Angel Di Maria
Devil Di Maria

One point!!!!!!!

Being positive

Having poured a lot of our million this season, we are doomed if we don't get into the champions league or win at least a trophy. Worried we end up like Liverpool a few season back or worse, Leeds

11.50 BST: Angel Di Maria's presentation date has been set!

After Owen 7 and Valencia 7, hoping that Di Maria is worthy enough for the sacred number.

Later woodward buy back vida from inter and everybody will rage

Vidaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!?????

Angel Di Maria to Manchester United: Winger was once sold for 35 footballs - now it's £60m

When the winger, who used to work in a coal yard with the rest of his family, was transferred as a youngster, the fee was not much to shout about.

By PAUL SMITH
Monday 25 August 2014

Britain’s most expensive player Angel Di Maria will cost Manchester United a staggering £60m – a sum that somewhat dwarfs the first transfer fee the 26-year-old commanded: 35 footballs.

Di Maria, one of three children born to Miguel and Diana, grew up in the city of Perdriel in the Mendoza district of west Argentina. He was obsessed with football and spent every waking hour taking to the streets with friends in his neighbourhood. When scouts from Rosario Central first spotted him there was a minor issue as he was already committed to playing for the local side Torito.

“They drove a hard bargain to release me,” recalled Di Maria. “The transfer fee was 35 footballs. That probably puts into perspective where I was and how much it took to get me. Mind you I was very young, about four so I’m not sure it really counts.”

Mind you, the hyperactive youngster was lucky to make it past his first birthday. The family had moved to a new home which was falling apart and Di Maria fell down a well in the garden. “My mother always recalls the story,” Di Maria added. “I was a year old and had a baby walker and went outside and fell into a well. I was lucky because they saved me in time otherwise I wouldn’t be here to talk about it.”
 
That was the first of many incidents that prompted Di Maria’s mother to take him to a doctor because she was concerned there might be something wrong with him. However, he believes it was the start of his career in the game.

“My mother got tired of me breaking everything in the house so she took me to see a doctor when I was three. I was running around the examination room breaking everything. The doctor just said ‘Sign him up for a sport’ and that is where my career began.”

Growing up in relative poverty has taught Di Maria to appreciate the finer things in life. “I had a humble upbringing and grew up playing on the streets of Perdriel. We didn’t have much. Our house was small and I shared a room with my sister. But I don’t feel angry. There are people who are a lot worse off. My values come from my upbringing. Humility, to become someone in life. My childhood was about having enough to eat, having the bare necessities.

“My parents worked so they could earn enough to buy me a pair of football boots. It’s something I will always keep inside me. For me to play football and have boots meant my two sisters went without.

“My father worked at a coal yard with my mother. It was a horrible existence and when the weather was bad all they had was a metal roof over their heads. But both me and my sisters worked at the coal yard as well. I started aged 10 and by the time I was 15 I was helping with deliveries. It was hard work.

“I often think how lucky I am to have football. I was a terrible student. If I didn’t have football I would have continued to work in the coal yard. What else would I have done?

“My father worked at that coal yard for 16 years until I made him give up work when I joined Benfica. It was nice to be in a position to be able to do that and say ‘Dad, you don’t have to do this any more’.

“I was heartbroken for my father because he could have played football but got a serious knee injury playing for River Plate reserves. My mother always reminds me how lucky I am and that I am doing what my father wanted to do, I am living his dream.

“None the less he is a very kind and wise man. Family means everything to him and I feel blessed that I am now in a position to repay him and my family and make sure they don’t have to struggle. My father made so many sacrifices for me. I will always remember what he said when Benfica made a bid for me: ‘Son, this train only passes by once in a lifetime so you have to get on and go forward.’"
 
Di Maria’s mother also made sacrifices for her son. “When I began to play for Rosario Central when I was six it took us 30 minutes to get to the training ground,” he added. “She took me on a bicycle, three of us on that bike. I would sit on the back and my younger sister would sit on a seat on the handlebars and my mother would ride the bike. It was hard during winter. Can you believe we did this for seven years?

“My mother is religious too. She is the one who blesses me and gives me strength before games. She lights candles for me before every game. Religion is important for all of us. My wife, Jorgelina, also lights candles for God to bless me and look over me.”

On the field Di Maria has a reputation for being a relentless runner with extraordinary stamina. “I have frequently left the field when an opponent asks where I get the strength to run so much. But I have always been the same, it’s just the way I am. I never stop running.

“I’m very focused, rarely get emotional. I think I have only ever cried once in my career when I got injured playing for Argentina in the semi-final of the Under-20 World Cup against Chile. I was heartbroken to miss the final and wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Naturally I get goosebumps in big games but in general I don’t let emotion give way to weakness.

“I like to think I have given my family back something by buying them houses and gifts. Hopefully I will be able to continue doing that until my career ends.” With his cut of the transfer fee, he will.

He looks like an angel in white. might fancy myself with away.

This post has been edited by damnself: Aug 26 2014, 11:05 PM

I think he is confirm will take the number 7. The reason he didn't hold the jersey with his name and number because they ran out of R.

Manchester United put a sign outside the store to state they ran out of the letter 'R'

The Manchester United superstore ran out of the letter 'R' with supporters clambering for an Angel Di Maria shirt.

A sign was put outside the official club store informing fans that there were no ‘R’ letters left in black print.

Di Maria is set to sign for Manchester United for a British record transfer fee of £59.7million plus-add-ons and will earn £200,000-a-week in wages.

He is expected to join up with his new United teammates at training on Thursday and the club hope to formalise his work permit and registration by 12noon Friday.

The Argentine international will have a medical on Tuesday before he is unveiled as a Manchester United signing.

The move will take United's signing over the £160million mark for the calendar year. He will become the club's fourth signing of the summer. 

Need to have a dupe in here so everytime kene thrash, can let loose the dupe.

Casanova88

It was actually a sarcasm post

On paper should be 'ok'..worried about Everton and Chelsea.

'Ok-ok' pun kene tibai 4-0 jgk

Kasi loan je la Alex Song if Arturo Vidal too expensive. Or buy cheap Nigel De Jong. Later bought Vidal expensively later turn out leg made of glass. Lagi sakit hati.

And buy Blind and we are good to go.

Xabi Alonso to Bayern?????

Why didn't we even attempt to get him?????

I don't think we are going for Vidal or Carvalho. Blind most probably will be playing as defensive midfielder.

So who is the centre back that we are chasing?

Forgot about Rojo since he don't have a permit yet

My bad.

Ok Rooney..i sacrifice Yaya and Aguero in my fantasy. Don't let me down.

Inb4 Yaya assist and Aguero hatrick. Confirm aku rage nanti.

^takut amik Di Maria. Afraid he is still adapting. I have Young in my team

Sakitnya mata tgk game ni