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There is a lot to consider when you bring in a player at this time of the season and clubs don't always want to sell because they have got their own needs." --------------------------------- [58] Fergie on Chelsea away --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "If one of us is in the semi-final, the Chelsea game would be on the Tuesday before the last game of the season. I would be delighted for it to go down to that." --------------------------------- [57] Fergie - last weekend did not give Chelsea an edge --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "If you look at the respective performances, I don't think you could say that at all,. Plus, we have one game less to play and we are a goal better off - and that goal could mean a lot of it comes down to goal difference at the end." --------------------------------- [56] Fergie on late goals let in --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "You can analyse it a lot of different ways. Maybe when we are in winning positions we relax and take our foot off the pedal a little bit. That has happened two or three times. At Newcastle, it was a deflected shot, which is pure bad luck. Against Arsenal it was a lack of concentration. We were in a winning position and we were all gutted. But, in terms of the stamina side of it, it was absolute nonsense. If they had lost the game 1-0, as they should have done, what could Arsene have said then?" --------------------------------- [55] Sportinglife on team news --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: Sir Alex Ferguson is contemplating a couple of changes ahead of the clash. Although the Red Devils chief is confident a few minor niggles in the United camp will have cleared for the visit of Harry Redknapp's overachievers, he is still looking to spread the load in a busy week that also features two Premiership outings. Gabriel Heinze and goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak could be among those to benefit, while Henrik Larsson may be rested. Open a range of betting accounts and compare odds and get free starting bets when you sign up http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-795737-10360205 Check http://www.rednews.co.uk to view the image which has been removed from plain text email version of news http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-795737-5966119 Check http://www.rednews.co.uk to view the image which has been removed from plain text email version of news http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-795737-10295995 Have a Free £25 bet on totesport Check http://www.rednews.co.uk to view the image which has been removed from plain text email version of news http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-795737-10351781 Check http://www.rednews.co.uk to view the image which has been removed from plain text email version of news --------------------------------- [54] United squad --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Neville, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Ronaldo, Scholes, Carrick, Giggs, Rooney, Larsson, Heinze, Saha, Brown, Fletcher, O'Shea, Richardson, Solskjaer, Park. --------------------------------- [53] Fergie on Pompey --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "Harry's done a fantastic job there. He rescued them from oblivion last season. They were down and out until he came there and kept them up. He's brought in a lot of experienced players like James, Campbell, Cole and Kanu. That's fantastic experience to bring to your club. They've been the bedrock of their performances. Those four players have given Portsmouth a big-time feel." --------------------------------- [52] Fergie - all fit --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "Everyone is fit. There were one or two niggles in training on Thursday but hopefully they will be OK. There won't be many changes, but possibly one or two. The FA Cup is a great tournament and definitely the best domestic cup competition in the world. There is a great romance about it. We're going to approach it in the same way as we did the last tie against Aston Villa. It should be a great atmosphere. The fans always have a part to play. When they're right up for it, there is a tremendous difference in the performance on the field." --------------------------------- [51] Fergie on Hargreaves --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "I am not giving up on anything that makes us better. We have been active in one or two areas but it is not as easy as you think. There are a lot of things to consider and many clubs do not want to sell in January. You see the four top clubs; ourselves, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal. There has been no movement. The teams doing the buying are the ones trying to pull away from the bottom of the league like Aston Villa and West Ham." --------------------------------- [50] Fergie on Ronaldo --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "We sell players we want to sell and there is absolutely no way Cristiano Ronaldo is leaving. The boy has done fantastically well. He is developing as a professional, as a person and as a player. He is happy here. He has a contract until 2010 and we are not interested in even thinking about selling him." var uri = 'http://impgb.tradedoubler.com/imp/img/122396/608750?' + new String (Math.random()).substring (2, 11);document.write(' http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=1468&a=608750&g=122396 Check http://www.rednews.co.uk to view the image which has been removed from plain text email version of news '); --------------------------------- [49] Fergie doesn't want Platini cutting back CL --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "The tournament really starts in February, but I think it is ok the way it is at the moment. The appeal of the Champions League is when the giants of Spain or Italy or England come up against each other. The Champions League has been good. If you go back a few years, there were maybe too many games with two qualifying groups because you had to play about 17 games to win it. If you take away the fourth place teams, the only way to address that is by reducing the competition or by giving other countries two places." --------------------------------- [48] More Ole --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "There's no point dwelling on the result against Arsenal. We have done that to teams before and I'm sure we are going to do it again, so somebody will feel the backlash. It's never nice to lose like the way we did against Arsenal. But memories like that live longer in your head than actually winning games and you move on to the next one determined not to have that feeling again. That's how the players here feel at the moment." --------------------------------- [47] Richardson on the FA Cup --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "The cup is special to this club. You only have to look at the history to see that. Hopefully this year we can win it again. I would love us to play in the first final at the stadium but we know there is a long way to go." --------------------------------- [46] United want to create a new post --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: from PA 'Manchester United, which is six points clear of second-place Chelsea at the top of the English Premiership, is looking for a new chief operating officer who is not currently involved in sport, the FT said.The COO will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the club, including all revenue streams, finance, human resources, legal and property issues, Gill told the FT.' --------------------------------- [45] Wenger on Bale --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "I like the player but as you know we have two left-backs here" var uri = 'http://impgb.tradedoubler.com/imp/img/16171300/608750?' + new String (Math.random()).substring (2, 11);document.write(' http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=18710&a=608750&g=16171300 Check http://www.rednews.co.uk to view the image which has been removed from plain text email version of news '); --------------------------------- [44] More Gary Nev --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: After the game we got Youre conceding goals late, you are running out of gas. For 83 minutes I thought it was going to be our best defensive display of the season. We normally dont let it slip when weve taken the lead. After a game like Sunday, you come off and you are all gutted and think about it for days after. But something we have to look at is that we are not getting enough clean sheets. We havent kept a clean sheet since December 23 at Aston Villa and thats something we have to address and put right. In 1999 we suffered for three or four years before going on to win the Treble. Hopefully, the past two or three years of not winning the league is enough for us to make us realise that its our time to win it. Because we have not won the title for three years the fever has come back that we need to win it. On Sunday there was talk of going nine points clear and everyone wanted that so badly. But its rarely like that, there are always twists and turns. Tottenhams a big game. If we have a six- point lead when there are only a few games left that will be a strong position. --------------------------------- [43] More Gary Nev --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: Both Ryan and myself can never understand why any player would ever turn down Manchester United for Blackburn or Newcastle. Other players we missed out on recently are Ronaldinho and Arjen Robben, but I'd have to say Shearer was the one we wish we'd got. I played with him in England games and he definitely had the mentality of a United player. Why he never came to United, I do not know. I can't understand that decision and I can't begin to understand what must have been going through someone's mind when they choose Blackburn and Newcastle over United. --------------------------------- [42] Mirror follow up spy plane story --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: 'The Manchester United spy in the sky cameraman last night insisted he hadn't got a clue what he was filming because his client was extra secretive. David Goddard said he was only given map details of a site and wasn't told it was the team's training ground. He spoke out as it was revealed United manager Sir Alex Ferguson blew his top when he heard his tactics sessions had been spied on from the Cessna. Mr Goddard refused to identify the person who ordered the job. He said: A client requested vertical photography on a site close to Manchester. I was given grid references only for it. At no stage was I told by the client that this was the training ground of Manchester United. I checked the site on Ordnance Survey and Civil Aviation Authority charts for its status and any contentious issues. I checked with Manchester air traffic control to confirm there were no problems filming the site at Carrington. They were fully aware we were filming it. Three other flights were said to have been carried out by other agencies late last year. Fergie was furious when he learned the latest footage of training sessions was whisked to a service station close to Heathrow and handed to a mystery client by Mr Goddard.' --------------------------------- [41] Fergie hits back at Wenger 'lack of stamina' claims --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "What a nonsense. I do agree with one thing, we have been losing goals at the end of matches. You can look at putting the foot of the pedal but at the game against Arsenal it was a lack of concentration and we're all gutted but in terms of the stamina side, it's nonsense. I think it's Wenger making them look great again. 'I'm the great Arsense Wenger'. I feel it was a bit petty. There's absolutely no evidence. What would he have said if they'd have lost 1-0? They lost to West Ham with the last kick of the ball... I think last Sunday was a final warning for us (with late goals). It's going to get even more intense, mistakes made. If we're leading 1-0 with 10 minutes to go, it won't happen again." "I tell, you go back the last 15 years and it's always been there, conceeding late, it drives you mad. We suffer because of it. At West Ham and Newcastle. But in terms of endurance, we're well in control of that" --------------------------------- [40] Gill on agents fees --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "The club fully supports the new agents' regulations which come into effect this summer and will see players being responsible for paying their own agents." var uri = 'http://impgb.tradedoubler.com/imp/js/16314424/608750?' + new String (Math.random()).substring (2,11);document.write(''); --------------------------------- [39] More Gill --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "The club are in a very healthy position. Our attendances are now the envy of European, not just UK football and with a burgeoning season ticket waiting list, watching United at Old Trafford is still in great demand. The future is promising for the club. We continue to operate by budgeting sensibly and managing our affairs through stable business practices. Success on the pitch will always be a driver for success off it and from this base, the club are healthily placed to begin a period of renewed growth. The club remain committed to making top-class football affordable and structures its prices accordingly." --------------------------------- [38] Daily Mail on Bale --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: 'Manchester United are ready to fight tooth and nail to land Southampton's Gareth Bale by matching Tottenham's £10m bid for the teenage sensation. The south coast club have accepted the mammoth offer from Spurs for Bale, who spent Tuesday and Wednesday discussing a move to White Hart Lane with manager Martin Jol. But United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is desperate to land the 17-year-old full-back, whose free-kick ability has been likened to that of David Beckham, and like Spurs is prepared to let him remain on loan at St Mary's for the remainder of the season for Southampton's promotion push. Ferguson is hopeful the opportunity to play and train along side his idol and Welsh international team-mate Ryan Giggs will help to persuade Bale to snub Tottenham's advances in favour of a move to Old Trafford. However, Jol's trump card is the promise of regular action next season. Although Gabriel Heinze is expected to be shipped out should Bale plump for United, he would still face a battle with Patrice Evra for the left-back berth at Old Trafford. United's determination not to let Bale slip through their clutches would appear to make it a straight fight between themselves and Spurs, despite reported interest from Arsenal emerging yesterday. Bale is an avid Arsenal fan and remains great friends with Theo Walcott from their time in the youth ranks at Southampton. However, Arsenal have not budgeted to make any moves in the transfer window and Arsene Wenger would prefer to wait until the summer before making a move. By then it is likely to be too late with Spurs and United ready to pounce now. In addition, the fact that Bale is represented by the Stellar Group headed by Jonathan Barnett, although his affairs are being handled by David Manasseh who engineered Wayne Bridge's £7m move from Saints to Chelsea, is unlikely to help their cause. Barnett has not forgotten Arsenal's stance in the Ashley Cole "tapping up" affair of two year's ago, which ultimately saw him fined £100,000 and banned from acting in transfer deals for eighteen months, with nine suspended, by the FA.' --------------------------------- [37] Dirk Kuyt --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "Winning the title would be very difficult. We know we are 11 points away from Man Utd, but in football you never know. I've seen stranger things happen in the last few years. The only thing we have to do is win our own games and see what the other teams are doing. We have a lot of confidence and we have also got Man U at home and Arsenal at home. It will be nice to beat them and see what happens. It's also a target for us to get behind Chelsea, that's normal if you are only five points behind them. We have showed now that we can also beat the big teams." --------------------------------- [36] SKY news on Bestie will --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: 'Football legend George Best left a will worth just £135,853 - and his son won't see a penny of it. The former Manchester United star left the cash, which will take Wayne Rooney just 10 days to earn, to his sister Barbara McNarry. But his son Calum only gets an engraved 1994 Jean Lassel World Cup watch while ex-wife Alex gets nothing. A family source told The Sun: "Calum will rightly feel aggrieved at missing out." He said apart from the watch, the 25-year-old "didn't get a bean". Best once famously said: "I spent 90 per cent of my money on booze, birds and fast cars - the rest I just squandered." Declared bankrupt in 1981, he died of a drink related illness after years of battling the booze aged 59. Best had reportedly left Alex, who he was married to for nine years, his entire estate. However, it defaulted to his sister when they divorced. Best's estate is worth £500,000 gross but the net sum will be considerably less when all his liabilities are taken into account. Probate was granted yesterday and the will is being in the process of being finalised.' --------------------------------- [35] SSN --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: say Wenger has "dropped his interest in Gareth Bale" var uri = 'http://impgb.tradedoubler.com/imp/img/436053/608750?' + new String (Math.random()).substring (2, 11);document.write(' http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=443&a=608750&g=436053 Check http://www.rednews.co.uk to view the image which has been removed from plain text email version of news '); var uri = 'http://impgb.tradedoubler.com/imp/img/196059/608750?' + new String (Math.random()).substring (2, 11);document.write(' http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=443&a=608750&g=196059 Check http://www.rednews.co.uk to view the image which has been removed from plain text email version of news '); --------------------------------- [34] Thisismoney on figures... £2m comes in ticket sales every game at OT now --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: 'Manchester United are predicting 'dramatic growth' in their income over the next two years after seeing profits rise by £20m last year. The club's annual report revealed turnover was £165.4m in the year ending June 30, 2006, compared to £157.2m in the previous year, while operating profits were up from £10.8m to £30.8m. The figures were achieved despite United failing to qualify for the group stages of the Champions League for the first time in a decade last season. United chief executive David Gill said the new Premier League TV rights deal, the record shirt-sponsorship deal with insurance firm AIG and the increase of the Old Trafford capacity to 76,000 seats will lead to a major cash injection with well over £2m in ticket sales every home game. Gill said in the report: 'In the course of the next two years, I expect the club's revenues to show dramatic growth, due to a combination of increased stadium capacity and greater sponsorship and television income. 'The club are in a very healthy position and the future is promising. Success on the pitch will always be a driver for success off it and from this base, the club are healthily placed to begin a period of renewed growth.' He also insisted United would not fleece fans despite the demand for season tickets. He added: 'The club remain committed to making top-class football affordable and structures its prices accordingly.' The £12m that Chelsea had to pay United in compensation for Mikel Jon Obi also helped swell United's coffers last year, but the income streams for the next year look staggering. The AIG deal is worth £18m a year, TV money from the Premier League will be around £50m, the Champions League should see income of around £20m while the average crowd at Premier League matches this season has been 75,776, bringing in around £2m in ticket sales for every home match.' --------------------------------- [33] Get something off your man breasts --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: Want to get something off your chest? Then write a letter for the mag? Ideally a maximum of 250 words, send your thoughts on an issue bothering you to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- [32] Gill on debt --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "This is a very well-structured debt profile and all obligations can be met" --------------------------------- [31] Gill on performance related pay --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: "Personally, I would like to see players' salaries more variable, where they win rewards if we are winning. But that is a difficult thing to do in this business. In the City, there are huge City bonuses but the actual base salaries are not huge. We pay very well as it is. All our players are paid very well and very appropriately." --------------------------------- [30] Gary Nev wants more --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: Mirror quote from the Q&A session at OT "When we started winning championships in 1992-93, I always thought it would be a dream to leave this club having won more titles than Liverpool. Obviously we haven't won the championship for a few years now, but we are only three behind Liverpool and it would be fantastic to think that in the next few years we could win three or four titles and overhaul them. When I was growing up, people of my age group will know that Liverpool were winning everything. That was hard to take. But they haven't won the championship for so long now and we have to make sure we keep that going. "It was the chief of Manchester Police who wrote to the FA, saying that I was the one responsible for causing all the crowd trouble after the game. There was fighting afterwards and cars smashed up, which was apparently all my fault - nothing to do with the fact we'd scored a goal in the last minute to beat Liverpool." about conceeding late goals "It's something we've got to look at. We have not kept a clean sheet since we beat Aston Villa 3-0 away on December 21. That's something we have to address, because we are going to have to start winning games 1-0. We can't expect to score loads of goals every game. We saw it at Arsenal, and it could be the same at Chelsea, Tottenham and Liverpool, that we don't score two or three. Sometimes you have to go and win 1-0. We know there has to be a reaction after losing to Arsenal. There has to be a reaction every time Manchester United suffer a defeat. We've only lost twice in the last five years after going ahead in a game, so that shows that there's not really too much of a problem. But we know the fans expect a reaction - and we expect it of ourselves." "They have got title fever this season. And as players we share that need to win it. That's why there was so much talk about us possibly opening up a nine-point lead over Chelsea. Everyone of us wanted it so badly, so we could almost have a bit of a cruise in for the rest of the season. It would have made it a lot easier for us. But the league's never really been like that. There are always going to be twists and turns. We just have to make sure we are in control of what happens from now until the end of the season." http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-2051413-10394103 Check http://www.rednews.co.uk to view the image which has been removed from plain text email version of news --------------------------------- [29] Posted by REDDON on the VIP Forum --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: Rummenigee was quoted last night in an interview that will be published next Wed saying that regardless of the amt of money offered, BM would not sell OH to Utd and that only as a last resort would they sell him to utd in the summer. He accused Utd of double dealing with RVN when a deal was all but agreed. 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Sean Davis is a doubt, while Andy Cole, Kanu and fit-again Benjani Mwaruwari will compete for the lone striker role.' --------------------------------- [27] Pompey squad --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: James, Johnson, Primus, Campbell, Pamarot, Lauren, O'Neil, Davis, Thompson, Pedro Mendes, Taylor, Benjani, Kanu, Cole, Douala, Hughes, Mvuemba, O'Brien, Ashdown --------------------------------- [26] Platini wins at the top --------------------------------- Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 by ed: he of course only wants a maximum of 3 teams per country in the CL below from Reuters 'Michel Platini was voted in as UEFA's new president on Friday, ending Lennart Johansson's 17-year reign in European soccer's top job by just four votes. Johansson, 77, looked totally stunned as he realised that delegates had rejected him in favour of the 51-year-old former French great by 27-23 votes. An aide of Platini told Reuters: "It was 23-23 until the last four ballot papers were opened." Platini, who becomes only the seventh president in UEFA's history and the first to be born since UEFA was founded in 1954, immediately declared that Johansson would become UEFA's honorary president. The Swede was given a standing ovation by delegates, many of whom had just voted him out of office. "I'm moved, enormously moved, but I am happy," said an emotional Platini in his acceptance speech. "When I was a footballer, when you'd had a great victory, you received a cup and went on a lap of honour with all your friends around the pitch. "Today is a great victory for me but I'm not going to do a lap of honour - because we need to get started. This is the start of a great adventure." The outcome of the election was regarded as far too close too call and so it proved with just four votes separating the two men who had generally fought an amicable campaign. The only serious controversy came on Thursday when FIFA president Sepp Blatter endorsed Platini in a speech to delegates on the opening day of the Congress. Johansson was furious about Blatter's intervention and admonished the FIFA president when he made his final election speech just before voting started on Friday. "I did not appreciate the FIFA president's interference in the election process," Johansson told delegates. "With UEFA it is not he who decides the election but you the delegates." The delegates then did duly decide and endorsed Platini as the new face of European football. "It is a major victory," Platini told reporters. "The establishment was fighting for Johansson but I counted on my friends to help me. "It took a lot of work to get to 27 votes." Blatter is expected to have a closer working relationship with Platini than he ever had with Johansson. "The result is no surprise to me," Blatter told reporters. "I am happy I'll be working with someone who has the same vision for football as I do, not only as a means of making money but as a social foundation." Platini's victory throws into doubt the future role of Swede Lars-Christer Olsson, who is UEFA's chief executive. Olsson is a close ally of Johansson and his position could be under threat.' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For United books, videos, DVDs etc http://www.rednews.co.uk/ama.php?id=amazon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For the very latest news check out the website: http://www.rednews.co.uk Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RED_NEWS_MUFC_NEWS/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RED_NEWS_MUFC_NEWS/join (Yahoo! 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