Angel di Maria jadi Penyelamat Masa Depan MU?
Is This United`s Saviour? Angel Di Maria Arrives at Carrington
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
Manchester (B2B) - Manchester United telah menyepakati suatu nilai transfer yang menembus rekor Inggris sebesar 59,7 juta poundsterling (99 juta dolar) untuk memperoleh Angel di Maria dari Real Madrid.
MU akan mengumumkan transfernya itu secara resmi Selasa (Rabu WIB), demikian diberitakan media massa Inggris, seperti dilansir Yahoo Sports.
Pemain sayap Argentina itu tiba di Manchester, Senin, dan harus menjalani pemeriksaan medis pada Selasa, tulis sejumlah surat kabar Inggris.
Nilai transfer itu melewati angka 50 juta poundsterling yang dibayarkan klub Liga Utama Inggris, Chelsea, kepada rivalnya, Liverpool, untuk memperoleh striker Spanyol Fernando Torres tahun 2011.
Namun United hingga kini menolak untuk berkomentar.
Di Maria diperoleh Real dengan nilai transfer sebesar 20 juta poundsterling dari Benfica pada 2010 dan dia menjadi pemain penting bagi tim itu yang memenangkan Piala Eropa ke-10 klub tersebut pada musim lalu.
Tetapi dia dicoret dari daftar pemain tim bagi pertandingan Piala Super Spanyol pekan lalu.
di Maria (26) menolak suatu kesepakatan baru di Bernabeu dan pelatih Carlo Ancelotti mengatakan, Minggu (24/8), dia sudah menyampaikan ucapan perpisahaan dengan sesama pemain dan staf.
Manchester - Manchester United announced on Tuesday that they have signed Argentina winger Angel di Maria from Real Madrid for a British-record transfer fee of £59.7 million ($98 million, 75 million euros).
On top of a British-record transfer fee, Manchester United´s new signing Angel di Maria must also contend with expectations that he will revitalise one of the world´s greatest sporting institutions.
United had already spent around £72 million ($119 million, 90 million euros) during the close season on Luke Shaw, Ander Herrera and Marcos Rojo, but Di Maria´s arrival from Real Madrid for £59.7 million saddles him with very different pressures.
As the man of the match from last season´s Champions League final and a player who made the 10-man shortlist for the Golden Ball at the World Cup, the 26-year-old Argentina international arrives at his absolute peak.
And with United in danger of being cut adrift in the Premier League after a seventh-place finish last season and a poor start to the new campaign, he will be expected to sprinkle stardust over Old Trafford from the start.
It is only Real Madrid´s insatiable thirst for superstar signings that has obliged Di Maria to leave the Spanish capital and in acquiring his services, United have demonstrated that their absence from European competition need not prove a deterrent for the world´s biggest players.
For the club´s fans, it is a transfer that has been a long time coming.
Not since Rio Ferdinand joined from Leeds United in 2002 for a fee of £29.1 million have United broken the British transfer record.
