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Manchester United have £36m bid for Fellaini and Baines rejected

By on August 29, 2013

20130829-215742.jpgManchester United have had an improved £36 million bid for Everton pair Marouane Fellaini and Leighton Baines rejected only days before the end of the transfer window.

Manager David Moyes previously saw a ludicrous £28m joint offer for the pair, in a deal that valued Fellaini at a skimpy £18 million and Baines worth £12m, which Everton flatly refused and labeled “derisory and insulting.” Although United have added a further £8m to the bid, Everton would have to be nuts to sell the Belgian midfielder and English full-back for what players like Willian and Robin van Persie cost alone in today’s market. Talks between the two clubs are still believed to be being held though, as Moyes looks to reunite with the pair he coached only last season and make his first big signing of a disappointing transfer window for the Red Devils. But United must get a move on their negotiations or suck up to the Toffes’ valuation of Fellaini and Baines, though to be around £50m, if the deal is to be completed before Monday’s transfer deadline.

The value Fellaini and Baines is tricky to find after Fellaini’s contract with a £23.5m buyout clause expired on July 31st, and the latter nears his thirties.

Everton’s stance on whether the pair will leave the club still remains firm, although manager Roberto Martinez claimed to not know about the current situation surrounding Baines and Fellaini. “I am not aware of it,” he said of another United bid. “I have told the chairman I don’t want to know anything that’s going on, I only want to know the final news if there is anything.

“I have had enough of ‘he said this, he said that’. This is a really sensitive situation because you’re talking of a chairman and previous manager [Moyes] who had a relationship over 11 years. A lot of things have been said in public and I don’t want to be part of that. I’m out of it. But I have never had any instruction that anything has changed.”

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