Man Utd Plan Tottenham Raid For £25m Luka Modric, Arsenal Linked With Trio Of Defensive Talent
By Chris Wright
Th*rsday. Here’s the round up…
Rumour No. 1: Spurs fans might want to look away now. Manchester United are mooted to be plotting a £25 million raid for Tottenham’s Croatian playmaker Luka Modric in the summer.
As well as the White Hart Lane faithful, the proposed deal may also be bad news for one Michael Carrick – for whom Modric is being targeted as a direct replacement.
But all is not lost! ‘Arry Redknapp is apparently a huge fan of the some-time England midfielder and may insist that he is used as a makeweight in a part-exchange deal. Hmmm…
Rumour No. 2: Arsenal have outlined a trio of defensive targets and are sending scouts to watch all three players studiously from now until the end of the season.
The three players in question are Roma’s Phillipe Mexes (rated at around £10 million), Blackburn’s Steven N’Zonzi (£4 million) and Fulham’s Brede Hangeland (£9 million).
The Best of the Rest: Manchester United have joined Arsenal and Chelsea in the race to sign Borussia Dortmund’s highly-rated defender Neven Subotic.
Cristiano Ronaldo has urged the Real Madrid board to go all out to bring Manchester United left-back Patrice Evra to the Bernabeu in the summer.
Liverpool are keeping tabs on £5-million-rated Rangers defender Madjid Bougherra.
Man City are considering a rather precise £8.7 million move for Lazio centre-half Stefan Radu.
Andrey Arshavin‘s agent has insisted his client is committed to Arsenal, after the Russian was quoted as saying that a move to Barcelona would be ‘a dream come true’.
Roma will offer their 30-year-old Brazilian goalkeeper Doni to a handful of Premier League teams in a bid to raise funds.
Tottenham may make a summer move for Turkish midfielder Hamit Altintop, as the Bayern Munich man will be available on a free.
Birmingham, West Brom and West Ham are keen on keeping Portsmouth and England stopper David James in the Premier League.
West Ham have targeted Burnley’s Chris Eagles, Portsmouth’s Kevin-Prince Boateng, Cardiff’s Peter Whittingham and Spurs’ Jamie O’Hara as the men they wish to bring in over the close season.
Wolves will offer £3 million to take Andre Bikey of Burnley’s hands.
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Fergie, get your damned dirty paws off our Luka.
Carrick is useless waste of space, especially this season. Modric is worth two of Carrick. I used to rate him but he couldnt look less interested if he tried. Maybe the move would do him good.
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Good stuff. I like how we get those 3 for cheaper than man u get modric.
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Mexes is to slow for Arsenals set up, a player like Cahill, Zapata or Subotic would excell. N’zonzi shows talent but I still need to see him impose his will on the pitch before I rate him higher than Sissoko or Matuidi. Hangeland good player, dominant in the air like Sol. But too expensive for a player like we already have. Arsenal should bring in some prove Premier players like Cahill in defense or Gordon in goal, Subotic or Zapata are a good shout if Gallas stays for another season. Modric will stay at spuds if they make CL, but will leave the next year when the club will start to struggle.
Aren’t Man U still in like £700 million debt? I cant see them matching teams like Chelsea or Cityfor example for the top end players like Aguero.
Keep your paws off our super luka man u! Just because your team has no flair and creativity whatsoever does not mean you should yet again come in and steal spurs’ best player like you’ve done for the last three to four seasons, I even heard that Man U are plotting a move for gazza bale aswell. For reasons I dont know off when they’ve got probabaly the best left back in the world in evra and one of the brightest young talents in football in fabio who is supposedly better than his other half, rafael.
Get Luka Modric in and couple that with David Silva coming in and our midfield would suddenly get a lot more goals. If not Luka Modric then Yoann Gourcuffto play that role. Also sell Anderson and recoup around £12 million and sell Berbatov as well t recoup another £20 million plus show Zoran Tosic the door for another £12 million. Then sell Foster as much as possible. Use the money to buy Hugo Lloris Jack Rodwell and either Karim Benzema or Sergio Aguero.
We need luka modric and any skillful midfielder from brazil