United out as Inter stick with Sneijder

IF Manchester United are to sign a midfielder in this transfer window, then it won’t now be Wesley Sneijder.

Neither will the Dutchman be leaving the San Siro nor Carlos Tevez going to Inter Milan, with all of the prospective moves interlinked in a complicated money merry-go-round.

Although any transfer activity at Old Trafford is now unlikely, the Irish Examiner understands that Alex Ferguson had looked into the possibility of revisiting a deal for Sneijder this January. A summer transfer to United collapsed due to the playmaker’s wage demands and it is understood that any new deal would have entailed a merry-go-round similarly dependent on available cash.