Joe Hart has reflected on the mood of the England camp when it is filled with plenty of United and City players. Hart insists the players are respectful of each other, but that Danny Welbeck being a massive United fans makes it impossible to say much without him reacting.
“We all get on very well when we meet up,” he said. “You have to be very respectful about the touchy subjects because players have passion and love for their club. I’m the same for my club and so we are never disrespectful. We spoke with them about winning the League [last season] and it was open and respectful and a very good vibe. Danny Welbeck is the worst to crack because he is a mad, mad, mad Manchester United fan. I joke that he can hate me at United but we have to be friends with England. He lives on my road actually and we have some good banter but it is always professional.”
Man Utd News 24/7
Booo!
Welbeck=future legand
http://www.redmancunian.com/2013/02/05/video-manchester-united-leaked-home-shirt-for-2013-2014/
everyone supoorts united deal with it joe you pratman. hart i would suspect and punt my last bag of wotzits that your a united fan, get real butland is after no 1, gerard scoring screamers aint gonna help no title chargecard
hart, you make me cringe we are head & shoulders above englands no 1
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/roy-hodgson-wary-of-angering-manchester-united-manager-alex-ferguson-8482797.ht
“I remember that night extremely well,”
“I remember sitting at home as an 11-year-old and hearing the news and being absolutely devastated.
“So many great players, and a footballing generation in Manchester lost their lives.
“It is a sobering thought but it is important to remember those things.” said Hodgson.
http://www.redmancunian.com/2013/02/06/picture-busby-babes-surfer-flag-debut-at-old-trafford-this-weekend/
Good lad Danny
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2274255/Robin-van-Persie-reveals-coaching-inspiration-Manchester-United-goals–Sir-Alex-Ferguson.html#axzz2JjZQ4ZcC
MUFC. We’ll Never Die. Remember……….
wellbeck is the greatest player there has ever been….far better than ronaldo and messi and even better then pele and maradona…united should just send wellbeck out on his own……with his 1 goal a season average whats the point in any other players??
http://beautifullyred.co.uk/gifs-zahas-best-goals-and-stunning-assists-for-palace-this-season/
‘We spoke with them about winning the League [last season] ‘ should read
We spoke with them about fluking the League [last season] !!!
Hart is a toss pot. You know full well he was having a go at all the United lads and at Gary.
Must be nice to rub in his face our form this year.
In his interview Roy Hodgson said he will “respect Manchester United’s” upcoming Champions league game and “no United player will…complete the full 90min”
Just hope nobody gets injured in this farce. Just an excuse for the FA to earn money off our players!
After the way they have handled Rio I have absolutely zero time for Roy Hodgson.
we must NEVER think of selling Welbeck. He is exactly the kind of player we should be keeping. Someone who genuinely loves this club through and through. He is going to be a massive hit in the future at this club.
city hasnt so many national players, so plenty is wrong
Reina is in deep doo doo with the Liverpool fans now,tells the world they cant compete for the Premier title.RAWK will go apeshit.
More of a United fan than those that keep taking shots at him that’s for sure…
Costas with the truth at 18:00.
Love Welbeck, love United.
@ iced earth and dannysoya
I have to agree with you about Welbeck. The more I watch him closely the more I see that he has a massive skill set. He is not yet the finished article because he is still developing on so many levels. Ironically, that is why he can be so frustrating. Some of the things he attempts and fails to pull off are a result of his ability to envision and try what to us is showy or extravagant but to him is perfectly normal. It is and will be VERY important for the coaching staff to curb his artistic tendencies and get him to just be functional at times and not default to his inner brazillian , joga bonita muse.
I think Welbeck gets undue criticism.
Its not his fault he gets played out of position.
Sure he has rough edges in his game but he is young.
Yes Joe, he’s a fucking United fan you tosser. I know it comes as a complete shock but there are footballers in Machester who are actually PROUD to name the club they play for, not whisper it under their breath as if to divert attention away from the fact they’re picking up a paycheck.
These City cunts are a complete fucking laugh. From top to bottom, every time they open their mouths they just confirm what we already know, joke of a club and a collection of the finest money grabbing whores this side of a bad episode of The Bachelor.
It’s called genuine passion Joe. I know it strikes you as peculiar and out of the norm but it’s what we’ve got. You lot? Get a fucking grip.
Roll on 20!!
i’ve been trying to think of a player in the past 15 years or so that welbeck resembles , and he reminds of some of the best french strikers we’ve seen recently – anelka, henry and saha (pour louis had the talent to match anelka for sure, but not the consistent good health). danny’s got height, pace, power and skill to no end. no doubt he lacks a little composure in front of goal but i am positive it’ll develop eventually, and he’ll be a solid 15-20 goal man per year. he’s only 22, mind you. seems like some people here expect players to emerge fully formed from the womb. if he turns out to be a poor man’s henry, he’ll still be better than 90% of strikers in the premiership…
Welback is good but Sturridge is great..
Yeah? Messi’s not bad either, what has that got to do with anything, for fucks sake?
From iced earth’s link at 11:52 comes further confirmation of King Eric’s reminder that Rene Meulensteen is our tactician.
Van Persie says:
“I have had a lot of good trainers, but it’s the way he [Meulensteen] prepares our team for games. Every match is different, so every training session in the build-up to games is unique. We know exactly what to expect and he wins points for us through his training. We’ve won a lot of games by the odd goal and they are point winners, which we train for. For instance, against Chelsea I scored after a low cross from Antonio Valencia on the right. It might seem a fluke but the whole week before the game was spent working on that move. Another example is my goal against Wigan, when I cut the ball inside and shot with my right foot. Again this situation, we trained on.”
Some goal that was against Wigan, poetry in rehearsed motion. Bravo Rene, bravo.
Chris Smalling Tom Cleverley, Danny Welbeck and Wayne Rooney start tonight.
Adam Le Fondre is Barclays Premier League player of the month for January. He scored doubles against Chelsea and Newcastle.
Le Fondre in January
Games: 4
Starts: 0
Minutes on pitch: 85
Shots on target: 5
Goals: 5
He scored doubles against Chelsea and Newcastle.
Brian McDermott (also Reading) took the manager of the month prize (7 points from 12)
United took 7 from 9.
Starting XI England v Brazil:
Hart; Johnson Jagielka Cahill Cole; Cleverley Wilshere Gerrard Walcott; Welbeck, Rooney.
4 MUFC players. Let’s see if Roy holds his word that none will play the full 90?!
Yeah FletchTM, don’t hold your breath. He might bring them all off early, if the game status suits. Even then, it’s self-serving (but it does work for United, so I’d be happy)
What Hodgson said: “It’s pretty obvious Alex Ferguson would like me to go easy on his players. I’ve not spoken to Alex but I don’t need to. I was a club manager myself. This is a friendly, a very important one. We want to win it, play well and keep progressing — but I don’t want to do that at the expense of players missing important Champions League games and then managers being reluctant to release their players.”
Updated XI
From FA.com
1 Hart, 2 Johnson, 3 Cole, 4 Gerrard (c), 5 Cahill, 6 Smalling, 7 Walcott, 8 Wilshere, 9 Welbeck, 10 Rooney, 11 Cleverley
Some ex-players in the news:
Louis Saha is to join Lazio.
Robbie Brady reckons: “It’s disappointing to leave the club. I have been a United fan all my life, I always will be. They were great to me but it was the right time to leave. It is hard to leave a club like United and at times you do think, at the back of your mind ‘what if?’ ”
The often-injured Jesper Blomqvist (replaced against Bayern in the CL final by Sheringham)
“To be honest with you, I felt a little guilty about the whole situation. The club had paid a lot of money for me and I had only managed one season. I felt embarrassed and guilty that I wasn’t able to repay them on the pitch, I said sorry to Sir Alex because I felt like I’d let him down. He just said: ‘Jesper, don’t worry, this is the nature of football, you helped us to win the Treble and we’re very grateful for that.’ Those words lifted a stone from my heart – I’d not played for two years and I felt guilty for taking up the club’s time and money, but he helped me realise I didn’t have to feel bad. I think that says a lot about him, the reason he’s such a great manager is because of the way he treats people, sometimes people forget there’s a person behind his tough persona. I’m really grateful to Sir Alex for everything he did.”
Rio said: “I’m not sitting there thinking about trying to get back into the England team. I’m just playing football for Manchester United. That’s what I love doing and that is what’s at the forefront of my mind. Everything I’m doing is for playing for Manchester United and doing the best I can for United. If that, in time, ends up in me getting a call-up for England, then great and fantastic. If it doesn’t, I won’t really lose any sleep over it. I’m here fighting for titles and couldn’t be any happier if I’m honest.”
(If it doesn’t sound like a ‘braindead cocksucker’, doesn’t look like a ‘braindead cocksucker’, and doesn’t act like a ‘braindead cocksucker’, it likely is NOT a ‘braindead cocksucker’.)
Dreaded Red – Ha cheers my friend. I saw that early about Renee. Just enforces what I say that these clowns think Phelan is the tactician. Meulensteen fine tuned Ronnie. Top, top coach.
22-year-old Rio Ave loan star Bebe was named man-of-the-match in his side’s 2-1 win over Sporting Lisbon. He said: “I’m feeling very good and so I hope to continue to do well with good reports, so I can realise the ambition of returning to Manchester. I feel like I helped the team, but everyone was important. Here I feel important because I can play regularly. I hope to keep in shape, keep helping Rio Ave until the end of the season and return to Manchester United, which is my club.”
King Eric – top, top coach indeed.
Fergie, Rene and Mike – good enough to get us 9 points clear with 13 to play.
Good enough to keep us there, methinks.
Chelsea are set to back both a wage increase cap and a compromise financial fair play deal at tomorrow’s meeting of all 20 Premier League chairmen. They had been a hardline opponent of financial fair play (FFP), but now Chelsea will agree to a system that obliges clubs to break even but allows owners to cover some losses. The thawing of Chelsea’s position should now ensure that both spending control systems are agreed on Thursday.
Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham and Liverpool will still argue that wealthy owners should not be allowed to underwrite any losses, but in order to push FFP through will have to settle for a compromise, where up to £105million over three years can be covered. Four clubs – Manchester City, Fulham, West Brom and Aston Villa – are still expected to vote against it.
Chelsea’s backing of a compromise should enable the necessary 14 out of the 20 votes to be reached. The wage increase cap may also be watered down – initially it was suggested a maximum 10 per cent increase allowed for player wages. It now looks likely that the cap will only affect those clubs whose total bill is higher than £52m so that promoted sides are not prevented from improving their squads. Spending money earned from clubs’ individual sponsorship deals on wages will not be restricted.
The Premier League’s expected FFP system would be less restrictive than UEFA’s, which is being brought in from next season and will oblige clubs to break even or face possible exclusion from European competition. Under UEFA’s system, for the first three years owners will be permitted to cover annual losses of up to £12million via equity but that will then be phased out.
http://www.runcornandwidnesweeklynews.co.uk/runcorn-widnes-sport/national-sport/2013/02/06/chelsea-to-back-financial-fair-play-deal-55368-32760348/
Is anybody watching England-Brazil? Isn’t it sad how AWFUL Ronaldinho is?
Evra reckons: “It will be emotional for Ronny because he loves Manchester United. I hope the emotion will get to him. That will be perfect for us. We don’t have to wind him up before this game because when he is angry he is at his best.
“So, let’s just be nice. We can say ‘Welcome home, Ronny. It’s so nice to have you back, we love you, you are the best player!’ We can kill him with love. We have already been texting each other. I hope he will get a great ovation because what he did for United was unbelievable.”
Vidic on the Bernabeu game: “We’re going to have to play as a team there. We need to get it right defensively and not concede many goals in the first leg. You have to be solid as a team, not just at the back but all over the pitch. You have to have quality. We have a big squad and young players coming through with experience from playing games last year, which is a big help to the team. A lot of our players have matured now. There is a long way to go, but we will see.”
Nice to see Rooney keeping his goal-scoring run going.
David Luiz as Brazilian captain! LOL! Scolari clearly doesnt know what he’s doing…
How good has welbz been tonight? Hasn’t gave alves a kick!
Rooney and the lads magnificent. Hope Roy pulls them all off now.
The England game has been a really good watch. Makes a change for England but having three in the middle really helps.
Jack Wilshere is fucking brilliant genuinely different class in that midfield.
Neymar has been shocking but Oscar has been Brazil’s best player.
I love Fred.
Lets see what Lucas Moura has.
That’s what you get when Cahill gets a nod over Rio.
Tony V scored for Ecuador against Portugal.
Lets hope he can score for us when we play another of Ronaldo’s teams’ next week
Why the fuck is Wayne still on the pitch with 10 minutes to go?
i’d love to see rafael win the right back spot from dani alves before the 2014 world cup
Nice to hear Tony V scored! So now it’s obvious the problem lies with the number he’s wearing at United. Owen soiled it for good.
@King Eric, DreadedRed
I noticed RVP’s comments about Rene the other day. It was nice to hear. It just made me wonder though. What exactly is Phelan’s job at United? Besides popping balloons I mean.
Well, well, well … Woy’s boys did okay, didn’t they?
Costas, he’s responsible for saying YES SIR when Fergie tells him to do something.
Danny Welbeck in you we also trust.
great player who needs to get next season his ronaldo-mode on, scoring goals, he lacks nothing else, and that’s a good thing, cause scoring goals can come later on!
This season he’s been played out of position and sometiems as a striker, but hasn’t scored. Anyway we trust in you to improve on scoring.
GLORYGLORY!
PS: saw some GIFS that somebody put about Zaha and I really got exited the way he plays, guys we really got a great prospect!
@iced earth was the lad who put those GIFs
I though it was in another thread.
cheers!
Costas – are you suggesting that a thieving scouser stole the No.7 jersey’s mojo?
No real surprise there, I’d suggest!
The Secret Footballer was always an interesting read. He previously expressed his views on the role of the assistant manager, or No. 2 as he calls them. Here’s a summary:
“The role of the No2 is under‑appreciated, and has nothing like the same limelight as the manager’s position, although their work can certainly be crucial to a club’s success. From the players’ point of view, the assistant acts as the “good cop” in a changing room shortly after the manager has torn a strip off the team, and for a manager they are the savvy and shrewd tacticians who breathe football day and night.
“They work at close quarters with the players on the training pitch, communicating the manager’s ideas without all the F-words. They also act as a link between the player and the manager, in particular for those players who never like to deal with the manager directly.
“Although a manager must be able to trust his assistant, he also needs his right-hand man to challenge his methods and pull him up when something isn’t working.”
That and more at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/mar/09/the-secret-footballer
Great to have fan playing for us, but his finishing sucks
Yes, Wellbeck is not always polished near goal but we need to cut him a lot of slack. Adebayor was not that impressive at first, and you can definitely say that Walcott has turned out a lot better than he was looking a couple of years ago.
My humble opinion is Welbeck needs to learn about ball shielding and being more clinical & taking chances instantly when presented with a chance, as seen by last night’s game against Brazil. Other than that, love the guy & also as he has the same birthday as moi, 26 Nov.
@JC
Lol, that’s usually how I like to sum up his responsibilities. With all due respect to Mike Phelan of course.
@DreadedRed
Thanks for the link mate. It was enlightening. Based on that description. I definitely see some of those qualities in Phelan. Especially the good cop part. I think he plays a key role in terms of locker room atmosphere and maintaining a Manchester United mentality in there. That part I always appreciate about Phelan. I’m just not sure how much he has to do with the tactical side. And as the article said, it’s important (even if the manager is Sir Alex) for an assistant to challenge him on some ideas. That’s what I’d like to think is happening on our bench. Whether it’s from Phelan or Rene.