Yes i think so, it all depends on how badly Thiago's dream is to be a success at Barcelona and specifically at Barcelona, he knows he's good enough its whether he wants to wait that bit longer to do it at Barca or take the plunge and in essence play the risk verses reward card, if he leaves now to United he goes straight into the team and is given his head so to speak, he gets centre stage, basically what he wants at barca but cant currently get, the risk comes with the different style of football and the challenges a new league represents, maybe he sees those risks as more an exciting worthwhile challenge that will improve him as a player and make him a more rounded one, he can then claim to be able to play the barca tika taka style as well the quicker paced premier league style, maybe to him he feels it would improve him as a player to do this and maybe even more of a challenge than to merely succeed in his comfort zone at Barcelona, or of course maybe its more important to do this at Barca therefore hes willing to wait, a question only he can answer, i really don't believe its about money at all i think he genuinely fears losing another 2 or 3 years of his development as a footballer waiting for others to pass on the baton.
Regards Xavi, thats a possibility he being willing to sacrifice some of his minutes for a player yu see as your clubs future, but thats again where Cescs involvement becomes troublesome, for Thiago at least, he seems to be having to fight so many battles that up until now in the coaches mind at least hes not winning and is this going to change? so far Tito says not, the signing of Fabregas seemed an odd one at the time from the outside, one of the first things people questioned was would this impact Thiago and his development including thiagos people themselves, i think weve had the answer since, if Thiago does leave i feel its as much the result of Fabregas signing as Xavi not slowing down quick enough in my view, i genuinely think if you took fabregas out of the equation Thiago would be that much closer to guaranteed football and less anxious about his future, hed know he was next in line and would likely be willing to wait that bit longer, now Fabregas is around hes not even guaranteed to be first pick after xavi retires, i think thats where the problem is, i think the fabregas signing from day 1 never sat well with Thiago and his farther and they were convinced from the very beginning it would have a negative effect on his career, maybe theres that sense of "see we told you this would happen all along" about it, Mazinho strikes me as someone who may think along those lines.
As for us, i dont know, Thiago is everything weve been lacking for some time, since Scholes dramatically slowed down weve not had that classy central midfield player who can both run a game and win one in at the same time, someone whos good enough to star from the middle of the park, weve had capable players who do good jobs Carrick does his specific role very well but hes not a Scholes, and we badly need one, Thiago in our side would make a world of difference and thats why so many united fans are desperate for this to happen, id be very confident a Carrick - Thiago combination would be a great success, we havnt done to badly with cleverly in that role and thiago is a monumental upgrade on him, there would probably be an adjusting period of course but id be very surprised if he wasn't a huge success story, hed have to be mismanaged horrendously to fail in my book hes to talented not to succeed.
Moyes should and will get time, there will always bee the odd few who jump on the bandwagon and you can bet your life after the first loss there will be screams off "wed never have lost that under fergie" thats life, but given time and backing i think he could do very well, he made Everton one of the most respected and hated sides for opposition to play, he had them regularly giving the big teams a hard time especially at home, with teams that just looked so poor on paper because he had no money to spend throughout his tenure, i quietly optimistic if he can achieve what he did at everton on that budget he'll do well with far greater resources at United, but yes it will take time and there will be testing periods where both the club and the fans will have to stand by him, United fans have been spoilt for decades with Ferguson, that was never going to last forever, maybe a bit of reality will do us all good strange as that sounds, im 26 years old and never known anything different than Sir alex ferguson Manchester United manager lol
And yes that Nani red card was heartbreaking and im still not over it! we had Madrid exactly where we wanted them chasing the game leaving us gaps to break on them rather than vise versa, Mourinhio knew we had him to which makes it doubly frustrating, ill never forget that Turkish refs name thats for sure!
