Archive for June, 2011
"If a player is on the market it is because the club does not want him."
So said Cesc Fabregas yesterday when asked about his impending move from Arsenal to Barcelona.
"The club does not want him. ...
And there we were thinking FIFA hated England. Yet the latest world rankings issued by Sepp Blatter's statistic department suggest that - please ensure you are sitting down as you engage with this news -England are the fourth best footballing nation in the world.
It is true: there they are in the Coca-Cola sponsored list just behind Spain, Netherlands and Germany, ahead of Brazil, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Mexico, Argentina and the rest of the footballing planet. ...
Ashley Young was the right signing at a good price for United but I still think they need more in midfield to complete the jigsaw.
Young is going to have to hit the ground running - Antonio Valencia did really well coming back from serious injury so quickly and his only poor game was, unfortunately, in the Champions League final. ...
Ashley Young was the right signing at a good price for United but I still think they need more in midfield to complete the jigsaw.
Young is going to have to hit the ground running - Antonio Valencia did really well coming back from serious injury so quickly and his only poor game was, unfortunately, in the Champions League final. ...
Ashley Young, David de Gea and Phil Jones have already arrived. While on the way out are John O'Shea, Darron Gibson, Wes Brown, Edwin van der Sar, Paul Scholes and - if the rumours are to be believed - Nani, expected to relocate his ego to a more accommodating dressing room before the start of the season. It is changing times indeed at Manchester United. ...
Manchester United's busy summer of transfer activity continues, with Ashley Young completing his move from Aston Villa.
Phil Jones and Young have signed, and David De Gea is surely a United player in all but name.
It is an impressive spree, and one that may well be enough to keep the Premier League trophy at Old Trafford. ...
Manchester United's busy summer of transfer activity continues, with Ashley Young completing his move from Aston Villa.
Phil Jones and Young have signed, and David De Gea is surely a United player in all but name.
It is an impressive spree, and one that may well be enough to keep the Premier League trophy at Old Trafford. ...
Andre Villas-Boas is, he is keen to tell us, his own man. In no way is he Mourinho mark two, Junior Jose or the Special One's mini-me. It's true that he is Portuguese, speaks several languages fluently and has won a European title with Porto. ...
It was not even so much the results themselves that are so unpalatable, but the manner of them. The young players, just like their senior counterparts, seemed to run out of ideas all too quickly. It seems that creativity is just not in the English footballing culture. ...
Luka Modric looks set to be involved in one of the summer's big transfer sagas following Tottenham's rejection of Chelsea's £22 million bid for him and his comments about a potential move to Stamford Bridge.
Manchester United had previously been the first name linked with the 25-year-old, but now the Premier League's top two clubs are ready to fight over him. ...