Manchester United loan out Chris Eagles, Reo-Coker rumoured to have signed for us
Now while we wait for Manchester United to surprise us all (in a good way) and actually sign a player, here’s another player going out on loan.
From the official Manchester United website:
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Manchester United club statement
United midfielder Chris Eagles will spend the next four months overseas after signing for NEC Nijmegen on loan.
The Dutch club proved to be a successful destination for another young Red last season. David Jones spent the latter part of the campaign in Holland, scoring six goals in the process.
Eagles was also out on loan last season, firstly at Sheffield Wednesday and then at Watford where he joined United goalkeeper Ben Foster in Aidy Boothroyd’s promotion-winning side. It was his second spell with the Hornets - he spent four months with them during 2004/05.
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Soccerlens Reaction
Ummm, ok, that’s fine n dandy, but why the hell are we sending out all of our young players on loan and not bringing anyone in? Even Liam Miller is rumoured to be heading out of Manchester United and going to Sunderland (although his departure, if confirmed, will be met with some happiness).
Little more than 6 hours to go, and desperation is creeping in. There’s a rumour that Manchester United have signed a deal for Reo-Coker - if that’s true we will have something to look forward to. After losing out on Hargreaves, I’m afraid its not much.
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SAF & David Gill
“2 World class stars”. I don’t see them. Mascherano is a better player now than Reo-Coker can ever hope to be. Sorry but we are a joke.. I hope to be proven wrong by 12am.
Maybe its better for MU not to sign anyone right now, but to wait for Hargeaves in the January transfer window. I’m really not sure that Reo-Coker is better then Owen, and we definitely can manage a few months without another midfielder.
why do you thing that bayren will let hagreves go in january. i dont see a reason.
reo-coker is better than people like fletcher and o’shea so i’m glad we might get another good midfeilder. still waiting 4 another quality player though
you guys aren’t going to like this - rumours are that Arsenal are much closer to signing Reo-Coker than we are
I don’t care what anybody says but the Tevez/Mascherano deal stinks to high heaven of Chelsea. Man Utd fans should be entitled to an explanation from Fergie and Gill as to what the f**k is going on at our club.
something doesnt sound right about this tevez-mascherano deal. People are saying chelsea have some hand in it but to me that makes no sense considering they’v signed permanent deals. And what exactly made them want to go to west ham when teams like milan arsenal chelsea united were interested ? it just doesnt sound right .. and coming to United .. donno what the hell is going on .. all the quality players are being signed under our noses while we throw away deals for senna. I think its time Gill left and we got a man who’s got enough balls to actually get teams to sell players.
If we don’t sign anyone just sit back and think of the eighties and smile.. it’s not quite that bad… yet
top of the table, playing good football without important players… i miss the time united fans were happy with that.
well said Mark
I agree why are man u fans so negative? However the reason I wrote this was to talk about about Tevez/Mascherano going to West Ham. This deal has got questions that i think need to be answered, how is it that two of the most saught after players end up at West Ham of all places, and all fees are kept “undisclosed”. This is so bizzare that i would think an investigation should be done due to the fact that the odds of a club the size and stature of West Ham have never before been able to draw players of this stature and are unlikly to be able to draw two players of that caliber now(no offence to West Ham, but I would think that even West Ham fans are wondering how this happened). I mean if any average person (West Ham in the EPL) just showed up with 20 million pounds(under estimated totally) in assets in there pocket, the authorities would be asking “Where did these assets come from?”, ok we all know that answer (the “where”), but the “how” and “why” are the ones that need to be answered, this deal just does not make sense, of all the bidders i find it extreamly hard to believe that W. H. out bid everybody, so why would MSI not accept the highest bid for two players that went AWOL, I can’t see MSI trying to cater to two stars that are rebelling against the club. With Chelsea having ties to Corinthians already, this deal is something that needs to be explained. And hopefully soon!!!!!!!!!
P.S. I don’t want to jump on the “lets blame Chelsea” bandwagon, but since the ownership changed at chelsea, it seems that there is one transfer saga after another in the English game. ie:Obi Mikel, A. Cole, The recent thing with Leeds, Gallas, Scott Parker, etc. etc.
hey paula its kinda like this with chelski……….(quote from BBC 606)
The story sounds familiar. A mysterious foreign businessman in his 30s with no previous football experience takes control of one of the biggest clubs in the country. He immediately smashes the club transfer record and promises to make the team the best in the continent.
Yet this is not about England, Chelsea and Roman Abramovich but about Brazil, Corinthians and a British entrepreneur called Kia Joorabchian.
Last week South American football was in a state of shock with the announcement that the Argentina international Carlos Tévez was moving from Boca Juniors to Corinthians for $22m (£11.4m). Tévez, 20, was the leading scorer in this year’s Olympics and is considered his country’s most exciting young player.
It was by far the most a Brazilian club had ever paid for a player and it was also unprecedented that such a promising talent had moved within his own continent - let alone to a nation considered arch-rivals - rather than to Europe. The Brazilian league is broke and clubs’ finances usually depend on selling players abroad.
“Brazilian football doesn’t have the resources to maintain a player like Tévez,” said Juca Kfouri, Brazil’s top sports journalist, expressing the bewilderment and suspicion that the transfer has provoked.
The Tévez deal is, however, a remarkable coup for the London-based Joorabchian, whose firm Media Sport Investment has promised to plough another $35m (£18.2m) into the team. “Our plan is to build Corinthians into a team of galácticos ,” he said. “Our goal is to do what Man United and Real Madrid have done. Everyone else who goes to Brazil goes there to trade players. They don’t do anything constructive for Brazilian football.” He has promised Corinthians three Brazilians of international standard and at least another foreign player for next season.
Yet in the four months since Joorabchian arrived in Brazil, his plans have met with scepticism. Questions have focused on the investors behind MSI and possible links with the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who is living in exile in Britain. Joorabchian says the men are friends and have done business before but insists that Berezovsky is not behind MSI.
There has also been speculation that the man behind the plan is in fact Abramovich himself. The Spanish sports daily As claimed this weekend that the Chelsea owner has a 15% share of MSI, suggesting the Corinthians deal is part of a plan to control the Latin American market. Tantalisingly, there are reports that Abramovich’s yacht, Le Grand Blue, was spotted in Buenos Aires harbour days before the Tévez deal was announced. Joorabchian categorically denies any involvement with Abramovich. “We have no link with Chelsea,” he says.
The 10-year deal between MSI and Corinthians stipulates that the company will provide $35m cash, of which about $20m will pay off debts, in return for 51% of future profits while covering any losses. The transfer of Tévez is extra, considered a “present” by Joorabchian to the club.
Critics of the deal say that not enough is known about Joorabchian and MSI, a company created in August whose registered address is that of an accountancy firm in central London. Joorabchian has refused to say who the investors are, saying this is common practice for any investment fund.
With an estimated 25m fans in Brazil, Corinthians are the second most popular team in the country and the biggest team in São Paulo, which is the richest and most populous state in Brazil. The club, named after the old London amateur team, won Fifa’s inaugural World Club Championship in 2000 but since then the team has slumped dramatically.
Joorabchian hopes to turn Corinthians into a global brand and also make money by exploiting the merchandising possibilities of such a well-supported team.
Born in Iran and educated in Britain, Joorabchian first appeared in the media in 1999 when he and a partner bought an 85% stake in the Moscow newspaper Kommersant using an investment fund based in the British Virgin Islands. “We sold it to a group that [Berezovsky] had an interest in,” he said, adding that he has not done business with Berezovsky since.
The Kommersant deal started the speculation about Berezovsky’s involvement, which appeared strengthened by comments in the Brazilian press attributed to Alberto Dualib, the Corinthians president. In transcripts of a tape recording, he said that on a recent visit to the UK with Joorabchian the two had visited Berezovsky’s home near London.
Joorabchian has never been involved in football before, although he has a wide portfolio of business interests. In the register of directorships at Companies House he gives two different dates of birth - both make him 33 - and two nationalities, Canadian and British.
He said this week that he decided to move into football because he got bored with working in private equity. “We researched a little bit into Arsenal. It was far, far too expensive,” he said. “I have a lot of Brazilian friends, so I looked into Brazilian football. It made sense.”
Brazilian wariness about Joorabchian was high lighted by the fact that he is using Renato Duprat as his intermediary. Duprat is a controversial figure; he used to run a hospital and health insurance plan that went bust and he is now facing legal action.
One of those against the deal was Rubens Approbato Machado, a former president of the Brazilian equivalent of the Bar Council. He said that investigations of Joorabchian’s business links had raised more questions than answers.
“Many doubts have been raised about the aptness of the person behind [MSI],” he said. “Many things have not been clearly explained. No one is against partnership if both sides are well defined. But this is not a partnership. It is almost an outright sale.”
Ronaldo Pinto, who is president of the supporters group Hawks of the Faithful, added: “We are against it because we think that only a Corintiano should be in charge of Corinthians. These people want to get in the Brazilian market. I don’t know who they are or why.”
basically theyve gone to WHU so as the top prem contenders must dip out!!some kind of freemason secret handshaking!!!
clap, no one in fuck it
As a united fan i really feel disappointed and i do think it is time 4 Gill to leave. We are top of the table without new players but would it remain that way 4 long? we loaned out Rossi and brought in no striker and i f u ask me that was fooloish considering the fact that we will play chapions league football wit jus two fully fit strikers (Rooney and Saha) wit Saha always prone to injury. why couldnt united get Senna at least on loan to have a plan B in case the Hargreaves deal didn’t work out. i really feel Fergie and Gill were too casual about everything and sorry to say we will regret this shit in the very near future. Its time 4 Fergie and Gill to GO.
I just don’t understand why Man Utd just can’t get through in the transfer market.They seem to be too low profiled for international players.they are not buying any good and outstanding player.these players seemm to prefer other clubs.However,i hope Man Utd will sort this frustating end month of transfer market.
You lot are daft. ‘Man u have no good players *moan winge cry*’ Look at the quality the team already posseses. Ronaldo Rooney Giggs Scholes Rio Saha Smith.. why do you want to increase the wage bill by 100k a week when everything for United is already going right? Sayin it’s time for Fergie to go.. he’s gave us success for YEARS. You lot need to look at what we already have.