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| Football transfer rumours: Manchester United in for Bruno Martins Indi? | Football transfer rumours: Manchester United in for Bruno Martins Indi? |
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| The Mill is a believing sort. Really easily led. So when Louis van Gaal spoke up for his left-back last month, the Mill bought it. It didn’t expect to see him linked with a different left-back for weeks and weeks. | The Mill is a believing sort. Really easily led. So when Louis van Gaal spoke up for his left-back last month, the Mill bought it. It didn’t expect to see him linked with a different left-back for weeks and weeks. |
| Three weeks, as it turns out. LVG’s call for the England Under-21s to play Luke Shaw (“youngsters have to play, they need match rhythm”) has softened a bit to: “youngsters have to sit on the bench watching Fábio Coentrão”. It’s the rumour that won’t stop, keeps re-appearing and so the Mill now believes that instead. That’s how things work around here. | Three weeks, as it turns out. LVG’s call for the England Under-21s to play Luke Shaw (“youngsters have to play, they need match rhythm”) has softened a bit to: “youngsters have to sit on the bench watching Fábio Coentrão”. It’s the rumour that won’t stop, keeps re-appearing and so the Mill now believes that instead. That’s how things work around here. |
| Also set to feature in United’s next big rebuild: Gerard Piqué, who was left out of Barcelona’s side for the second successive game (Chelsea, Manchester City and etc and so on are also keen), and Porto’s Bruno Martins Indi, whose World Cup highlights included getting a bubble of vanishing spray on his boots. Martins Indi spoke recently of a special connection to LVG, so it’s definitely on. “Spiritually I still have contact with Van Gaal,” he said. “I think about him and I think he also thinks about me.” LVG also thinks about Villa’s Ron Vlaar, it says here. He thinks about him a lot. | Also set to feature in United’s next big rebuild: Gerard Piqué, who was left out of Barcelona’s side for the second successive game (Chelsea, Manchester City and etc and so on are also keen), and Porto’s Bruno Martins Indi, whose World Cup highlights included getting a bubble of vanishing spray on his boots. Martins Indi spoke recently of a special connection to LVG, so it’s definitely on. “Spiritually I still have contact with Van Gaal,” he said. “I think about him and I think he also thinks about me.” LVG also thinks about Villa’s Ron Vlaar, it says here. He thinks about him a lot. |
| Meanwhile, financial-fair-play’s QPR have been told it will cost them at least £10m to sign Jermain Defoe from Toronto in January; West Ham risk losing interesting-named wonderkid Reece Oxford as talks over a professional deal stall – “several top clubs” fancy the teenage defender; and Joel Campbell wants to leave Arsenal. He was left out of the squad to face Burnley and Anderlecht, and has had it up to here. | Meanwhile, financial-fair-play’s QPR have been told it will cost them at least £10m to sign Jermain Defoe from Toronto in January; West Ham risk losing interesting-named wonderkid Reece Oxford as talks over a professional deal stall – “several top clubs” fancy the teenage defender; and Joel Campbell wants to leave Arsenal. He was left out of the squad to face Burnley and Anderlecht, and has had it up to here. |
| Manchester City plan to build on last night’s success by luring £20m Marco Reus from Borussia Dortmund with a £180,000-a-week salary. But Reus is still having none of any of it. “A lot of people talk about my future. There is much speculation, a lot is being written. But other people think about me more than I do.” | Manchester City plan to build on last night’s success by luring £20m Marco Reus from Borussia Dortmund with a £180,000-a-week salary. But Reus is still having none of any of it. “A lot of people talk about my future. There is much speculation, a lot is being written. But other people think about me more than I do.” |
| And finally, some uplifting news, given the state the world is in. “Defiant Rio Ferdinand last night told The Sun: I won’t quit Twitter. Rio vowed: ‘I won’t be quitting Twitter. I love it. I use it to talk to the fans.’” At last. We can all get on with our lives. |