Leighton Baines

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Baines leaving his options open and I have no problem with that becuase his price tag will keep going up when he,s slotting world class goals in front of a global TV audience.
 
I have said this before and I still think it is the most likely option.
Baines wanted to leave but RM and Bill Kenwright didn't want to lose both players in the same window and at the last minute.
I think it has been agreed that if Utd reach a certain figure that Baines will be allowed to leave in January.
It will have given RM four months to settle in as manager and four months to find a replacement.

Of course there is always the chance that the Utd boardroom may not be very anxious to send another 15m to Everton after their benevolence in the Fellaini transfer and the realisation that just maybe they have not taken the greatest manager in the world from Everton.

In any event I think Evra is still a very good player and Utd have much bigger problems than left back.
 
BK will leave it late offer him a pay rise before Jan and it will not meet UNTs pay and we will sell -if that happens typical BK dodgy dealing me thinks - all this rubbish about games are more important than contracts its just a poor excuse to tie Baines down - more like BK is hoping Unt come in with a big fee and Baines will go - BK's excuse well we offered him a big wage etc -but it needs doing now BK! Unless you have the need for funds????? FFS BK sell our club to someone who can fund it!
 

...but his contract runs till June 2015. Why is everyone so sure he can even leave in January? :unsure:

Up at Goodison Park, rumours are reaching us that although Everton Football Club have promised Leighton Baines a new deal, as a display of loyalty after the summer transfer shenanigans, it hasn`t actually happened yet.

In fact those very same rumours suggest that such a move has been 'put aside` for the time being which, putting two and two together and making five, suggests to me that we could still go back in with another bid for the well-respected 28 year-old left back in the January transfer window

Read more: http://www.manchesterunited.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=333386#ixzz2foRu5HpM
 
Up at Goodison Park, rumours are reaching us that although Everton Football Club have promised Leighton Baines a new deal, as a display of loyalty after the summer transfer shenanigans, it hasn`t actually happened yet.

In fact those very same rumours suggest that such a move has been 'put aside` for the time being which, putting two and two together and making five, suggests to me that we could still go back in with another bid for the well-respected 28 year-old left back in the January transfer window

Read more: http://www.manchesterunited.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=333386#ixzz2foRu5HpM

The mistake you've made here mate is using vitalfootball as a credible source.
 
I guess my question should be HOW can he leave when he's still under contract? Sorry but I don't understand. :(

Simple. If he doesn't accept a new contract, we either sell him sharpish or lose him on a free at the end of it. All there is to it.
 

I have said this before and I still think it is the most likely option.
Baines wanted to leave but RM and Bill Kenwright didn't want to lose both players in the same window and at the last minute.
I think it has been agreed that if Utd reach a certain figure that Baines will be allowed to leave in January.
It will have given RM four months to settle in as manager and four months to find a replacement.

Of course there is always the chance that the Utd boardroom may not be very anxious to send another 15m to Everton after their benevolence in the Fellaini transfer and the realisation that just maybe they have not taken the greatest manager in the world from Everton.

In any event I think Evra is still a very good player and Utd have much bigger problems than left back.

It all sounds feasible. I thought I read somewhere that United were struggling for liquidity and the extra that they had to pay for Fellaini meant that they couldn't afford Baines too. Maybe, if the reach the knock out stages of the CL and rally in the league it will give them the funds to make a renewed bid.

I think that Roberto has handled it very well again. Moyes might well have just denied the story if he was still Everton manager and slapped Stubbs down. Martinez has been open enough to say 'who wouldn't want to play in big CL games? But unless they pay what we think he's worth, he's going nowhere'. He might have a quiet word with his U21 manager still about speaking to the media.
 
Great article just up on the Daily Mail:

"Is Baines the best around? Hodgson has no choice but to leave Cole on the bench"

The site won't let me link to it... but it's worth a read. :)
 
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