United Bid 38m For Neymar On Deadline Day.

[sam-caddick]

MANCHESTER UNITED made a £38m deadline day attempt to land Brazil superstar Neymar.
The club record bid failed when the Santos ace, 20, said he wanted to stay put until after his country had hosted the 2014 World Cup.
United boss Alex Ferguson’s approach puts Wayne Rooney’s position at the club even further into question and the Scot will not be afraid to try again for the goalscoring sensation in the January transfer window.
United turned to Neymar after losing out to Paris St Germain in the chase for another Brazilian, Lucas Moura.
They had offered £32m for the Sao Paulo 19-year-old but the French club landed him for £38m.
Ferguson promptly turned to Neymar, who has hit 113 goals in 190 games for Santos but the bold approach failed.
It would have been the joint-highest fee paid for a player from outside the UK — alongside Manchester City’s purchase of Sergio Aguero from Atletico Madrid — and taken the club’s spending this summer to £80m.
Real Madrid and Barcelona have also courted Neymar, who scored three goals at the Olympic Games before Brazil lost the final to Mexico.


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Everyone is talking about Ronaldo, this kid is the next superstar. He is twice the player Ronaldo was at his age. Big ego but lots of potential!

 

[scenecreamer]

I'd love it if he signed with us.

Desperate days at Old Trafford it seems.

 

[Why Always Ste]

And I believe what's written in that shit?

 

[NQCitizen]

All things considered, the very best signing we could make.

 

[sam-caddick]

All things considered, the very best signing we could make.

When he is ready to leave Brazil, I honestly cannot see us not making a move for him.

You have to put into consideration that this lad is becoming one of the most marketable sportsman, Mansour and City will no doubt look at that.

 

[NQCitizen]

I've said it before but I think he could see the attraction of joining the current third club in the world as our Messi/Ronaldo. Saw him a couple of times at the Olympics, unreal talent.

 

[keemcfc]

Just imagine him as a Tévez replacement in 2014:

_____Yaya___Garcia?____
Silva____Neymar____Nasri
________Agüero_________

(assuming we keep hold of the rest!)

 

[kanovic]

I can't stand Neymar, to me his is very overrated but that's just my opinion. I don't think he would do anything in the our league. A player like that would only flurish in la liga where they give you time on the ball and is not as physical/high tempo.

 

[pee dubya]

I can't stand Neymar, to me his is very overrated but that's just my opinion. I don't think he would do anything in the our league. A player like that would only flurish in la liga where they give you time on the ball and is not as physical/high tempo.

I think this is one of the biggest myths that always seems to be repeated. I remember Silva saying in an interview that he found it easier to play in England, because there's so much pressing and high tempo closing down, it leaves loads of space between the midfield and defence to exploit.

When Mancini first arrived at us, he immediately improved our defence simply by instructing the team (forwards excepted) not to press. When the opposition got decent possession we dropped back into basically defending only the danger area, because he thought we weren't organised sufficiently well enough to be able to cover the players who got out of position through pressing the ball. It's different now because we want to dominate matches more, often we press hard and it works well against players who aren't talented enough to get around you.

We often struggle more to break down teams who sit back and let us have the ball, then crowd us out the closer we get to goal (although with the talent we have we normally find a way through and the strategy ultimately doesn't work).

The most effective way to press is high up the pitch using your forward players, because then you're restricting time on the ball for the players in the other team who are least comfortable in possession, therefore more likely to give it away and in a dangerous area. I guess that pressing would effect how often Neymar got the ball and might limit his impact on the game, but not directly.

It's why having a deep-lying playmaker type player has become so important in Europe, because teams often let you have possession around the halfway line, you need someone with quality and talent to be able to make the most of it. Whereas in the league in England players like Silva, Mata and Cazorla have great fun suddenly being able to attack the defences of pressing teams directly rather than trying to pass through a solid wall of players.

 

[Comrade Buka]

I can't stand Neymar, to me his is very overrated but that's just my opinion. I don't think he would do anything in the our league. A player like that would only flurish in la liga where they give you time on the ball and is not as physical/high tempo.

I think this is one of the biggest myths that always seems to be repeated. I remember Silva saying in an interview that he found it easier to play in England, because there's so much pressing and high tempo closing down, it leaves loads of space between the midfield and defence to exploit.

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