Essien/Kameni: We Love United
Article by The Editor
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Reported United targets Carlos Kameni and Michael Essien have both professed their love for United this week. United want them, they want United; a match made in heaven. Or so you would have thought. That´s until either Martin Ferguson or the money men get involved.
That´s the dichotomy - while United have spent big on some players they´ve bought very poorly at the bottom end of the market. When´s the last time United unearthed a bargain? It used to be all the time: Bruce, Irwin, Cantona, Schmeichel, Ronny Johnson, Solskjaer. Now we get Djemba-Djemba, Kleberson, Forlan and Bellion, and some of those weren´t exactly cheap either.
Here´s how it normally goes:
Sir Alex: Find me a top class midfielder to replace Roy Keane
Martin: Vieira? Gerrard? Gattuso?
Money Man: You´ve got £3m
Martin: Djemba-Djemba it is then
Kameni has a €4m buy-out clause in his contract so there´s a possibility United will go after him; they´ve had him watched numerous times this season. Essien, however, is a different matter. Given that the player has probably been the Champions League´s best midfielder this season he´s bound to attract interest from across Europe. To think he was at United as a 16 year old kid.
There is a cost to pay for buying poorly of course. United have taken a financial hit on Forlan, Veron, Bartez and Djemba-Djemba in recent seasons. They´ll almost certainly make no money out of Kleberson when he leaves this summer and the club move Bellion on if they gave him away. There´s only so many times the club can shell out millions with no return on the investment - especially if United aren´t making the latter stages of the Champions League.
So Essien and Kameni; we´d love to have you but the likelihood is that Fergie Jnr. will come back will pale shadows of the real thing once again.
Je pense de plus en plus que Kameni serait pas mal, surtout vu le prix, le potentiel ( il a une façon assez particulière de jouer, trés instinctif, mais assez énorme le potentiel pour l´avoir deja vu jouer pas mal de fois) et l´expérience internationale qu´il a deja avec le Cameroun. En plus jeune et un bon concurrent pour Howard.