Sir Alex Ferguson has reiterated that he is not in the market for a new midfielder following Paul Scholes's retirement.
Manchester United have already spent heavily this summer on the likes of Ashley Young and David de Gea, but they were still being linked with a new midfield star to replace Scholes.
"We are not looking at the moment but we are looking at combinations of central midfielders now at the club"
You've got to be kidding... I'm not doubting Fergie but our central midfield is going to consist of Carrick, Anderson, Fletcher and Gibson... and that's it! and neither of those players are reliable.
Did he not see why United lost big games against Liverpool, Arsenal and Barcelona? Its because they were dominated in midfield. Even if Scholes didn't retire, I would still want us to get another central midfielder.
I say we put Rooney in central midfield now, he's shown he can be our playmaker and is capable of making some amazing passes, we've got six strikers anyway.
Is this just a "dummy" statement to put rival teams off, and then come up with a couple of surprise signings towards the end of this window?
I hope this isn't true. If there was one position I was sure we were going to slash some cash for it was central midfield. Especially after Scholes retired. I'm betting Giggs will move permanently to the center mid position but what we really need is a playmaker which we haven't had in that position since Keano retired.
WTF! Utd are worse than last season with no VDS and Scholes. We now have an inexperienced keeper and Young in the team (Jones is for the future). This team would get slaughtered by Barca unless Fergie buys a midfielder. You'd think after the CL final this would be obvious.
No more spending, means no more spending.