Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed that a new one year contract extension has been agreed for Ryan Giggs, but reckons the Welsh midfielder can go another year after that.
“I spoke to Ryan a few days ago,” said Fergie. “He is happy to have another year and that is good news. You can see his fitness. It is incredible. He could do another year, who knows, another two years, because his fitness is so good. I never expected him to be here so long but as the years went on there were improvements in terms of sports science and fitness, and Ryan is very much into yoga too. That gives you a better chance of course. But Ryan has also been prepared to make sacrifices and be a really good professional.”
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Legend
Tearing them apart at 40.
@Costas
Now that would be a sight! Giggsy putting defenders on their arses at 40!
Ever-Living-Legend! He will play on forever and ever. Amen.
I’ll be damned! Here’s to hopin he ne’er retires!
I’ll be damned! Here’s to hopin he ne’er retires! Would like to see him in Fifa 15…Lol.
Damn phone!
Yes but Boss get Scholes and everyone else signed up too
Eikrem Scores for Molde MOM apparently Norways own Scholes.New we had fucked up letting him go.
This guy is a “living legend” – Ryan Giggs has always been inconsistent but when he’s on-song then there’s no one – no one ! – better. Even today, he has the experience that compensates for a lost step or two but his close control is EPIC. His vision and composure ain’t half-bad, either.
Sell him….buy Gareth Bale!
parryheid 2 19:09: “Eikrem Scores for Molde MOM apparently Norways own Scholes.New we had fucked up letting him go.”
My guess would be that he was not “let go” but, rather, sold with a buy-back. A kind of win-win as Ole got a player to run the game and Magnus gets first-team experience in that role. What do UTD get ?the possiblity of buying this guy for relative peanuts after he has gained invaluable experience in quarterbacking Molde. Of course, these scenarios are hypothetical but I would imagine that this is a better learning experience for him than being loaned out to Wigan or – egads ! – Preston North End !
I will never understand how Gibson was ahead of Eikrem in the reckoning for the first team.
Giggs must really be making some sacrifices. It just takes so much to maintain that level of fitness at that age, esp. when you take into account the assault his body has had over the past couple of decades. I’d imagine when he does tire out it takes increasingly longer to recover too. Must be like taking a battering every time he plays two games in a row. That’s what you call commitment. Will be delighted to see him run out at the start of next season.
parryheid – It’s one game mate. We’ve got buy back clause, lets see how he progresses, eh?
Denton Davy.
Aint seen any fee.Just don’t think we should be buying back what we already had,christ he’s so much like Scholes he apparently tackles like him Booked.What report I’m getting is patchy but the Noggies will soon put us in the picture.
All this shite talk about Eikrem, I forgot about the main man! Give him another 2 year contract, he deserves It. Proper legend.
parryheid – Bit early to say we shouldnt have let him go. He is nothing like Scholes at tackling. Paul is a bulky tough little cunt, Eikrem a match stick. No doubting his technical ability but at coming up 21 obviously the manager and coaches didnt think he was up to it. Besides we will have Pogba and Tunnicliffe playing in the middle in the next 2 -3 years.
willie – Ha nice one mate.
No more words left to describe Giggsy . He has been at Fergies side for twenty years and knows the club inside out. I reckon ONE day this lad will manage United.
arijc – Well obviously the coaches do mate!
Willie red nut.
Half a game mate,it’s just I have been keeping tabs on him for years then he gets hoiked out the door one of our future and I wonder if the same is going to happen to young Morrison.Worrying times at least for me.
To all them fuckers in the palace at the end of the mall……make it SIR RYAN GIGGS as soon as you like….
parryheid – Nowt at all to worry about. He would be WAY down the midfield pecking order and would never get a game. Especially with Cleverley to come back. There is an absolute plethora of talent at United in the academy and reserves and obviously didnt fancy Magnus. May have nowt to do with his ability but could be any number of things. Mentality, attitude, may want game time? Who knows. Certainly not worrying times, exciting times mate.
Wonderful servant and a great in the game,should get more recognition,feels he’s under rated as he’s Welsh,but irrespective of that a true world class player even in his prime…just like ginger ninja
I feel that he may play less next seAson if Nani plays on the left with Tony V on the right but as for now I’d marvel at his master class performances! 
parryheid – Half a game then lol. I’m sure you’ll keep us up to date with Eikrems progress. He might be back, at least Oles there to watch over him.
Many on RoM have mused on how wonderful it would be were Ole to return one day, possibly even to manage United. A long successful spell at Molde seems like an excellent start to his career as a manager. His first couple of seasons won’t make him, but they could break him.
If Eikrem is as good as we all hope then he will be of great help to Ole.
Of course, one season with Molde is not likely to reinvent Eikrem ‘overnight.’ Rather it would appear that 2 or 3 years at the centre of Ole’s team is required to bring him to United level. For us to expect Molde to invest everything into Eikrem, he needs to belong to them.
As to the cost of buying him back, we will know what we are getting for a fair price. Anyway, it would cost money, and a place in the Reserves, to keep him
King Eric.
You could well be right with all your points,just got a feeling we are going to get badly bitten and I don’t like it.
@smartalex
Agree with your post at 20:01.
Off topic..mancini saying that everyone in january is overpriced..LOL.Look who’s talking…These blue bastards were the ones responsible for inflating the damn market..well, that shouldn stop them blue shite from spending another 100mil on another joke of a player..Mancini can stick that blue scarf straight up his ass..
Lol Giggsy will be playing till he’s 50! It’s all the yoga…hope he isn’t indulging in too much tantric sex though, wouldn’t want him to start having groin problems! lol. but on a serious note, having Giggsy around in a minimal role, as a sub when we need some creativity or someone to twist the blood of the tired defenders is a great idea, without relying too much on him. Having him and Scholesy in our squad is invauable for training our kids.
As for Eikrem, he’s in safe hands with Ole. If he develops and looks like the sort of player who could cope with EPL footy, we can get him back (hopefully with Ole) for nothing. Would love to groom a Scholes part 2 within the academy and have him brought up. Is Cleverley injured btw? Hasn’t been recalled has he? Playing and training with our 1st team would be good. Speaking of 1st team, reckon poor Owen will get some mins anytime soon?
Giggs plays atnd the rest of the team need to cover cos as brilliant as he can still be,he leaves gaps that can be exploited.
Giggs uses his experience and skills to run our team ,we dont have any replacement for that now.
Glad he will be around another year,means no wales job then,hopefully he coaches at Manutd.
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@parryheid : understand your worry, we have been thru this before ,eikrem is good but maybe just needing experience to get better.
But I beleive Fergie wud not have let the kid go,unless he was sure,the buy back clause helps.
Beleive this our midfeild options are there ,the competition is intense,thats why too we let husain the other norwegian kid go .
Like this kid Lukaku, huge and silky skills , if Fergie beleives in this kid and signs him ,we have to let someone go. And our young strikers at the moment are all powerful giants with only Keane being the nimble one.
So basically its about choices the boss makes,done it for years,may not be easy,but its ok ,we are free from being bitten.
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@CedarsDevil: Hope u read this. Thanks for yr comments on the other article. How u survived what happened in yr country, I just dunno what to say. Glad everything is peaceful now,hopefully with hezbollah bringing down yr goverment it does not start the fighting again.
Been watching some of yr country men on aljazeera having a go at each other about who is working for israel on the hariri murder commision.
Cedars ,hope ur doing ok,and dont have to drive somewhere to listen to Manutd on the car radio BBC.
Otherwise come over to Malaysia, quite a big lebanese population here.
Take care dude.
Well Costas, with the Manager and Ole looking after him he’ll be in the best place.
Now, how is your pre-team-selection thought process coming along? I don’t expect any give-aways but surely you can throw a few sardines to the flock.
Something fishy going on here. Can’t find the place.
@smartalex
Heh, haven’t thought about it a lot. It’s usually a lot harder in cases like this when we play another game in 3 days time. And the squad is getting stronger, so who knows? I am going to go with this:
VDS – Brown, Vidic, Evans, Evra – Nani, Fletcher, Scholes, Giggs – Rooney, Berbatov.
And on Tuesday, I can see us lining up like this:
VDS – Rafael, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra – Fletcher, Carrick, Anderson, Nani – Rooney, Berbatov
But as usua, I’ll get most of them wrong.
That lisp Is getting worse.
Damn it.
I’m thinking the boss will play his strongest teams possible in the Brom game and Blackpool. Then he can rest a few against Southampton in the cup.
Earlier today I thought
VDS – JOS, Rio, Vidic, Evra – Carrick, Scholes, Anderson, – Nani, rooney, Berbatov
My thinking was:
O’Shea has been chosen before Wes every time this year, why would it change?
Scholes must play, so Giggs doesn’t. It means Rooney playing on the left.
Other than that I’m beginning to worry that my line-up is so unbalanced we’d get hammered so I think I’ll just give up. fuck.
King Eric – you said he is nothing like scholes tackling, if scholes was poor at this god knows how bad elkrim is.
Look perry we let rossi go etc. and speaking of oshea where has he been all these months, it is like he completly dissapeared
Another aspect of my selection was an attempt to get Paul and Anderson on together.
For that I felt we needed Carrick to protect RioVida.
@fergie is the boss
O’Shea was out injured since Nov. Just played his first game for the Reserves a week back.
Fergie´s keeping him till he´s won the league 19 times so that we cam all say
SirGiggs19-Scum0
Oh, you’re twisting my melon man.
arijc – cheers for that, was thinking where the hell did oshea go
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/224640/United-have-been-lucky-says-Arsene-Wenger
Wenger reckons we’ve been lucky.
Willierednut,
The way the Telegraph report it, Wenger admits that we could still equal the unbeaten run.
Ofcourse we have been lucky. So was he. You need alot of quality, but a bit of luck is never amiss.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/8275425/Lucky-Manchester-United-can-emulate-my-Invincibles-but-will-never-match-their-style-says-Arsene-Wenger.html
Doesn’t get more lucky than Ruud Van Nistelrooy of all people missing a penalty against you in the 93rd minute. That would have been the end of the “Invincibles” right there.
And you can be sure that Whinger would like nothing more than to end our unbeaten run on the 30th April, 4 games before reaching Invincible status.
Lots of good articles on United today. WTF? Feels a bit off to be honest. Don’t need a love fest or we won’t feel like United!
Telegraph has a nice piece on the training programs at United as well.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/8275326/Manchester-Uniteds-Ryan-Giggs-and-Rio-Ferdinand-buy-into-cutting-edge-methods-at-Carrington.html
Costas, At this point in the season, we could even make their point total. Not sayin we will remain unbeaten. But one can always dream about big achievements as long as there is a ray of hope. Always easy to dream when you support United.
FletchTHEMAN
Did you watch the Carrington Revealed videos that were linked the other day. All the quotes in that telegraph article are from it. I enjoyed them a lot. They were part of 2 articles on Busby Way showing Carrington then and now. Excellent.
@SmartAlex
Haha, I decided to stop predicting the lineup ages ago- with SAF it’s just about impossible to get it right. Even so, it still is good fun.
Here goes my prediction:
VDS-Wes-Rio-Vida-Evra-Nani-Carrick-Anderson-Giggs-Mr.Ambition-Berba
I have a feeling he’ll play two wingers since it’s a home game and save Scholesy for Blackpool.
Costas, your turn mate
On topic, I remember wondering how long Giggsy could carry on five years ago– ’32 is quite old for a winger,’ was my reasoning. I’m delighted to have been proven wrong.
Thank God for all the yoga.
will Sir Ryan Giggs in the making play 1000 times for Man Utd based on Sir Alex’s statement?
I think he is on 850+ games already if I’m not mistaken. How fitting if he was the one who broke the 1000 barrier.
I hope he plays till the day we here on MOTD..them Scouse, Toon and the Orange cunts call him Sir Ryan of Canton !!
vds-oshea-rio-vida-evra-nani-ando-carrick-obertan(coz of his hattrick in reserves)-rooney-berba
2-0 united
I’m soo glad that Giggs decided to stay another season with us, although I wish I could say the same about our Edwin :’(
I think it’s close to this:
Van der Sar
Rafael (in Fabio’s shirt) Ferdinand Vidic Evra
Nani Fletcher Anderson Giggs
Berbatov Rooney
United 3-1Birmingham
@dela
Hi mate. Here’s mine, with one eye on the Blackpool game.
VDS – Brown, Vidic, Evans, Evra – Nani, Fletcher, Scholes, Giggs – Rooney, Berbatov.
As usual, I will get about 6-7 correct, lol.
@FletchTHEMAN
Of course, Theoretically, we could even reach the amount of points we got in 08-09 which is more impressive than what the invincibles did imo.
Here’s my guess:
VDS – Brown, Smalling, Vidic, Fabio – Nani, Anderson, Carrick, Obertan – Rooney, Berbatov
@ Dave Malaysia (20:31)
Cheers for the mention my friend and for the thoughtful concerns. Yes we had a severe civil war here between 75 and 90 but since then its never been politically or economically stable. Still would never trade it for any other place on earth, although I really appreciate your invite
I have been blessed though to have lived abroad for several years including England (school & college) and I spent the last 15 years working in the Gulf between Kuwait & Dubai… Back home for good now and will stick around no matter what happens…. I love this place ALMOST as much as I love UNITED…
For the rest I apologize for the non football post…
Legend, but I am still a bit sceptical about this, he’ll put few good performances for us, then what, we need some quality left winger otherwise we’re fucked.
I named my first son ‘Ryan’ and second one ‘Gary’. I wonder where i got those names from. I still think that its better to retire while you are still on top of your game. If you look at GNev, he believes he’s still got it but even the fans want him out.
We dont want a Ric Flair or Hulk Hogan in our team..Those two didnt know when to quit and we all know what happened to them.
@redroy
I’d disagree about Nev. I think he still has it, but he will never be able to prove it due to Rafa’s form. If he plays 1 game every 2-3 months, of course he is going to look rusty.
Thankfully we have Undertakers in our squad. They can still go.
Costas I am stoked to hear that you have faith in Gary. Most appear to have abandoned him.
I am hoping (even expecting) that he’ll earn another year.
@smartalex
Glad to hear someone else is too, lol. As I said above, the problem for me is that he can’t and won’t play as often. And apparently he won’t play for the Reserves either. And it won’t get easier from now on, so I guess he will have a choice to make: Go to another club and play more often or retire. I hope he is around next season too. He might not play too often, but you need his influence in the locker room.
Costas. The way I see it is there’s no downside to keeping him on, provided he’s able to contribute on the field, even in a small way. A common conception is that older players restrict the opportunities for younger players. Not so at United. If you’re good enough you’re old enough. Rafael is a case in point. A knee-jerk reaction is to shift out the old. Yet SAF has shown that constant evolution is the way.
Plus, he terrifies the scousers!