Whilst all the newspapers are claiming we will struggle this season thanks to the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo, something they haven’t touched on is this season we won’t be travelling half way around the world during the busy Christmas period.
Upon returning from the FIFA World Club Cup, we had plenty of games to catch up and had plenty more games than any other team, as well as dealing with the tiredness of travelling to Japan and back.
Ferguson claims it was an achievement to win the league last season under those circumstances and that he wants us to win it again this year to make it four league titles in a row.
“We would like to do it,” said Ferguson. “It would be a great achievement obviously, because we all know what a difficult league it is. Under the circumstances, it was a great achievement to win it last year. But we don’t have to go for the Club World Cup this time and we don’t have to play catch-up in terms of games.”
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I hope this year will be the Gunners’
However, if we fail to do so, I hope Man Yoonited to win it. I can’t see Chelski or Liverpool anything as long as we don’t.
Th 14.I beg to differ.
You’ve sold your best player and wont get any new ones.And youngsters cant win anything good.
heard that statment before,
didnt know gunners had sold fabregas
@Macheda is GOD
You mean Adebayor? You don’t even know who is the best Arsenal player. Ade was the most awful player in the last year and even Bendtner was better than him. No Arsenal fan is feeling sorry about selling him.
Kolo will be missed but I think we have seen his goodness and he was not as good as the days of 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Didn’t you watch Arshavin, Van Persie, Nasri, Walcott, Eduardo, Rosicky, Cesc, Wilshere and Vela playing?
The one who sold their main goal scorer is Manchester United.
gooners no fukin chance. be lucky to stay in top 4, they always crumble when it matters..united for the title
ghtt.happy journey for tmmrw.enjoy the game and the trip. as for four in a row.i m keeping my fingers crossed.hope we can do it.
@ th 14
United can cope with Ronaldo’s loss. Arsenal as ever still look a soft touch. Eduardo, Walcott and van Persie are injury-prone as is almost half your squad. You don’t have the squad strength to compete for the title so pipe down.
Chelski will miss players during African Cup of Nations and Shitpool lost a very influential player in Alonso and had another one unsettled in Mascherano. Aquilani is a decent player from what i`ve seen but he is injury-prone and wasn`t even up to Serie A`s definition of rough and tumble. I think he is going to be a flop and the dippers can`t possibly have as lucky a season as they had last season. I might be tempting fate but I honestly cannot see any team other than United winning the title. Sadly the CL is a different kettle of fish…….
th14.arsenal are quality going forward but you dont have a good holding mid and good centrebacks.gallas is past his prime.silvestre and djouru are crap.arsenal have struggled due to poor defence.eduardo is injury prone but arshavin cesc and van persie are a class apart.
Who cares about Arsenal? We have bigger fish to catch.
How many sides have reached 3 champions league finals in a row???I fancy a bit of that as well..our first choice starting 11 will be collectively stronger than last season.I said from day one berba and ronaldo together will be counter productive.Anticipate berba and wazza to form THE most potent partnership in world football
hope your right bestie07 madrid in the final hopefully
I agree with Beastie above – CR7 and Berb didn’t gel at all. I think Tevez complicated things too! We were great at making chances but we blew a lot as well.
My fear is defence. Going into the season with a sick list like ours is worrying.
The key for me is getting the best out of the Rooney/Berbatov attacking combination – and to do that the midfielders have to get them to butt out of the midfield and play like forwards. It seems simple enough – and we’ve heard SAF say it on more than one occasion – but when the two forwards play running away from the opposition’s goal then they’re making things easy for the opposition.
Also, sorting out the situation in goal is obviously crucial – Fergy has put a lot of his eggs in Foster’s basket which makes me very, very nervous.
Dammit, I’m beginning to get pissed with all this waiting and can hardly wait for Sunday when the real games begin.
I think Macheda is God was being ironic when he said you can’t win the league by selling your best player and using kids!
Fabregas will be a Barca player come Tuesday!
PS Why are people being offensive to TH14? He was actually saying he hopes UNited win it if not the Arse.
B E L I E V E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwNG42Ps9pc
denton – I don’t think even Sir Alex can do anything about Wazza dropping deep.
TH14
You are aware that you can’t win anything with kids. Alan Hanson says so. Honestly I can’t see you winning it but without a doubt you’ll be top4 again. Adebayor was awful for you lot and you getting £25 million for him just shows the stupidity of Citeh.
Fergie saying we want 4 in a row. Could he be stating the obvious.
The Mighty Manchester United Football Club is the club that every football fan, every football journalist and every football pundit REALLY believes is the team to beat. REGARDLESS of whatever else they say to try and have an interesting opinion. If they were all forced to gamble their House on it that is who they would put it on without a shadow of a doubt.
I know I would and so would you even if you did not support them already.
TH14, how can you talk about us selling our main goal scorer when you are an Arsenal supporter using the name ‘TH14′? Thierry Henry 14? still living in the past, eh?
sanj- good spot mate, never recognized that.
sanj- the lad using th14 doesnt mean a damn thing…if i want i will use R7 whenever i want coz Ronaldo was a great player for us…Henry is an Arsenal legend…so stop giving him stick….atleast he supports us over the rentboys and the dippers.
READ WHAT I SAID – Yes I would imagine you are bang on with that. IF they had to put their mortgage on it would they really bet against UNited? Would they fuck. Ian Wright tonight tipped the Rentboys as well. I won’t underestimate them but is it just me who cannot understand the hype surrounding them this time round? Whats all this about a “strong squad”? It is NOT a patch on ours. Ok they haven’t sold (well actually they have now, and the irony is that it is one of their youth players Mancienne) but they have hardly bought top players. Sturridge the greedy bastard, another left wing back and Middlesboro keeper. Why would they sell one of their promising defenders in Mancienne who is from the academy? It beggars belief. The remaining players are past their peak, and just don’t have the hunger and desire that our lads have, even after winning it the last three years despite what all the media aresaying. If Drogshite or Anelka get injured who can they turn to? Kalou and Pizzaro? Di Santo or whatever he is called has even gone out on loan. May be hard to break down but can’t see them pulling up any trees.
Yeah, i truly have to stand up and say that TH14 was being positive. Its rare so lets encourage and enjoy it. I’ve read alot worse from an arsenal fan on this blog.
I honestly think if they can keep their main players fit arsenal will surprise everyone (but not me cos im saying it now). However, when have they ever kept anyone fit?
Selling adebayor was a good thing not bad as well.
adebayor/toure arent amazingly good players, there just decent so its not the players ability that arsenal will miss its just the fact they dont have any players that are that much better than them, and any talent they have has basically no experience at all so i doubt they will win the league because even if they got the squad working well together everyone else is still stronger than them.
Wenger is a top class manager though and id be shocked if arsenal failed to remain in the top 4, Fabgregas/Arshavin will be very important to le’arse
i will give him stick about it when he brings up us losing ronaldo. it is quite hypocritical to say our team sold our ‘main goal scorer’ when his team did the exact same thing 2 years ago- and he is using his name to post. also, comparing ronaldo’s legend status to henry’s is laughable. henry is far more of a legend to arsenal than ronaldo is to united. united’s own supporters cannot even agree whether ronaldo is a united legend. you would be hard pressed to find an arsenal supporter who wouldn’t label henry a legend.
@KING ERIC
It is difficult to think of a stronger TEAM mentality than the one Fergie creates year in year out. The likes of Drogba and Stevie G and Fabregas are all about themselves and dont even get me started on Anelka. That said, I do believe Ronaldo had also become an ” all about me” player and that we have maybe gained some solidarity out of his going that we have yet to fully realise. Perhaps we will not win it this year, personally I think we will as we will play as a team more than we did last year and as such we will have a lot more comfortable wins than last year where we scraped more than I care to remember.
We are United in name and nature – City will play eleven individuals but they will never be UNITED in either sense of the word.
@ READ CAREFULLY WHAT I SAID- i share your feelings about the upcoming season. “we will play as a team more than we did last year and as such we will have a lot more comfortable wins than last year…” spot on. ronaldo’s departure will be a good thing. don’t get me wrong, i will miss some aspects of the lad, but there are definitely aspects that i will not miss at all (pouting, not tracking back, being selfish – see CL final rome 2009). i think our team will be more cohesive, work more as a team, and score more goals than last year. yes, more goals than last year. call me crazy, but i believe it.
@sanj – It is always a beautiful thing when two great minds meet. LOL.
hahahaha… let’s hope our minds are correct!
@SANJ – I have never been wrong mate. There was a time a few years back when I thought I had got something wrong but then it turned out I was right after all. Haha.
well then, come on, united!
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Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez believes five or six clubs will fight for the Premier League this season and he understands why Sir Alex Ferguson is “worried” by the threat of Manchester City.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/8200653.stm
The FSW – at it again- Mr. Ferguson….
Sir Alex Ferguson!
Arsenal will definitely be up there, Arshavin there for the full season this time, Eduardo back, Vela getting more games, Vermaelen playing for the club now, no Adebayor, Wilshere getting better as with all the other players. DO NOT count them out
Liverpool will do absolutely shite this season. I honestly think they could finish 5th or 6th.
disrespectful cunt putting a 10er on fsw to be 1st to be sacked when they fail to win 1st 4 games hes gone wanker
Have you heard the latest rumor? Apparently Ribery wants to leave Bayern and has told them he will not sign an extension to his contract which runs out next season I think. He also played with France yesterday against Faroe Islands despite the physios at Bayern telling him not to. He’s said to be desperate to leave even though he can’t go to Madrid since their spending spree is up.
But I can’t see us splashing out 50 million pounds on him. Perhaps the price will drop a little now if the rumors are true. I bet Chelsea are very interested, they also have an advantage since Bayern are said to be interested in buying Bosingwa. We might see him playing in the premiership this season…
Here’s the source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article6795431.ece
I have no idea if this paper is shit since I’m not from England.
bettson – The FSW makes me fucking sick. The fat arrogant smug cunt. Like someone else says I can see the dippers having a few dodgy results early on and him getting sacked. It is time he started showing the greatest ever manager some respect. Love the way he refers to Barca as a “BIG CLUB”. He finally concedes that the Scousers are a SMALL CLUB!
saf should sign sneidjer or van der vaat we need a play maker
imo, le arse should do quite will this year if Arshavin says fit. Even without him, they were right on par with us in terms of being one of the best attacking teams in the league last season and with him, well, I think it’s silly that NOBODY is tipping them to break the top 3. One torres injury and I wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised to see arsenal fighting chelski for second.
Come on RED DEVILS, show them the way to HELL!!!
I think Fergie should refer to Benitez as Mrs. Benitez in his interviews…
…or just FSW, either way is good.
FSW admitting he’s fat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH8kvQnT-4g
@Gudjohnsen
Re Ribery and the Times article
The Times are a fairly reputable broadsheet as opposed to a tabloid like The Sun.
However, with no actual quotes or sources, you have to have your suspicions.
We all know by now that we don’t always get the player we want,and we sometimes get the player because we have to. E.g Rooney because Newcastle went in for him (what a mistake that would have been), Ronaldo because Ronaldinho deal went tits up
We got Valencia because we didn’t like the price tag for Francky Montana – but if he suddenly becomes available, we’ll go in for him regardless – but not at £50m.
The Sun say Sir Alex has run the rule over Atletico Madrid ace Sergio Aguero. United chief’s scouts saw £30million-rated Argie hitman score in the 3-2 win in Russia. The Sun claim Juventus and Inter Milan are also interested in the 22-year-old
I don’t want Aguero because:
1.He’s an Argie.
2.He’s an Argie related to Maradona,who told Tevez that Sir Alex was wasting him,thereby inflating Tevez’s ego to more than it was.
3.Signing him would mean 30 million pounds worth of striker on the bench.
Where are my manners?
Good morning all.
I normally say that we don’t need a new midfielder, goalie, defender etc
But Fergie likes four (established) strikers so could see him moving for it.
However, The Sun are full of shit.
they are saying on sky sport news that united scouts where at the argie game on wednesday
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Happy journey and enjoy the trip.will miss you on ROM
As for this newspaper talk it is a bunch of crap.we know fergie wont sign anybody now and i believe his judgement whatever decision he makes.i m happy wid the squad although Aguero is a top quality player.
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United scouts go to bloody loads of games though. They could have been watching any ONE of the 22 players.
God, I’m getting sceptical nowadays haha
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thats great news,its always a delight reading your comments.dont worry about the videos you can post them when you are back.
Does anyone know whether our scouts were there for Aguero or is there any other argie or Russian player that we were looking after>reussia ahs got some good players.
i wouldnt put much stock in the sk sports news/ sun story
Francky Montana. That is brilliant.
@MUFC the Religion
Glad you like it, I thought it might be a bit vague for people to get!
I got who Francky Montana is,but what is it supposed to be?
Tony Montana is Scarface in the movie of the same name
Ah,thanks.I’ve never seen Scarface or Goodfellas.Or the Godfather series.
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