Manchester United chief executive David Gill steps in to oversee move for Arsenal captain Robin van Persie transfer.
Manchester United United have been rebuffed with bids of £10million and £15million for the Dutch striker but manager Alex Ferguson has said the club will “just have to persevere” with their attempts to sign the 29 year-old.
Van Persie has told the club that he wants to leave and would prefer to join United rather than Juventus. In his 16 years at the club, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has never sold a player to his rival Ferguson and wants Van Persie, who scored 30 Premier League goals last season, to go abroad if he is to leave rather than join an English rival.
Sir Alex Ferguson says Manchester United’s attempts to sign Robin van Persie from Arsenal have stalled.
Ferguson did however reveal on Thursday that the club has hit a brick wall in their negotiations with Arsenal.
“We have made a bid and they Arsenal have been trying to negotiate with other clubs,” said the United manager. “I don’t have a gut feeling on it at the moment, I must admit. We’re not getting any breakthrough with Arsenal. It’s difficult to say why they’re operating this way. I don’t know what their thoughts are because they’re not giving anything away.”
But if Manchester United increase their bid in excess of £20million a deal is likely to be brokered this weekend between Gill, 56, and Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis.
Both are on the English FA’s Professional Game Board and the FA Council. Gill was in London this week to help drum up additional support at an Manchester United investor roadshow hosted by lead adviser Jefferies Group Inc. United kicked off their stock market flotation yesterday before listed on the New York Stock Exchange today.
If the Manchester United transfer were to be completed though, it seems he would take up the role of goalscorer-in-chief. Issues would arise at Old Trafford with the need to smudge Kagawa, Rooney and van Persie into a team, but most likely would be one of the former pair being shifted to a wider role as and when the three of them were required to play in the same XI.
Rooney has proven how adept he is at exploiting deeper positions, and is said to be relishing the prospect of playing with a master finisher like van Persie, and if he were to become Batman to the Dutchman’s Robin then that would be one hell of a strike partnership, and one that could work.
Is RVP d player we(Manchester united)need atm?”NO”…..
Steven defour or Kelvin strootman wld b gr8 additions 4 now….
van will not be an arsenal legend if he joind an english revals
Rvp a gud prospect fo united, but Fergie shld do smthn about the midfield, we want mo than English premier cup., we need “the Uefa”
Sir.alex please try harder to sign rvp,because we the man united fans,want he at manchester united. Please sir help us and get he,because i knew that,he wil make us proud and trophy too,i need good news on weekend,please sir, thanks.
RVP will be a BIG HITat UNITED,but the question is, what happens to our MiDFIELD, we need a very good MIDFIELDER to help those STRIKERS out so as to SERVE more DANGEROUS than ever B4.
Sir Fergie, make sure u sign RVP and please we need midfielders to support paul scholes.
ihope we succed signin RVP dat z ma only hope 4 now
Wenger should resist selling RVP to UTD and risk playing an ill motivated player. But will certainly lose RVD to UTD at no cost next season. Who is wise among you, let him show it in the prudence with which he conducts his business.
Ferguson you hv make a complete bid for RVP,because he is the good finisher he help UTD to score in the right time.Even though,wenger dont want him to join us,bt RVP wnt a move to MAN UTD why wenger try to pursuit him to somewhere else
up utd wenger is an enemy of progress, this is the same thing he did when sir Alex want to sign nasri, pls fergie do any thing posible to bring RvP to man utd so he will have a chance of winning trophies.
Even though,RVP wnt a move to MAN UTD why wenger try to pursuit him to somewhere else
I think that the two strikers would make a great team as they anticipate ball movement and shift their position to complement the movement of the players. I think that they should let the player have a chance given the life he has committed to this great sport. Let RVP go.
is arsene wenger afraid to sell him 😀
I think wenger should let go of the player rather than forcing him to stay, he might not concetrate on his game if he is force to stay.
rvp’s move to united will be known as a joke of the year..come on look at his age.united need a more youthful and sharper striker like maybe lewandowski