الخميس، 18 يوليو 2013

Fabregas, Ronaldo, Rooney, Bale and Suarez are the big five transfers targets this summer...

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There’s just over a month to go until the big kick-off and the summer’s five big transfers are still up in the air. 

Will Wayne Rooney join Jose Mourinho at Chelsea? Can Real Madrid lure Gareth Bale to Spain and will Luis Suarez be joining him? And will one of La Liga’s superstars Cesc Fabregas or Cristiano Ronaldo really come back to the Premier .

League? Here’s my advice for the men involved.

WAYNE ROONEY

All Wayne Rooney has heard about since last summer is Robin van Persie and that can’t have been easy for him. Strikers like to be the centre of attention at their club. So Rooney is probably very flattered by the link to Jose Mourinho. He was used to being the main man at Manchester United but last season went wrong from the moment he got injured with that nasty gash at the start of the season. It then obviously hurt being dropped by Sir Alex Ferguson — maybe he didn’t feel as valued as in the past. 

But Rooney doesn’t need to leave to be a great player. Why leave for another club when United is as big as there is? Yes, it will be a battle with Van Persie to be the No 1 striker but at United he’s surrounded by the best players in the country and that quality will drive him on. He doesn’t need a new challenge because he has the challenge he needs within his own club. He can be part of the new era at United under David Moyes and return to his form of previous seasons. Going to London is a gamble too. He’d have to uproot his whole family. He’s best to stay where he is.

GARETH BALE

I think Bale will stay and he’s right to. He’s been a huge part of Tottenham’s re-emergence as a force in the Premier League. He’s part of that story and the club has made him feel special. He was enjoying himself so much last season, experimenting to find new ways to improve his game. A lot of credit goes to Andre Villas-Boas for that and he can continue to improve. 

You have to love your players and you can see that with Villas-Boas, pouring out towards Bale. If Spurs fail to break into the top four this season, maybe then is the time to leave. But it seems best to try achieve it with them, at a club where he is so happy.

LUIS SUAREZ

Like Bale, Suarez is not at a club which is matching his achievements as an individual. But he should leave Liverpool. 

Once a player says they want to go, there’s little point trying to keep them. And he’s not even eligible for the first games of the season. 

The Suarez saga will just be a sideshow until well into 

  September unless he leaves. We shouldn’t be talking about him once the season starts and I’m sure that's not what Brendan Rodgers wants either. Some people think he’s the best Liverpool striker since Kenny Dalglish but they have to accept the inevitable. It will hurt after how much the club have stood by him through the racism row and the biting incident but I can’t see it ending any other 

way.

CRISTIANO RONALDO

This one is hard to call. Real Madrid and Manchester United are both huge clubs so swapping one for the other isn’t hugely significant. But Ronaldo became the player he is at United, he joined them when he was a boy so the club is clearly still in his heart. He knows the club better than the new manager does. And he knows he would feel loved there, which has been a problem at times it seems in Spain. There was a special relationship between him and Sir Alex Ferguson and they might still need him to help persuade him to make the move. 

What Ronaldo does week on week out on the pitch is nothing short of a miracle. Him coming back would send out a huge message to the Premier League that United are the team to beat. It would be a box-office signing that would keep them as top dogs. I think he’d come back and be a success, there’s no doubt about that. I’m just not convinced it will happen.

CESC FABREGAS

Fabregas went there to take over from Xavi and Andres Iniesta and that can still happen. He’s had injuries but he’s still an outstanding talent. I saw that during the Confederations Cup this summer. 

Yes, a move to Manchester United or back to Arsenal might feel tempting but I think he should stay in Barcelona. It was his dream for such a long time. It’s character building to carry the fight through. He’d always feel a tinge of regret if he left, even though he’s won the league and cup already.

 

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