Manchester United will have been flabbergasted by Manchester City’s shock last minute, albeit uncompleted, move for Dimitri Berbatov. The Bulgarian forward was all set to be the spearhead of what would have been the most potent striking force in the Premiership.

However as City’s bid was accepted United are in a whole lot of bother; with no out and out, established centre forward to speak of, Ferguson will be forced to push either Rooney or Tevez out of their second striker position and into the goal poacher’s position. By doing this he will cut down the chosen player’s impact immensely and even then the ability to score goals from half-chances, which would be taken as a given with a player like Berbatov, will be greatly diminshed. The other option is to bring out a young or reserve player to fill the position; this would leave Rooney and Tevez to do what they do they do best, but again the likelyhood is that many of the difficult chances would be missed.

With the transfer window closing tonight United are running out of options; the failure to capture Berbatov may make for a difficult season for the red side of Manchester.

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Stay updated on the latest transfers in the Premier League today on deadline day, which marks the end of the August transfer window (extended one day because the last day of August was a Sunday):

• Fraizer Campbell (England) joins Tottenham Hotspur from Man United,
• Dimitar Berbatov (Bulgaria) joins Manchester United from Spurs,
• Martin Cranie (England) joins Charlton from Portsmouth,
• Robinho (Brazil) joins Manchester City from Real Madrid,
• George McCartney (Ireland) joins Sunderland from West Ham United,
• Antoine Sibierski (France) joins Norwich City from Wigan Athletic,
• Alexei Smertin (Russia) has had his Fulham contract cancelled by mutual consent,
• Julian Gray (England) joins Fulham from Coventry City,
• Danny Higginbotham (England) joins Stoke from Sunderland,
• Carlo Nash (England) joins Everton from Wigan,
• Albert Riera (Spain) joins Liverpool from Espanyol,
• Collins John (Holland) joins NEC Nijmegen from Fulham,
• Ryan Donk (Holland) joins West Brom from AZ Alkmaar,
• Andriy Voronin (Ukraine) joins Hertha Berlin on a season-long loan from Liverpool,
• Steve Bunn (England) signs for Blackburn Rovers from Northampton Town; amazingly this one of the very few transfers today involving English players in the Premier League,
• Steve Finnan (Ireland) joins Espanyol from Liverpool,
• Rachid Bouaouzan (Holland) joins NEC Nijmegen on a one-year loan deal from Wigan Athletic,
  
• Peter Gulacsi (Hungary) joins Liverpool from MTK Hungaria as a backup goalkeeper,
• Louis Saha (France) joins Everton from Manchester United,
• Nadir Belhadj (Algeria) joins Portsmouth on a season-long loan from Lens,
  
• Vitor Flora (Brazil) joins Liverpool from Botafogo,
  
• Ignacio Gonzalez (Uruguay) joins Newcastle United on loan from Valencia,
  
• Blerim Dzemaili (Switzerland) joins Torino from Bolton on a season-long loan,
  
• Vedran Corluka (Croatia) joins Tottenham Hotspur from Manchester City,
• Roman Pavlyuchenko (Russia) joins Tottenham Hotspur from Spartak Moscow,
• Xisco (Spain) joins Newcastle United from Deportivo de La Coruna,

In a recent development, Manchester City’s new owners have reportedly put a bid in for Dimitri Berbatov in excess of £30 million.

Keep on returning throughout the day for the confirmations of the latest transfers.

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