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Wigan confirm United's Valencia bids
Topic Started: Jun 12 2009, 03:58 PM (107 Views)
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Wigan chairman Dave Whelan has told Sky Sports News that Manchester United have made cash offers for Antonio Valencia.

It was reported at the weekend that Premier League champions United and Primera Liga giants Real Madrid had bid in excess of £16million for the Ecuadorian.

Real - who have had a world-record £80m bid for United's Cristiano Ronaldo accepted - have since stated that they have not shown an interest in Valencia since January.

However, Whelan has declared that United have been in contact with JJB Stadium officials for the past two to three months and that they have also submitted initial offers.

He told Sky Sports News when asked about Valencia: "They (United) have been in touch with us and we will be starting negotiations very shortly, I would imagine.

"United have been in touch with us over Antonio for the last two or three months, expressing an interest and actually putting cash offers on the table.

Strong interest

"Those things have got to be picked up now. I think they were waiting to see if Ronaldo actually went to Real, which has happened."

He added: "Things will develop over the next seven to 14 days.

"The master, which is Sir Alex [Ferguson], he makes his moves when he is ready. He has strong interest in Antonio, there is no question in that.

"He had him watched practically every, single match last year. He has got a very strong interest in him. We are just sat on the fence now."

Whelan, though, is adamant that Wigan - who are currently without a manager following a backroom-staff compensation hitch in their attempts to appoint Roberto Martinez - are not eager to cash in on Valencia.

Desperate

"We are not desperate to sell Antonio, I'm telling you. If I can keep that lad, I'm going to keep him. He is one brilliant player," added Whelan.

"So there is no pressure on me, or our football club to sell him. If Man United don't want to make a (written) offer, I'll be delighted and we will have him in our team next season."

But Whelan admits that he will not stand in the 23-year-old's way if he expresses a desire to move to Old Trafford and an asking price is met.

He said: "What is difficult is to stop a lad like Antonio Valencia, who has got ambition. It is difficult to stop a footballer, who wants to get to the very, very top of the ladder.

"I would never stand in the way of a footballer who can go to bigger and better clubs, and you can't get bigger and better than Man United.

"If Antonio Valencia says to me, 'chairman, I want to go to Manchester United' and we get the right fee, the deal will be done."
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They'll want more than 20m and it's Fergie's fault.
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poor purchase imo, has been at wigan for 3 years hand hasnt had a stand out season.

not united quality, especially after losing ronaldo.

aim higher SAF
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Jun 12 2009, 04:01 PM
poor purchase imo, has been at wigan for 3 years hand hasnt had a stand out season.

not united quality, especially after losing ronaldo.

aim higher SAF
Exactly..and the sad thing is that he's going to wearing the number 7 shirt next season imo :tremble:
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Jun 12 2009, 04:00 PM
They'll want more than 20m and it's Fergie's fault.
It's the Glazers fault imo..Wigans want to squeeze as much as they can out of that 80 quid, dumb move imo.
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i think saf might be using this as a smoke screen to go after bigger and better targets...

last year we put a bid in for silva which was rejected (http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12975_3970750,00.html) hopefully we go in for him again in light of valencias financial troubles.
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He might be a good signing, he's got a cracking strike.
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Seriously, Frank Lampard is an absolute legend of the game. He needs to be recognised in some way eg. Frank Lampard OBE, Sir Frank Lampard or some kind of lifetime achievement award.

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I wouldn't mind having him either, he's a good player obviously he's not near Ronaldo's class but well, I suppose it's unlikely we would get two wingers. Ribery and Valencia would be great but I would like to have Ribery so much, to have a real world class player in the team and then we'd have Nani, Park and Valencia too and we'd have plenty of options on the wings and that would be a great collection of wingers.

If we don't get Ribery we could be all looking to Nani to step up. I've always been unconvinced over him but there's no doubting the potential in him, it's pretty huge to be honest. I won't hold my breath that's for sure but hopefully this story turns out like in 2006/07 when we sold our goal machine and things looked ropey, then out of nowhere Ronaldo stepped up, and sheep me did he step up. Maybe Nani can do it, we have seen this before. In Summer 2006, I didn't think Ronaldo would blossom into the player he did, Nani would probably be a little more of a shock though!

He would give us all the flair, skill and goal threat Ronaldo did and he's a potentially better supplier to the strikers. Obviously that's where it stops though because he will never have the physical and mental strength his predecessor has. :(
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