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It's got to be said £24m for one season is ridiculous. Even if he doesn't break by September, that's too much.

I'd be a bit surprised if this wasn't being arranged by the Man Utd board - it's the sort of signing that looks amazing, top scorer in the top league joining for big money while a public listing is being entirely unimpressive.

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Art Vandelay

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It might sound churlish, but it's difficult to say that a championship won after a move like that is as impressive as dragging a team like ours over the line. Look at Nasri for instance - there's not a person on earth who'd consider his input to be pivotal to City's success. He's just a pointless passenger on board a runaway train. He might be pleased with it but it's pretty hollow, no?

Moving for success is the greatest lie in modern football. A total, total fallacy. If Van Persie wanted trophies he'd go to City, a club far better set up to win something next season and for the rest of his career, but no, Utd will pay him more now. The lack of integrity and self awareness of mind blowing.

This move has worked a treat for us though. 24 million wing wangs? Yeah go on then. I still expect plenty of 'the Glazers are choking the club!' shite. Just the 225k a week too. How do they survive.

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It might sound churlish, but it's difficult to say that a championship won after a move like that is as impressive as dragging a team like ours over the line. Look at Nasri for instance - there's not a person on earth who'd consider his input to be pivotal to City's success. He's just a pointless passenger on board a runaway train. He might be pleased with it but it's pretty hollow, no?

That's because Nasri did very little, he's not a first teamer whereas you'd expect RVP to be in the starting line up from day 1. If he scores 25 goals on the way to United winning the league I think anyone would find it difficult to say it was a hollow achievement.

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Art Vandelay

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I wonder if we'll buy another striker now? Something tells me we won't. Also, I'm getting that good old fashioned feeling that we're going to sell Song and hope someone within the squad comes good, swapping one set of issues for another. It would be frankly typical to conduct our business in such a professional and exciting manner up until now for defeat to be snatched from the gaping and inviting vagina of victory - much like one of our centre halves comically hoofing the ball against another player's back end for it to loop a gracefully parabola into an unguarded net in the last minute of injury time. Just me?

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I really thought we would keep him for a season and let him go on a free. Despite all this talk of him being 29 and injury prone, he was pretty special last season and I would have loved him to sign a new contract. All I can say is Darren f*&cking Dein!!! I hope we sign a top class replacement.

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Thinking about it, he's obviously injury prone and we have signed two potentially tremendous strikers. And you must think, despite what we've seen before, you surely must think that we'll invest all the money on someone really, really good plus, I believe, one other really good player was also on the cards anyway. Things have changed too much too quickly recently but we should come out of this stronger. If we start the season with five actually very good new players I think Wenger is one manager who could make it gel quite quickly. A shame that another captain has gone but we have to look forward. And I'm happy hating RvP. And, another massive plus, I'm getting my new shed tomorrow. 8x12 of heavy duty man's apex shed with double doors and extra high eaves and if you don't think that this news eclipses selling RvP to ManYoo then there's something wrong with you.

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That's because Nasri did very little, he's not a first teamer whereas you'd expect RVP to be in the starting line up from day 1.

Fitness not withstanding.

If he scores 25 goals on the way to United winning the league I think anyone would find it difficult to say it was a hollow achievement.

Fitness not withstanding.

He's a broken player waiting to happen, we know that only too well. Fair play to United though, they got their man and £20m+ hardly makes a difference on their overall debt.

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I don't think £24m is bad in this day and age. Man Utd paid £7m more for Berbatov a few years ago before the Man City boom.

Plus it could be compared to £50m Torres and £35m Carroll.

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Art Vandelay

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It's a great price considering his contract and that Utd offered £12m initially. If the money doesn't get spent though it's a horrible piece of business and would be the archetypal Arsenal summer fiasco all over again. Replacing Arshavin with Podolski, Song with Cazorla and Van Persie with Giroud isn't looking so good after all really.

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I don't think £24m is bad in this day and age. Man Utd paid £7m more for Berbatov a few years ago before the Man City boom.

Plus it could be compared to £50m Torres and £35m Carroll.

None of the above were out of contract in a year.

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