Louis Saha had to leave Manchester United because we couldn’t afford to compete in four competitions with a striker who was so unreliable thanks to his injuries. When fit and ready to play, Saha really was a good striker for us and scored some important goals. It was his performances in the League Cup 2006 which helped us win the trophy, with him being the top scorer that year, which then went on to start our revival after “the decline”.
It was a shame to see him go but we all know it had to be done and we wished him well. That decision to sell him gave us a boost this week, with him coming very close to scoring a hat-trick against title rivals Chelsea. The two goals he did score against them has moved us to within a point of the top, which is pretty good considering we dropped points ourselves at Villa Park.
Saha has revealed that he is in regular contact with his former United team mates and expects plenty of phone calls after the win.
“I still keep in touch with a lot of the players from United, especially Patrice Evra,” said Saha. “Wayne Rooney and Owen Hargreaves are on the phone a lot and they have a really good bunch of guys. I know I will be getting a lot of calls now, and it is a big boost for them. The main thing has to be Everton and taking us as high up the table as possible. I haven’t set myself a target of goals this season – just to get more than I’ve got at the moment. The main thing for me is to stay at this level now. That’s my only goal. I want to show to every opponent that I am serious. I want to work hard and I want to do well.”
Man Utd News 24/7
thnx king louis!!!
I always loved Saha at United, i thought we we looked our most dangerous with a fit Louis and Rooney playing alongside each other!
After Ronaldo he was technically our best player, always remember his goal against Chelsea which was class.
Great to see the banter with the team ringing him after a massive result against the rent boys!
with so many of our players moving on to other teams, sometimes it seems we have an unfair advantage…lol
look at everton’s captain, goal scorer and goalie…lol look familiar 
also, with the number of players that go into management…hmmm…no wonder other teams hate us…lol!
Well one more favour Louis. Please spare Brown and Evans next weekend.
http://newsarse.com/2010/02/12/real-madrid-to-offer-record-85-million-for-man-utd-striker-own-goal/
lol. still laughing. great article
He also said that United are the team that will win the title as they are better than the Rentboys. Well said Louis.
Good job Louis. Now, if you could just pick up one of those famous knocks of yours before Saturday.
I feel Wes and Johnny have actually hit form of late. I have no problems with these two now.
aig… ha! thats good
Saha ya beauty! Fabregas too with the hand of god to stop shitty Gerrard get another undeserved goal with his constant diving. Speaking of that, the DailyMail/Fail had an article today on him and his serial diving! What a surprise from the media!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1250236/Steven-Gerrard-Liverpool-captain-England-international–serial-diver.html
Good lad Louis… I think Diouf might be able to do a similar job to him if given a chance although I think Louis has a better shot and a better finisher…Diouf can still develop and improve though!
he had a great game gave the rentboys d all kinds of problems.the big thing for me is the majority of players who leave still love the club no bitterness for getting transfered and think that says alot about the management and the type of player we bring in
i bet louis is in touch with hargreaves , they have a lot in common , shame though both top players when fit .
that’s the last of our favours……sorry lads.
AIG
That article is quality mate, just sent it round the lads in work!
Guys, we must not allow Own Goal to slip away from us like we did with Tevez! Here’s the perfect strike partner for Rooney and we have to pay whatever his agent, Kia Owngoalabchian is asking!
If we win the title by 3 points or less, we should give Saha a medal!!!
Hold on, Xyth. Tevez scored the winning goal against them for Citeh. Should we give him a medal too? What about Wigan’s Hugo Rodallega?
Ronaldo also says he can’t bear playing against us. Such good boys! And I saw Tevez actually happy that we beat City in the end , after seeing the typical United fighting spirit prevail. Great United!
@giggs11gerrard0
I sent it to many of my friends too and they liked it. Considering the limit to which the facists can go you never know, they may even do it.
@Costas
Kia Owngoalabchian – Nice agent name.
Lads, totally off context, but the Guardian website has this audio clip of a United fan confronting David Gill. Check it out:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/audio/2010/feb/12/manchester-united-david-gill
oh hell further to the own goal transfer:
The President of the Real Madrid has honoured the wish of Madrid of the transfer of the player own goal of Manchester
That the player own goal of Manchester has declared of his love Real in an interview and that it is his dream that the transfer happen
The coach Ferguson of Manchester is angry and saying that the own goal will not transfer from the red of Manchester to the whites. The coach is stuck in the darkness that the Madrid will take own goal after the world transfer of the record of the Ronaldo Christian. Ferguson the coach of the red Manchester says that time will say to the whites that the virus of the second will not move to the mob of the Madrid. But Ferguson not stop the virus of the Ronaldo of the Christian to the transfer in the mob
That the red of Manchester not have money like the blue Manchester and that the Madrid will break record of the transfer of the own goal. The own goal not want transfer to blue Manchester it is the respect of the red Manchester that the heart of the own goal is in the Madrid.
The President want friendship of the best with Madrid and the Manchester of the red but the coach of the red Manchester Ferguson happy is not. The President this knows of the desire of the own goal to be with the whites in the Madrid and now not the Manchester. He looks at the contract of the own goal and knows of the money clause of the own goal of 80 million euros but he wants happy Ferguson. Marca investigates this and tells that the red of the Manchester sell the own goal of 120 million euros. The shirt of the own goal is number seven – of the Raul who goes to America to dream and fish with the sleep in York of the New.
: )
Saha was a really good player. He looks strong and can hold off defenders and feed other players. He can score from outside the penalty area which i think we are lacking. Many of our players moving on shows us that they still can offer plenty. Neville, Howard, Saha and some to spanish league players too. Others retired to become manager and all fills with our ex-player. Why do i see or hear so less of other teams ex-players becoming good or managers? Their standard too low? lol
@aig
Quality articles. LOLOLOLOLOL
check this pethetic article out did the guy forget cashley cole is out injured. chelsea have no weakness what time scale is he on
http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8750_5938745,00.html
Brilliant post by John Smithers. I do think he is so right.
The Green and Gold campaign is continuing to grow at a rapid rate and it’s a stunning success for supporters of Manchester United and football.
The beauty of it is every supporter of the club whatever their capacity to protest can get involved by just wearing the colours.
In 2005 the protests against fell apart when boycotts were called for and that action became divisive as it turned red against red. The ones that choose to boycott against the ones that didn’t and various mixtures of supporters taking different degrees of action. All of the groups and factions had a equally strong love for the club but disagreed on the way to deal with the problem of the Glazer takeover.
FC United was formed into a magnificent club and run in the way any supporter would want their club to be run. One member one vote. However it also showed that the vast majority of United supporters wanted to continue at Old Trafford, they did not want to boycott and to leave Manchester United for FC United. If they did they would have left the Glazer owned United and gone to FC United, but the truth is they decided not too. It takes nothing away from the total sacrifice that supporters who left to form and support FC United made. But everyone had a right to choose what they wished to do and they made their choices.
It’s good to see that MUST and IMUSA have learned the lessons from the past and have so far led an impecable inclusive campaign. They have learned that you can’t tell any supporter what to do, each supporter on an individual basis has to understand what is happening in regards to all the issues and make the right decisions themselves. If opinions are forced on them they will react against them.
It’s good that all of the media can see the power of what is happening and the Glazers immediate worry and fear is if the Green & Gold continues to spread across the whole supporter base around the world. The signs are that it is and Green and Gold campaign is creating a revolution of hearts and minds. It’s educating supporters to see the injustice in the way they are being treated and it’s making them more likely to take the steps and actions required to remove the Glazers from Old Trafford.
Supporters of Manchester United just have to continue to let the Green and Gold work it’s magic. If they push too hard for boycotts and make demands that other supporters are not able to go along with (at this time), then they risk losing everything they have gained in this welcome change of landscape at Old Trafford.
Keith Harris made the point that supporters might have to withdraw their financial support to remove the Glazers. But in reality, however you dress it up, if Manchester United supporters are forced to do then it’s not going to happen. Before any supporter would consider any type of boycott, Keith Harris has to realise the bid first has to be on the table and the money lodged. You really can’t say to a supporter who in the past has already rejected the notion of boycotting that if you boycott your season ticket a bid from Keith will follow. If he get’s the money together and makes the bid great. If he doesn’t first raise the money, then no one is going to buy into it.
A large number of reds do not want to damage the club. To ask people to boycott without a bid on the table would bring the same result as 2005. I’m glad Drasdo and MUST in particular have a grasp of this situation. The best features of Green and Gold is that nearly every supporter can be comfortable with it. You can support the team loud and passionately and also be totally against what the Glazers have done and are doing to the club. Although it seems very peaceful it does have huge teeth and the Glazers have already felt these teeth snapping away at their asses, big style. They are totally rattled and it shows in their reactions esp within the stadium.
The guy who came up with the Green and Gold might just have saved Manchester United and football, just in the nick of time.
I do hope Chelsea manage to stay in the CL for a bit longer, although it’s doubtful with Inter Milan’s form, and chelsea’s of course. With Terry given time off and Ashley Cole out for 3 months their first choice defence is now going to be
Ivanovic-Alex-Carvalho-Zhirkov, gotta fancy them leaking goals/penalty’s in carvalho’s/alex’s rate.
@Kel
Thanks mate
Good post @17:58. Hope this protest is sucessful.
The Chav’s will be knocked out of Europe by Inter I reckon. No problem at all.
“They are totally rattled and it shows in their reactions esp within the stadium”.
Kel – Hi mate. Don’t get that line. When was the last time the cunt’s were at Old Trafford looking “rattled”?
I actually believe that Chelsea will knock Inter out. Mourinho knows them inside out, but I think Chelsea will outmuscle them. And I wouldn’t mind if they got more Ch. League games.
@Costas
Hi mate.
Will be close but we can saftely say both games will be good to if you want to get some sleep. lol
Inter are a very different team to the one we beat last year. They have brought lucio. Also have a goalscoring machine in Milito, balotelli who will be one of the top stars in the future if he can keep his head in place and of course Etoo . Saw their last 2 games and Goran pandev is an excellent signing, scored 3 goals in 4 games since coming in jan and they have sneijder too who has quality. Chelsea are the same team as last year, so Inter have a great chance of going through
@AIG
Hey mate. I hope you are doing ok. No doubt, Inter are a better team. With Eto and Ballotelli in the team, they are more unpedictable in attack. You know where I give Chelsea the edge? In the midfield area. Even without Essien, I feel that the likes of Lampard and Ballack will dominate that area. I would like to see them through(as well as Arsenal), so that they have more games to play.
Good point about how spectacular these games will be! I think I will skip them and see the other game on that day.
@Costas
I am good and you?
Think Inter midfield isnt that bad with Thiago Motta and Sneijder there. Motta has been decent for them. Arsenal will go through i think, Chelsea are favourites in their game and so are united.Think all may go through. Both sides like to stifle the opposition and play so it will be intresting to see the strategy of the 2 teams.
Other game that day is CSKA Moscow vs Sevilla. Not any good.better stick to this one
@AIG
Everything’s good thanks. Maybe I will do some scouting on Krasic.
To be honest, I don’t watch Ch.League games unless Man United are in them. In the past, I watched lots of games but I have lost my passion now. And after watching Juve and Milan disgrace the OT pitch in the 03 final, I nearly stopped watching the finals too!
@Costas
Disgrace the OT pitch.LOL
I am a big footie fan and watch nearly all the live european games. You can check out on Krasic, always think he is good enough for thr top level, He is just 25 too but if nani’s form continues i doubt whether we need him.
Juve and Milan were there in that final. Can you get anything better than what we saw that night?
@AIG
In that season, in an ideal world, Man-United vs Real would have been the final. But we were drawn against them in the quarters and then Real bottled it against Juve in the semis.
Nonetheless, Milan and Juve should have done better in that final. From the 1st minute, it felt to me that they would settle it on penalties. A great game in terms of strategy, but a dull one I thought. Plus, Juve were missing Nedved who was fantastic that season.
@Costas
That time i wasnt a s big a football fan as i am today. i used to watch most but not all United games. The final was at 12:15 in the night and it was really difficult for me to stay awake considering the dull nature of the game.The last i saw was Conte hitting the bar for Juventus.Shame Nedved missed the final. Great player who could have made a difference.Ever since that year juventus have strugggled badly in Europe.
@AIG
I am glad you didn’t sacrifice your sleep on that night. The funny part that season, was that in the second group stages(i.e. our current last 16) we beat Juve twice with relative ease. Personally, I feel they are not the same club without Lippi in charge. The Calciopoli brought them miles behind. And Ranieri finished the job last season!
That year we had the team to go all the way. We just didn’s have a VDS or an experienced Rio.
i wondering if man utd can still sign him bkuz he ws our best player
Costas – I am like you mate. ONly watch the United games. Well to be fair I watch the dippers when they were in the real European Trophy but not now. Occasionally watch the Chav’s. Anyone know please when the Chelsea game is. Is it being televised as I cannot see it listed anywhere?
Off topic
“concerns for Vidic’s concentration” More shit stirring or any truth? Rumours will NOT go away. No smoke without fire. Cannot understand what is going on. IF there is any truth in it it’s time we fucked him off.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1250704/Vidic-Real-Manchester-United-defender-set-join-Ronaldo-Madrid-20m-deal.html
No fuckers seen him. Will probably turn out for Madrid on Sunday having being sneakily sold under the cover of darkness in Jan window!!
@King Eric
Hi mate. Sorry it took me a while. The Ch.League’s last 16 round takes place over 4 weeks. 4 of the first legs will be played next week and the other 4 will be played the week after. Chelsea play on Wednesday the 24th. Platini wants to make more money from TV ratings and commercials.
£20m for Vidic? They can fuckin’ double that, then we’ll talk.
@King Eric
What can I say about Vidic? The signs are there. It’s like deja vu from last season. I don’t know if he is injury prone, but 20 million for Vidic is a disgrace. So he is basically as good as Lescott?
It’s really depressing how easy it’s becoming for United players to leave us now. Some bitching is all it takes. Players shouldn’t be allowed to leave us. I don’t care what it takes, just keep them happy. So, if next season Rooney starts liking the Spanish weather, will we sell him too?
That said, the article is pure speculative BOLLOCKS.
Loved this bit: “[Vidic and Ronaldo] developed a strong friendship at Old Trafford and were known to sit together on the team coach and discuss their long-term futures on the journey to games.”
Ah, so it’s not Mrs. Vidic wanting a move to sunny Spain. It’s Vidic himself longing to be reunited with his dear friend Ronaldo. How sweet.
At least Ronaldo gave his best when he was here, I believe Sir Alex when he says Vidic is injured and not just missing but I am starting to have doubts
Ronny still played to the best of his ability, he never ducked a game unless he was forced
£20 million for Vidic. £40 million at least thanks and then we’ll even consider. It’s probably his wife that’s been moaning about sunny Manchester and wants to go to Spain. Fuckin women eh.
Sir Alex is repeatedly saying “he’s had a setback in training”. That is clearly bollocks. If Vidic doesn’t play in Milan or at Everton he is off. The only way is down after leaving United. Ask Luke Chadwick.
This weekend is going to be a long one. What do you do when United ain’t playing. I guess you can think of jokes.
So it looks like Ashley Cole is in the shit after it was revealed that he sent nude pictures of himself to some models.
Don’t worry for Cheryl though. John Terry has consoled her.
@Edge
Lol, of course he would! He is a responsible team captain!
i was hoping for a united game on sunday so as to have a good reason to skip valentine
any body got a decent idea i really need it.
@Costas
Good morning mate.
Sorry for not replying yesterday. Slept yesterday after watching the Milan game.
Things certainly have changed since then. As you mentioned, signing VDS was the best of the lot because we were struggling in that area for quite some time.rio became more mature as the years went on after his drugs test.After that low point in Benfica in 2005 where we didnt even qualify for the UEFA Cup a lot of things changed to get United back to the top. The emergence of the world class Ronaldo, ever improving Rooney and brilliant buys in Vidic adn Evra all were the final pieces of the jigsaw which fell in place in may 2008 as we won the double. The most important was SAF did not quit which he was about to in 2005
@AIG
Hey buddy. Don’t apologise. It was very late for you. I didn’t watch the Milan game, but did you notice how the Italian FA help out the teams who play in the Ch.League? We actually had to get dumped out of the FA cup to enjoy a rest. If we didn’t, we would probably play at 17:30 British time today. I have to say that things are looking better for the Milan game now, than they did a month ago. We are finding our form, while Milan aren’t as hot as they were. It still won’t be ab easy game. And Giggs is a loss in my opinion. He plays well against Italians.
Anyway, you are right. After Beckham and Veron(who played quite well in Europe) left, our Ch.League progress went into a transitional period. There were some unlucky moments too. The season Porto knocked us out, we had a lot of injuries and suspensions. But no doubt, after the Benfica defeat, Sir Alex started working on the team of the future. With Ronaldo gone and Vidic and Rio constantly injured, I feel we are in that transitional mode again. All 3 were a big part of our European progress.
@Costas
Milan were pretty poor yesterday. Gave the ball away far too many times and they will be punished if they do it against us.The fact that we and Chelsea play early after our first legs in the Champions League shows how keen the FA are to help us.Pato was back though and looked sharp so we must not give him chances to get behind our defence
As far as transitional mode in Europe goes i do agree with you. A team needs World class players to win the CL. We had Ronaldo, Rooney, Vidic,Evra,Rio and VDS.Now we can rely only on Rooney,Evra and VDS.The rest are having their own problems and Ronaldo is no longer with us.We are short of World class players in the offensive department. Imagine if we were in the same situation as Porto last year and needed to score away to win,could anyone from the current team possibly apart from Rooney do what Ronaldo did?.No disrespect to our current players but i doubt if we get into a position like that this season it will be a step too far for the current team. If one of Nani or Valencia can really become world class we will have a great chance again.
thanks saha, we really apprciate it. but make sure u play on ur less form against us next week
@AIG
That’s what I am afraid of too. Also, we should add Fletcher’s influence last season. He was one of the reasons why we controlled the game at the San Siro. It does puzzle me how far we can go this season. If we have our midfield healthy, then we can dictate the pace against most teams. But if we have to chase a scoreline, we could struggle. Of course, as you said, all this might depend on the influence Nani and Valencia could have. In a way, the Ch.League for us starts now. I don’t remember a more anti climatic group stage than the one we were in this season.
@Costas
Fletch has been massive for us this season. He did start when we got steamrolled 3-0 by Milan in 2007 but since then he has matured into an absolute beast and has improved a lot more. Him vs Gatusso will be interesting although Gatusso has no longer got the legs so i expect fletch to come out on top.The problem may start if we are drawn away in the 2nd leg if we progress past Milan. In case you dont get the required result at home getting the job done away from home is very difficult. Milan are masters of doing that and hence should not be underestimated
Louis would have still been with us if he’d not been so injury prone….class striker guaranteed for goals!
I am always pleased when i see “ex-reds” do well, it was unfortunate to see Saha leave United but it seems as though he is happy playing regularly and can still help out United when he can
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The “ex-reds” are in quotations because i think it is impossible for someone to play football for such a beautiful club and not still be a red at heart even though they have moved on. Must be like that first love scenario, that woman you didn’t want to get away.
I know i don’t post much on this site so people don’t know me but i love United and i love all of you.
Hope we crush Milan on Tuesday, I will be missing the second day of Carnival here in Trinidad to watch the match so i hope all goes our way.
Playing our 1st leg away to Milan in the ECL is always a good thing.
I think what has really benefited us is Uniteds away form in this
Competition. Gone are the days where we would get battered, play poorly or scrape a draw. What I see now is a confident, composed and clinical United who now know they can win at any away ground. Milan are no mugs and have quality players but this United team minus Giggs and Vidic can get a good result and performance at their ground next tuesday that will make The return leg easier for us to progress to the next round.
Once a red…
gotta lveo king louis!!
and Diego scoring against barca!