Football transfer rumours: Manchester United to sign Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain?
semi-final or thinking about how to stop the Premier League being won at
Old Trafford by a Leicester team that cost about one Memphis Depay plus
half a Bastian Schweinsteiger, some Manchester United blazers will wonder again what the hell everyone is complaining about and when will Louis Van Gaal get the credit he deserves.
In a campaign blighted by injuries the Dutchman has produced a United team that have taken part in not one but two European competitions this season, have scored exactly as many Premier League goals as a highly-acclaimed Bournemouth side and still have a strong chance of finishing above West Ham, who are backed by powerful Upton Park commemorative guff. In the circumstances, Van Gaal has done well and Ryan Giggs has done, well, no one knows. But the man can sure hold a blank gaze and that’s got to be worth something.
Some United blazers, on the other hand, have had just about enough of Louis
Van Gaal’s philosophy and believe the time might be right to endorse the
teachings of Jose Mourinho, the manager who puts the me me me into meaning.
And today, would you believe, it has emerged, via The Sun, that some United
blazers think the club’s future should be entrusted to neither Van Gaal nor
Mourinho but to Laurent Blanc, who was last seen in England springing a
surprise formation on his chicken-hearted Paris Saint-Germain team as they
flopped out of the Champions League against Manchester City at a stage that
even David Moyes reached. But PSG did win Ligue 1 by a million points and,
what is more, Blanc is believed to be OK with the idea of Giggs remaining
as No2, so long as the Welshman doesn’t interfere with his important
chewing of coffee stirrers.
No matter who wins the power struggle at Old Trafford – will it be the
Judean People’s Front or the People’s Front of Judea? – the word is the
club will somehow find enough cohesion to launch a bid for Alex
Oxlade-Chamberlain, once a highly-rated prospect at Arsenal. Moyes,
meanwhile, yearns for a comeback: not at Old Trafford, mind, but at
Goodison Park, where the pressure continues to mount on Roberto Martínez despite the Catalan’s insistence that he is one the verge of guiding the club to silverware, Downing Street and the Christmas No1 slot.
Now then, brace yourself for Jürgen Klopp Has Got The Horn headlines. Because Liverpool are poised to sign the Cologne goalkeeper Tim Horn. That does not necessarily mean that Simon Mignolet will be leaving Anfield but if he does, then best order him a taxi. Because he couldn’t catch a bus. Spurs are eyeing up strikers in France, both Alexandre Lacazette of Lyon and Michy Batshuayi of Marseille. West Ham are looking at the same players. It is almost as if they don’t care that Radamel Falcao is already in London and eagerly awaiting good offers, lest Chelsea remember him and send him back to Monaco.
