January Transfers : We Have Gone Insane

Bid for Owen Hargreaves
Yes we have indeed gone insane. United formally put in a 30 million euro bid for Owen Hargreaves. That makes out to roughly £19.7 million, slightly more than what we paid for Carrick.

Is Hargreaves really worth that much money? More importantly, is he that good? Or is it just because he is English? My head's spinning right now. To make matters worse, he's not even fit, still recovering from a broken foot. If we get him during this transfer window, it wouldn't be till somewhere in March before he regains full fitness. Then there is the problem of getting used to playing with the squad and the style. And we haven't even addressed him settling down to playing in different leagues. A fully fit Carrick certainly took his time to adapt.

What's really obvious here is that we're getting desparate as the transfer window draws to a close. I don't understand why we can't wait till the summer to get Owen. He'd have the entire pre-season to get used to playing for us. Haven't the lessons of bringing in Vidic and Evra in the January window been learnt?

Personally, if that brain dead board of ours diligently put a bid of Scott Parker, we might get him on the cheap. And I have no doubts he'd be a better player than Hargreaves. The silverlining here is that Baynern Munich hasn't barged yet. But £20 million is alot of stupid money being flashed out there and I'm sure the Bayern board is infinitely smarter than ours.

Rossi To Parma
Not quite AC Milan yet, but Rossi has been loaned to Parma till the end of the season. If one recalls, we raided Parma when they disbanded their reserve system to save money and got Rossi.

Let's hope Rossi gets the playing time he desparately needs. Whether he's willing to return after the spell remains to be seen. He has afterall expressed interest in playing in Italy, specifically mighty AC Milan.

Dong FangZhou Gets Work Permit
After spending 2.5 years in Royale Antwerp, Dong FangZhou has finally gotten a work permit to play for United. How good is the Chinese international remains to be seen. What's astounding to me is that he's scored 30 odd goals in 60 plus games for them. That's a pretty healthy goal ratio.

I'm curious to see how he pans out in the physically more intimidating EPL.

Oh, and how many extra jerserys we can sell in China.