someone? Once it's gone of course it's gone so any new manager will have sweet FA! Anyway for 60M they couldn't even get Ronaldo back.

 

[Stretfordian_Blue]

Perhaps so but the Express says they've got £100m+

 

[BlueRockape]

He will need it if true



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[bluemoon32]

Turned down bigger wages with us according to the Mirror

 

[kippaxblue76]

Apparently they are going to buy a whole new team !!! We'll see.


The Glazers pledge to buy Wayne Rooney an entire new team at Man Utd

Oct 24 2010 By Alan Nixon, The People
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The Glazer brothers Bryan Glazer, Avram Glazer and Joel Glazer chat before the Barclays Premiership match between Manchester United and Everton in November 2009

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WAYNE ROONEY signed his £60million deal with Manchester United after the desperate Glazers promised to buy an entire new team over the next 12 months.

Striker Rooney becomes the highest paid player in English football history with a five-year contract that will see him rake in an astonishing £310,000 a week including bonuses and image rights by 2015.

But the deal was struck only after Joel Glazer promised the troubled star that up to ELEVEN new players were on their way with Inter Milan’s Wesley Sneijder a top target.

The under-fire owners told Rooney the golden generation of Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes will be replaced by the best money can buy. And there will be cash for other world-class stars – throwing the future of many of Rooney’s current team-mates into doubt.

Sources close to the England star claim he:

● Questioned United’s status as a football superpower as long ago as April – when they were still battling Chelsea for the Premier League title

● Made a huge mistake saying he was fit – he just didn’t want to use the fact he was struggling as an excuse for his poor form

● Got it totally wrong by telling the world he would not accept a new deal when what he really meant was that he could not sign ”at the moment”.

Rooney’s biggest fear – which sparked last week’s sensational showdown – was that United would not have the clout or cash to keep up with Manchester City and Chelsea.

And there was the huge question mark over Sir Alex Ferguson’s future – Ferguson will be 73 by the time ­Rooney sees out his deal.

Rooney, 25 today, must have been satisfied that even if Ferguson retires, then the very biggest name – perhaps Jose Mourinho – is lined up to take over.

The player was told in a transatlantic phone call with the Glazers that there are a ‘dozen or so’ names on United’s hitlist.

Sneijder is the top target and is now receptive to a move to United. Real Madrid’s former Chelsea, Arsenal and Portsmouth star Lassana Diarra is also on the radar, along with Ajax’s Uruguay attacker Luis Suarez and his team-mate Maarten Stekelenburg, the Dutch keeper.

The Rooney source said: “Wayne’s underlying concern has always been about the football side. He first mentioned it in April.

“He leaves the finance alone. He first started raising questions about the money that was going to be spent and how long Sir Alex was going to be around. You are talking about a long-term deal here for a player who is at the peak of his career. He wanted to be absolutely sure about things before signing a contract like that.”

Rooney’s spat with Ferguson over his fitness drove a wedge between the pair that turned into a chasm.

And it was a misunderstanding that got horribly out of hand.

Rooney’s confidant explained: “The bottom line with Wayne is that he always wants to play. When Sir Alex left him out of the Valencia game and then said he would be out for three weeks it puzzled him.

“Wayne thought it was sorted when he went off with England. But then he said he was fit and had been. He said that because he didn’t want to use his fitness as an excuse – but people took it the wrong way.”

The United star was ‘raging’ – according to team-mates – when he was left out against West Brom last week and made comments that had the football world thinking he was off.

The source admitted: “Wayne may have said some things in anger. But that is just him. He loves playing football.”

The troubles went nuclear when Ferguson revealed Rooney “wanted to leave” and put the striker’s future in doubt with his remarkable comments before the Bursaspor game.

Rooney reeled but tried to get his side across, only for his words to be taken as confirmation that he planned to quit United and even go elsewhere in January. He emphasised that it was for football reasons. Unfortunately that was seen as his farewell speech.

The Rooney source said: “It was not meant as a slur against his team-mates or Sir Alex’s ability. The trouble was that no one was talking at the time – just making statements.”

The player’s agent Paul Stretford contacted chief executive David Gill to set up a meeting and was granted his audience on Thursday, just minutes before United were due to make their decision. Whirlwind talks between the two sorted out the contract issue.

The fact that the terms could be agreed in a short time proved once again that wages came AFTER football answers in the whole dispute.

The Rooney source said: “The bottom line is that Wayne did not want to leave United. This had just got out of hand. Wayne just wanted to hear the right things coming from the top people.”

 

[Marvin]

The Glazers have to spend to maintain Utd in the top 4, but there's no guarantee that will work

 

[bluemoon32]

I've never agreed with the 'Utd are skint' way of thinking but one thing i'm certain of.........there is no way whatsoever that the Glazers will sanction a huge transfer kitty, that just won't happen, no matter what lies are being spouted from OT.

 

[cucumberman]

it would just be hilarious if the rag PR worked day and nite to make these media stories come out and reach the rag public.

Many instances of late, like the bond issue, the PIK, the sponsorship advanced payments, the aggressive ST approach and price hike, the selling and loan out of many players, pointing to no money.

I think they do have the 100mil. But I also think now they are 100mil more in debt. Its relative. They have 500mil in transfer kitty, means they are 500mil more in debt. A very short term fix imo that will bite them back.

 

[kippaxblue76]

it would just be hilarious if the rag PR worked day and nite to make these media stories come out and reach the rag public.

Many instances of late, like the bond issue, the PIK, the sponsorship advanced payments, the aggressive ST approach and price hike, the selling and loan out of many players, pointing to no money.

I think they do have the 100mil. But I also think now they are 100mil more in debt. Its relative. They have 500mil in transfer kitty, means they are 500mil more in debt. A very short term fix imo that will bite them back.

Pretty much spot on.