United sign young full back
According to various sources in Belgium, Manchester United have signed promising young full back Marnick Vermijl on a 3 year deal from Standard Liege.
The 18 year old, from Belgium, was reportedly scouted several times by United this season, and the final decision was made by Sir Alex Ferguson and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after being impressed watching DVD’s of him.
Vermijl was allegedly banned from training with Standard Liege after they became aware of his discussions with Manchester United.
The English Champions will apparently pay 220,000 Euro’s to Standard Liege to secure his services.
More details as and when they arrive.
March 5th, 2010
Still need to buy a tall centre half (pity we cannot get Kjaer) and a class speedy centre forward (Benzema)
March 5th, 2010
Budget and potential signings are all we will get in the current climate unless we sell Vidic in the summer. Tall centre half – Chris Smalling is 6″4, that will have to do.
March 6th, 2010
Right or left back?
March 6th, 2010
This is ok. We need young players who could develop and embrace the Manu culture and philosophy before they get screwed up by profiteers in the game
March 6th, 2010
There something interesting about signing potential at a cheap price and seeing it develop. However we are in the top 5 clubs in the world for income and are used to winning trophies. We shouldn’t have to bargain buy. The Glazer’s loan interest and salaries are stopping us from making that marque signing each year that our revenue should allow.
March 6th, 2010
Bill, please dont ever call our team Manu. It is Man Utd or just United, but never Manu. If you dont know why then I suggest you do some research, but it is seen as a derogatory term by all United fans.
March 6th, 2010
@andrew
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March 6th, 2010
we cannot buy just any player now because of the rule of home grown player which will be active in the next couple of years.we need more home grown players or more englishmen.
March 6th, 2010
ok for buying young talented players,if only they played,there are so many promising youngsters in reserve who are not playing and deserve to play,later man utd will lose them example pique and rossi
March 6th, 2010
Bill, I wouldn’t consider this signing a signing for the first team. Rather it is a signing for the reserve team which might pay off in a couple of years time.
March 6th, 2010
There are two different Bills here, i’m not the one who called United Man U! Confused – you should be!
March 7th, 2010
Bill, that is not our total spending of course. United always buy youngsters at small prices to get into the first team in the coming years as well as spending big on players ready for the first team. Why has this signing made you believe that Manchester United can only afford bargain buys because of the debt?
Trust me matey, watch a few more seasons and you’ll see how Sir Alex buys. This signing is not because of the debt.
March 7th, 2010
Its general commentary on how we are spending since the full facts of the debt have been made apparent. The Glazers may allow Fergie some funds the summer in addition to any money made from any sales to help appease fans. Really the Ronaldo money should have gone on buying Villa and Silva from Valencia, but instead we have had Antonio Valencia and 3/4 cut price purchases.
March 7th, 2010
true we need more englishmen at united therefore milner, joe cole (on a free) and rodwell should be three quality englishmen coming in with either benzema or hunterlaar coming in as a striker…berbatov, nani and carrick and foster should make way. if TK does leave during the summer then foster has a lot of work to do and prove that he is united quality.
March 7th, 2010
Cole on a free would something that would help the quality of the squad, and is feasible considering the current financial climate. Fergie prefers the 4-5-1 system, so spending big bucks on another striker is highly unlikely when you already have Rooney, Berbatov, Owen, Diouf, Macheda and Welbeck in the ranks.