Two young United players made loan moves today.

19 year old Midfielder, Danny Drinkwater has been at United since he was 9 or 10 but has yet to make his first-team debut and has today moved to Huddersfield on a season-long loan.

Meanwhile, 22 year old defender Danny Simpson has moved to Newcastle on loan until the end of the year and could well feature in their League game against Reading tomorrow.

Fraizer Campbell Joins Sunderland

Fraizer Campbell has joined Steve Bruce’s Sunderland on a four year contract.

United will receive an initial £3.5 Million which could rise to £6 Million should various criteria be met, details of which are a little hard to find but I hope they don’t include Sunderland qualifying for the Champions League!

Campbell is Bruce’s first signing for Sunderland and it looks like a decent one to me.

Fraizer himself had this to say, “Sunderland are a massive club with great ambition and I have a really good gut feeling about this move.”

All the best Fraizer.

Cristiano Ronaldo

The most tedious and long-running transfer saga of the 21st Century finally looks set to be concluded in the next couple of weeks as Manchester United have given Real Madrid permission to speak to Cristiano Ronaldo following an £80 Million offer for the player.

The Manchester United website contained the following statement this morning:-

“Manchester United have received a world-record, unconditional offer of £80million for Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid.”

“At Cristiano’s request – who has again expressed his desire to leave – and after discussion with the player’s representatives, United have agreed to give Real Madrid permission to talk to the player.”

“Matters are expected to be concluded by 30 June. The club will not comment until further notice.”

Transfer activity at Manchester United has been virtually non-existent since the end of the season but perhaps that is all about to change – things are getting interesting!