where u get all this?

---

Added on September 26, 2009, 9:37 pmfound it in premierleague.com

I am beginning to see Berba taking more chances to score goals.

As you see... Ronaldo is not here the game play is totally different. Berba is given higher opportunity to act as a striker and score goals... I am sure he can make it..

Owen will be a threat in the box... replacing Ruud..

We did not have a real threat inside the box after Ruud left.. now Owen is..

mm..SAF should atleast give him start the game leerr

he's not on form i guess...

btw, is carrick having personal problems? He seems unhappy to me, and the way he move around the field suggest that he is not in the mood

anyways, its good that we are on top again. am i the only one who would like to see owen in the starting line up? against a respectable team that is. am i?

Nani needs to become a team player more...

Once he learns that he will be good...

And yet again, it is proven beyond doubt that NANI is not a good player for MU standard...!!
he doesn't pass the ball because he don't have the Football Sense and intelligence !!

when he got the ball, all that he is thinking of  " i want to be hero and dribble pass 10 players and score a spectacular goal !"

And pls stop your bullsh1t about Nani not having enough game and stuff....
he has been given enough chances ....
SAF should just sell off NANI, give others player a chance and move on...!!!

berba wasn't doing much?
did u even watch the match?
did u c his touches and passes that open up play????

what do u expect? hat trick everytime from him???

at least he didn't make any wayward passes and lost crucial possession like that NANi did...
Nani can't even make a decent cross!

and NO! Ronaldo doesn't took 4 season to shine... in fact from the very first game, we can c his potential......and he is bound to be a great player

I would agree on Ronaldo's part

Fergie did not expect to play him straight away when he came here.

Even commentator said that.. but somehow he shine... suddenly... ..

The boy was great

valencia played worse than nani last night but people dont slag him off that much.. he already played in england 3 years before he joined us
even saf said nani played quite well

No complaints on the Stoke match. The players got the job done.

However, I agree that Nani is making all the wrong decisions, and remains the most frustrating player in the squad for me. In flashes, Nani has shown he has the ability. It's the consistency that is the problem. Hopefully with Ronnie gone, he will get a run of games that will help hem get that.

By the way, Fletch has improved because he's now playing centre midfield. His crappy days was when he was playing wide right. I used to groan out loud whenever I saw Ferguson playing that way.

Also, since when has Evra ever been a fringe player??

well i think it's sometimes frustrating to watch him play. he often takes too much time on the ball and wastes alot of opportunity.
there are many times where he could thread the pass or just simply take the shot for himself, but he just holds on to the ball.
maybe he lacks of confidence or trying too hard who knows.
he just needs to make up his mind better. his style of play is too readable.

well fletcher was kinda crappy two seasons ago. but now he's matured.
i believe nani was crappy two seasons ago. but he's still the same today.
ahaha that is the point. there is no improvement.

well i believe the reason MU is doing so well now is cos the fringe players like fletcher, o'shea and maybe evra has stepped up their game.
now there is no weakness in all the positions of MU.
last time there were excellent players (rooney, ronaldo, scholes maybe?) and the others were abit of the "weak link"
now everyone has stepped up their game and they are a good team all around as a whole.
much much better.

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 

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

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

perhaps need to wait until he got nothing to archieve anymore at there? what else he have not got from Barca?

dont buy africans. although they are dirt cheap, but in the middle of season, they got this african nation cup. clubs get into trouble if most of their important players are africans.

for example.... arsenal?

chelsea for sure gonna lose drogba. without him although got anelka, wont be the same. man city no worry, they got 9 stikers. sadly no one will be playing. due to injuries.

on buying goalies, i believe currently we no need to buy any. goalie got longer life span compared to lets say a defender. i am not saying that because we got van der sar, but younger ones arent any better, apart from cassilas at madrid or cech at chelsea.

that neuer prat. hes german for god sake. germans are ugly. (read: kahn and that prat used to play for arsenal. lehmann)

he is not able ot hold his starting spot at Bayern not to mention at man utd... now bayern is using their second choice experience keeper = Hans Jorg Butt...

But keeper division still can left alone for a while. I think most important for future will be a winger.

Maybe an attacking midfielder??? Joao Moutinho - Sporting lisbon Captain???

if winger i'll prefer A.Lennon from Tottenham or Ashley Yong from Vila...
Fast Runner Winger.

But i hear a lot of news from Chinese Forum.
Man Utd interetesed with DAVID SILVA from valencia ?
Its true ??