A United player stays at his club an average of 5.71 seasons – the longest in Europe.
Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, Wes Brown, John O’Shea, Rio Ferdinand, Darren Fletcher, Wayne Rooney, Park Ji-Sung and Edwin Van der Sar have all been at the club longer than our average.
The Professional Football Players’ Observatory is a research group that generates comparable statistical indicators in the areas of demography, training, international recruitment, mobility and pitch performance of professional football players. Created in 2005, the PFPO brings together researchers from the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES), the ThéMA research centre of the University of Franche-Comté and the Institute of Sports Science of the University of Lausanne.
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Why change a winning formula. It’s downhill after United.
figure could’ve been higher. Greatly distorted by massimo taibi.
does this also include managers. I wonder.
Its down to our culture over the years. And one gaffer in particular (well Fergie has been at the helm ever since I began watching United in grade school) – SAF!
smartalex said it all – WHY CHANGE A WINNING FORMULA ?
@jojo : lmao. poor dude ,such a bad rap.
Good to know our club selection of players,opportunitys given ,patience and culture is brilliant and works.
United is the pinnacle of any players career. It was, still is and forever will be.
@Raizzen: Check out the article why dean didnt report joh terry
Check out chelseagirls comments at 12.13 yesterday.
Lol. I think we have Giggsy, Scholesy and G Nev to thank for this one.
It took them that long to figure that one out
Though we do have our fair share of future’s and ambitions
We are the best.
thats because united is the best club..
Where we can find the full classement?
Scott
What about city players? Loyalty to the bank balance
ha ha ha
I may be wrong but chelsea are strengthening their side by trying to sign luiz.
Blue tattoos remain in place for an average of 5.71 minutes.
Is this across all leagues and all divisions across Europe? If yes, this is a staggering statistic. I would have thought a tightly knit club in some lower division would have more loyal players.
Just goes to show that after United, its nothing. And Rooney wanted to quit this club. What a tool!
It goes on further , ex players of United have there own association
Guys check this out, nice balanced read on our unbeaten run :
http://www.thehardtackle.com/index.php/man-united%e2%80%99s-corner-unbeaten-but-not-invincible/
Where’s the most greedy players ranking.
We know which club will top that list.
United in 2050
SAF:” I’m not thinking of retirement yet”
Ryan Giggs offered a new 1 year contract extension after snubbing the coaching job of the Wales national team..Gareth Bale is being eyed as the alternative.
United still looking for Paul Scholes long term successor
Wayne Rooney goal drought continues though he remains the ‘important’ player of the team
And the best one
man ‘shitty’ have become the richest club in world football playing in the third division and facing a stiff competition to stay out of the relegation zone
the club that giving man shitty the competition is is Liverpool FC
First Fear Factor, Now Personality Problems
http://www.theunitedreligion.com/2011/01/first-fear-factor-now-personality.html
With regards to SAF and his longetivity at united since, 1986 when fergie took over the reign’s according to the league managers asscoiaton they calculate there been 1,023 league managers SACKED todate. stablity is the way forward lol.
im curious to who is the least? although i have my ideas
@Dave Malaysia mate you dont have to be so angry with that Chelsea Girl comment. Just take it as someone so jealous with us having fanatic fans from Malaysia like you.
Now they’re on the decline Chelsea fans will get amnesia.
Whereas United will always have our true fans from Malaysia!
Malaysia… Truly Asia(n United Fans!)
**Alert ** Alert**
losers around
Just wanna say that we are all honest united fans dont be disturbed by some ladyboy who calls himself chelseagirl who gives a shit what he thinks
Dave,
I’m from malaysia too. following united since early 80′s when i’m just 8-9 years old. why not retort to chelseagirl….like chelski dont have any fan from malaysia. liverpool also have a lot of fans from malaysia. so to me there is nothing to shame about for supporting united.
Sir Alex is the 2nd reason why players don’t leave, with the club’s name and history coming first
I’m not surprised we are top, we don’t have a high turnover of players but I thought it would be a bit higher than that.
anyone remember this? haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9UHcRrCWlI
If you take out Tevez, the average figure will be even higher!
only 5.7 ?
One reason, the BOSS. We love Sir Alex Ferguson!
ex www . premierleague . com
“Giggs is just 14 Barclays Premier League appearances away from playing a record number of Premier League matches. The current record holder is goalkeeper David James, who played 573 times for Liverpool, Aston Villa, West Ham United, Manchester City and Portsmouth prior to his move to Championship side Bristol City.”
@bobkoh LMAO!! u nailed it
off the topic: Man Utd lost another academy player.First Magnus Eikrem to Molde now Etzaz Hussain to Valerenga. Maybe I will only see young players get through the senior level in Football Manager.Sigh…Hope it’s not true.Hope…
West Ham res play United res tonight 7pm in FA Youth cup and there’s a stream for it.
http://www.onlinegooner.com/article.php?section=exclusive&id=2039
Scott, Digging around that site I found another nice piece on United.
Likely league winners:
“According to our prediction, the most probable champions would have been Manchester United, Inter, Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Lille. While Bayern Munich and Inter are, at the moment, quite far from Borussia Dortmund and Milan AC respectively, Manchester United, Barcelona and Lille are performing more or less as expected. The comparison between the number of points per match achieved up to now and that estimated at the start of the season suggests that Bayern Munich and Inter will probably have better results from now on, while Manchester United, Barcelona and Lille should be able to keep the same level of success.”
http://www.eurofootplayers.org/Most-probable-big-5-league
Means naught, but say what, not to bad to have someone listed as a believer!
@zalee
Frankly speaking hussain was never a united stuff.I have seen him in the reserve he wasnt that great like pogba or morrison.Every young player wont play for united so they have to leave.
I have to say this young crop can be great like the giggs,scholesy,becks etc.In the last 10 years we never had such a young talent coming through together.Be patient dude.
Next season you will see welbeck and cleverley(hopefully they both play bcose they are great)Play for us regularly.You may not undestand this now but after 2 years atleast 3 players from the current crop would be in our squad.
Breaking nees: It’s their year again (History channel team), with the imminent signing of Mike Tyson.
@kaihnsn: United has fans all over the world lulz. Travel any country and ask any random stranger, I bet you will end up with tons of United fans.
Dave Malaysia
I am with you on this buddy. As a Lebanese (Which you might have guessed) I have endured similar abuse from ignorant rival fans.
I have been in love with United since the mid 70′s and having lived in Manchester for a few years in the 80′s I never missed a game at OT and whenever I could afford it I would go to many away games too. My late dad was at Wembley for the 68 European Cup final. I was back in Lebanon in the late 80′s when the civil war was at its peek, my only connection to the league was my car radio. On match day I would drive the car to a specific place where I would get decent reception to BBC World Service and if I was lucky enough our game would be on live broadcast, other wise I could keep up with our result. I always got funny looks mind you from passers by watching me jump up and down in the car if we score.
Now mate, let any English Chelsea fan top this passion. Do not worry about it my friend, we are ALL UNITED, one love one passion….
Ronaldo has told Balotelli to keep quiet.
Speaking of talent coming through, its kinda sad to hear bout the whole ravel morrison thing… Really thought he would come good and replace giggs, who he reminds me most of… Hussain was never going to make it, but I thought eikrem would have stood a chance… I really hope one of Wellbeck, Cleverly or Macheda comes good… Its been awhile since a good attacking player came out of our youth.
@DaveFromMalaysia…
Dude.. Im Malaysian too… Don’t worry bout Chelskigirl, she is just jealous bout their lack of worldwide appeal.. There is no way Chelsea would bring in 80 000 fans to Bukit Jalil as Man Utd did… And you would be hard pressed to find a Chelsea fan from the Pre-Abrahimovich era…
CedarsDevil, Top post mate.
ONTOPIC (sort of):
Nani, “Scholes is the best midfielder I have ever seen”
http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Football/49362/Hes_the_best_midfielder_Ive_ever_seen.aspx
Kikoooo has scored
FletchTHEMAN
Cheers buddy
Apologies completely off topic but can anyone help me with something that is bugging me…
Does anyone recall the time we were playing, I’m pretty certain in the Champions League, and an opponent tried to rough up Yip Jap Staam by backing into him – Stamm didn’t budge an inch and the guy just bounced right off him, then Staam looked down on him with disdain as if to say “what the f*ck do you think your trying to do, don’t bother son”??
It was priceless, can anyone recall who we were playing and who the player was?? Cheers!
@Tomo1982
Not sure if this is the incident u r talking bout… But there was Ivan Zamorano… There is a youtube video somewhere… For all the class of Ferdinand, I would think a Stam-Vidic pairing would have been absolutely insane… Hope it helps… cheers
tomo1982
here you go mate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscjtHiFVAI
Tomo1982 Here we go mate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscjtHiFVAI
Kiko just scored on his firt start for Samp! class finish as well, told you anything in the box and he will finish!
Is that you Echo…?
Rio and Stam would be a better fit. Vidic and Stam are similar.
Is that you Echo…?
That video resonates with me, like it’s on a loop.
Willie
Talking to yourself mate? lol
I do agree with your combo though… Having seen both Stam and Vidic I would take the later any day of the week
I would think that Stam and Ferdinand were more similiar as they were both comfortable on the ball… Ferdinand more so, but Stam was quick for a big guy… That having said, Vidic>Stam anyday..
willierednut – always found vidic allot more aggressive than stam, but jaap is a bit of vida and rio rolled into one. But i think both vida and rio are better players than stam
I thought Johnsen was better on the ball, than Stam. They were a great partnership, like Rio and Vidic.
This is unbelievable timing with Rafael’s antics.
http://www.premierleague.com/page/Headlines/0,,12306~2271052,00.html
I SEE gill is talking shit again today when giggs scholes and gary nev go he says others will step up hope he does not mean gibson . just goes to prove we are skint he cant be watching us this season
There seems to be alot of talk about Evra leaving this summer and us lining up Bastos and other players. Really good LBs are a rare breed. What is up with Fabio? Is he injured, has he made a prem league bench this season? We should try to have a better look at him and work him in to have a better look.
FletchTHEMAN
Your thoughts make me feel that Evra is staying, as I’m sure SAF would be working that change already. Also, for Evra to leave it would surely have to be for non-football issues. United are on the way up, not down. Staying here is his best bet for Silverware and frienship.
In my opinion, stories on Evra leaving are just rumours. Real Madrid is indeed interested in him, and they are making up the stories to see Evra’s and our club’s reaction.
And about some LBs coming in, also plain rumours to me. Maybe Bastos’ agent is trying to push a move for his client here.
anyone know a stream for the reserves game playing now?
Smartalex. Yeah mate, but the mirror is going on that someone close to Evra is making worrying statements. Don’t usually give much credence to the Mirror. But I first started seeing this some time ago and it isn’t going away. Agree with you that IF Evra was out then SAF would be working with some of the backups. Anyway you look at it, we need a couple of good options for LB.
Here is one of several places I have seen this in the last week or two. Most quoting the Mirror, so may be all bollox.
http://www.sportsvibe.co.uk/manchester-united-line-up-brazilian-superstar-as-evra-replacement/
FletchTHEMAN. We’ve had a lot of quality at LB, maybe this list will remind Patrice that he has a way to go before he can leave. Else it can attract other quality. Although I do feel that Fabio will step up, we clearly would need other options should Pat go.
Roger Byrne a few games at LB
Tony Dunne 414 games
Francis Burns 121 games
Ashley Grimes a few games at LB
Stewart Houston over 200 games
Mal Donaghy 89
Lee Martin 73, ok not great but scored a couple worth remembering.
Dennis Irwin 368
Phil Neville 263
Heinze twit.. 52, also not great, but comitted. Later, should have been sold to cannibal city.
Patrice Evra 154 and counting…
Probably missed some, anyway there’s quality on that list.
FletchTHEMAN. I followed your link, it is feasible and worrying. However when I see
goal . com, I expect there to be no substance.
Yeah, we could use another run like Dennis Irwin. What a player. Could put in a proper free kick as well.
Heinze? Twit is too good a word. Really sours the viewing of that list.
I really should have put John O’ Shea. In my book he’s a great, not at left back, but as key member of the squad, and for his attitude. There’s been a lot of talk that many players will be leaving. Sir Alex will let go whoever should go, but he won’t want wholesale changes. I would say no more than 2 regulars out, definitely not more than 4. This means that Van der Sar staying/going would have an effect on O’Shea or Browns future. I may be alone with these opinions.
@ ASH
Hope so.I miss the old Fergie Fledgling so I really wish I could see another one.For me that’s the true meaning of Manchester United.Nowadays seem no one interested in joining United.All over the news always talk about Shitty & Tottenham to sign a new player
I feel that Evra will be reassured by the fact that Vidic has just signed.
AceMace, Ulster Red and Smart Alex, nice on e, that was indeed the one…loved it!
Sorry for the delayed response, only just got back online. Cheers!
i feel proud and privileged to be born in the Sir Alex era. Only regret is i did get to see Georgie Best