Giuseppi Rossi Could Come Back, But Will He ?

Guiseppe Rossi was an outstanding prospect for Manchester United and we sold him for £6.6m to Villareal. Not because he was no use to us, but purely and simply because the guy wanted first team football and Sir Alex Ferguson will NEVER guarantee that for any player.

Since he went to Villareal, he has enjoyed a lengthy run in the first team and has been scoring freely too. I would imagine he will be in action against United tomorrow as Villareal are their opponents in the Champions League.

The winner of this game will become favourites to top the group. How annoying and ironic if he were to score the winner against us.

Rossi is actually Italian-American and signed for Parma as a young boy, his father moved to Italy with him in order for him to follow his footballing dream.

When he was seventeen years old Manchester United bought his contract and Rossi enjoyed a great run in both the youth team and the reserves.

At the beginning of the 2006-07 season he went north to Newcastle on a loan spell and scored once for them, but he made an impression at the club.

For the second half of the same season he was loaned out again, this time to his original team Parma where he scored nine times in nineteen games helping to save them from relegation to Serie B.

After this period he was being pursued by a host of European clubs and he was making demands on United for first team football, so they eventually let him go for £6.6m with a buy back clause in his contract.

Manchester United have first option to buy him back should he come up for sale. Fergie has talked of this option but whether or not he signs him again is doubtful. I feel it is just Sir Alex keeping his options open.