Friday, April 10, 2015

Is Dani Alves future at united?

Barcelona defender Alves has been sounded out by Manchester United over a move to Old Trafford 

   Barcelona had never planned to keep Alves beyond this season. He’s served them brilliantly but he will be 32 next month and on £85,000-a-week he is one of their top earning defenders along with Gerard Pique. What they were not counting on is their own incompetence in finding a replacement for him and the FIFA transfer ban that stops them buying anyone this summer.
   The club are letting it be known they have offered him a two-year deal with an option of a third year depending on the number of games played in the second year.
Alves’ camp say it’s actually a one-year deal to be renewed for a second year, and then a third year, only if he plays a certain number of matches. 
The new contract also comes with incentives. If he wins things then he will end up earning the same money but his basic earnings before bonuses would drop.

      After weeks of rumours that the suitors were queuing around the Nou Camp to sign him up it now seems that one big club has offered him a three-year deal with none of the strings, sub-clauses and trap-doors as the Barca deal.
      
United are the prime suspects with PSG out of the running. But Alves' camp say now is not the time to name the club.
    Only in as much as if Manchester United had really offered him a three-year deal would he still be haggling with Barcelona? Surely a Premier League swansong at Old Trafford is the perfect way to round off what has been a remarkable career with the Spanish giants – winning four leagues, three cups and two Champions League titles.
   The children he has with ex-wife Dinorah Santa Ana (who is now his agent) live in the city and after 13 years in Spain he is reluctant to leave. He is hoping Barcelona, desperate because they can't sign players, make him a better offer.



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