Rio Ferdinand has won three Premiership titles with United and is aiming for his fourth this season. When talking about the teams that might deny him another title, he claimed fifth placed Arsenal’s chances were fairly slim.
“It is not beyond Arsenal but it is my personal opinion that it will be between the other three this season,” said Rio. “At the moment it looks like being nip and tuck but usually from Christmas onwards the teams who are going to be there at the end start pulling away. I can see that happening this season. I presume ourselves, Chelsea and Liverpool will pull away, then it will be down to two and finally one.”
Within a matter of hours, the Arsenal camp had responded, with them claiming they definitely were still in the title race. (Oh how we laughed)
Cesc Fabregas
“With all the experience they [Manchester United] have, they should know more than anyone that football can change in one week, two weeks. It is a massive game against Liverpool, it is vital. It can be a massive change in the table. If we win we know that we can come back to five points which is not a lot. We know five points is nothing.”
Emanuel Adebayor
“It is better if Rio say ‘we will try to do everything to win it’. We know we are eight points behind and we have a chance to play them and close the gap. We have to keep focused. It is going to be an important game and I don’t have to say too much about it. The motivation will come from within ourselves. We need to show good character and a good personality to win the game.”
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Someone from United always tends to play mind games with them everytime they play one of our rivals.And it usualy works.Let’s hope for more of the same.
fergie told rio to say that,like throwin petrol on a fire,but wenger had an interview an they asked him what he thought,i wouldnt call it bitin the bait , bitin the bait is what fergie did after ramsey gave him the fingers crossed thumbs up
Can someone ask Rio for Friday’s Euromillions lottery numbers?
HaHa think that was to try and get Arsenal to try and prove us wrong this weekend? lol
Thats the good thing about having a rival team thats full of kids, they will fall for anything lol.
HaHa who cares about Ramsey??? The last player who turned us down for a rival because he thought he would get more first team football was harry kewel and look at the dizzy hights he reached lol. Glad we didnt get him we have plenty of players who will do better.
the bait was set when Manchester United’s official website welcomed Aaron Ramsey to the club… er… they didnt mention what club… oh how we laughed
the bait was set when Rio predicted 3 points at the Emirates a few weeks ago.. er… he didnt mention what club… oh how we laughed
the bait was set when a team of Yanks bough a previously profitable club and loaded it with £700m worth of debt… oh how we laughed
the bait was set when Rio’s gobby bait was met with the elegantly articulated reply from one Cesc Fabregas… a man whose grasp of his second language surpasses Rio’s attempts at his first
I love it when this website generates hits by talking about Arsenal…
Sold Trafford
oh how we laughed
And your last trophy was when?
What they don’t realise is, its not a matter of points, its that they don’t have the squad to make a serious challenge.
Sold Trafford? Er, didn’t Arsenal sell their stadium naming rights to Emirates? Fucking brain of Britain representing the Goons on here tonight.
The signing of some kid is the ONLY thing Arsenal fans have over United these days. A bit sad and pathetic really, ain’t it.
You have Ramsey… we’ll take the Premiership and European Cup, ta.
Enjoy the Europa League next season. Christ, you might actually win something! How novel.
what they dont realise is that Manchester United are two points clear of Arsenal… and let’s face it… Ronaldo will pop up with his departure plans once more… its a Real problem for you…
Worry about your own problems… getting ahead of Aston Villa in table and fighting off the mighty Hull.
Good to be a GOONAH!! The bait was set when The FA and UEFA put some trophies up for grabs and we grabbed them!!! Hahahaha… where are yours?
What about when Adebayor, van persie and fabregas leave you for champions league football?
Arsenal may not b strong enough for the title race, but wat was wrong with the arsenal response ? if u flop doesnt mean u give up, u die tryin. u got murked by arsenal, simple. in the end, that can b sweeter than a cup
RE Good to be a Goonah
Yes indeed like Scott says worry about your own problems. You have enough, like having a paper thin squad. Fighting for fourth place. Two players who will want to go in the summer- Fabregas and Adebayor. Mind you, at least we don’t make our players captain to get them to stay.
mm I wander how Barcelona are going to persuade Fabregas to come in the summer
Oh yeah all they have to do is say
‘do you want to challenge for trophies? then get out of Arsenal and we don’t count the Emirates cup as a proper trophy’
Adebayor is another easy one . Say the same thing and ‘do you really want to be scoring all those goals for a team that wins naff all’
Good to be a Goonah,
It must hurt like hell knowing you had one hand on the trophy last season and your players lost their bottle combined with our players brilliance ensured you finished trophyless YET AGAIN
No wander Henry wanted to get out when he did. he could see you were in decline
goons…(sigh) cant live with ‘em… cant kill ‘em
Rio top effort . One straight out of the SAF school of manipulation.
We want Arsenal to win so we are trying to motivate them. Simple.
Rio Ferdinand said that to egg Arsenal on to beat Liverpool.
crap talk from both sides, no-one has won anything yet and still you both talk ‘I won this, what you won?’ and ‘you lot are owned by yanks who have borrowed all the money’….
what a load of schoolkids….
come on, talk about football….. oh, sorry, this is a manyoo site……
Well done Rio!!
How the gooners will be all fired up against the dippers
why you call them the dippers
surely manyoo should be called the dippers, cos you are always dipping into the yanks pockets for more money to buy more players you cant afford ?
house of cards is on the cards……. Leeds Mk.2.
You are owned by who again? I thought you wanted to talk about football. I guess finances are an integral part of what’s taking place on the pitch so lets all call for bank statements and give our bankers some shirts with numbers.
This is our site to talk about all things concerning United so if you’ve got a problem just get off it and check your site.
in moscow we made it 3 Said,
December 17th, 2008 @0:10
And your last trophy was when?
That would be when Paddy gave us our last gift at the FA CUP final before pissing off to somewhere new. You little mancunian cunts, I suppose that also having to sit there at Old Trafford and watch us take your title on your own ground must really hurt. Beating you mugs twice in an FA CUP final must also still burn you deep. It is just a shame that those Scouse thieves robbed us in the Champs L or we would have beaten your lot in the final. Now that would have really given us something to crow about. Deep down, you muppets know that when you meet The Arsenal in a Final you will LOOSE. 1979 2002 2005
Your self important little club has won 10 titles in 15 years and you are still behind Liverpool and only 5 ahead of us. Biggest club in the world my fucking arse! LMFAO
You Arsenal fans are really starting to get more like City fans every year you don’t win everything…….
Get your own blog site to bitch, moan and whine about how santa isn’t gonna bring cesc and you any silverware…
***sorry I meant “every year you don’t win ANYTHING”
Just to clarify, that’s Arsenal winning NOTHING AT ALL.
TO A (tit):
I imagine that image of Giggs ripping Dixon (twice) still haunts you.
Or maybe the Hargreaves freekick?
There are indeed so many reasons for your bitterness. I understand, but I can not help but pitty you and your team.
rofl I just responded in the other thread about how a whiney Chelsea or Arsenal fan replies to every thread now and makes a complete ass of themselves while thinking they look intelligent. It is nice to know that even other teams fans are obsessed with us.
“what they dont realise is that Manchester United are two points clear of Arsenal… and let’s face it… Ronaldo will pop up with his departure plans once more… its a Real problem for you…”
how many of our players fled for other teams in the offseason?
I guess you could argue that Pique left, but that was because we never played him.
Flamini and Hleb were obviously very loyal and knew what a great club you are
I’m predicting a mass exodus from Arsenal this summer.
Just to point out that if a player A (Ferdinand in this case) says something about an opposing team B (in this case Arsenal), then the media picks it up and asks members from that team B about what player A said. So, it’s easy to get a “reaction” now-a-days. It’s not as if Arsenal players (or any other teams’ players for that matter) are going through newspapers to see what other teams’ players are saying about them. So, this stuff about biting the bait is silly.
Yea yea, beat the dippers.
Come on you are in the league.
You ll win in March itself.
Even though Rio clarified it was his opinion and Arsenal could do it if they really wanted to.
But he did touch an aching nerve did he not.
Wenger meanwhile is easy. Afterall,there is no pressure at Arsenal.
I think the good result will be a draw between Arsenal and Liverpool.
3 games out of 3 will be too much for the gunners. Don’t give them confidence, i am still worried about them.
But it’s i think only about history vecause they don’t have the strength and depth to winn the league. Too many departures and no players to fullfill the absense of hose who left.
Arsenal will have to choose smth to win smth. Too stupid for Wenger to play for all possible trofees.
Nicely played, Rio.
To be fair though the Arsenal response is pretty much what you would want and expect if Manchester United was in a similar position (not just with regards to the table, but more importantly what appears to be a complete mess organization-wise).
Good to be a GOONAH!! – you are a prick. I tell you what I laughed about….seeing fucking T-shirts with prints of the number 10 with Gallas’s name and ‘Legend’ on it – saw loads of those on the way to the game at the Emirates. That is more laughable than your stupid fucking statement. A legend does not cry in the middle of the centre circle when his team drops two points at Birmingham. Typical Arsehole fans have nothing constructive to say when posting stuff on this site. And all you stupid fans talking about Ronaldo going to Madrid, yeah that might happen, but at least he doesn’t slag off the club that he ends up at (possibly with Ronaldo) like Henry did with Barca 2 seasons ago, after losing to them in the European Cup Final and stated what a dirty side they are and how he will never play for them. Obviously doesn’t think much of your club to do something like that.
Rio Ferdinand Nostrodamus-esque predictions don’t matter. Please continue to underestimate us because it makes it all the sweeter when we win against you. Ignorant arrogant Man united at its best
Rio has probably had a nudge from Sir Alex regarding this.
He has said it just before the Liverpool / Arsenal game in order to make Arsenal go out and prove a point.
Guys, relax. No need to worry, Arsenal are in ‘transition’ aren’t they?
Not that they’ve been in ‘transition’ for 4 years now. Not that the players they brought in to make that transition (Hleb, Flamini) have packed up and buggered off. Not that the experience they bought to shore up their defense has shown what a twat he is.
Anyway, good on Rio – its mind games so they want to win it more. SAF knows arsenal are not much fo a threat so the more points they take off the top two, the better.
And has Cesc not recently come out and say that he wants to go back to Barcelona??? Some club captain!
Dipping into our owners pockets? Don’t you get it that the owners have no money to give us – otherwise we wouldn’t be in debt. The money we spend is earned through footballing avenues. There is no sugar daddy!
And to be honest, Gooners, you can have your two FA Cups. I won’t even mention (much) how we played you off the park for the 120 minutes. Because at the end of the day, we have the trophies that matter.
CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND. CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE.
Hargos free kick was nice but I imagine a left-footed John O’Shea chip from the edge of the box at Highbury must be the icing on the cake…. how I laughed!!!
How Roy Keane made your “hero” captain shit himself in the tunnel before the same game…. again I laughed
Arsenal are obviously not a threat to us anymore…… we gave you our bench warmer Silvestre who is now a regular in your team….
Bag of sweets and a Captains armband won’t be enough to keep Fabregas there next season!!!!
If your negative points are all true, why couldn’t you win against us?
Jonny – United tend to lose to the shit teams. Lost home and away to City last year, home and away to West Ham the season before. Just one of those things I guess.
You lost to Liverpool too. But I suppose that argument is devoid of logic on a Man United blog, the arrogance means even if they’re top of the league I imagine you still consider them shit.
Jonny – it’s like you don’t understand football. Winning one match doesn’t make you a better team. Christ, are Stoke better than Arsenal? Why couldn’t you beat them?
You asked why we couldn’t beat you. There are plenty of teams United can’t beat from season to season, it just happens that way. As long as we’re the ones lifting the trophy at the end of the season that says we’re the best in the country, I’m not arsed.
And we’re arrogant with good reason. What excuse do Arsenal fans use for their arrogance?
I never said winning one match makes a team better. I was simply pointing out that for all your insistence that Arsenal pose no threat, you failed to win. This doesn’t make us better than you or vice versa. We’re rivals. We will always lord results over one another in any argument.
Please do keep up the arrogance. I love hearing some of the excuses United fans offer up when they fail.
We’re not rivals. Your rivals are Aston Villa and Hull. Our title rivals are Chelsea. We’re not competing for the same prizes anymore.
@ Jonny: for much the same reason you won the 2005 FA Cup after we’d dominated the game from beginning to end, i.e. you took the few chances you had and we didn’t.
To go to a big 4 side’s place and have something crazy like 54% possession, forcing the other team to play on the counter and have created more chances than the Home team says a lot more than just “we won, ergo we’re better, end of story”.
But yeah, way to ignore the fact that he hasn’t written you off completely. Beat Liverpool this weekend and, with Eduardo returning, you become an altogether more valid proposition going into the New Year.
Unless you drop points immediately afterward, of course (Villa, Middlesborough much?.
You do make me laugh.
Once again, I never said we we’re the better team. And he clearly has written us off completely, just like many United fans write off everyone except themselves.
@ Jonny:
“It is not beyond Arsenal”
Yep, sounds like a complete write-off to me …
Why can’t you see this for what it is (i.e. an attempt to rile you’s up into beating Liverpool) than a genuine ‘cross-the-bows shot at another of the big 4?
As the title of the article suggests, your lot have bitten the bait, let’s hope you can turn in the performance.
A:
i know when ur last trophy was i was taking the piss. That fa cup final was 4 years ago, and it looks like viera made the right choice in leaving coz uv won f*** all since! And considering that since u won the league at OT and beat us in the FA cup final we have won 3 leagues (2 since the fa cup), a champions league, and a leage cup then i can honestly say with hand on heart that i dont give a shit! haha. And u say we are still behind liverpool… not for long! And ‘only 5′!!!! HA!! Thats loads behind, at the rate u are going u will be lucky to win the league withing the next 5years.
And u keep believing urself when u say u would have beat us in the final, the fact is u didnt even get there and when u did u bottled it against barca!
inmoscow…..: Nuff said .
Bet you all regret the day you let Lasana Diarra go for an absolute song. How ya could do with him now eh?
lol, I like the fact of Rio motivating the gooners to beat the dippers.. and the comments of ARSEnal fans make it clear.. they’re on fire now
Fuck off Jonny. You are clearly talking shit. For your own sake please stop embarrassing yourself. You keep making the point of beating us this season. You also beat us twice two seasons ago and still ended up 21 points behind us in the final league standings. West Ham also beat us home and away that season and stayed up on the last day of the season. Being top on the last day and winning cup finals is what counts, something your joke of a club hasn’t experienced since 2005. You really are a small time supporter, having a sex wee over one result. Actually that applies to the majority of Arsenal fans too.
Now is the winter of arsenal’s discontent. By the time your “young” team pulls it together your lot will be in their mid 30′s, or playing for other teams. Gallas ruined your season.
It wasn,t Gallas that ruined the Goonarse season it was bumboy Wenger and his fucking arrogance and misbelief that, as a manager he could match SAF. And by also thinking that the Arse-nil are as big a club as us. Totaly blind to the fact that his team of also rans are now competing with Hull and Villa for the league position. Their team maybe can raise their games against better teams but a winning leagues and euro cups mean you have to have the week in week out commitment. I agree with others that there will be a mass exodus from the Enema-riates this summer….
And Jonny…. you’ve got to be a total cunt if you cant see it to !
@Scott: lol, burn you comments made me laugh…”we’re not competing for the same things anymore”. Look Arse fans, our days or rivalry are over now, the only team who really matter now is Chelsea.
What a warrr zone. Tbh i dont really care if arse beat dipshits or not cause at the end of the day neither will be ANYWHERE near the top. United or Chelsea eassssily. United to do the treble of league cup fa cup and premier league..
Hey kids let’s just calm it down and hug eachother in celebration of the birth of the baby jesus.