Tottenham Hotspur have excused their signing of former Manchester United defender, Zeki Fryers, by claiming he was homesick and wanted to come home. They have dismissed Sir Alex Ferguson’s suggestion that they have manipulated the rules to get Fryers on the cheap.
However, Fryers was interviewed for Four Four Two magazine last month and didn’t sound in the least bit homesick, but instead, was looking forward to what his new club could achieve at the end of the season.
“United offered a three-year contract but I rejected the offer,” he said. “Spurs were interested but the fee [Manchester United requested] was too much. Then Standard Liege arrived with a good opportunity for me to play regular games and get experience. I thought it was the right time for me to leave and get experience playing in good league. I made the right decision for me. For me, every game is more experience. It is a new challenge for me but I think I’m doing well as far as now. The Belgian League is different, but there is a lot of quality. It has developed some great players that are now in the Premier League. Standard Liege is a top club in Belgium who want to be in the top three every year. We’re not doing so well at the moment but are getting better and better. With the play-off system, the end of the season is the most important period.”
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“For me” – that’s his priority.
At least he’s being honest about his “ambitions” and not cloaking his self-interest in the usual blather and agent-speak.
we were caught fair play to spurs hopefully we can do the same to them only with a prized pocession rather than a reserve
Excuse me mate, you did do it to us when you tapped up berbatov!!!
But it’s football, it’s now a business, you get on with it and move on.
good on spurs daniel levy is the man well done one for the future come on you spurs and getting germany under 21 int on a free tranfers more to follower
The EPL need to look at this transfer. In my view, 6 months doesn’t excuse the right to compensation.
£6m if you please, Mr Levi!
Didn’t Fergie hijack the Berbatov deal with Man City?
homesick my ass!!!
Markg I don’t think it’s possible to pull the wool over Daniel levy he is far to astute and can see things no other chairman can,spurs bent the rules and got one over united this time,but sir Alex should remember he had it coming after tapping up berbatov,I don’t think it’s as big a deal as the press are making out,spurs and united have a good relationship and I don’t see this little issue ruining that ,after all you gave us 50 mil for carrick and berbatov..
@FletchTHEMAN
Man U will be receiving compensation. That’s 5% of what Spurs are paying to Standard Liege
It’s funny how Fergie starts crying over getting out manouevred by Spurs, yet somehow forgets how himself and United have repeatedly bent rules to suit themselves.
I’m sure he remembers Berbatov turning up at Old Trafford after Levy refused to do business with them anymore. Then again, he’s probably going a bit senile now at his age.
So for all the dodgy deal you lot do, this warrants an investigation? Remind me, why you’re/were under police investigation for the Bebe deal? Oh and what did you do during the Berbatov saga? Phone tapping wasn’t it? Get over it.
Fletchtheman. Well and truly stitched up by Tottenham which is great to see as Manchester United are, of course, whiter than white. This would never have happened if they were not asking a ridiculous amount in the first place. You may get £6 not £6m – (he’s a reserve so at best Man U should be looking for about £0.5m) and it’s Levy not Levi – they are jeams.
Hey, you lot have short memories.
Your club/manager run rough shod over who they please in this league.
I’m glad levy pulled a fast one. Yea we all admit that he did.
You offered the boy a contract, he refused. He left. Get over it.
If we all went crying to the league about everything, then every club/manager
would always be in trouble. Nothing more than levy pulling a fast one has happened here.
“For me” you’ve gone to a shite club.
Just a fact of how the market is set-up. Fergie is just having a laugh that he’s annoyed. Old red nose playing the system again. How could he be annoyed? He’s tapped more boots than Snoop Dogg. The guy personally drove Berbatov from the airport to United Training ground without a) our permission b) Spurs even accepting the offer.
Fair play to Levy for (yet again) filling our coffers with the red devils money.
my heart bleeds for you. Being part of this deceit will catch up with you
Everyone knows what’s happened but no rules have been broken, unfortunately his contract was coming to an end so you got rear ended. Rubbish about still wanting money and doing the same to Spurs, well if your lucky or clever enough to manipulate yourself into the same position but being Manchester Utd don’t give you a god given right. Levy is one sharp customer
Thats mr Levy to you
spurs havent broken any rules and lets face it , the player didnt want to stay .
still whether or not he has the talent to make it remains to be seen ?? still always good to get 1 over your rivals , happy new year
Fergie might by right to demand an investigation into the Fryers deal. Maybe he can cite the dodgy Bebe transfer as his source.
Ferfie is just gutted he lost young talent you tapped up Berba and Carrick #YouGotLevyed
Who cares? I feel tyler blackett is a better prospect, fabio da silva is a far more talented full back and will hopefully return stronger. I’m not really bothered about fryers, he didn’t believe in his own ability to get ahead of other players.
Bitter much?
Joke club.
Why on did UTD overprice him in the first place? madness, Danny rose is worth £6/7m and hes been playing for nearly 2 seasons why on earth would a club pay £6m for a youth player who doent get a sniff at first team football?
Why on earth did UTD overprice him in the first place? madness, Danny rose is worth £6/7m and hes been playing for nearly 2 seasons why on earth would a club pay £6m for a youth player who doent get a sniff at first team football?
Jon philips – why would manchester united be bitter? about what exactly?. Getting giddy as everything has been going well for spurs recently? reality will soon hit, you deluded imbecile.
I think Fergie should get his own back and nick Jermain jenas off Spurs for £6m
u know what is a joker club? its a club with manager trying to punch his own player in public spotted area. its a club who told foreigner theyre nothing but plastic while gladly accepted foreigners money. thats my friend, a true joker club.
I have the utmost respect for Fergie and what he has achieved but he needs to remember back to the tapping up of Berbatov and Carrick before he starts accusing Spurs of anything. Bebe is s little dodgy too.
PJ: no thanks u can keep Jenas, how about Gareth Bale for 6 mil??
Stop whinging……you only have your club to blame!….Fergie has not stopped bleating about him going but it was YOUR club that refused to negotiate him a contract that suited both parties.
Grow up….your let this get to a point that you yourselves caused.
You accuse the Arsenal of being stupid about letting players get to thisstage of a contract without sorting it and then go do it yourself!
Once again….grow up…..you made a mistake and if your chairman had done this you would be singing his praises!
You can ram jermaine jenas up levy’s bollocks, you fools. Spurs are really getting ahead of themselves these days.
Honest truth is, united will not lose sleep over fryers, there are far more talented players at the club and this club will continue to produce players.
TheCANTONA- HAHAHAHAHA If you can get him for £6m go for it mate, lol
Seriously Why did Fergie ask £6m for the kid? makes no sense, Spurs would have paid £2m plus add ons- We signed BAE for £3.5m Kyle naughton and Kyle walker for £4m each and they had been playing for a couple of years…. daft if you ask me, no harm done he wasn’t in your first 22 anyway!
Spurs left backs are BAE, Kyle naughton, Jan the man (if need be) Danny rose, so not to sure why Fergie thinks its a planned raid, I doubt it, We have cover at left back.
Samuel-
We arent getting ahead of ourselfs, we just cant afford to sign ready made superstars so try and take a punt on young up and coming talent, keeping ourselfs out of debt thats all.
Suck it up buttercup! What would be really funny would be if Levy took Fergy to court for defamation of character and he was the one that wound up writing out a fat cheque to Levy.There is a good reason why evryone in the media has tip toed around and avoided making such allegations.We all know what has happened but now it is in black and white and is just as unsubstantiated as ever.Stick to the football Sir Al, in business going against Mr Levy usually has but one winner!
LOL. nothing is impossible in football mate! who wouldve think Fryers will leave United for Spurs via Standard Liege? did u see that coming one year before?
ok. here’s more serious thought.
1. he’s english. whenever it comes to english players u’ll always pay the top price (*uhuk*bentley*uhuk*, Milner, Jones, Walcott, Bent, etc)
2. maybe he was highly rated by Ferguson and he doesnt want to let him go.
3. he can play as left back and centre back so basically u’ve signed a young versatile defender here (u cant ask more than that)
4. Fryers also had PL, CL and LC experiences. not bad for 20 years old kid, no?
@The CANTONA
Agreed hes English but the main point I think was that he was out of contract, if he was in contract then fair play ask for that type of money, but when you are out of contract it is only development compensation that should be due.
I just feel if they would have said £2m plus £1m add ons or a sell on clause the deal could have been done and dusted.
Its no big deal, he wont get in our first team either!
And as has been said all over the net, Berbatov kidnapp live on SSN! lol:)
see you guys in a couple of weeks at the lane, we love you guys coming to town, always a great game.
Also I think this was Utd trying to take a tough stance with Levy because he drove such a hard bargain when you’ve come knocking for our best players.Ridiculous really,as you didn’t really want him anyway or he’d have extended.Tuff titty I say asking £6 mill was only going to get one response and you got it so congratulations on that you made your own bed trying to be smart.I suppose being smart is a state of mind Utd fans are unaccustomed to judging by the appalling grammar and childish remarks frequenting this comments section.
right then time to snatch bale off the bastards as payback. we took berba and carrick lets take another one of their prized possessions and strenghten our left hand side
WHO THE FUCK IS ZEKI FRYERS?
unless hes the next roberto carlos,then he can fuck right off to tottenham…we are man utd,he will regret it the big time charlie
besides,hes got no chance of playin hence y he left…is he better than our goalscoring machine evra?no!
buttner?whos hailed as the next big thing in holland..no!is he better than fabio?a champions league finalist and a prem winner?NO!
so zeki fryers can go fuck himself!hahahaha!
give him 2 yrs and i will bet my life he’ll be at sunderland or villa or sumwhere down the championship
also lets get blackett on a long term contract hes got something about him that lad
@PJ:
just like i said it seems SAF doesnt want to lose him, thats why we tagged him with that price. me, actually dont really care about fryers considering we already have enough cover for left back area, i just dont like it went with this way. i remember United and Chelsea had to go to court trial regarding some youngsters.
i personally always like the Spurs more than your “newly” neighbour Arsenal (newly here bcoz theyre original came from south-east London, lol.) but i still hope we can beat u though (as long as SAF do not make the same mistake like our last meeting @ OT).
It has nothing to do with Fryers as a player. AF is just upset that he has been outplayed in the transfer market. Now he knows how other clubs feel when Fergie comes “calling”.
@va7encia
Blackett any good mate? ill drop Dan an email shortly, cheers fella, lol
As for Bale if you got the £70m then bid in 18 months and you may get him, now no footballer is worth 70 bob but in the crazy Sky infested world that we live in….. pay up or shut up, lol its easy my man!
PJ
Maybe Saf didnt want to sell Levy, like Levy did t want to sell to Saf Dimi….
We payed for Dimi 1,5 mills less then Citeh…on 30 mils it is nothing…so stop with bullshit.
As we know Levy he wouldnt pay for kid 2 millls at all..that is sure.
@TheCANTONA
Yeah should be a good game hopefully Bales not banned again lol and Rooney is back from injury, we have a party if we win a corner against you guys, lol so anything we get decision wise is a bonus.
looking forward to the game, as I said, always enjoy playing UTD home or away.
Love the way this site ALWAYS argues in their favour even when their club is wrong. So one eyed – just like all the other joke fans.
Joke club.
@PJ
nah, Bale should play and did “mendes” to us. lol. i actually not really care about Bale. if u have a fit Dembele and Sandro and SAF decided to play Giggs and Scholes as starter again, we’re trully fucked…
“just like all the other joke fans.”
well, thats include citeh fans for sure…
@mara
I think youll find Spurs would have paid a fair price, if UTD really wanted him, he would have stayed and Gill would have offered to extend his deal years before hand, hes only on £1m a year at Spurs so not on mega bucks in the crazy football world.
With regards to Berbatov, your missing the point, your manager drove onto a run way and picked him up live on national TV! your CEO signed him up live on TV whilst knowing that Levy had not given him permission to speak or negotiate with the player.
The F.A. and Premier league done nothing, lol nadda ditto not a thing! once that happens so blatantly every other club can do as they wish, Citehhhh the Russians…..
Now I know you paid half a mil to a Spurs charity to make up for it but….
SAF has quite a nerve complaining about Spurs considering the circumstances under which we got Pogba, Petrucci and above all… Bebe.
Jon – the only joke here is your foolish self popping on this blog, you clearly spend more of your precious time investigating a club that could not care less. Off you go, crawl back under that rock.
Who cares. Like I said elsewhere, young talent is often acquired in weird circumstances. United are not exception.
Jon. Ha. Friday night and you back on a United site. You couldn’t make it up. Joke club? Ha Ha Ha. That’s rich in view of your greasy snide manager brawling on the training ground. Still little old City. ” please hear us. Oh please” Plastic club. 19/3.
United may be the biggest club in England – and yes they are streets ahead of Citeh, Chelski and the Bin Dippers – but in Levy Spurs have the out and out best negitiator and deal maker in Europe. He managed to get £18m for Carrick from United, £31.5m for that lazy ‘b’ Berbatov. and now got a good young talent by not being prepared to pay over the odds. He’s also just shafted Arsenal by getting the German under 21 captain of a pre-contract agreement and manged to pee off Wenger in the process because Arsenal were to slow to react. Just face it United – you’ve been ‘Levyed’!!
Samuel. What makes it more cringeworthy mate is Jon is a City fan!
Of course it’s total cods wallop he wasn’t homesick, it was a blatant manipulation of the rules.
Brilliant ain’t it?
Of course when Berbatov was flying to Manchester to talk to City and was bundled into a car and taken to Old Trafford that was fair play. What goes around …
This deal is in fact daylight robbery. Forget whether he would have made it at United or not, or whether Fryers was acting in his own interests, this was a blatant manipulation of the rules.
It might not come directly out of my pocket, but this is a £2-4million (potentially as much as £6million) pound loss the club will have to make up for by other means.
It’s not the club’s fault fault – the rules are the rules, and Levy has proven greedy by nature for blatantly exploiting them
Fryers isn’t blameless – he’s screwed the club that educated him. He deserves a ton of shite.
Wankers can call United every name under the sun, but as far as I know we’ve never been this f*cking shonky.
hmm ur right u lot did nick berba and carrick off us for sure….£52 million war a steel….
guess we lost out biggg time.
We should manipulate bale, we should get him to sign for Molde Fk, then im sure the legendary manager who is Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would let us have him on the cheap… Looool
Samuel you sound like a tool!!
Clearly Ferguson is gonna lose sleep over it, otherwise he wouldnt have bothered to comment to pleb!
Love the fact you think your some elite club, I do remeber beating you this year for a change!! Hmm the smell of a changing wind!!
Smalling, hmmm great player!!
Eddie, you’re cracking me up. I didn’t hear any of you lot complaining when you tapped up Berba and Carrick, arguably the main men in our team at their respective times. That is actually against the rules. What Spurs have done is not against the rules so you can throw as many toys out of your pram as you like. It will make no difference. Fergie loves to dish it out but can’t take it himself.
Revenge is a dish best served cold … Years after Fergie unsettled Berbatov at Spurs, then smuggled him away from Manchester Airport and then making him refuse to sign for anyone but Utd. Levy hasn’t forgotten and now has some revenge. C’est la vie !! FA will probably look at it and then tighten some loop hole but how can you retrospectively outlaw something. Time to lay down and take it !
@PJ
I don’t think Spurs would have paid a fair price because if they had been willing to they would have taken it to a tribunal. After all as an u23 player it wasn’t simply about the clubs agreeing a fee as if they had failed to a tribunal would have decided the fair fee but Spurs choose to break off the discussions and drop their Interest instead.
And its the tribunal factor that will be why United asked for an inflated £6mill. If United had said 2mill and Spurs had taken it to the tribunal then it would have been under £2mill that the tribunal agreed on. So with that being the situation United would have had to ask for the amount at the top end of their valuation not the bottom to make sure that
a) they receive a fair market value transfer fee based on the players current ability
AND
B) They receive a fair reimbursement for the cost to develop the player to the current level
AND
C) They are compensated for lost revenue losing the player I causing in the coming years
his gone to a joker club you keep saying,, well this joker club gave you a beating not so long back mate,,,,,
This is all about cunning business acumen. Levy is full of it in the way he deals.
He exploited this loophole in the rules to the advantage of his club.
We were screwed this time. Too bad.
We have got Fabio,Buttner and Blackett (Loved how he performed in Pre seasons). Enjoy with fryers Spurs.
Well! Well!! Well!!
Aren’t we all nasty supposedly doing something that MU have repeatedly done regularly.
Ahh well, enjoy Ferguson while he is there as then you lot will have to face reality and with that BIG debt. I had respect for this once great club in the Busby era but now you are just another one of the Real Madrid cheat clubs as are Juventus, ACMilan & InterMilan. But funny how the arrival of MU, Chelsea & MC has forced UEFA to act as it was OK when the only english cheat was Liverpool (money brought them the 70s and 80s success) although Heysel wa sa great excuse to get rid of English clubs.
The arrogance shown by you lot and your expectations under Ferguson has made most of the supporters of other clubs hate you, especially those “MU fans” who had never heard of MU until they started to win something. MU have stolen youth from all over Europe just like RM and now Barcelona .
BTW check when Fryers made that statement…it was before the managerial change at SL and the new manager has already stated that he is not in their plans. Of course, truth matters little in a sneery hatefest. WE don’t even know for certain if he is any good but you lot knew when you stole Beckham.
I have more time for Arsenal than you lot: decent club , well run, no financial cheating nor ripping off of other PL clubs (I don’t blame Arsenal but I DO blame Campbell) and Wenger has done very well for them. Compared to Ferguson Wenger has impeccable manners and that is really saying something.
Levy’s doing for sure. United just have to be patient & do one back in due course. We will always ‘win’ in this kind of deals as truly good players wants to come to United. Two weeks from today we go to WHL for revenge against the shock 0-1 loss at OT. See if AVB dares to put Fryers in the team. In the meantime let’s just beat WHU in the FA Cup.
Dont read too much into it. All SAF is trying to do is to protect Man. Utds interest for any similar future dealings. He is just making some noise and put pressure on FA and EPL so United wont be robbed of their young talent in a similar fashion in the future. Otherwise there is no foul play in the deal to be honest. Lets not forget a quality youngster is hard to find and takes good 7-8 years to develop. Young players dont like bench warming. Fryers might have exercised his option to leave Utd in an unusual way but as a whole this can become a trend that could cost top teams their best young talent thst they spent time and money on.
Am loving all this bleating from Utd fans. We’ve all suffered years of arrogant bullying by your club, tapping up other clubs’ best players (not juniors!) and generally doing the same things as Spurs have just done to you. I applaud Levy for giving Utd a bloody nose – about time someone did.
Stop trying to hide behind rules that only seem to apply when something goes against you !
@unitedforever. It’s supporters like you that give United fans a bad name. So unbelievably arrogant and can’t get your facts straight. What was the score at Old Trafford? Anyway. I don’t see why you united fans are seeking revenge. You did more damage to us nicking Berba in dubious circumstances.remember,he was supposed to go to city! You’ve hada lot of our good players over the years. Are you really going to begrudge us this one. Slightly fishy deal?
Unitedforeva – It was 3-2 at OT pal!
On a more relevant point, Anderson is back in training, Hope he gets his form back after a few games and can’t wait to see kagawa, cleverley, anderson, carrick in a diamond, all one touch and possesion players, could be very useful in especially in europe.
I love the rank hypocrisy at work here. SAF has been at the forefront of ‘manipulating’ the system & any rules that apply for decades, (Berbatov, Carrick etc etc etc yawn) and right now, there’s no evidence that Levy has done anything other than secure a decent deal for a player who may or may not make the grade. As some of the more rational conributors have said on this site, he played the system & broke no rules and who in their right mind thinks £6m was the likely price that would have been placed on Fryers head? The same man who got a kings ransom for Ronaldo? Certainly nobody else, and is it inconceivable that occasionally a player would prefer to chance his luck elsewhere or are you all that blinkered? Nah,United are a great club & Fergie bleeds red, black & white – that’s admirable but don’t think you can always claim the moral high ground – Levy looks after the interests of his club pretty well & what SAF can’t abide is that occasionally he gets beaten by him legitimately or has everyone forgotten how SAF called Levy ‘a little bit other’ after getting caught with his pants down on the Berbatov deal (thanks to SkySportsNews or the archive footage). Wonder what he meant……
The player didn’t wnat to stay!! It happens, just like when Shearer refused to join…not everyone loves Fergie. Accept it and take it like men, if you can……..
Without doubt Ferguson is a fantastic manager and doubtless he will have been asked this question by the press but if he couldn’t hold on to the player then just move on.This whinging is not becoming from a WEE club in Manchester.
It’s always interesting reading the views of fans of other clubs (i.e. thinking people who can tell the difference between banter and naked aggression). The only thing that seems to be missing from this debate is the answer as to why three youngsters left Man U last year? In all honesty why would you?
Levy looked after the interests of his club in the same way as AF does so effectively for Man U. Both push the boundaries. But why would these kids be wanting to leave when a deal was on the table at Man U? My money is on the culture engendered by agents.
Until FIFA insists that agents get 100% of their income from the players, this will continue. Agents in US sport take a holistic (look that one up in the dictionary Eddie the Crewcut and va7encia) approach to the interests of their clients. If Sol Campbell wanted a quiet life who advised him to join Arsenal? Same guy who told Jermaine Defoe to put in a transfer request as soon as WHU were relegated so JD is now despised in East London!
Until agents are better regulated it will be dog-eat-dog, but fear not, what goes around, comes around! But it will take a very bright guy to put one over on Daniel Levy. WHich is why Spurs fans chant their chairman’s name in praise; not quite the same at Old T is it? (Thanks heaven for the Glazers.)
Happy New Year!
FRYERS IS GARBAGE, AS IS TOTTENHAM (… & their charmain … with his honest-business-parody behavior – double comedy considering his theatrical gestures arising always when some1 is after his players!!!) / not N´castle, spurs are a wee club
All these young players are moved by money..but united will be always united..dont lose sleep over it..one love MUFC
well fryers isnt a united player anymore so we probably shouldnt focus on him too much.looking at the united team BTW,is anyone else of you guys as excited as i am now about the team?i think we played one of our best games at wigan on new year’s day and it looks like we have sorted out our defensive issues for the moment and we’re scoring for fun.the important players out injured are coming back and we might have our full squad at the end of january.SAF will have so many fanstastic options and permutations to look at and im pretty optimistic of our fortunes this season.
*fantastic
http://fxbites.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/divine-right.html
I’m just glad he didn’t go to one of our rivals for silverware
Little Red Ant
Are you kidding?Man Utd is the best place to win silverware.thats why RVP came to us.
Paxton – A Kings ransom for Ronaldo? Are you serious? We could have got double the 80 million. God aren’t Spurs getting ideas above their stations. As I said last night pretentious wankers.
You win some you lose some. Onwards we go.
Are Spurs fans the new bitters? Lol.
@Hootspur
With Pogba and Zeki was almost certainly the agents doing. Firstly someone was clearly doing a number on his head as he seemed to think he was ready to start every match last season. He had only just been promoted from the Acedemy to the Reserves and was exactly handling that step up that well at the start of last season so wasn’t ready for Premier League action on a regular basis and needed eased in and developed (Something he would have almost certainly got more of last season if he hadn’t been messing the club around and had just signed the deal). I suspect that was his agents doing as moving him on was in the agents best interests. United deal was supposedly around the same as Juve offered in wages, its just a contract renewal comes with lower agent fees than a ‘transfer’
Zeki seemed to be a simerlar situation. Anyone who watches the Youth teams and Reserves will tell you that for a long time he looked like he had no chance of making it but did make great strives which saw him get his first team chance. It was still however debatable if he was ever going to be United quality, would have needed the level of improvement to continue. He was supposedly offered £5k a week which as we have seen with the likes of Welbeck, Evans ect would have got much higher had his progress continued but
Morrision is a different case, sure his agent was almost certainly pulling the same tricks but it seems that the club actually pulled their offer having got sick of his constant antics. He wouldn’t turn up to training, was getting suspended all the time by the club and had alienated all the coaching staff. At some point you have to cut your losses as no matter how good he might be he wasn’t ever going to fulfil that promise with his attitude problems
On the agents personally I would outlaw ‘outside’ agents for players under 21. Until they are 21 all their contract discussions should be handled by the countries Player Association’s agents where there isn’t any financial incentive to keep turning their own players heads as they wouldn’t be getting paid (beyond perhaps the club making a donation to cover costs).
King Eric – been away, so could not respond to some comments, on the subject of the best 11, is it me, or do carrick and cleverly not get enough credit. Not in a long time have we had the perfect balance of attack midfield and defense. Many can say kagwa and nani offer defense splitting passes, but I believe the boss does not see kagwa or nani starting together, or ahead of cleverly valencia and young. This idea kagwa can play CM is fools dream, and playing way too much FM. I also believe valencia and young really do help protect the fullbacks, as eason why kagwa and especially nani are behind valencia and young What do you think?
Wat are these spurds fools doing here?oh because u signed one overated brat who cannot make our first team,u nw feel 2 big 2 show ur pathetic faces here.
FUCK OFF M0RONS!!!
PaxtonRoad – A kings ransom for ronaldo, LOL. Ronaldo was 24, he was world player of the year, helped united, unlike Bale who has done nothing, win 3 PL titles, and a CL, scored in total in the 3 years 88 goals, he sells shit load of shirts, his image makes a fortune, and you are saying ronaldo was sold for a kings ransom. now 170 million for ronaldo, would be a kings fortune if I am being kind, a king would wipe his ass with 80 million pounds, on, which was the same has david beckham, we got less than we should have got, when Madrid should have paid united atleast 170 million, and thats being kind. Would barca sell messi for 80 million, if he wanted to leave? hell no, they would expect a price that is mind blowing
As I said on the other thread seriously whats all this crap about United tapping up players. AVB and before him Harry and Jol would speak about others teams players alot more than Fergie ever has. Just look at DDG where Fergie even denied a deal was being done when asked.
Not once did Fergie come out and say he wanted Berba. All there was was newspaper speculation which can hardly be considered tapping up as they write so many stories about every club’s supposed transfer targets of which maybe 1% turns out to be in anyway correct.
Levys whole basis for his tapping up claims was an article published on an Unofficial United Fan Site claiming a deal was done which was summering articles that were published in the papers that morning. The Sun then decided to report that United had announced the signing on its official Norwegian site (Which there wasn’t an official site) and Levy bought the suns incorrect completely (Or decided to use the press to push the fee up as he was still bitter that Liverpool had spent considerable time tapping up Keane and he had been unable to really jack their price up as punishment so wanted to make United pay for Liverpools actions)
I don’t understand why everyone is annoyed by this. Its clear the rules were bent but not broken. Good luck to Fryers, cause lets be honest if Spurs win anything soon it will be a miracle.
@ PaxtonRoad
Nobody here is saying zeki fryers was worth 6million pounds. That’s nonsense. We’re just saying that according to the book, united are supposed to get 6million. Hence your comparison with CR7′s transfer is null and void.
Also, tell me why shouldn’t Sir Alex feel that way? He’s the one who spent years by Zeki’s side and moulded him into the player he is today. Zeki must know that too. And he’s going away for zilch. That’s simply gotta hurt and the mans just showing his feelings for the injustice. Completely opposed to the Berba transfer where you guys got paid a huge sum in return for a player who refused to play for you.
@Yorkshire Spur
It wasn’t “whinging” was it when Levy created the same ruckus for Berba?
@Hootspur
Ravel Morrison – Troublemaker, beats up guys, spends half his life in jail. United had already gotten him out of trouble loads of times and the guy just wasn’t grateful.United tried their very best to keep him but they decided he was no longer worth the troubles.
Paul Pogba – wanted more appearances but with Michael and others ahead of him, the boss just didn’t wanna throw him into the team and risk it. Also he was asking for atrocious wages for a 18yr old which would have upsetted the wage system.
Zeki Fryers – decided to leave instead of fighting for his place. Don’t think he was gonna make it with Evra, Fabiola and now Buttner ahead of him.
@ PaxtonRoad
Nobody here is saying zeki fryers was worth 6million pounds. That’s nonsense. We’re just saying that according to the book, united are supposed to get 6million. Hence your comparison with CR7′s transfer is null and void.
Also, tell me why shouldn’t Sir Alex feel that way? He’s the one who spent years by Zeki’s side and moulded him into the player he is today. Zeki must know that too. And he’s going away for zilch. That’s simply gotta hurt and the mans just showing his feelings for the injustice. Completely opposed to the Berba transfer where you guys got paid a huge sum in return for a player who refused to play for you.
@Yorkshire Spur
It wasn’t “whinging” was it when Levy created the same ruckus for Berba?
@Hootspur
Ravel Morrison – Troublemaker, beats up guys, spends half his life in jail. United had already gotten him out of trouble loads of times and the guy just wasn’t grateful.United tried their very best to keep him but they decided he was no longer worth the troubles.
Paul Pogba – wanted more appearances but with Michael and others ahead of him, the boss just didn’t wanna throw him into the team and risk it. Also he was asking for atrocious wages for a 18yr old which would have upsetted the wage system.
Zeki Fryers – decided to leave instead of fighting for his place. Don’t think he was gonna make it with Evra, Fabio and now Buttner ahead of him.
@ Wakey
Spot on mate.
@Wakey
If I recall correctly, Redknapp would come out regulary on Skysports and talk about his transfer targets. Hypocrisy at its finest there.
I don’t get the big fuss. Ronaldo left in the middle of his contract because he wanted to play elsewhere. And anyone would be a fool to believe he didn’t have some tempting insentives from the Real camp. That’s football. This bunch still holds a grudge about the Berba affair even though they got an extra 10million out of the deal that they really should have. I guess that comes with the territory when you are a wee club in London.
So many bunch of cocksucking spurs fans here… Ha haaa… Wot a bunch of wankers..
@ Costas
I guess that comes with the territory when you are a wee club in London
LOL
Wee club from north London
Blimey, only just logged on. Thought I’d got on to a Tottenham site (do they have one?) by mistake.
What’s all the fuss about?
Years ago, Gordon McQueen left Leeds to sign for United, and said that 99% of footballers would love to play for United, and the other 1% were liars. A classic quote.
Fryers might go on to make it as a footballer. But he won’t make it at United.
Let’s not pretend that there’s a rivalry between United and Tottenham. Personally I don’t mind them, they’re never a threat and you can’t compare the history or success of the two clubs. Let’s leave the proper rivalry with United’s biggest rivals Liverpool. 8 more days to go till the Dirties turn up at Old Trafford, leave with nothing, and leave us closer to a 20th title.
More fool us for sending him to Portugal.
I put this stat earlier, but I found an other even deeper one. Which breaks the myth of Chicha being only a supersub and contributing more from there. Not saying he’s not good coming from the subs, but he’s better when he starts.
CHICHARITO @ MANCHESTER UNITED
2010-2011: 45/20 ~ start: 27, goals 12 ~ sub: 18, goals: 8 ~ scored in 17 games = 37.7%
2011-2012: 36/12 ~ start: 22, goals: 10 ~ sub: 14, goals: 2 ~ scored in 10 games = 27.7%
2012-2013: 21/12 ~ start:12, goals: 8 ~ sub: 9, goals: 4 ~ scored in 9 games = 42.8% Overall:
starts: 61, goals: 30, scored in 23 games = 37.7%
sub: 41, goals: 14, scored in 13 games = 31.7%
102 games, 44 goals, scored in 36 games = 35.2%
11 assists ~ 2010-2011: 4, 2011-2012: 3, 2012-2013: 4.
that looked abit confu a bit confusing at the end, but it’s the assists he has made
11 assists ~
2010-2011: 4,
2011-2012: 3,
2012-2013: 4.
fitb – Hello mate. You well? Oh I agree completely on Carrick and Cleverley. Perfect balance and to be fair they are getting the credit . Especially Carrick who the media have been banging on about. Taken them years to realise how good he is though!
Costas – Hello mate, you OK? Spot on about Redknapp. He is at it all the time. Infact he spent his entire press conference yesterday taking questions on which players he would like. However the media love it. Tapping up at it’s worst. Fuck off Beetroot cunt.
United Till I Die – Alright pal! Liege is Belgium!!!
King Eric – what I do not get is the stick cleerly and young get, when I feel after the way they performed against shitty, they have proven to me they can go into the big games and show everyone what they are worth, also it was the same midfield of carrick cleverly valencia and young that beat chelsea at SB
Why is it the spuds fans keep going on about Berba getting tapped up, he WANTED to leave coz you were shite and he WANTED to play for Utd. You got a shitload of money and life moved on, its not our fault you didnt buy a decent replacement and as I said we paid you a shitload and WHAT YOU ASKED FOR, so were is the connection here?? you didnt pay the amount we asked for. Anyway I worry not as SAF will get the FA to enforce you paying us 6m as compo lol COZ YOUR SMALL TIME and WE DO WHAT WE WANT!!
@Gee
We are going on about Berba because utd actually broke the rules, we on the other hand bent them but didnt break them.
Your manager comes out to the press and asks for the FA to trace phone records and emails…lol
Lets go back a few years and start tracing phone records of players you signed, if you think Levy shafted you here, wait until his team really get to work on ya, lol ask Karren Brady and the Olympic committee
Were a proper football club at Spurs so I wont slate utd for the sake of it, great club great fans on the whole, but you really cannot be serious defending Fergie and his previous antics with regards to how utd signed there players.
THE BALLAD OF DAN AND BIG RED
The Gunslingers stood twenty paces apart,
Could have heard a pin drop or a squeaky bum fart,
Big Red had never been beaten at this test,
Some say Dan is the fastest gun in the West.
Not a movement in sight just the steely eyed stare,
Psyching each other out with a glare,
Big Reds fingers flinched as he chewed on his gum,
But Daniel held firm, didn’t reach for his gun.
Then in an instant Red went for the butt,
Dan had a feeling way deep in his gut,
He moved to the Right as he drew from his belt,
Two shots rang out, the hands had been dealt.
Big Red clutched his chest as he fell to the ground,
Daniel moved forward without even a sound,
As the pool of blood beneath Red grew and grew,
Dan shot him again…..To Dare is to Do.
@drv3011 – read the post – yes it was humour – basically not a top team – doh !!
Levy and Spuds tap up or unsettle players all the time – Scott Parker etc and that’s fine with them – when it’s the other way he kicks off and cries to the Premier League – pricks
@ PJ – Right I see what your saying. So when Redknapp was in charge and sat in press conferences saying we want this player and that player, that wasn’t tapping up because he didn’t do it on the snide?? LOL Do me a favour!!
And do you really think you haven’t been tapping up Holtby for the last 6 months at least to get him to sign?? You announce, pretty much as the transfer window opens, that Holtby is signing on a free in the summer but the laws state you can’t speak to a player until 6 months before their contract is up, and you honestly believe you haven’t broken any rules in getting him!!
The fact is you didn’t want to pay the asking price for Fryers and did a snide trick to get him for less, where as we did exactly what you have done to get Holtby with Berba, so stop with the moral high ground bollocks because we both know its completely different with regards to Fryers. Its a shit trick, so to even compare it to the Berba situation is ridiculous and shows you for the small time club you really are lol.
Wow, spurs of all clubs is taking the moral high ground on transfer business.