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The Closet Gooner ‏@TheClosetGooner

Kagawa to Arsenal almost completed. £13 Million fee. Wages of £85,000 a week. Will be announced Thursday at the latest. #afc #mufc

[Agony]

Shinji Kagawa's transfer to Manchester United from Borussia Dortmund for a total of €22m (£17.m) has moved closer but the midfielder has yet to agree personal terms and sign for the club.

The Japanese midfielder is back in his homeland and it is understood that Thomas Kroth, the 23-year-old's agent, travelled there from Germany in the past few days to discuss the move.

An initial bid of €18m from United was rejected last week but Dortmund have now reportedly agreed a fee that will be worth €22m with add-ons for a player who cost them just €350,000 from the Japanese club Cerezo Osaka.

The United manager Sir Alex Ferguson watched Kagawa a fortnight ago when he scored in Dortmund's 5-2 win over Bayern Munich in the German Cup final. He scored 13 goals in 31 league games as Dortmund won the Bundesliga from Bayern by eight points and he fits the profile currently adhered to by United of a young player who could improve and not cost a premium price.

Kagawa currently earns a modest salary of between €750,000 to €1m and was offered up to €2.5m to re-sign for Dortmund. But as he is intent on playing in the Premier League it is not thought his wage demands to join United will prove a stumbling block.

http://www.guardian....mund?CMP=twt_gu

[JOHN DOE]

scholes 1 year extension

ben amos 3 year deal

[Fighting Weight]

SAF needs to step up with the transfers

So does Arsene

Chelsea are going IN

Pool will have a new budget

City will be copping and tweaking

[Kompressor]

Transfer window isn't even open yet, We're still in the month of May.

And plus in terms of possible transfers, there's a little tournament that may have some bearing on where some people do or don't go.

[Fighting Weight]

That little tournament adds 15m onto anybody who plays in it's price tag

[Kompressor]

if that reasoning doesn't float your boat, revert back to my initial one,

the transfer window hasn't even opened yet, and you've already made a significant singing in the German striker anyway,

apart from that the only significant deals have been Hazard, who Chelsea didn't even announce, and I cant spell his name who was on loan at Swansea and made the deal permanant.

relax, if by the mid June theres no movement then start kicking up a stink. but again, seeing as the window doesn't open till Friday no deals will be annouced till then at the earliest anyway.

interestingly enough Chelsea still haven't mentioned anything regarding Hazard on their official site.

i think what your wanting is paper talk to fill these long days without any football to watch. as anything else has either been Hazard led circus' or doesn't actually exist.

[Fighting Weight]

Sigurdsson

(I wasn't saying it has to be stepped up NOW) just that it has to happen

Every season the same old line is trotted out that THIS summer window will be signifigant, things are changing, etc etc

But this season it actually seems like it is

[Kompressor]

i don't know whats been happening at Arsenal but in fairness United brought in 3 significant players last summer, For Mame Biram Diouf who if i remember rightly had trouble seeing Jones Young and De Gea as significant signings what i mean by that is players who were brought in with both a view to the role they can play now and in the future for the benefit of the club and also wern't too cheap either, the Sneijder deal would've happened if he had been willing to lower his wage demands.

this summer, United have already been in heavily for Hazard but again having a sensible wage structure saw him go elsewhere,

both clubs have been linked with Kagawa and i imagine one of the two will get him, good signing for whoever does, and theres been other names banded about,

i'm still expecting the 2/3 significant signings to be made that i've been harping about all season, (i'll stand by that because although it was nice to be linked with him i didn't see Hazard's arrival coming true especially when the other two clubs got involved,)

2 or 3 in the right places will do tbh,

thread bare squad (quality wise) with Evra's mind elsewhere all season, Camel face's body packing up, a different right back every week, a goal keeper bedding himself in, Fletcher on the toilet for most of it, and Vidic's knee in pieces, to finish second on goal difference shows that not much is needed to challenge city,

all those problems being adrressed as well as having our best midfielder for the duration of the season instead of sitting at home in front of the TV for half of it, and Cleverly and Anderson fit, with the 2 good signings i'd back us to take it all the way again,

but as i said, i dunno bout Arsenal

[TF S4DK]

Clubs was either gonna wrap up deals way before the Euros and the get togethers. Then even with players that aren't going Euros, even if domestic based, clubs are in no rush as your effectively paying a player wages while he is on a beach putting on weight. I doubt Arsenal are currently very happy about paying Nicklas Bendtner's wage for a month while he talks about moving away, oh but taking his time...

[Young £]

Kagawa will have a better season than Hazard

(i said it porchy)

[Michel Kane]

Don't see how that's an outlandish statement.

Would like to know the reeasoning behind it though...

[JOHN DOE]

ive noticed young likes to make statements that go against the status quo - just because

[Young £]

lol @ 'just because'

theres always reasoning behind my posts mate

[Michel Kane]

Go on then...

[JOHN DOE]

in this case i think he could be right - specially as kagawa is coming from a more difficult league but he defo makes a few statements that always seem to me like he just wants to argue against the status quo

[Young £]

lol like what?

i come from the anelka, porchy style of thought

which most of you lot seem to disagee with but its cool

@ Kane, you already know

moretime i cant be bothered to post

[Michel Kane]

Lol, eye II eye.

[Adotbiz]

Will Keane might be out for long while..

http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Football-News/2012/May/manchester-united-quartet-qualify-for-euro-under-19-finals.aspx

[DRC]

Will Keane might be out for long while..

http://www.manutd.co...-19-finals.aspx

ACL....bad times

[Adotbiz]

big set back, was either going to break in to first team or go on loan.. our youth players have bad luck with injuries

[Kompressor]

Big blow,

Hopefully it doesn't set him back too far,

On the other side of it it may give Cofie a chance to lead the line for tge reserves, which will do him good,

[The King]

Should bulk during his rehab hopefully

[Mame Biram Diouf]

Cofie, King, W.Keane

if not ones makes it i will be deeply upset

love watching Keane play and Kings pace is so f*cked

[Kompressor]

charity match at 6.30pm tonight (sunday 3).

shown on sporttv 1hd(30west), c+ poland/hd (13east), aljazeera sports 3 and 8 (13 east), sportdigital.tv (19east) and setanta ireland (28east) digi sport3 (1 west). among others. look at live on sat for full listings.

Roy Keane, Denis Irwin, Andy Cole, Dwight Yorke, Jaap Stam, Jesper Blomqvist and Edwin van der Sar to star for United.

And Real with Redondo, Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Fernando Hierro, Ivan Helguera and Fernando Morientes all due to pull on the famous white shirt

streams on pc will be available too