Yeah I reckon we'll still get him too
Monchi | Leaves AS Roma
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I bet if we offer him some bananas he'll join us.
Edit: I thought he was Italian, which would make his name sound like Monkey. Turns out he's Spanish
Edit: I thought he was Italian, which would make his name sound like Monkey. Turns out he's Spanish
Will he be interested in De Pie instead?
#FreeMonchi
It translates as "Pride of Nervion" - Nervion is the area where Sevilla are based.
It's this newspaper section: http://sevilla.abc.es/deportes/orgullodenervion/#
ABC are a national newspaper, this is the Sevilla edition club page.
Ha ha ha ha, like they have any say.
If he decides to leave there is absoloutely nothing Sevilla can do. Employees can cease employ if they have a mind to do so. Same as you me or anybody else headhunted.
Don't blame Sevilla for trying to get some money out of it, if that's indeed what they're doing.
Real Madrid are not interested.
Staff contracts can be easily bought out unlike a player where you need the club to accept a transfer fee first. If we want him and he wants to come here, Sevilla can do feckall
Javi Martinez negotiations were friendly?
That was acrimonious culminating in this.
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5 million euros is what they want, it depends how much we want him.
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Looks like a mean muthafecka. Sign him up on that basis alone
Now that looks like a guy who could help Ed seal a deal, or two. Sign him up!
He looks like a "either your signature or your brains will be on the contract in a minute" guy. 
If he seeks employment within the same industry then they absolutely can enforce it or demand compensation.
Not sure why I found this comment amusing. It's true though. We can make a saga out of anything.United not in for him, or any type of DoF according to Sky. Everton a possibility, in a package with Emery.
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...ed-have-no-plans-to-appoint-sporting-director
This is skysports reporting twitter feeds which are ~14 hours old.
The times said the same over the weekend.
This is almost certainly just foreign journalists sticking United's name on a story to get traction. Looking at this thread its clearly working.
Sky Sports aren't worth taking seriously half the time these days.
Really? LOL Sky if that's true. They cite sources and "Skysports HQ has been told..." I knew they had turned to shit a long time ago, but I didn't think they'd gone full tribalfootball on us.
I'd expect more stories of us not interested in appointing a sporting director to follow over next few days.
Well, I'm not basing that on any hard facts.. but Di Marzio's men said he rejected our offer in the afternoon yesterday.. and Sky are only just reporting a story that its not on now..
Its like Howard Nurse has taken over
Emery? FFS why not Giggs?
Would be a strange move from United to appoint a DoF.
It seems Woodward wants to position United at the top of the food chain - we buy big-name stars for big fees and use the hype around them to sell shirts. I guess that, given United's commercial power and priorities, they feel big-name signings are actually more cost-effective than bargains who no-one's heard of.
That said, I'd be delighted if they appointed someone like Monchi personally.
It seems Woodward wants to position United at the top of the food chain - we buy big-name stars for big fees and use the hype around them to sell shirts. I guess that, given United's commercial power and priorities, they feel big-name signings are actually more cost-effective than bargains who no-one's heard of.
That said, I'd be delighted if they appointed someone like Monchi personally.
Feck off Sevilla, we're Manchester United.
My favourite was the three imposters in the Ander saga back in 2013.
If he is who we want, 5 million shouldn't stand in the way. You can't get a third goalkeeper for five million nowadays.
"However, Sky sources have learned there are no plans in place to make any such appointment at Manchester United, with Mourinho and Woodward set to conduct the club's business in the transfer market together - with the considerable support of Mendes behind them."
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...ed-have-no-plans-to-appoint-sporting-director
Not sure an agent looking to further his self-interests can count as "support" for United in getting good deals.
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...ed-have-no-plans-to-appoint-sporting-director
Not sure an agent looking to further his self-interests can count as "support" for United in getting good deals.
Source:http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...ourinho-monchi-11411613#ICID=sharebar_twitterThis year, the clamour is for a sporting director. Thousands of United supporters online have decided the club needs one and Monchi, Sevilla's director of football, wants to leave the Europa League winners but has a £3.8million buyout clause and is contracted to them until 2020. It's a perfect storm energised by English Spanish-speakers adept at regurgitating reports by Spanish newspapers on Twitter, the retweets rise, it goes viral and sections of the British media report United's interest as fact. Transfer 'specialists' with huge followings also muddy the waters, championed by their fanboys.
READ MORE: Ibrahimovic speaks out on possible United transfer
The fact is United have never been interested in appointing a director of football. A report in February claiming changes were underway to marginalise Ed Woodward's role as executive vice-chairman were quickly denied and Jose Mourinho's arrival has not changed the club's outlook.
Mourinho is set to enjoy greater autonomy at United than he did at Real Madrid, where he ousted general director Jorge Valdano after a year. His fraught relationship with Michael Emenalo , the nephew to Roman Abramovich's Don Fanucci at Chelsea, was another reason for United not to create a new role to support Mourinho.
Emenalo criticised Mourinho in December
United are comfortable with the current structure in place ahead of the summer transfer window and there is no indication they will turn to Monchi, Atletico Madrid's Andrea Berta, or any other director tenuously linked with the club.
John Murtough, recently confirmed as United's new head of football development, was at Carrington on Monday to meet Mourinho and accompanied him during Woodward's tour of the club's training complex. The club has confirmed his new role is not a directorial appointment, though.
A measure of Woodward's workload can be gauged by the number of individuals who report to him. Murtough reports to club secretary John Alexander, whom jointly oversaw the running of United's academy following Brian McClair's departure until Nicky Butt's February appointment, and Alexander reports into Woodward, as do scouts.
Murtough met Mourinho on Monday
United's scouting network is expected to undergo a shake-up over the coming months as part of the academy's revamp. United are intent on reinforcing their academy structure, having seen City's development of the City Football Academy, while Everton's network of scouts are widely regarded as superior than United's. Scouts at other clubs are believed to have contacted United offering their services.
Mourinho will have the final say on signings based on the analysis he receives. However haphazard United's activity in the transfer market has been since Sir Alex Ferguson retired, the structure is described as 'fundamentally the same one' as when David Gill was overseeing negotiations with the Scot and, with Mourinho's managerial presence, United's activity should be calmer. Woodward does not solely negotiate deals, either. Murtough and head of corporate development Matt Judge collaborate with him.
The above is written as if having a DOF is such a silly idea. All the clubs who are better run than us in terms of football anyway, have a DOF but we are alright.
He's worth that money and more. Spanish radio is saying he wants to win something more than the Europa League. We offer the best opportunity for him to do so medium term, while at the same time, space and time to work without instant gratification and with all the resources at his disposal.
Good piece on Monchi:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/manchester...e-mourinho-turn-around-clubs-fortunes-1563077
Oier is a contact of mine. He interviewed Monchi last year and has long been banging the drum about his talent.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/manchester...e-mourinho-turn-around-clubs-fortunes-1563077
Oier is a contact of mine. He interviewed Monchi last year and has long been banging the drum about his talent.
Article make him out as a guy who its heavily interested in profits...
3.8m pounds is again chump change for us. Just do it.
Sevilla needs the profits, they don't have a sugar daddy and their marketability is limited.
It's more likely the club that's interested in profits.
Mate, I'll kill him for you with my own two hands if it shuts you the f up.
It feels like he has been briefed and that to me looks like Woodward defending his turf. Let's see how things pan out this time since we are supposed to believe that all the shit thats went down since Fergie retired happened because we had a shit manager.