The Gossip: August

official website: "Berbatov is finishing his medical and if everything is good he will be one of our players. There were a lot of clubs interested in him but we were able and capable of getting him. He was on my list all the time. I tried to do something months ago and it didn’t come off so I came back and it was the right moment for him to make his decision." As for Dembele, he stated: " If he'd stayed, it would have been good for him. He could have moved on in a year's time to another club but he'd decided to go earlier."

30/8/2012: Warren Joyce was non-committal on the prospect of players heading out on loan this week, when quizzed on the subject by MUTV. The Under-21s boss said: "I don't know, to be fair. You never know as there are always people looking at our players. But it's for the manager to decide each individual case and see what's required here."

30/8/2012: The Daily Telegraph reckons United are looking to either sell or loan out Federico Macheda and Bebe before tomorrow's transfer window. Bursaspor are keen on Macheda but no clubs are yet being