The Man Utd manager Sir Alex Ferguson has stated today that we can ignore any more rumours linking Man Utd to big-money signings, as their dealings in the transfer market are finished for this window.
The United manager cites over-inflated transfer fees as the reason for the end of the dealing, but he didn’t mention that the biggest over-inflated fee was the £80m that his own club received for Ronaldo!
Ferguson said: “It is the end of our business, so all these stories about who we are supposed to be getting – forget it,”
“Everywhere in England and in Europe the players’ values have shot sky high. I don’t think any of the transfers that you see happening are realistic but for some reason it seems to have caught fire this summer.
“It is a very unusual summer and difficult to get value because of that.
“That’s always been the case with Manchester United, we have always had to pay a bit extra,”
“But this summer we are not prepared to do that because you have got to understand we have got some very good young players.
“We have a very good squad and there is no need to ever need a jerk reaction to losing Cristiano because we did very well to keep him for six years and it was his moment to leave and we allowed him to do that.
“We shouldn’t panic because of one player leaving. I think we have a very, very good squad with some good young players in all positions.”
“What I have done is bring in some youth with Gabriel and Antonio and brought in an old codger like Michael (Owen) just to balance things up,”.
“But experience is vital. Also with Michael you will see the experience he will give us in the penalty box. He will score goals because that is what he has been great at for years and years.
“You always had to be aware of him in his movement of his runs and the most difficult thing was the timing of his runs.
“I used to say that to the players, don’t let him stand you in the penalty box, and he has always had that knack of losing defenders in the final third.”
Do United fans think that the three players he has brought in will be adequate for them to retain the Premiership title?
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