Man Utd to announce Larsson Loan Deal

[Papa Smurf]

Man U expected to announce Henrik Larsson on 3 month loan today!

http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hlid=43248 4&CPID=8&clid=1&lid=4161&title=Larsson+lined+ up+by+United

[STEVIEG]

Very nice i saw the rumours but if Sky are carrying it it genuinely adds credence they usually research their stories

[Up For The Ba]

Thats the job, he`d add so much for the few months that he`s likely to be there for.

[Papa Smurf]

His own club Helsingborgs are having a press conference about now. The loan deal should be for 3 months beginning in January.

[homer jay]

didn't he want to move home for his kids sake?

[STEVIEG]

Two Champions League winning heroes as striking cover wouldn't be bad at all i hope this happens
Still loads of room and cash for the crucial midfielder too

[STEVIEG]

didn't he want to move home for his kids sake?


3 month loan at Manchester United till the start of the Swedish season
The kid's ill be alright

[POL]

didn't he want to move home for his kids sake?

Henrik Larsson is a man of his word..

[homer jay]

Henrik Larsson is a man of his word..

:mrgreen: :rolleyes: :mrgreen:

[Papa Smurf]

Thats given me that Friday feeling.........

[POL]

Can't wait to see Roy Keane's reaction to this

[homer jay]

he'll be good back up for shrek and saha

[STEVIEG]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/6198464.stm

[EDDIEB]

I am assuming that he is fully fit - great cover for injury prone Saha especially for the Champions League.

Could be good for the fantasy footie also.

[STEVIEG]

And for those of you who can read Swedish (where the fawk is Gregson when ya need him)

http://www.expressen.se/index.jsp?a=775002

[STEVIEG]

Confirmed!!!

Nice


A win-win situation
http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hlid=43250 0&CPID=8&clid=1&lid=2&title=LARSSON+CONFIR MS+UNITED+DEAL

[STEVIEG]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/6198464.stm

[homer jay]

you sound like you're wetting yourself there stevie.

wait till kk gets on and gives us a 500 word essay and the advantages of have larson, and why he was not a world class player until this morning.

[STEVIEG]

you sound like you're wetting yourself there stevie.

wait till kk gets on and gives us a 500 word essay and the advantages of have larson, and why he was not a world class player until this morning.


Nah he's a class act always had been a few of us were talking here a few years ago about how great he would have been to have signed many years ago (he's a United type of player who can drop deep too if needed a la Rooney)
He has had a fantastic career at everywhere he has been including Celtic and Barca, massive clubs

He's a proven winner who is still in good shape (apparently) and he will have a positive influence on Rooney and the rest, there's nothing to lose really, i'd prefer him springing from the bench than a midfielder

[KolaKubes]

you sound like you're wetting yourself there stevie.

wait till kk gets on and gives us a 500 word essay and the advantages of have larson, and why he was not a world class player until this morning.

I am that happy about this that I do not have to resort to lengthy rationales. Everyone knows this guy will be a big boost to our title hopes. ;)

Suck on it HJ. :P

[cit_gym_rat]

I am assuming that he is fully fit - great cover for injury prone Saha especially for the Champions League.

Could be good for the fantasy footie also.
isn't that assuming that man utd are still in the champions league?

[Up For The Ba]

isn't that assuming that man utd are still in the champions league?

True, lets not count our chickens.

[STEVIEG]

True


If they can't get a result against Benfica they don't deserve to be there though

On another note, it just goes to show that it's nigh on impossible to second guess Fergie as to what he is thinking as regards transfers (Hargreaves aside)

[homer jay]

Everyone knows this guy will be a big boost to our title hopes. ;)

agreed there. the only thing i could see going wrong would be how he gets on with fergie. the hair drier stuff probably won't work on larson considering he's been thru it all and is only on a 3 month loan. but a very good signing for utd imo.

[Actin The Sham]

the hair drier stuff probably won't work on larson considering he's been thru it all and is only on a 3 month loan

Or considering he's bald......



:silly:

[Paddy Wagon]

Brilliant Backup signing, ideal for the Utd system and is a proven goalscorer...

[Actin The Sham]

True


If they can't get a result against Benfica they don't deserve to be there though

On another note, it just goes to show that it's nigh on impossible to second guess Fergie as to what he is thinking as regards transfers (Hargreaves aside)


It reminds me a bit of the Larry White transfer, where Fergie used him to bring on the younger squad members. A good move, and he'll bring a lot of Norwegian jokes to wind Solskjaer up too, so providing they sign someone else as well in January, it could work out to be a master stroke.

[KolaKubes]

If it frees cash to buy a Hargreaves, good deal all around.

Utd have good young strikers (for the first time since Mark Hughes!) coming through who I think will get some sniff of action in the New Year.

[KolaKubes]

Incidentally, on another note, I was thinking this morning that although Utd find themselves in a position to make a title push, there's no way we're good enough/consistent enough to win a CL. Maybe with a lot of luck but I just can't see it at the moment.

In that respect (and I leave myself open to charges of getting excuses in early! ;D ), I think a nice little UEFA cup run (maybe we might even go a long way in it) while keeping the title challenge on the rails would be great for the development of this Utd squad.

[langer 18]

I'm so happy we've signed Larsson. A shrewd move by Fergie and a shrewd move by Larsson as he can add another League title to his already impressive cv.

[langer 18]

Incidentally, on another note, I was thinking this morning that although Utd find themselves in a position to make a title push, there's no way we're good enough/consistent enough to win a CL. Maybe with a lot of luck but I just can't see it at the moment.

In that respect (and I leave myself open to charges of getting excuses in early! ;D ), I think a nice little UEFA cup run (maybe we might even go a long way in it) while keeping the title challenge on the rails would be great for the development of this Utd squad.


UEFA cup, are u for real!!! Thats for losers like Boro, Newcastle and Liverpool!!

[Edmund Blackwater]

I'm so happy we've signed Larsson. A shrewd move by Fergie and a shrewd move by Larsson as he can add another League title to his already impressive cv.
Is he joining Chelsea?
Is there some weird Obi Mikel shit going on here?
Isn't Larsson too old?

[Actin The Sham]

Incidentally, on another note, I was thinking this morning that although Utd find themselves in a position to make a title push, there's no way we're good enough/consistent enough to win a CL. Maybe with a lot of luck but I just can't see it at the moment.

In that respect (and I leave myself open to charges of getting excuses in early! ;D ), I think a nice little UEFA cup run (maybe we might even go a long way in it) while keeping the title challenge on the rails would be great for the development of this Utd squad.


Are you drunk????

[CORKBHOY]

[QUOTE=STEVIEG]

He's a proven winner who is still in good shape (apparently)

Ronaldinhio said last year he's the fittest 34 year old he's ever seen play. He also said the reason he has long hair is he styled himself on Larsson (when he had the dread locks) when he used watch him as a young fella.

[STEVIEG]

[QUOTE=STEVIEG]

He's a proven winner who is still in good shape (apparently)

Ronaldinhio said last year he's the fittest 34 year old he's ever seen play. He also said the reason he has long hair is he styled himself on Larsson (when he had the dread locks) when he used watch him as a young fella.


Yup, he called Larsson his idol a few weeks ago too and publically mentioned that he would like him back
A lot of journalists in Sweden reckoned he might sign on loan for Barca

[STEVIEG]

UEFA CUP????

No thanks

a draw at home and they are in the lottery that is the last 16 of the Champions League

I said it last year and i'll say it again
I'd prefer 4th than 3rd in the group

[MonTheHoops]

Super fit, don’t think he’ll score too many but a fantastic option from the bench. The best header of a ball I’ve seen. 3 months loan is perfect for all parties. Brings a winning attitude with him and is a complete pro in everything he does. Can’t fault him for taking the chance. Best of luck to him. A small bit gutted but an absolute legend.

[dilinja]

probably being greedy, but id love to see him signed for the remainder of the season, he will be missed bigstyle come march. over the moontho, the most positive signing united have made since rooney :grin: :grin:

[STEVIEG]

probably being greedy, but id love to see him signed for the remainder of the season, he will be missed bigstyle come march.


Yeah not gonna happen according to Fergie, he's defo going back in March

[parrotbait]

Unbelievable signing for Man Yoo imo, reckon he'll do a good job there pity he didn't come until now to the premiership. Meant to be a consumate pro,hard trainer and the esteem he is held at in Barca says something given the short time he was there, seeing the farewell they gave him when he left was incredible. didn't realise he scored so many for barca http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzVNtHS7PYo

Hope this doesn't happen again(I'm not a Man u supporter but wanna see him do well!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsmLa5Jr8EU

[POL]

last desperate throw of the dice from Fergie, a week is a short time in football, chelsea have him rattled and badly rattled and its not even christmas

[STEVIEG]

last desperate throw of the dice from Fergie, a week is a short time in football, chelsea have him rattled and badly rattled and its not even christmas


League table?

[Paddy Wagon]

Isnt it great to see the papers (tabloids) had'nt a clue about this deal aswell.. Looked at the sun over lunch and there wasnt a mention of it...

[KolaKubes]

Are you drunk????

All that matters is the league for me this year.

Not being involved in the CL after January would suit me fine but maybe get through and knocked out straight away but in respectable fashion would be grand.

[POL]

Why Larsson should side-step an ingrate England

Kevin McCarra
Tuesday December 9, 2003
The Guardian

Henrik Larsson has answered many challenges over the years, but he should not bother taking on the parochialism of the Premiership.

The Swede is sure to receive offers from that quarter. Spurs inquired in the summer, Steve Bruce has a seemingly fanciful hope of bringing him to Birmingham City and yesterday it was reported that Newcastle United could make a bid in next month's transfer window. It will, however, be a while before the striker decides whether he should confront the odd, patronising attitude that exists towards him south of the border.

Larsson has never been the sort of individual to let other people's
interests determine his plans. Should Celtic go out of the Champions League tomorrow, there might conceivably be a case for them accepting, say, a £3m bid for a player who is out of contract in the summer. The forward, however, will have no truck with such a scheme.

"This suggestion is completely ridiculous - Henrik will finish his career in Scotland with Celtic at the end of this season," said Rob Jansen. The agent, however, did deliver a small surprise with his other comment: "Of course, he will consider offers from the Premiership if they come in then."

That possibility had not appeared to be among the options that Larsson was prepared to allow himself. He had floated the idea of going home to his first significant club Helsingborg, but that looked like an implausibly soft-headed scheme for a player who, at 32, is only just coming towards the end of his prime years. On other occasions Larsson has talked of moving to a country with kinder weather.

There ought to be enough energy and ambition left form him to resist the invitation to join superannuated stars in the lucrative showbiz football of Qatar. Spain might appeal. There have been suggestions of interest from Barcelona, but having hauled Celtic back to respectability almost as soon as he had joined them in 1997 Larsson ought to be excused the punishing task of redeeming another dysfunctional club.

In general, though, he would be wise to go south, and far past the A69 that leads to Tyneside. Any Scot living in England can imagine, wearily, just how his arrival at St James's Park would be greeted. Solemn articles would appear about his mission to prove himself in the Premiership, as if all his previous life had been nothing more than an audition for that august stage.

Larsson has been too good a player to suffer such condescension. Well-meaning English football fans will ask you conversationally if the Swede could cut it outside of Scotland. Although he won the golden boot in 2001 by scoring 53 goals that season a total of those dimensions seems to undermine a forward's achievement even as it underlines it. Statistics like that may just bring the Scottish Premierleague further into disrepute.

The public at large is immune to awe on learning that Larsson, with about three goals to every four appearances, scores at a faster rate than any striker in Celtic's history other than Jimmy McGrory, who had the advantage of facing the cursory defending of the 1920s. People will be indifferent to that, but they should not be excused from making a more detailed examination of his career.

Forget Scotland and think instead of Istanbul in September 2001. Sweden were losing to Turkey with three minutes to go, but Larsson then equalised and laid on a winner to ensure qualification for the 2002 World Cup. Although Sweden lasted a round fewer than England at that tournament, the forward, with a tally of three, scored a goal more than Michael Owen. The Swedish president of Uefa, Lennart Johansson, recently wrote an open letter that asked him, without success, to resume his international career at Euro 2004. Larsson, with 32 goals so far, also holds the British club record in European competition. Starting in the Champions League qualifiers and ending in the Uefa Cup final, he scored in at least one match against every side he faced there last season.

Those with a demented conviction that English opposition represent the
ultimate challenge can study the Uefa Cup ties. Larsson hit a goal in each leg against Blackburn Rovers. He later made a quick recovery from a broken jaw that seemed unusual to the medics, but was entirely expected by supporters who then saw him give Celtic the lead against Liverpool at the start of the quarter-final. Slipshod defending is part of Premiership culture, though, and Larsson has overcome greater adversaries.

English football would still treat Larsson as a trialist if he materialised in its midst. It does not deserve him.

[STEVIEG]

Big difference between Birmingham, Newcastle and Man United
That's very old what's the point?

[POL]

at the end of the day its all about money, soccer is a disgusting business

ps, I really have ye all over the place today, I feel so proud, a one man operation causing mayhem, the Michael Stone of the Sports forum

[STEVIEG]

at the end of the day its all about money, soccer is a disgusting business

ps, I really have ye all over the place today, I feel so proud, a one man operation causing mayhem, the Michael Stone of the Sports forum


You without Lamps is like Arsenal without Henry

[Sound]

at the end of the day its all about money, soccer is a disgusting business

ps, I really have ye all over the place today, I feel so proud, a one man operation causing mayhem, the Michael Stone of the Sports forum

Wake up lad, yer being owned all over the place. I blame Fallon.

[AmadeusDC]

You without Lamps is like Arsenal without Henry

Class!! LMFAO............... he is a lost soul right now alright. hee heh

-AmadeusDC-

[Langer Dan]

Hmm, genuinely shocked when I heard this one,

fuck it , if he can cut it in La Liga, then why not the Premiership at 35.

lEGEND OF A PLAYER IRRESPECTIVE OF HOW HIS SOJOURN AT OT PANS OUT!

[xvis]

WOW!!!

excellent news! ..just heard it
...and my swedish flatmate beside me has just been reminiscing about bollocking him for his home town team Helsingborgs back in 1993.

great move all round, ...will give a boost to the club, and will be good for Rooney to play around for a bit.

.excellent.

[Loftydog]

Great sigining

[sunbabe08]

yes!!!!!!!!! going to old trafford in march to watch man u vs bolton. get to see larsson playing in the flesh. fawking sweet!!!!!!!!!!

[MonTheHoops]

Larsson Will Earn £1.25m : Daily Mail - Bob Cass : 3rd Dec '06

Henrik Larsson will be the highest-paid player at Manchester United, earning an astonishing £1.25 million for the three months he will spend at Old Trafford after last week’s dramatic swoop for the 35-year-old former Swedish international. United’s offer of £125,000 a week was one Larsson could not refuse — not even when his former club, Barcelona, attempted to hijack the United deal.

The contract edges him ahead of England stars Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney as the club’s top dressing-room earner. "This is a dream opportunity for me, which I just could not turn down,’ said Larsson. He is scheduled to make his United debut in the New Year’s Day clash at Newcastle United, the day after Old Trafford manager Sir Alex Ferguson’s 65th birthday.

Larsson’s final appearance for United before rejoining his hometown club, Helsingborgs, for the re-opening of the Swedish season is likely to be against Liverpool on March 3.

Christ!

[STEVIEG]

The deal is dependant on games played apparently

[west cork rebel]

i wonder what are the odds that Larrsson will score more goals then Shevchenko in the league, for his three month stay.

[STEVIEG]

i wonder what are the odds that Larrsson will score more goals then Shevchenko in the league, for his three month stay.


The newspapers are linking Shevchenko with Newcastle today
Do they have nothing better to write?


He actually had a great shot at goal during the week aaginst Bolton i think he will start clicking very soon

[xvis]

yes!!!!!!!!! going to old trafford in march to watch man u vs bolton. get to see larsson playing in the flesh. fawking sweet!!!!!!!!!!

..he's due to be gone by that game sunbabes. March 3rd v Liverpool should be the last.


unless he changes his mind. ...the move is looking more and more unusual, in that Larsson is only available for 7 league matches, ...which would not be enough to earn him a league medal should United go on to win it.


I'm thinking there may be an option available to alter/extend the contract if things are going nicely.

[Paddy Wagon]

He actually had a great shot at goal during the week aaginst Bolton i think he will start clicking very soon

Agreed, You know what they say form is temporary class is permanent...