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| Cole: “United will buy in January” Posted: 03 Jan 2014 01:46 AM PST
The January transfer window has been open for a couple of days and while United have been linked to a host of players, there are still doubts over whether David Moyes will welcome some new faces at Old Trafford this month.
After the embarrassing fiasco of the summer transfer window United are in desperate need of a couple of quality signings, with the central midfield area and the left-back position likely to top the United manager’s list of priorities, given both were again brutally exposed in New Year’s Day’s defeat against Spurs. With Ryan Giggs in his 40s, Michael Carrick just back from injury and neither Tom Cleverley nor Anderson capable to provide the quality United need in the middle of the park, United have struggled throughout the first half of the season while deadline day signing Marouane Fellaini is still to make his mark at Old Trafford. Cole, however, believes that while United are normally not a club to spend money in January, we could see some arrivals this month. “From all the noises coming out of the camp, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a bit of activity,” he told United Review. “Our club, historically, doesn’t do too much in January but we have a new manager with new ideas. “I just wonder who will want to sell their better players halfway through a season. There are also inflated prices to consider as well. “You get chairmen bumping prices up because they know their players are in demand and other clubs will pay what they have to pay for what they need. “Those chairmen are in very powerful positions, especially if the players concerned are tied down to long-term contracts.” |
| Was Rooney right to question ambitions? Posted: 03 Jan 2014 01:26 AM PST
Rooney’s decision to question what he perceived as a lack of ambition was totally unnecessary and out of context, particularly as United had just lost the title to Chelsea, after winning three in a row and making two consecutive European Cup finals, winning one of them.
The departures of Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez were not addressed, as Antonio Valencia and Michael Owen arrived at the club to replace the duo and, had Rooney seriously questioned the club’s ambition rather than simply trying to engineer a better contract, the lack of reinforcements would have undoubtedly his best and most logical weapon. United’s errant transfer policy instead turned as a stick with which to beat Rooney given that after his spectacular outburst United went on to win two titles in three seasons, during which they also reached another European Cup final and prized one of the league’s best players away from one of their direct rivals. Van Persie’s arrival saw Rooney falling down the pecking order up-front, leading to fresh discontent as the England striker looked poised to move to Chelsea in the summer, before United rebuffed two offers and Rooney was – rightly for some, less so for others – severely criticised by large sections of fans. It’s hard to fathom that Rooney really had United’s best interest to heart when he accused the club of lacking ambition three years ago but with United struggling to cope with the void left by Sir Alex Ferguson and a European spot looking increasingly harder to achieve, it is plainly clear that United do indeed lack ambition. Sitting seventh in the table and having already dropped one more point than they did in the whole of last season, United’s policy of papering over the cracks has begun to bite back in all its ferociousness, with the club failing to adequately support David Moyes in the transfer window, while some of the latest Fergie’s signings look increasingly out of their depth. With the exception of Robin Van Persie, for years now United haven’t been able to shop in the high street end of the transfer window, having instead to settle for players who might be good but not good enough for a club like Manchester United, or rather, they wouldn’t have been good enough for the club up to five years ago. For it is clear that the arrogance that the club parades around in the transfer window is misplaced and rather embarrassing given that in this day and age United are simply another big Premier League club, crucially one with limited financial resources compared to Chelsea’s and Manchester City’s. United’s misguided arrogance has the club seemingly intent to play hard ball with Rooney over his contract, which is still to be renewed as the club seem happy to allow the England striker to enter the final 12 months of his contract, a strategy that would have been logical and widely accepted 12 months ago, but not now when Rooney has been United’s most influential and best player this season. If United fail to finish in the top four, a far from remote possibility at the moment, they’ll have to cope with a huge financial blow, while Rooney could opt to run his contract down before leaving for free at the end of the next season, given United have insisted they will not sell him. It’s a doomsday scenario, of course, but one that is not as far-fetched as it sounds given that Rooney looks back to his best and would attract suitors from England and abroad. United have talked the talk, it’s about time they started walking the walk. |
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