Players Utd were regularly linked with but never signed XI

[Zlatattack]

So can we make a starting 11 of players the club has been routinely linked with but we never signed.

For example;

Sneijder, Gaitan, Kroos. Perisic

The criteria is it has to be a player we've been linked with more than 1 year.

ST
RW Gaitan
AM Sneijder
LW Perisic
CM Kroos
CM
RB
CB
CB
LB
GK

 

[harms]

Schneider

Took me a while to recognize Sneijder

 

[Nicklas]

LB - Bale

 

[OL29]

Mirko Vucinic used to get linked to us every transfer window back in the day.

 

[roonster09]

Garay for CB - linked with him for years.

 

[sal klita]

ST - Kluivert
CB - Southgate

 

[luke511]

ST C.Ronaldo

 

[Hoboman]

Vidal, Muslera, Huntelaar

 

[Terminator]

CB - Varane

 

[Judas]

Patrick Kluivert was always on the verge of signing for us back in the day according to Teletext.

 

[Zlatattack]

Sneijder

Amended!

 

[Brinky]

Vidal

 

[Zlatattack]

Garay for CB - linked with him for years.

ST C.Ronaldo

Both good shouts. It seems we were linked with these guys for years. IDK if Ronaldo should count though, he did play for us, but on the other hand we were linked with him every single year he was at RM.

 

[bosnian_red]

ST Robert Lewandowski
RW Douglas Costa / Gareth Bale
AM Wesley Sneijder
LW Nico Gaitan / Ivan Perisic
CM Toni Kroos
CM Arturo Vidal
RB Seamus Coleman
CB
CB Ezequiel Garay
LB Leighton Baines
GK Rene Adler

Can't think of the other CB. Think Otamendi was only the one summer really, same with Sergio Ramos. Varane was serious interest the one summer, he picked Madrid and then after that there wasn't much.

 

[Alfie092]

ST Bale

RW Gaitan

AM Sneijder

LW Perisic

CM Kroos

CM Vidal

RB Can’t really think of any RB who we was linked with for at least 1 year lol. Alves maybe?

CB Garay

CB Hummels

LB Baines

GK Lloris

 

[Zlatattack]

ST Robert Lewandowski
RW Douglas Costa / Gareth Bale
AM Wesley Sneijder
LW Nico Gaitan / Ivan Perisic
CM Toni Kroos
CM Arturo Vidal
RB Seamus Coleman
CB
CB Ezequiel Garay
LB Leighton Baines
GK Rene Adler

Can't think of the other CB. Think Otamendi was only the one summer really, same with Sergio Ramos. Varane was serious interest the one summer, he picked Madrid and then after that there wasn't much.

Coleman and Baines, we were linked with both for ages.

 

[elmo]

Modric, Bale, Benzema, Ozil, Vidal, Varane, Shearer, Viera, Hunterlaar and Coentaro.

 

[elmo]

ST Robert Lewandowski
RW Douglas Costa / Gareth Bale
AM Wesley Sneijder
LW Nico Gaitan / Ivan Perisic
CM Toni Kroos
CM Arturo Vidal
RB Seamus Coleman
CB
CB Ezequiel Garay
LB Leighton Baines
GK Rene Adler

Can't think of the other CB. Think Otamendi was only the one summer really, same with Sergio Ramos. Varane was serious interest the one summer, he picked Madrid and then after that there wasn't much.

Hummels or Shawcross.

 

[Irish Jet]

Ramos is obviously the CB. Do you forget that BS?

 

[Jam]

GK - Adler
LB - Baines
CB - Garay
CB - Ramos
RB - Coleman
CM - Vidal
CM - Modric
CAM - Sneijder
LM - Gaitan
RM - Perisic
ST - Huntelaar

Some positions I could think of a few, others struggled.

 

[The Purley King]

Thiago? Or was that only one year?

 

[Scholesy's Sat Nav]

How far back are we going? Batistuta was linked for about 5 years.

 

[bosnian_red]

Ramos is obviously the CB. Do you forget that BS?

Was only the one summer though. This is for people who had multiple windows.

 

[Annihilate Now!]

This should just be the Sneijder eleven.

 

[Sanchez7]

Fernando Torres. There was literally a sticky on the newbie page warning members that they will be banned if they created another thread on the topic.

 

[Isotope]

Thiago Alcantara was ace also.

And Hazard.

 

[sideshow_bob]

Strootman? Moutinho?

CR7 & Bale for sure...

 

[SerenityValley]

Dean holdsworth came up a few years in a row, as did Wimbledon’s keeper whose name escapes me.

Shearer came up 2 or 3 years in a row.

 

[Moonwalker]

RB Can’t really think of any RB who we was linked with for at least 1 year lol. Alves maybe?

Why Hatem Trabelsi, of course.

 

[buchansleftleg]

Marcelo Salas as Striker...my first ever muppet juices were spilled in anticipation of him joining us. The cracking goals he scored against England were sadly proof of what might have been!

 

[MuFc_1992]

Gaitan was the name that popped into my head as soon as I read the thread title.

 

[Zlatattack]

Marcelo Salas as Striker...my first ever muppet juices were spilled in anticipation of him joining us. The cracking goals he scored against England were sadly proof of what might have been!

Me too! He was my first transfer muppet wish.

 

[Ødegaard]

ST: Ronaldo
RW: Bale
AM: Sneijder
LW: Gaitan
CM: Kroos
CM: Thiago
RB: Coleman
CB: Varane
CB: Garay
LB: Baines
GK: Can't remember

 

[berbasloth4]

Gk - kasper schmeichel??
Rb - mark fish
Lb - gareth bale
Cb - des walker
Cb - raph varane
Rm - nic gaitan
Lm - cristiano ronaldo
Cm- sneijder
Cm - fabregas
St - kluivert
St - shearer

 

[harms]

Thiago? Or was that only one year?

He probably qualifies since we're also "interested" in him this year according to the press. But the serious link was only in that summer IIRC (oh, the heartbreak)

 

[VeevaVee]

Gattuso?

I couldn't remember his name off the top of my head so typed 'angry Italian defender' into Google and his Wiki is the first hit.

 

[SER19]

Given


Garay
Baines

Sneijder
Gaitan
Strootman

Batistuta
Kluivert

 

[beedoubleyou]

Miguel Ángel Nadal, The Beast of Barcelona.

 

[Golden Nugget]

Guarin is missing. He was constantly linked with us

 

[Green_Red]

Strootman and Gattuso once upon a time. Ronaldo must have the record though. 9 summers in a row the cnut was linked with a move bacl to United ffs.