He is a good midfielder, still young and can improve a lot...it is a shame that he is unhappy at United. I think he wants to go bcoz the World Cup is closer and he wants to play regularly..to keep him in the Brazil national team. Hopefully he can sort it out with SAF...goes out on loan for the remaining season and come back next season as a better player.

Vidic returns for Gunners trip



http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid=...&newsid=6645860



This post has been edited by alien2003: Jan 29 2010, 06:48 PM

ronaldo who?

rooney's on fire!
hope he brings down the emirates stadium!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He kept Robinho quiet before. And he did just fine against Bellamy. People are being a bit hard on him because of his 'nature'. He's good at attacking so it's easy to assume that he'll struggle against pacy and tricky wingers. But the likes of Brown, Gary, O'Shea and even Evra struggles just as much against certain opponents. Some they come out on top, some they struggle to keep up with. Rafael has done fine in most games. Of course being the way he is, and looking at his age and experience, he will make mistakes now and then. That should lessen as he grows in experience and age. And he'll only get there by playing. He made 21 first team starts last season. He has 9 already this season and he was injured a it earlier in the season.

Err bad piece of investment? WTH. It's a long term project. He's not needed to perform as a world beater at present time or since he came in till now. What we want from him is good solid performances until he gets to where we want him to be to replace Scholes. I don't know why people are targeting Anderson now. Sure he has bad games now and then, but for god's sake, he's only 21 years old! And he hasn't been that bad like Nani has been for the last 1 year and a half. He has good games, a few decent, a few average and a few poor ones. A young player being inconsistent. Name me another midfielder around the same age that is impressing for a big team aside from Fabregas.. you won't find one.

I call the story bullshit. The Sun. Spokesman for his agents. How many agents does he have? And can't they speak by themselves?

There's no direct quotes from his agent, himself or the club that says he has a problem here. And there's no reason for us to loan him out. We need him in the side. Scholes can't play all the time, and Fletcher and Carrick would need rest now and then. And SAF rates him quite highly since he started many of the big games.

Ok to me abt rafael. He is good. He as Wan said he is an attacking player thus it looks more like he did alot of mistakes. I believe the penalty given at City was not even his fault I dont understand how can that be a penalty most if was a FK.

Rafael looks more edgy cos he push forwards too much as players like O'shea and Brown are more defensive minded thus dont wander up too much and looks more solid in defending.

Anderson LOL. Either you fight for you place or you leave. That easy for me. and that the way SAF does it. Heinze cant hack it. He left. If Anderson thinks MU owes him a playing place then he is dead wrong. Those who are not fighters must just leave as I see it ...

Anderson just have to be patient like Nani.. see that's the price when you have the patient.

It's from The Sun isn't it?

just now saw the Astro said that on 30/1 they will launch ESPN HD hoepfully ManUtd vs Arsenal Match will be aired live...... just praying only..

Ah shit ... I am working that night. Means .. have to watch the replay on HD ... yahuuuuu



You gotta love the man. Seriously! HE IS RED!

Link to article .. [Credit to The ROTM]

This post has been edited by boxsystem: Jan 29 2010, 10:03 PM

Don’t you just love having the last laugh?

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Added on January 29, 2010, 10:04 pmSpeculation is mounting that Manchester City Chief Executive Gary Cook will be given his marching orders, after another high profile gaffe left him red faced last night.

His first error came when he welcomed Uwe Rosler into the Manchester United hall of fame, instead of Manchester City.

His second and arguably worse judgement error was his boast last week that it was a matter of “when, not if, we’re at Wembley having beaten Man United yet again!”, only for City to lose after being thoroughly outplayed over two legs.

It’s thought that Sir Alex Ferguson used Cook’s comments in the dressing room before yesterday’s derby and that his words inspired United to victory.

City’s owners have reportedly began to wonder whether he’s the right man to take City forward and he could get the boot as early as the end of the season.


http://www.strettyender.com/gary-cook-faci...iteds-team-talk

This post has been edited by syarz: Jan 29 2010, 10:04 PM

In the UK, they are airing live 3-D coverage for our game, dayumm!

Oh, AIG = Anderson-son-son is Gone? I'm sure he'll be back in OT with some Latino chickas...You just gotta find 'em yourself after a certain No.7 left the club..

I don't even have ESPN HD.

the reason why ppl are targeting Ando now is cuz of his behavior. would you call his behavior acceptable? well that is sure one wrong way to copy Scholes alright, always having disciplinary problems once in awhile. Ando isn't anything like scholes, scholes shoots from long range and have amazing long passes while ando is more of a dribbler, so no way in hell ando can replace what scholes does he is his own player. if you are talking about replacing scholes Carrick currently come closest but Carrick lacks the creativity scholes have. and the reason why i say its a bad piece of investment is cuz i m assuming the fact that he will be shown the door, and if he is. clubs won't pay as much as we bought him for. its true we can see Nani as under-performing cuz one of the reasons was that we expect him to be like Ronaldo which is not possible. yeah i actually know 1 midfielder that is impressing, ever heard of Juan Manuel Mata before???

vidic took a season or 2 to become a strong CB , Ronaldo a few season , so i dont mind giving ando 3 season or 4 to prove himself fit in Premier League

how can u so sure ando cant replace scholes ?
you did say Nani is impossible because we expect him to be like ronaldo but now he's performing his own way which is not bad , so u expect ando to be like scholes or not giving him chance to prove himself at all

i got faith on Ando LoL

This post has been edited by ahbenggay: Jan 30 2010, 12:55 AM

hey, that Valencia dude, he is awesome, super fast, lightning speed, and he earns 10k per week only. But i heard he did't
want to sign a new contract with Valencia, so probably he will leave, and the last i heard of him is that Liverpool is interested in him...

i feel that scholes and carrick cant be compared.
haha i mean yea carrick is good but then scholes is really one of a kind.
the calmness he brings to the midfield and his eye for passing is amazing.
his passes are almost always perfect and the way he holds the ball to open up play is superb.

juan manuel mata doesn;t play as a conventional CM like scholes , carrick , or fletcher. He started his valencia career by filing in on the left n right side of a midfield 5 whenever silva or vicente/hernandez got rested n injured. The nearest to anything center i have seem him play is below the CF , in the hole. so can;t really compare anderson n fabregas with him.

Dammit, why is ando getting all the stick. I thought he performed quite well whenever he had played. Provided plenty of energy n dynamism for man utd in the center of the park. And he is still only 21 What the hell. Even fletcher sux at 21. Scholes wasn't that great either at 21. i dun think 18m for him is a bad investment provided he stays n continue to develop

This post has been edited by calvin_yit: Jan 30 2010, 03:42 AM

haix, why must sir alex always put in so much money for a player.... 18m for a 21 year old, making people putting their expectation so high up on him..

that guy looks like an attention-whoring Devil himself, here he is:





BTW, ive finished reading this book:



Anyone else read it? Its about the history of United, from the very formation by railway workers, to the story of how Major, Harry Stafford's St.Brenard dog saved United from bankruptcy in the early 90s, the story of Matt Busby and the munich incident, the downfall afterwards and the rising again during SAF's regime, all the way to the UCL lose to Barcelona and Ronaldo leaving United...it's fairly detailed written and a good book to enjoy

This book is written by United fan Jim White, and this is his how he ends his acknowledgments:



Classic

PS: this version is an updated version, the first version ends with United winning the UCL in 2008 and thus the acknowledgment.