|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 6, 2015 19:54:32 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 6, 2015 19:17:59 GMT
Manchester United transfer gossip: Paul Pogba updatePogba continues to be linked with a return to United Paul Pogba's rent-a-quote agent Mino Raiola has piped up again, only this time it is bad news for Manchester United and every other elite European club. Pogba could remain at Juventus next season, it turns out. That's hardly a surprise, since he signed a new contract in October and his market value could soar after a successful Euro 2016 on home soil. As huge as a mistake as it was to allow Pogba to leave, no wonder Sir Alex Ferguson got fed up of Raiola's rhetoric. Brace yourself for 'where were you when Kenedy was bought?' puns if United bother to sign the 19-year-old Brazilian striker. It is not particularly encouraging the Fluminense goalscorer has been dubbed 'the new Hulk'. That's a reference to the unreliable striker, rather than the Avengers member. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/manchester-united-transfer-gossip-paul-8783543#rlabs=1
|
|
|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 6, 2015 19:12:27 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 6, 2015 19:10:39 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 6, 2015 17:15:27 GMT
Yeah, just unreal. We've been winning everything on our path except this one. The last time it was in the first Ronaldo's season. It's hard to imagine that we didn't win it in Rooney's, Carrick's, Evra's and Vidić's time here but the focus was mainly on the PL and CL. That doesn't justify the lack of interest in the oldest cup of course if it can be said like that. It's about time to put our hands on it and the chances are very good with the Liverpool as the main threat. Wouldn't like to say "the only threat" but I have the confidence, unlike the last season (dross) and the Fergie era in the late years (lack of true interest of winning it).
|
|
|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 6, 2015 16:49:07 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 6, 2015 16:29:23 GMT
I'm so pleased for him. Congratulations Ander!
|
|
|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 6, 2015 16:27:57 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 6, 2015 16:27:43 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 6, 2015 16:21:08 GMT
Football transfer rumours: Manchester United to sign Brazilian star Kenedy?Brazil's Robert, or Kenedy, or Robert Kenedy, left, fights for the ball with Peru's Luis Abram during their U-20 match earlier this month. Photograph: Matilde Campodonico/AP Michael Butler @michaelbutler18 Tuesday 17 February 2015 09.06 GMT Brazil has long been known as an exporter of bright young things with very boring names. Jô, Alan, Bernard, Fred are among those to have graced the Mill’s keyboard in recent years, and frankly we’ve had enough. Mothers of Brazil, we want more ‘-inho’s’, more double-grave accents, more headbanded wonderkids named after a Greek philosophers, more starlets commonly associated with huge green Marvel Comic superheroes. The latest off the underwhelmingly-labelled production line is ‘Robert’ or ‘Kenedy’ or ‘Robert Kenedy’, depending on which back-street outlet you get your morning football gossip from. To help pique your interest this Tuesday, we’re going to affectionately refer to the 19-year-old Fluminense striker as Bobby in the hope that the image of the charming former US senator can inspire you to finish this paragraph. Like a rare wild beast, BobKat is being ‘tracked’ by Manchester United after impressing in both Brazil’s U-17 and U-20 set up and is thought to be worth £5m. United face competition from Internazionale but are thought to be in the proverbial driving seat having already established a relationship with Fluminense with the transfer of Rafael and Fábio da Silva back in 2008. Predictably, Bob has been dubbed the new Neymar by the Metro, although from grainy YouTube videos, he appears to have more in common with the aforementioned Hulk. So expect a couple of very expensive moves and ol’ Bob to burn out by the time he reaches his mid-20s. Lovely. Louis van Gaal and co have also had their heads turned by a player slightly closer to home: Southport reserve team (stay with us here) striker Drew Lewis, who has scored a whopping 38 goals this season. The Premier League giants have offered the 19-year-old a trial, and should he sign for United, he would become the second player to do so from non-league this season, after Sadiq El Fitouri’s switch from Salford City. Palermo’s Paulo Dybala is increasingly looking like he might become Arsenal’s Paulo Dybala this summer after the Italian club’s owner, Maurizio Zamparini, admitted that there had been a breakdown in contract negotiations. “I like him a lot, but I was expecting a different attitude,” Zamparini reportedly told Italian press. “I don’t speak to him about a new contract anymore. This lad is out of reach for all Italian clubs, except for Juventus who could make money by selling Paul Pogba. His future? The problem is not the boy but his agents. I am sorry for this. I’ve been to London and I have received calls from all over Europe.” £30m is the price being bandied about, if Arsène Wenger was wondering. The Mill suspects this will not be the Argentinian’s last mention here. www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/17/football-transfer-rumour-mill-manchester-united-kenedy-brazilThe article from two weeks ago and now: Bid in - Manchester United offer £6m to sign young superstar Posted by SPORT WITNESS on March 5, 2015 at 18:24 in Sport Witness Football Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo have another feature on the future of young Brazilian Kenedy in their Thursday newspaper. With Kenedy being a Barcelona target no expense is spared on the plaudits and he's elevated to the best player under 20 years old in Brazil and one of the country's new generation of sensations. Kenedy is an 18 year old forward and Mundo Deportivo say he has an incredible power in his shots, reminiscent of Hulk. He's considered more creative than Hulk and held aloft by legends of the Brazilian game. The boy is a bit highly rated. His full name is Robert Kenedy Nunes do Nascimento and the Spanish newspaper explain that he's named after Bobby Kennedy, brother of JFK. The shortened version of 'Kenedy' is on Barcelona's shopping list and 'underlined in red' by the club's new shopping guru Ariedo Braida. Barcelona's strong interest won't automatically end in success, partly because of his complicated ownership say Mundo Deportivo, but they also point out strong competition from others - claiming Manchester United have already offered €8m. That works out to be about £6m and could be more pleasing to Kenedy's current club Fluminense than other offers. Fernando Simone, executive director of Fluminense, spoke TMW in Italy recently and confirmed bids had gone in "We have received formal offers but nothing is happening: for €5m to €6m we certainly wouldn't sell. How much? We do not put a fixed price, we can say that we'll listen to the best." sportwitness.ning.com/forum/topics/bid-in-manchester-united-offer-6m-to-sign-young-superstar
|
|
|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 6, 2015 15:55:45 GMT
Who is Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro? First team doctor who is in her fourth season in the role has been subjected to sexist abuse by Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal fans this seasonDoctor who: Eva Carneiro began working with Chelsea's first team in 2011 Photo: PA By Rob Bagchi 9:21AM GMT 06 Mar 2015 Eva Carneiro, Chelsea’s first-team doctor who has been subjected to sexist abuse by Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal fans this season, was promoted to her role at the start of the 2011-12 campaign after two years working with the reserves. She was born in Gibraltar to a Spanish father and English mother, studied medicine at Nottingham University, worked in the Scottish Highlands on graduation then spent two years at the Australasian College of Sports Physicians before completing her MSc in Sport and Exercise at London’s Queen Mary University. After her post-graduate studies Carneiro joined Islington PCT’s Public Health department, continuing her training at the Whittington Hospital and the British Olympic Medical Institute’s Intensive Rehabilitation Unit at Bisham Abbey before earning a place on the UK Sports and Exercise Medicine Specialist training programme. In that role, she worked with Team GB athletes in the build-up to the Beijing and Olympics and with Hope Powell’s England women’s football team. Carneiro’s love of football was sparked while travelling in Mexico during the 1998 World Cup, she told The Gibraltar Magazine six years ago: “Brazil was playing Mexico and we stopped at a town which was a popular honeymoon tourist destination for Brazilians.They boasted a huge sports arena and had a World Cup party to celebrate Brazil's first appearance. At the time I was particularly interested in learning how to samba to be absolutely honest. The Brazilians danced on the bar after every goal and at halftime. By the end of the game I was hooked on both football and samba.” In the summer of 2011 Andre Villas-Boas appointed her to work with the first team and she has subsequently worked alongside Roberto Di Matteo, Rafael Benítez and Jose Mourinho, treating the players who won the Champions League in 2012, the Europa League the following year and the Capital One Cup this month. In a rare public statement, Carneiro addressed a Swedish FA sports medicine conference last year. "Women want to be leaders, we just put them off as we go along," she said. "In every programme I've watched in my life, the female doctor is either hyper-sexualised or she's not present. This needs to change. Women are discouraged at a young age. Eva Carneiro tends to injured Chelsea defender Kurt Zouma (PA) "As a male you can aspire to having a successful professional life and a fulfilling personal life. Women are told that if they want to have both, at best it's going to be difficult and at worse it's going to be a disaster. Ninety percent of the mail I receive is from young women wanting to perform the same role. We need to tell them its possible and that their presence will improve results." www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/11453841/Who-is-Chelsea-doctor-Eva-Carneiro.htmlwww.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/mar/05/sexist-chanting-chelsea-eva-carneiro
|
|
|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 5, 2015 23:23:51 GMT
Well, while I like Blind's tactical awareness and overal game, he doesn't offer the physical resistance we need in some games. Carvalho is a pure defensive mid, strong as an ox, an anchor to sit with one or two mobile CM in front of him. He could be a great player to buy, but we still need that strong box-to-box first imo. Blind and Carrick are both good enough to play Carvalho's role, but we miss another box-to-box to partner and/or cover for Herrera to balance the team properly. I assume you don't like Blind in the first team at all then?
|
|
|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 5, 2015 23:12:17 GMT
To be fair, Blind at left back is a disaster waiting to happen, especially against the pace of Arsenal. He is no where near dynamic enough to play that role in the BPL imo. Here we go again, overrated word as it comes. Jo, Ramires, Silva, Azpilicueta, Isla, Sanchez (ARS), Dos Santos, Lavezzi, Messi. Pretty much looks competent just from those 5 matches without looking at his Ajax days as a left back and against some pacey players there. He'd also have Carrick next to him when defend.
|
|
|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 5, 2015 22:04:23 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 5, 2015 21:47:41 GMT
|
|