I agree with that but I do think since we have offloaded Bellamy, Peanut, Crouch, etc Rafa is looking towards English/British players of which there are few available with the quality needed.
That would be f**king fantastic news if true mate. Maybe the Placcy money is being used to service the massive debt of United. Still it's their yanks and not our yanks so I don't expect they will think of that.
He's Athletico's player I think and Benfica haven't paid the remainder of what they agreed... or something. But he wimped out and wanted to go home so why would we want him?