Manchester United

Sir Alex Ferguson o svemu po malo :
c/p redcafe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/feb/21/sir-alex-ferguson-manchester-united-interview

O Sitiju:
He smiles, for example, all the way through this observation about Manchester City: "We've got a noisy neighbour. Although you don't like it, they never stop. You know when you've got a noisy neighbour and they keep the radio on all the time? What can you do? You can complain to the council, you can bang on their wall, you can go to their door, but they still keep their music on. So what do you do? You get used to it."

O Runiju:
"When Rooney first came to us he was the best I've ever seen at turning round a defender and running at him. There was a period – whether it was transition, or whether he was trying to mentally change what type of player he was – when he stopped doing that. So we spoke to him, took him in a couple of sessions after training, and said: get back to turning on the defender. It's as if he's walked in another door.

"His temperament's improved. He's not rushing about doing the silly things. He's maturing well in that way. It's great to see that. He's a fantastic boy. He'd give you anything. He'd give you his last penny. He's that type. He's generous in everything. I say to him – there's someone here who wants to meet you, and he says 'Aye, no problem.' He's so free with his time. So he has these wonderful qualities that you don't get a lot in people today. I have to say he's blessed with these things. And I don't think he will change. His wife [Coleen] seems exactly the same. She's clued in, wise, clever, she listens."

O Ronaldu:
"Ronaldo was sold simply because the boy wanted to leave. I did well to keep him another year. When we sat down, you could see it in his eyes. He said: 'Boss, I just want to play for Real Madrid, it's nothing against Manchester United. I'm going to go because it will be an experience for me.' The only reason he was sold was because the boy fervently wanted to leave. He played that extra season, did fantastically for us, and after the Cup final [the Champions League loss to Barcelona] came to me and said: 'Boss, I want to leave.' I said: 'Right, you've done another year, let me consider it.' The next day an offer came in for £80m."

Relations between the world's No1 footballer and the manager who enticed him from Sporting Lisbon at 18 years of age remain unusually cordial. Ferguson says: "I got a text from him last week saying: 'I miss you so much.' I'd texted him to say happy birthday. He was 24. And he said he missed me, and 'thanks for all the kind things you're saying about me'. You *appreciate things like that.

O vlasnicima:
"It's everyone's right, there's no doubt about that. But my problem with it, being manager of Manchester United, is that I've got owners who have never caused me any bother. Any time I've asked for money they've given it to us.

"I can only speak asthe manager, because so far it hasn't in any way affected me financially at all. It's wise always to concentrate on doing your job. I said this to the fans in my programme piece. I've been in the boardroom many times over the years and tried to support the fans' views about certain things in the club, and I've argued for them, without being too contentious. I've made my point. Time and time again I've done that with David Gill and *Martin Edwards through the years.
"But when I walk through that door I'm back as manager of Manchester United. And my job is to make Manchester United the best. That doesn't change. So the stance at the moment with the fans is: I completely understand it. When they were waving these green and gold flags, and scarves, it caught your attention. But it still doesn't change the fact that I have to be manager of my club, and manager of my team, and I've got too many priorities."

Odeljak o Runiju me je posebno oduševio. Sjajan čovek, sjajan fudbaler.
 
FC Bayern Munchen vs. Manchester United
1. program RTS-a, 20:45

Sećanja na duel iz 1999.

Moj tim:
-----------------------VDS------------------------
-Rafael---Ferdinand------Vidić--------Evra-
--------------Kerik----Flečer-------------
Valencia------------Park----------------Nani
--------------------Runi---------------------

Pretpostavljam da će Gigs i Skols ući u drugom poluvremenu, mada je moguće da Skols bude starter a moguće je i da će Nevil biti starter zbog trenutne forme i iskustva, ali ja ga ne bih uvrstio u prvih 11.

Rezultat:
Bayern Munchen 0:1 Manchester United (Park)

Zadovoljan bih bio i nerešenim ishodom uz postignut gol.
 
Poslednja izmena:
Hvala Ligament, barem nešto.
Još ne mogu da poverujem da su dali krvavu Skupštinu koju neće niko ni da gleda.
To su sve političke igre da se pokaže kako se nešto radi i kako je neodložno i po cenu utakmice, ali to je neka druga tema.
Uglavnom, đubrad dzabalebaroška.
 
Ma bre smaraju ovo sa Srebrenicom, više mi je pun ku*ac iste...svake godine po mjesec dana minimum se o tome sere i sere...
Sad oko toga do kasno u noć raspravljaju, a kada treba neki normalan zakon onda kući u 3...'bem ih ja nenormalne.
 
Jako loše. Ne pamtim kad je Evra lošije odigrao, poklonio je drugi pogodak.
Runi sve vreme izolovan, Kerik neprimetan, Skols i Park vrlo loši. Nani je igrao dobro, međutim proveo dosta i u defanzivi zbog Nevila koji je još jednom pokazao da se ne snalazi protiv brzih i direktnih krila kao što je Riberi.
Vidić i Ferdinand solidni, šteta što Vidić nije pogodio gol.
VDS po meni igrač utakmice, sve što je moglo da se odbrani on je odbranio, pa i više od toga.
Izmene takođe vrlo loše. Najviše me brine Runijeva povreda, jer ako je nešto ozbiljnije bojim se da se na Berbatova ne može osloniti u toj meri.
Sve u svemu, da nije te povrede ne bih bio zabrinut pred revanš, ovako postoji strah šta će biti ako Runi ne uspe da se oporavi.
 
I još mi jedna stvar nije jasna u svemu tome, zbog čega se pri rezultatu 0:1 iz igre izvlači igrač sredine terena i ubacuje napadač.
Sad čitam na jednom drugom forumu, isto se ljudi pitaju.
Kerik jeste igrao katastrofalno ali ipak je držao neki balans i na neki način štitio zadnju četvorku.
 
Manchester United to sell players and stadium to pay off £700m debt

BURIED under mountains of debt and interest payments, Manchester United’s American owners have decided to cash in their star players and get rid of the club’s debt in an ambitious plan to be debt-free by 21 December 2011.

With Manchester United expected to win the Premier League and also win the Uefa Champions League, the Glazers have decided that this is the right time to take a calculated loss and pay off a considerable portion of their debt.

While raising the £700m or so required to service the debt + interest payments is no small task, the Glazers are certain that their money-scrimping American ways coupled with naked extortion of the fans will help Manchester United debt-free and hence on the path to being the biggest, richest and most powerful football club ever ™.

Proposed fundraising activities include:

* Selling star players – such as Vidic, Rooney, Ferdinand, Carrick, Hargreaves, Evra, Nani and Anderson. These players will be replaced from the most promising members of the first-team / youth squad, and it is believed that Manchester United have enough depth in their ranks to survive the loss of such front-line players.

* Terminating contracts for high-maintenance, low-value OAPs such as Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Edwin van der Sar. Some reports suggest that the money saved on the combined wages for these players plus the star players sold above will help fund another expansion of Old Trafford to help increase stadium capacity to 100,000, thus pissing on Wembley.

* Dropkicking deadwood out of the club – yes, we’re talking of Dimitar Berbatov and Michael Carrick. The transfer fee from selling these players will be used to buy an Arab, a South African, an Egyptian, a Turk, an American, a Mexican, an Australian, a Canadian and even an Indian. This is all part of Manchester United’s push for globalisation and tapping new markets to – yes, you guessed it – squeeze more money out of the club.

* Pushing Sir Alex Ferguson into retirement (he’s going to win the Champions League this season, after all) and bringing Roy Keane on board. There are rumours that the reserves team might be scrapped and the money to be spent more on the scouting network in an effort to find young talent – as young as 6 years in some cases – to bring to Old Trafford. The money saved on managerial wages is to be used to setup a cheerleader squad whose main aim will be to distract referees, distract opposition players and distract opposition managers (in that order). Fans will be asked to pay for the traveling expenses of the Manchester United Cheerleaders Squad (MUCS).

* Selling 50% of Old Trafford to Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra after the expansion to 100k in a unique ground-sharing bid. This will net Manchester United £300m plus the rights to the City of Manchester stadium, which they will then develop and sell off to raise another £100m.

In an exclusive interview to Soccerlens, Malcom Glazer said:

We’re working very hard to raise money to pay off the debt – in fact, I’ve even instructed players to start donating their kits back to the club instead of exchanging them or throwing them to the fans, so we can sell them on Ebay and get some money out of it. They even have instructions to grab shirts from opposition players and turn them in. To make it fun, we’ve turned it into a contest, with a United shirt earning 1 point and an opposition shirt 2 points. The 11 players with the most points at the end of the season will stay, the rest will be sold on to bring in more profits to the club.

Even the marquee players – those that come from places like China and Korea – have to play this game – but they get a 100 points for convincing a countryman to join the United youth team, just to make it a bit easy for them to win.

And it’s not just the shirts – socks, boots, shorts – they all count. Do you have any idea how much a pair of Cesc shorts goes for on Ebay? All the Arsenal fans are nuts, they pay more than the girls do for Rooney’s shorts!

Already United have made deals for Vidic, Rooney and Ferdinand, as well as arranged for Darren Fletcher contract to be terminated at the end of this season in exchange for a £10m payment by an unknown club. Many more players are expected to leave in this summer exodus, and the Glazers hope to make around £300m in transfer fee earnings this summer. Coupled with the potential sale of Old Trafford in 2010 (once the 100k capacity is reached) to net Manchester United another £400m, Manchester United look set to meet their debt targets by 21 December 2011, the date set by Malcolm Glazer.

Sources close to the Glazers say that if Manchester United are not debt-free by this date, it could mean the end of the world.

No comments yet on the rumours that Glazers will help the Thailand police to frame and arrest Thaksin Shinawatra in return for getting back their 50% of the stadium – all before 21 December 2011.

Do you think that Manchester United can win the Premier League next season?

Soccerlens.com
 
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