“This deal is great news for everyone.“Vedran’s a good player but it means the manager can use the money to bring in a forward.
"Everyone’s a winner. Vedran is desperate to team up with Modric.
"He was popular here but this is good business.”
This is the furthest we've seen the rumours progress thus far. Those lines from a City insider are pretty galling. I can see that this deal might be in some way necessary to achieving other goals (or even staying afloat, if rumours are to be believed), but 'great news for everyone'? I'd much rather they acknowledged that having to sell one of your best young players is not an ideal situation.
If we were selling Corluka to stay afloat, it would be understandable. But if we are selling Corluka to buy a forward, it is absurd. This is the story in today's Daily Mail article. By far the best thing to come out of this pre-season is learning that without Jô and Benjani we still have a functioning strike force. Vassell, Bozhinov, Sturridge and Evans will be able to hold their own for the four or five games before Jô gets back. So to sell Charlie to buy Santa Cruz makes no sense. Because in a few months time we'd have Jô, Santa Cruz, Bozhinov, Benjani, Vassell, Caicedo, Sturridge and Evans! Do we really need that many? United won the league last year with three centre forwards.
Using Corluka money for a left back and a right winger would make me feel differently.
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