now i understand why SAF dont play nani as much last season..
with valencia adapting to united colour and style having another winger still.. and still growing up i hv to say we dont look good on wing/AMRL department. look like we hv more quantity than quality here..

thank god fletcher really step up and giggs still rock at the age of 35!!
also scholes still hungry for success and suck at tackles 
giggs is the new king for me 

duno how many players were dubbed as the new Zidane in the French League :

even Arsenal's Samir Nasri was dubbed as the next Zidane... too many dubbed Zidane(s) around

Well, Nani just need to tick that consistency box every single time he steps up on the pitch. Right now he forgot to do that before each game, that's why you see him like that. He's quality no doubt.
Valencia is adapting, but he's very good. With him in the side, we won't have to worry about our side lacking width. He will always provide that, although his final delivery and play doesn't quite work just yet.
Park we know about. He's now world class, but a very good squad layer.
Giggs is still turning it on at 35, thank god!

And Obertan will be the surprise package.. hopefully. Have high hopes for him.

today heard the radio saying that MU planning to buy a great keeper..
but was not paying attention about it..
so any news on this?

By Mark Ogden
Published: 10:00PM BST 26 Sep 2009



Darren Fletcher will probably be tempted to stick his fingers in his ears when the Champions League anthem rings out around Old Trafford before the Group B encounter with Wolfsburg on Wednesday.

By missing last season's final against Barcelona in Rome due to suspension, the Manchester United midfielder ironically became identified as the reason why Sir Alex Ferguson's team failed to defend their trophy in Rome.

Fletcher's stock rose by virtue of the fact that he was sitting in the stands in his club suit, paying a heavy price for his bewildering dismissal for an apparent goal-saving tackle in the semi-final victory over Arsenal.

But his new identity as the player Man United could not do without washed over Fletcher. For the second time in 12 months, a Champions League final was taking place in front of him when he only wanted to be on the pitch.

"I think my reputation has maybe been enhanced a little bit since missing Rome," Fletcher admits. "But I just watched the final from the stand, behind the bench, with the other lads who weren't involved.

"I was just a fan. I felt the team had put a lot of effort in, so let's go and win it. But after the game, walking around the pitch with the other lads, I was gutted.

"A year earlier, I was on the bench in Moscow [when United beat Chelsea] and didn't get on, so I don't feel as though I have won the Champions League.

"Moscow was great, but you want to play in the final. When you don't get on the pitch, you don't feel involved."

At 25, Fletcher is at least consoled by the fact that he will have more opportunities to make it third time lucky in a Champions League final. His emergence as United's leading midfielder in recent months ensures that he will have a key role in helping the team reach Madrid in May.

But how has it happened? Where has this destructive, energetic goal-scoring midfielder come from? Four years ago he had been written off many of the club's supporters and singled out for criticism by Roy Keane during his infamous dissection of a 4-1 defeat at Middlesbrough on MUTV in October, 2005.

The Scot, alongside Wayne Rooney, has emerged as perhaps United's most important player since the summer departure of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid.

He may not dominate the headlines like Rooney or Ronaldo, but United have lost just one of the last 47 games started by Fletcher – a 2-0 defeat at Fulham in March. Barcelona and Burnley both triumphed against United in Fletcher's absence.

As United prepare to face the German champions in their second group game this season, Fletcher is suddenly the man of the moment and he credits much of that to Keane, the man whose criticism could have broken him.

Fletcher said: "On the pitch and in the dressing room, Roy was always fantastic for me. He was constantly reiterating what it means to play for United, what it takes professionally.

"He always used to tell me, 'I get on your back because I want you to do well. If I ignore you, that's when you should be worried'. It is something that has always stuck with me.

"He was constantly there and I learned so much from him. The player I am now, and the way I am off the pitch, my professional levels, has all come from that.

"The biggest thing was the infamous MUTV video, which was really a kick up the backside for everyone. Anything Roy ever said, it was always done to fire you up. He was never going to tiptoe around people or put an arm around your shoulder.

"He used to make comments around the training ground and maybe get a bit annoyed at me because I snapped around at his ankles, but if he did have a go at me, I thought 'right, I'm going to prove you wrong'. That's the reaction he wanted."

Two days after Keane's interview, Fletcher reached his nadir when he was booed off the pitch as United slumped to defeat against Lille in Paris.

"It wasn't easy, but it was character-building stuff," he admits. "I could have gone away and hid and played within myself, but that's not me.

"Don't get me wrong because, at times, it wasn't easy going on to the pitch and being singled out, but you have to learn from it."

When he sat in the main stand of the Olympic Stadium last May, Fletcher was the one player United arguably needed most of all.

Without him, Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta and Xavi went unshackled as Barca dethroned United with an all-too comfortable 2-0 victory, but Fletcher insists he is more than the 'destroyer' many have labelled him as since Rome.

"I don't want to be pigeonholed as a destroyer," Fletcher said. "The whole idea is to become an all-round midfielder, who can pass the ball, score goals and get the team going.

"I can be a destroyer when we don't have the ball and set a high tempo and be the trigger. When we don't have possession, I'm thinking, 'right, I'm going to be the first one to press and win it back'."

Fletcher's ability to press and harass opponents was best displayed in United's 2-1 victory against Arsenal last month when his second-half performance helped force Arsène Wenger's team into submission.

The tenacity of Fletcher and Michael Carrick prompted Wenger to criticise United's 'anti-football', but Fletcher regards Wenger's comments as a compliment.

He said: "Wenger still hasn't mentioned me by name, he just says 'that player at United'.

"It doesn't bother me one bit, though. I don't know whether he was trying to get referees to pick up on me, but I have always seen myself as a fair player. I'm not dirty. I go to win the ball, but that is part of the game.

"Tackling is part of the game and British football fans love to see that. Winning the ball back and quick transitions are a big part of the game. Maybe you could say that it was a compliment in some respects."

When Wolfsburg visit on Wednesday, they will encounter a United team still finding its feet without Ronaldo.

Replacing Ronaldo, Ferguson has already conceded, is an impossible task, but Fletcher insists that United must move on and prosper without the Portuguese forward.

He said: "The manager has pointed out that Ronaldo has gone and that is a huge goal difference that we need to fill. As players, we all have to rise to the challenge.

"Ronaldo was good for us, but a lot of players sacrificed themselves for Cristiano too. In a lot of games, I'd be asked to play in central midfield but, whenever he went forward, I'd have to get out to the right to cover him.

"Maybe, now we have got back to 4-4-2, where everybody drops back as a four, it gives the midfielders more opportunity to bomb forward.

"I'd like to think I can get double figures this season because, in this team, you are always likely to get chances if you can get into the box."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/...ons-League.html

pergh.. bila pulak kau pegi tokyo ni.. tak de pun ajak.. ceh

aku tak kesah kau nak tunjuk gambar2 tu.. tp gambar yg last tu bole tak kau simpan je dalam laptop kau.. 

ala apa yg ko jeloes tu.... kan dia photoshop jer gamber tue... mana ada real beb...

today heard the radio saying that MU planning to buy a great keeper..
but was not paying attention about it..
so any news on this?

Ben Foster has revealed the debt of gratitude he owes to Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson. There was widespread speculation that Foster would be dropped for Saturday's Premier League win at Stoke. Foster was certainly to blame for Manchester City's opening goal in the derby encounter last weekend, while questions were also asked about his dismal efforts to prevent Craig Bellamy scoring the Blues' third equaliser. Yet at the first available opportunity, Ferguson insisted he was sticking with the 26-year-old and was rewarded with a clean sheet as United defeated Stoke 2-0 at the Britannia Stadium to go top for the first time this season.

"I have to say a big thanks to the boss for sticking by me," said Foster. "Last Sunday was great for the team but personally, it was an absolute disaster. "I was gutted afterwards. I was the only one in the changing room with an upside down smile on his face."

The torment continued long into the week as professional and amateur analysts had their say. Foster could have driven himself mad by pouring over every damning word. Instead, he chose to ignore it all.

"I pretty much buried my head in the sand," he said. "I didn't really want to watch the television and there was no way I was reading the papers the next day."

Not that Foster could escape scrutiny. But the assessments that mattered were kept within United's Carrington training complex as goalkeeping coach Eric Steele delivered his withering verdict.

"When we got into training I had to face up to it," he said. "I had to look at the replays, analyse them and learn from them. "The goalkeeping coach has been on at me all week and was really hard on me. But I needed that and I like to think I have learnt from it. "You are going to have those days as a goalkeeper sometimes and you have to keep them to a minimum."

As Foster acknowledges, mental fortitude is one of the major reasons why Edwin van der Sar has lasted so long at the top. Whereas Foster used to look at the battle for a first-team berth with the 39-year-old as purely an assessment of their relative abilities, now he realises it is much more. Van der Sar makes mistakes like everybody else. His big advantage is not being affected by them.

"The more you play the more concentration and consistency you develop," he said. "Edwin is a typical example of Mr Cool. He is a fantastic professional and he is someone I want to emulate at Manchester United. "He is exactly what I am aiming to be for years to come."

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8...5588640,00.html

His emergence as United's leading midfielder in recent months ensures that he will have a key role in helping the team reach Madrid in May.

they are going to buy Sporting lisbon keeper - Rui Patricio... aged 21 only...

Young and talented but there is also another keeper on their wish list,  but i forget the name already...

Really hope he can walk the talk thou.... I really hope he can learn from it and prove me wrong that i had write him off...

Nani has revealed he turns to ex-Manchester United team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo whenever he needs a confidence booster.

The Portugal international is likely to have exhausted his phone bill at the weekend following a poor display at Stoke.

The skilful 22-year-old was wasteful to say the least in United's 2-0 win at Stoke before being hauled off early in the second half for Ryan Giggs, who helped set up both goals for Sir Alex Ferguson's side.

Nani has revealed he remains close with Real Madrid superstar Ronaldo and the pair often talk about how he can improve his game.

Confidence

"Cristiano and I talk a lot," explained Nani. "We speak about my own game and he gives me confidence to go out and perform."

The world's most expensive player Ronaldo has backed his international colleague's credentials and believes that in the coming years he will be amongst the world's best.

Ronaldo said: "Nani is an excellent player and I am sure that in a few years he will be among the best players in the world."

was obertan registered for the CL squad as well? same here - hoping for some greatness from him....

well yeah...nani is backed by ronaldo..but nani u must learn wat to do at the right time....lol

Its the decision making that makes most of us tearing our hairs out     

We all know he has the skills & ability but just to know when to do what. I remember the commentator did said there was a time when Rooney was anticipating an early cross from him but he end up dragging it too long and end up a goal kick for Stoke instead.