The M.E.N has released the results of it’s fan poll and quite surprisingly fans stated that it was upfront rather than the midfield that needed the most attention.
Although we are in urgent need of a creative force in the middle of the park, it was when Wayne Rooney picked up his ankle and groin injury at the tail end of the season that many thought the wheels came off our wagon.
Many names have been mentioned as coming in as reinforcements to get our front line up to scratch including Karim Benzema, Gonzalo Higuain, Edin Dzeko, Raul and David Villa to name a few but the name I was/am least excited about is Brazil and Sevilla forward Luis Fabiano.
Fabiano has been doing his best to get a move away from the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán singing the praises of Wayne Rooney, his potential strike partner, AC Milan as well as Manchester United as a club. Fabiano is doing well at the World Cup having scored 3 goals and this past season scored 21 goals for Sevilla but he just doesn’t appeal to me especially if Sevilla president Jose Maria Del Nido’s words are to be believed.
Del Nido has claimed it would take a sizable bid to wrestle him away from the club,
‘Considering the way the transfer market is at the moment, it’s difficult for us to receive an offer for Luis Fabiano that isn’t ridiculous (small),’
but for a player about to enter his 30s in think I’ll pass.
Fabiano is a seasoned player and for anything up to £10m could be a decent signing as he would guarantee goals as a second striker, provide more mobility up top and allow Rooney to drop deep in those games where our opposition set out to stifle us with negative play. He could provide us with service in the years it takes Kiko Macheda and Danny Welbeck to become ready to lead the line if they are to ever fulfil that promise but only at a reasonable price.
Fabiano’s contract expires next summer so Del Nido is playing a very dangerous game in trying to hold out for a huge fee and could possibly end up with nothing.
The signing of Javier Hernandez as well as the continuing development of Macheda and Welbeck may easy the load on Rooney in terms of goal scoring but if we do look to bring someone in, Fabiano specifically, then it shouldn’t be a huge money signing.
we keep talking about macheda and welbeck….
how do these players compare to giuseppe rossi and fraiz campbell???
kiko’s game doesnt look natural, his touch and technique etc, welbeck again looks uncomfortable…
kiko is surely more physically developed than danny so at least welbeck has got that on his side?!
i just dont know…i really dont think rossi was given enough time…
on a pas besoin de fabiano il n’aka aller a milan ac on a besoin de karim benzema et sanchez ki reve de jouer pour manchester united et d’autre joueur ki reve aussi de jouer pour unis comme (paluychenko,jeffreson montero).ekipe:
defense:vidiç rio ferdinand evra et richards
milieux:feltcher camiasso park
attaque:rooney benzema javier hernandez.
Rossi would have come in hand last season thats for sure!
Kiko is promising, I think he looks a natural talent whereas Welbeck has made a number of appearances playing wide. When he has played up top he has looked OK so I’m not so worried. Neither have reached their 2os so they have years to go until they are ready/ near their peak. Not every player is exceptional in that they are stars at 21.
will kiko and welbeck be given time chudi onwuazor??? rossi played a handful of games for united, fraiz too…and that was in a squad with saha, rooney, ronaldo…
look at our attackers now, hernandez, diouf, owen, berbs, wazza plus kiko and danny…
its about time united produced a striker, we haven’t since hughesey that is embarrassing for a great club such as ours…
@Birane
Tu veux vraiement qu’on achete Pavlyuchenko? Au moins Benzema sera une bonne idee, mais Pavlyuchenko? c’est fou ca.
I don’t think buying Fabiano is such a bad idea. It’s not the best idea to buy players who are at this age regularly, but it’s not necessary to be legalistic about it. Sure, anything over 20 million is too much, but somewhere between 15-20 is fair enough and not that bad of an investment. Even if having Fabiano on the team was the difference between winning the EPL next year, it’s already worth it.
Barca just paid a huge fee for Villa who is virtually the same age, and it will likely ensure the La Liga trophy remains with them for the next couple years at least. Buying Anelka worked pretty well for Chelsea and Forlan is still producing at the highest level and is even older than Fabiano.
We could get 3 very good years out of Fabiano which is a relative good amount of time in pro sports. Also, if we were to look at this through the player development lense, it doesn’t close the door on our developing strikers as there would be a full-time role available just when they should be reaching an age of consistency.
I also like that he wants to play for us and winning seems to be his highest motivation and not money (if you remember his Tottenham comments). Having a world class player with a good attitude over a few seasons seems like a good buy to me.
I think Villa offers a lot more than Fabiano though so his fee although inflated would be slightly more justified than if we paid the huge fee that Del Nido is asking for.
I think having a player of his talents and experience at Old Trafford would be worth it but at the right price.
Chudi, it looks like we’re mostly on the same page about Fabiano, but you surely can’t expect he’d be available for 10 million or less. Why even write about his benefits to the team if you don’t think we should pay his expected market value? He’s comfortably in the 15-20 million range. I’m very open to others as well for this position, but think he’d fit it quite nicely.