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• Deals for Wesley Sneijder and Samir Nasri 'dead'
• No more signings this summer, says chief executive
• No more signings this summer, says chief executive
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- guardian.co.uk, Friday 29 July 2011 23.39 BST
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Manchester United have been linked with Internazionale's Dutch international Wesley Sneijder but a deal now seems out of the question. Photograph: Giampiero Sposito/Reuters
Manchester United are close to tying Javier Hernández and Antonio Valencia to new contracts but increasingly losing hope when it comes to bringing a top central midfielder to Old Trafford, with a potential deal for Wesley Sneijder or Samir Nasri described as "dead".
David Gill, the United chief executive, believes there will be no more signings this summer unless the two clubs involved – Internazionale and Arsenal – indicate otherwise when United return from their pre-season tour of the US. The same also applies to Tottenham Hotspur, with Luka Modric, another player Ferguson covets.
Asked about Sneijder, Gill said: "We didn't progress that one. I'm not doing anything on anything at the moment, so they are all dead."
Gill said, however, that the situation could change before the end of the transfer window. "The important point is that you never know. I've been around in football long enough to know things change quickly. Somebody may become available and we can then say we are interested."
But United are working on the basis that their transfer business is done for the summer, with £50m spent on Ashley Young, David de Gea and Phil Jones. United's suspicion is that, if Nasri were to leave, he would favour Manchester City because of the higher wages at Eastlands, while the brief and exploratory talks for Sneijder never developed beyond preliminary contact. Gill denied reports that he had been to Milan to meet Inter officials.
Instead the club have turned their attention towards agreeing new deals with several key players now that Owen Hargreaves, Paul Scholes, Wes Brown, John O'Shea and Edwin van der Sar are no longer on their wage bill.
Valencia has provisionally agreed a new contract, to be announced next week, and talks are also at an advanced stage with Hernández. Park Ji-sung is close, too, to finalising a two-year extension that will leave Dimitar Berbatov as the only player at Old Trafford in the final year of his contract.
The Bulgarian may have to wait until next year before his future is discussed but Gill said there was nothing sinister behind the delay. "People keep telling me he's in the final year of his contract but there is an option on the club's side to extend Dimitar's contract by another year. We can do it whenever we want, there are no conditions around it and that means, in effect, he has two years to go.
"Everyone has been talking about Berbatov from the outside, saying
David Gill, the United chief executive, believes there will be no more signings this summer unless the two clubs involved – Internazionale and Arsenal – indicate otherwise when United return from their pre-season tour of the US. The same also applies to Tottenham Hotspur, with Luka Modric, another player Ferguson covets.
Asked about Sneijder, Gill said: "We didn't progress that one. I'm not doing anything on anything at the moment, so they are all dead."
Gill said, however, that the situation could change before the end of the transfer window. "The important point is that you never know. I've been around in football long enough to know things change quickly. Somebody may become available and we can then say we are interested."
But United are working on the basis that their transfer business is done for the summer, with £50m spent on Ashley Young, David de Gea and Phil Jones. United's suspicion is that, if Nasri were to leave, he would favour Manchester City because of the higher wages at Eastlands, while the brief and exploratory talks for Sneijder never developed beyond preliminary contact. Gill denied reports that he had been to Milan to meet Inter officials.
Instead the club have turned their attention towards agreeing new deals with several key players now that Owen Hargreaves, Paul Scholes, Wes Brown, John O'Shea and Edwin van der Sar are no longer on their wage bill.
Valencia has provisionally agreed a new contract, to be announced next week, and talks are also at an advanced stage with Hernández. Park Ji-sung is close, too, to finalising a two-year extension that will leave Dimitar Berbatov as the only player at Old Trafford in the final year of his contract.
The Bulgarian may have to wait until next year before his future is discussed but Gill said there was nothing sinister behind the delay. "People keep telling me he's in the final year of his contract but there is an option on the club's side to extend Dimitar's contract by another year. We can do it whenever we want, there are no conditions around it and that means, in effect, he has two years to go.
"Everyone has been talking about Berbatov from the outside, saying
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