Manchester United Thread [2007/2008]

[MikeyM]

XDD

That has to be a T-Shirt at Old Trafford next season!


Fergie has ripped into Real over the Ronaldo "tapping up"

http://www.teamtalk.com/football/story/0,16368,2483_3601628,00.html

 

[Arnau]

madrid always play dirty when have to sign a crack

 

[Dipanjan]

you are right about something Arnau............

If Ronaldo wants to go we should just let him go though......We should use that money to buy 3-4 players who are equal to 70% of his stature.....I am just fed up of this that is why I am saying this...................

 

[Socrates]

madrid always play dirty when have to sign a crack

And Barca are angels, how many players has sport linked you guys with anywayIt's awsome to read them right now. Who will come and who will go, thats all that is reported there.

Also, Ferguson should be tearing Ronaldo a new one. Afterall he is the one that has been saying that one day he wants to play in Spain, he will decide his future in 2 weeks, he will do this or do that but in the end he does nothing and pisses everyone off. This type of attitude I don't like and now I would much rather he stay with you guys than come to us. We don't need that ****.

Mikey - As far as tapping up goes, nothing will come of it. Last summer A.C. Milan made a big deal of it and going to Fifa and all but in the end it's all comeing from a newspaper that fabricates everthing. **** I don't even read them anymore or trust them (Marca that is), for the last couple of seaons now they have been pretty horrible with transfer news and while our President has a big mouth (well he has been quiet for a while now actually) its not really something to go crazy about either.

Also Ferguson is a nut, all the interviews I have seen of him he is always ripping into someone. Usually a ref is getting the abuse actually.

 

[Arnau]

And Barca are angels, how many players has sport linked you guys

you already say, a newspaper linked, no txiki no laporta no guardiola... a newspaper post a names on a front page to sell more... wtf relation have this with F.C.Barcelona ??


its a little detail but just take a look in your shirt, when your sponsor is Bwin (bet center/casino/how******* called in inglish) whe have unicef paying money...

 

[Socrates]

you already say, a newspaper linked, no txiki no laporta no guardiola... a newspaper post a names on a front page to sell more... wtf relation have this with F.C.Barcelona ??


its a little detail but just take a look in your shirt, when your sponsor is Bwin (bet center/casino/how******* call in inglish) whe have unicef paying money...

LOL, do you really want a response? or was this just a joke. Now you looking at our sponser but not anyone eles? Awsome.

It's also funny to see how hyporcitical this situation is, did you guys forget hwo you tried to get Ronaldinho and fail or the whole Owen Hargreaves transfer?

 

[treble41]

Gah dammit Fergie said football's like a drug for him. That means another year. Come on retire already man you've had your wins.

 

[goal_machine84]

 

[Arnau]

well, i dont will try to reason more with this closed minds madridist, they born with the sapience and never do a bad thing.

 

[phs1234]

 

[thetrooper37]

you are right about something Arnau............

If Ronaldo wants to go we should just let him go though......We should use that money to buy 3-4 players who are equal to 70% of his stature.....I am just fed up of this that is why I am saying this...................

dude..he doesn't want to go and he's not going.

 

[newbie original]

Tell you what, Real Madrid sounds almost like that chick who is so unbelievably gorgeous that she is causing men all over to leave their wives to try and be with her.

 

[treble41]

i'd call it ambitiousness. i mean as long as they're following the rules and not actually tapping the player or anything illegal, it's fair game whether you like it or not.

milan can say that they want frank lampard and will get him eventually, i don't care. if that's where he wants to go then so be it.

 

[Deni_Rossonero]

treble: You must mean inter, not Milan. Milan doesn't want/need Lampard.

newbie: I think that Madrid have have not been tempting for players for a long time, if anything is tempting to Ronaldo then it is his own ambition, i have no doubts that the only thing that would make him opt for a transfer would be to try and succeed in another league and try to win the CL with Real only to show his capabilities, but as long as it's at that i don't think he'll leave cause those are not big reasons. He can work on repeating everything with Manchester.

 

[coach]

I'm actually surprised that no one has mentioned this. The main reason why Ronaldo may not go to Madrid anytime soon.

 

[Filipower]

Yes, Madrid thinks it wouldn't be fair to other clubs having Ronaldo and Ruud.

 

[aeh1991]

C.Ronaldo no to **** Madrid!
And only Summer signs:
good forward: Benzema or Huntelaar (please not Fabiano)
good right-back: Alves no(barca), then Richards(City) or Castro(Bayer) or Lahm??

Just one RB and one FW thats all!

 

[coach]

Yes, Madrid thinks it wouldn't be fair to other clubs having Ronaldo and Ruud.

What I mean is that Ronaldo & Ruud came to blows a few years ago and maybe the wounds that came from the training session back in 2005 have not healed yet. So, having those two on the same team might not be a good idea for Real.

 

[Filipower]

Cristiano Ronaldo can be world's best, says Ruud Van Nistelrooy

Ruud van Nistelrooy's departure from Manchester United was an object lesson in just how quickly even the strongest and most successful relationships can implode, but nearly two seasons later the acrimony has melted into admiration, the hurt supplanted by nostalgia.

Admiration, in particular, for the precocious winger who arrived at Old Trafford as an 18-year-old in 2003-04. That season, Van Nistelrooy scored 30 goals in all competitions, a tally Cristiano Ronaldo eclipsed last month. The player who annually vied with Thierry Henry to be England's most prolific striker is not about to contradict the consensus that the man who replaced him as United's primary goalscorer is capable of becoming the world's best footballer.

“Ronaldo's development has been the big change since I left. He stands out now. His improvement has been incredible,” Van Nistelrooy told Inside United, the official club magazine. “He came as a young lad and needed to improve. The manager gave him confidence by playing him all the time. By doing that he got the footballer he wanted. Ronaldo's now a great player. He makes the right decisions, taking the man on when he needs to and passing the ball at the right time. He does everything - he takes free kicks and corners. He leaves goal kicks to [Edwin] van der Sar, but I expect him to start taking them soon.”

Not that Ronaldo is the only young star in the United attack. Van Nistelrooy also offered high praise to Wayne Rooney: “He's excellent,” he said. “With his strength, pace and ability to beat a man he's always a threat. His finishing is good and he's still really young, so he'll only get better. United fans couldn't wish for any more at the moment than Rooney, Ronaldo, Nani and [Carlos] Tévez.”

The Holland striker believes that Ronaldo is in the same bracket as Kaká, the AC Milan superstar, and Lionel Messi, the Barcelona wunderkind. “If he carries on like this he'll be the best player in the world,” the forward said. “He's got everything.”

Van Nistelrooy's talents are less wide-ranging: he is a pure predator. In five years at Old Trafford he scored 95 times in 150 league games and became United's top scorer in the Champions League. Now 31, he has 12 goals in 20 league starts for Real Madrid, the La Liga leaders, this season, but faces six weeks on the sidelines after having surgery on his troublesome right ankle last month.

His switch to Madrid in the summer of 2006 was prompted by a collapse in communications with Sir Alex Ferguson, which was all the more surprising as it was the United manager's support and encouragement that clinched his transfer from PSV Eindhoven.

He was the leading goalscorer in the Netherlands in 1999-2000, after which a move to Manchester was agreed but put on hold at the eleventh hour when a medical raised concerns about a medial ligament problem. Days later, he suffered a serious knee injury in training. But Ferguson reassured Van Nistelrooy that he would make a full recovery and become a United player.

A year on, he did - their bond ensuring that Real's advances were spurned. By 2003, Van Nistelrooy's goalscoring ratio was so impressive that Ferguson suggested that one day the striker might earn his own statue at Old Trafford.

Three years on, the abiding image was of an immobile Van Nistelrooy, not immortalised in stone but sitting on the substitutes' bench, unused as United routed Wigan Athletic in the League Cup final. Ferguson continued to leave him out and the relationship between manager and player grew strained, stretched to breaking point for the final fixture of 2005-06, when Van Nistelrooy stormed out of Old Trafford after discovering in a pre-match meeting that he had been omitted from the team in favour of Giuseppe Rossi, a teenager. He asked for a transfer.

“I always thought I would finish my career at United, but sometimes things don't go the way you plan,” Van Nistelrooy said. “I had a wonderful time playing for United. My final months at the club were difficult, but I don't think of those when I remember my time at Old Trafford. I hold no grudges and sometimes I look back and laugh at the situation. I think we would act differently if the same situation repeated itself, but everyone has moved on.”

Van Nistelrooy keeps in contact with former team-mates. “United is a huge operation, but at the centre it feels like a family,” he said. “It's one of the biggest clubs in the world, but you don't feel lost.”

He compared Ferguson to Fabio Capello, the England manager. “As a United player everything is about training hard and winning things,” Van Nistelrooy said. “That's what the whole atmosphere at the club is about. It stems from the boss's authority. His will to win is so strong that it affects every aspect of the club.”

Whatever you say, though

 

[1966+2006]

C.Ronaldo no to **** Madrid!
And only Summer signs:
good forward: Benzema or Huntelaar (please not Fabiano)
good right-back: Alves no(barca), then Richards(City) or Castro(Bayer) or Lahm??

Just one RB and one FW thats all!

Castro sucks man. Lahm isn't as good as he used to be, either.
Ronaldo's talking about next season already on soccernet so that really should put to bed all doubts.