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"United hard up for cash?"

From soccerage.com

Manchester United have renegotiated the transfer of David Beckham to Real Madrid so that they receive £11million of the transfer fee in a lump sum.

The Premiership champions were set to receive £12m of the fee in equal instalments over four years, but have wavered £1m of the fee in order to receive it instantly.

Real have already forked out £5m of the £25m fee for the England captain, while the rest of the deal will be dependent on Real's success in the Champions League.

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So why would they do this? Perhaps Fergie is thinking of buying someone in the januray transfer window?

Apparently Real still owe Inter €10M for Ronaldo! Bloody stingy gits!

Alec wrote:
> Why would they want Defoe?

Because he is class, he is young and he has played well against Man Utd in the past. If Van N was injured tomorrow would you really want Forlan as your main guy?

I'm glad to see United making Real pay-up properly - £12m over 4 years is just taking the mick! - but I very much doubt Fergie has any intention whatsoever of bringing-in a single new player in January.

He should've done something at that point last season, but didn't.
And even then, we were having a "bad run" of form...

What'll make it any different this time, seeing as we 'SHOULD' be doing much better at that time, this season, after the "improvements" that have been made?


And anyway, our squad looks more-or-less complete, as it is.
Do we really need another striker when Scholes is on-form?
And once this injury "crisis" is over, I doubt there'll be anything wrong with having Wes Brown, Rio Ferdinand, Mikael Silvestre and John O'Shea available to play centre-back.


Perhaps Real's financial situation has improved, and now they really can afford to pay-back more of what they owe us?
After all, they're new "Asian Marketing Ploy" seems to be working a treat for them, the world-over!
And when Peter Kenyon's got the chance to make-some-money - he will NOT miss-out (just look at the Veron sale)!

Why would they want Defoe?

Maybe Man Utd fear that Real Madrid have overextended themselves and what to obtain payment from them as quick as possible. Also Fergurson may want the whole Beckham issue settled ASAP. Even stories about Beckham's transfer fee repayment are newsworthy (well the press think so) Fergie may simply want to stop any further news items about Beckham and Man Utd from appearing.

He's probably lining up a bid for Defoe in the January sales too.

Indeed, but why did united decide to do this now? Its been almost two months since the deal was done. Or perhaps they knew Real had the money after the Makelele deal...who knows.

all?



lol

In 4 years time £3 million (guessing equal installments) will be worth less. And all clubs, United included are under financial pressure. Makes sense to take the money now.

It doesn't really matter to united, 12 or 11 mill, they'd rather have the cash now than play around with long term repayments. Then they can use it straight away.

They're only really getting £6million quicker, as £5mill was paid up front.