Ahead of today’s goal and draw against Tottenham Hotspur, Robin van Persie reflected on his reasons for leaving Arsenal for Manchester United.
“After eight years at a great club, Arsenal, I’d always had a good feeling, right up until the last training,” he told Sky Sports. “After eight years, sometimes you feel like you need a new challenge and I found that challenge at Manchester United. I really feel like I am surrounded by champions. What I like about being here is that whatever the style of the opponent, we try to deal with it.”
Despite all the slagging off he’s received from Arsenal fans, Van Persie has remained respectful of his former club, but has no doubts he made the right decision in swapping Arsenal for United.
“I have huge respect for Arsene Wenger, he’s a great man,” he said. “Even with my move, he’s been a gentleman. I’m really thankful for that. I had a great time there and I don’t have any bad feelings towards the manager, club or fans. In those eight years we gave everything. Sir Alex said last week that ‘Robin is here at the right time, the right moment, at the right club.’ I do feel that this is exactly the right timing of being here. Since last summer I’ve wanted a big challenge and this was the biggest challenge for me. Every day tells me I made the right move.”
Van Persie famously said that he listened to the little boy inside himself when deciding to join United, and that little boy was screaming for him to join our club. Whilst some Arsenal fans foolishly claimed he was a mercenary that was leaving for the money (something he could have earned more of at City if he hadn’t rejected them for us), our number 20 has said this season has justified his move. United are top of the league, five points clear, whilst Arsenal were knocked out of the League Cup by League 2 side Bradford and are an incredible 22 points behind us.
“When you have a difficult choice to make in your life, you have to stay close to yourself,” he said. “I had to think what my heart wanted. I know why I went, it’s for good reasons, and if you look at the last couple of months I think it explains it all. I’m seeing things again that I didn’t see for a long time. When I first went to Arsenal years ago I saw things from Bergkamp and Henry which I’d never seen in my life before. Now I’m seeing those things again and that makes me really happy. It’s like a kid in a sweetshop. It’s like ‘Yes! This is good, this is nice.’ This is why I did it. I’m having fun.”
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What a player. Almost guaranteed to score whenever he plays. Wonderful header tonight.
Isn’t it incredible, you feel this guy has the right psychology to be a true united player.keep it up.
Good on Robin for deleting his twitter account. Has finally realized what a waste of time a twitter account is. Rio should follow suit but he prolly won’t.
Love his mentality, and his consistency. Key signing
You are wrong on the on the respectful bit. He was totally disrespectful of club, manager and fans in his ‘hey guys’ statement last summer. That statement has caused most of the bad blood between us Arsenal fans and him. Great player, wish we still had him, but please don’t say he was respectful of our club. Congrats with your impending title.
He has it all
Great game tonight defensively we were sound till that misunderstanding between jones and rafael in the process which resulted in spuds pulling an equaliser
But all in all man utd has showed the spirit which could see us through into the next round of UEFA CL. We had a penalty shout which was ignored by the refs, putted in a great defensive performance, it just wasn’t our day
But I’m happy our lads teamed up together defensively and tried to protect that one nil lead, spuds are a very great team, lennon, bale, dembele and defoe could of destroyed had we gone out all offensive, that was a well earned point IMO
A point not a disaster from the Lane and spurs probably deserved theirs. Incredibly frustrating though to concede so late (which we hardly ever do) and not to be given that penalty. If City get some of the appalling decisions that have gone against us over the rest of the campaign, that should see us right. Not holding my breath f
A point not a disaster from the Lane and spurs probably deserved theirs. Incredibly frustrating though to concede so late (which we hardly ever do) and not to be given that penalty. If City get some of the appalling decisions that have gone against us over the rest of the campaign, that should see us right. Not holding my breath for that though. Fergie controls the officials? Do me a favour.
You brain dead plastic morons.i can’t say anything nice towards you.you lot are retarded.people all over the country laugh at you plastic football club.the theatre of dream.lol.my god it’s like a children school play ground.
Not sure what happens to us at half time, but that’s 3 games running we’ve been slack in the second half of games.
A part of me thinks Fergie paid a bit too much respect to Spurs with the way he set up (but then again he may have had the 3-2 defeat at Old Trafford in the back of his mind..plus the fact that they outplayed us for large parts of this fixture last season).
A part of me is glad we were able to set up like this though….perhaps good preparation for Madrid? I thought Kagawa had a very good game, but a fit Rooney could maybe give us that added incisiveness in the final third. May consider Anderson in place of Jones as well, although Jones was excellent too.
A point at WHL is far from a bad result, and we’ve got most of the tough away games out of the way. Just need to have our heads screwed on for the so called easier games.
@Micheldu9
It takes a genuine twat some balls to come on a united blog and troll, that’s pretty much what any clueless cunt do and it gives them power and some pleasure but believe me you, only people like you who seems to not progress in life…..
Micheldu9 says:
You brain dead plastic morons.i can’t say anything nice towards you.you lot are retarded.people all over the country laugh at you plastic football club.the theatre of dream.lol.my god it’s like a children school play ground”
Retarded yet you come out with rubbish like this, re-evalute your life, you brain-less dim-wit. No one is asking for your worthless respect or to say “anything nice”
Where you from moron.bet it’s not Manchester you simpleton.go support your local club.nar you can’t cos your not a real football fan.your a plastic fan.
He became the 2nd player in our history after Rooney to score against Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham and City in one season.
Pity we showed that lot so much respect today. The first time in 23 years we didn’t beat them in a league campaign.
Don’t feed the troll Samuel.
Lol.would love to know we’re your from simpleton
Man utd .eeeerrrrrrrrr walking around in your dirty red shirts in shopping
Centres ,and you think you look cool.you think we say wow we are jealous.your a man utd fan.oh your so wrong.
@Micheldu9 –> LOL, the sheer jealousy of United’s standing in the world always makes us smile
Even though all the evidence shows that Manchester is majority United support, it makes me laugh til my sides split to see City fans mock United for having foreign fans…. while they are owned by a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family, and all its sponsors are linked in one way or another to that family, their manager is from Italy and none of their players are “local”. Taking away the state-money that backs Manchester City, and you’ve got the rest of the Premier League.. no locals, all foreigners, from the owners right down to the players. United is even country MILES ahead of ALL of you when it comes to bringing players up through the youth development system at the club.
Given all of that, you sound fucking stupid when you sing “WE SUPPORT OUR LOCAL TEAM”. How lonely and sad that that’s the ONLY thing you can sing about when not mocking Munich. The reason you can sing it with pride though is nobody outside of England gives a fuck about any club other than about 5, maybe 6 established clubs. The reason you can sing it is because NOBODY KNOWS WHO YOU ARE! You’ve done nothing to ever earn a place of prestige in the world… and as for City, their title winning season after spending a few hundred million in 3 years was only received with disapproval and disgust from EVERYWHERE outside of England.
As for City, it’s even more dumb of them to keep up the stupid myth that they own the city, when they can’t fill their stadium for all their games, and on top of that, their owners are depending on the club to gain overseas support in order to be worth the mammoth investment they put into it. They seem to be failing dramatically on that aim so instead they get family-linked sponsors to pour money into the club and count it as revenue, even though they did not receive it by playing fairly in the free market, it’s a subsidy by proxy. City is a welfare club, just like Chelsea.
Meanwhile everywhere you go in the world, people know who Manchester United are. You’ll NEVER know what that feels like. For all the hate that English people throw at the pride of their country, in terms of sporting achievements, there’s magnitudes higher respect and love for United all around the world. You’ll never ever ever know what thats like… ever ever ever ever ever
But by all means, keep up the hate, we use it as rocket fuel, it’s going to be so fucking sweet to watch United lift the 20th league title this year
Proper football fans are those who support Halifax Lincoln etc.and go and watch them home and away.not you clowns.
btw
was wondering
against liverpool, city, arsenal and chelski I think we have used the cleverley carrick or ando solution to the middle, and they turned out well.
So why we didn’t do that today?? Iknow we got 1 point and fought till the end, we had the spirit, but what made SAF think Tottenham would be better than those teams I mentioned apart from Liverpool.
I would have played Kagawa to the left, Welbeck to the right and RVP with Rooney at front.
Carrick and clevs i nthe middle.
It has worked so damn fine, so why change it`? this has bothered me. But I know that saying IF IF IF doesn’t help, and it’s pure speculations.
why change something thay ain’t broken??
Man utd are shit.im a Barcelona fan.i just own a bar over here.
I have been to see comference football and it has been louder than brain dead Trafford.
You can hear the children singing.it is pathetic.like you lot pathetic.and believe me I’m not jealous.im just trying to make you see the light.to snap out of your simpleton ways.
Cleverly Anderson car rick.grimsby have had better player than them.shit is the word.
@Micheldu9 –> Given that its clear from your use of language you are NOT from Spain, saying you are a Barcelona fan is hilarious when a few minutes ago you were talking about local teams. So shut the fuck up, you don’t own a bar anywhere, you’re probably not even old enough to drink at one, so go do your homework cause there’s school tomorrow, ok little boy?
Micheldu9 says:
Man utd are shit.im a Barcelona fan.i just own a bar over here.
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I think you’ll find that those bars in front of you belong to the state.
I would slap you with one arm behind my back.lol simpleton
@Micheldu9 –> Is simpleton the word your teachers use to describe you on your reports to your mother and father?
BTW, only bitches slap, be a man.
No I wouldn’t I’m only five.and I’m talking more sense than you.
So you’re a 5 year old bar owner from Barcelona? I have to give it to your kid, you can keep consistent in your trolling!
I’ve boxed for twenty year I did judo for two years and kickboxing for ten years .i don’t slap .i hurt.but I wouldn’t waste my time on small minded people.i have sparred with a man that knocked Danny Williams out.who knocked mike Tyson out.and I did ok.lol.so I don’t slap.
Dela.is that a girls name.lol
I do a mans sport.i just like coming on here to wind you lot up.and it works everytime.because your not football fans your glory hunters.and you know it that’s why you bite so hard.good night all.you have made me smile.and I hope I have you 2.xxxxxx
I support barca,because I’m a glory supporter.not i support my local team.i just said barca to make you lot to feel like your not the only idiots in the world.nite nite clowns xxxx.ps I’m only having a little banter.a bit of fun.man utd are a good team.unlike my Barcelona ,a great team.
I would really really really like that we win this 20th championship for RVP. Not for SAF but for RVP. We won the last one for SAF. He deserved that, the guy is great.
He came here for pure football reasons…wich is rare. Respect his ex club, manager, fans unlike Nasri. And maybe you dont like Wenger, but like RVP aaid he was a gentelman, it is not easy to lose such a good player like RVP.
Yeah robin is million times better than that fucked up welbeck!
@Micheldu9
I started reading your last post but then I noticed you don’t know the difference between your and you’re which makes your post pretty much irrelevant.
@Micheldu9
Do you like a bit of Andrea Bocelli then?! A bit classical for you hey?! Lolz.
@Micheldu9 — Shush now five year old, 20 year judo kickboxing veteran bar-owner from Barcelona, use your inside voice!
You brain dead moron.
No I’m not fiveim nearly 40.but being on this site,you have the brains of a five year old.so that’s why I put that.simpleton.
@Micheldu9
A bit of Johann Pachelbel?! Ha.
@Micheldu9
You’re nearly 40 yet your English is terrible. Get back to school simpleton. Lolz.
I actually love ludovico einaudi.my my mrs just said,I’m off to bed.bored out my brains,whilst your sat on there talking talking to morons.lolol.oh my god.she is so right.time to say goodbye.ha ha ho ho.
Cannon in d.i love pachelbell.im pissed,that why I can’t spell.simpleton.
Philip glass ,the violin concerto.i also love gorrecki symphony number three.
I bet your all into blue moon.
@Micheldu9
I know you do. Also fond of a bit of Joseph Canteloube? Time to say goodbye….! Your first love
@Micheldu9
It’s you’re…!
I do like van Persie an arsenal legend.and you plastic fans sing his name.hes only playing for you because arsenal wouldn’t pay him what he wants.
Lol
Manchester the home of city.they are the ones I fear.jose will be in charge next season.
@Micheldu9
It’s quite clear you’re an Arsenal fan. You surprise me because every Arsenal fan I’ve come across on this blog has been polite and had well thought out opinions. RVP is realising his potential at Manchester United and he will achieve things that he could not have done at Arsenal.
Arsene Wenger said himself that RVP turned down £300,000 per week from Manchester City to play for Manchester United. So your assumption he is only playing for United for monetary reasons is ill informed.
Micheldu9 .. Your blatantly a sado that has been following this blog for years to try To have an arguement with united fans to satisfy your pathetic needs you low life cunt. Or did you genuinely take the time out to create an account to express your opinion on rvp?
Loser
MY GOD!!
Tell me I’m not the only person who saw that analysis of the Rooney penalty incident on MOTD2??? The referee thought he “kicked caulker” ???? I mean its SO bad when Alan Hansen is the voice of reason! As far as I know we don’t have brain dead officials in games, there’s no way on planet EARTH that the ref, or the linesman, would have seen Rooney as the one who did wrong there. BBC… seriously… vet your fucking “pundits” better. Jesus H Christ!!
Lol. Micheldu, kick the stool away and be done with it. That’s valuable oxygen you’re wasting!
Costas – you can’t help but put fools in their place but you are right about feeding trolls. Looks like michelle cockadoo came on here to release some frustration, lying clown probably has posters of van persie all under the rock he claims as a home, coming out with crap about having a bar in barcelona, you lying boring cunt michelle COCKADOODLE, your hatred for manchester united has only increased due to van persie leaving your beloved team.
Dela – i saw the “analysis” from pat nevin, claiming it looked like rooney kicked the defender from the “refs point of view”, hallmark of an A.B.U all over that. Stone wall penalties don’t come better than that, yet some how rooney “kicked him” never heard so much bullshit. I think we can only blame pat nevin’s Groucho marx glasses for missing it or is that actually his real nose? The lying bastard.
samuel – I have made the point the past few months, we are not getting the breaks with the officials, the shitty game and reading game was starting to gain my curiosity, the Swansea game got my attention. And the spurs game, was the straw that broke the camels back, 2 huge errors, and a third when spurs fouled one of our players during one of spurs chances, which was 6 or 7yards from the ball. The fact remained, the welbeck foul which the spurs defender falls over the ball, and the rooney pen were 2 outrages decisions, and it has cost us 4 valuable pts against swansea and spurs. They say it balances out over the whole season, but its starting to tip in the other direction
@Samuel
BBC analysis is shite. No surprise there. Red Nev and Sky Sports wipes the floor with any of those cnuts. 5 points clear with 15 games to go. I’ll take that.
@samuel – Ye mate, I’ve heard a lot of extremely stupid shit on MOTD over the years but that has to be right up there. He topped it off at the end when asked to clarify it by saying “The ref can’t give it from that angle,” WHAT? He had a clear view of it, it was clear that Caulker stuck his leg out, didn’t get the ball, and knocked Wayne Rooney over. But it’s not even that, he was asked to admit it was a penalty and that was his response, that the ref can’t give it, he didn’t even admit it was a penalty. ABU shit indeed mate, nice to know he was paid with taxpayers money for that bollox.
heck the liverpool game I could see it coming, the kagwa foul before half time pushing kagwa into reina, how liverpool had 11 men on the pitch that day I have no idea. No question the hissy fits chelsea the pundits and the ABU media had, has cost us more than we thought, we all said after the Chelsea win, good luck getting the breaks. And it looks that way, much like the Swansea draw, how spurs got a point out of that game, boggles the mind. This was a typical 2 0 smash and grab win, spurs played well, but we should have got the 3 pts
De Gea = plenty of good saves but his mistake cost us
Vidic = top class, motm contender
Ferdinand = his distribution was shocking and has been for several games now
Evra = struggled with no natural wide protection in front of him
Rafael = excellent, what do you expect ?
Jones = excellent defensively but shouldn’t have been playing in midfield
Carrick = excellent defensively but wouldn’t get on the ball when we were under pressure
Cleverley = alright display seems as he was played out of position
Kagawa = disappointing,
Wellbeck = showed some incredible touche and pace just missing some finesse
van Persie = big game player, couldn’t get into the game because he was isolated.
firstly the liverpool decisions for not sending wisdom off and giving us a penalty and the reina incident
Now these two the welbeck foul which the spurs defender falls over the ball, and the penalty
and it has been like this the whole season.
I am glad we are fighting against the odds.
Dela – remember how shearer and the rest of the ABU media tried defending BA’s goal against united, what was their excuse? BA was not interfering with play LOL, so evans would have made that clearance if BA was not in that position
@fergie is the boss —-> Yep the Swansea game in particular came back to me today after the Spurs equalized. I remember Fergie saying at the end of the game when he was asked if we were 7 points clear, he said “We should be 9,” and he was right, the ref ignored a terrible foul and they scored within seconds after it. Today the ref literally must have had a case of temporary blindness because there’s astronauts orbiting the earth that saw that fucking foul. After Drogba in 2010, I’ll never listen to another fucker who says it balances out. It doesn’t, and because we’re United, the breaks we get are the only ones highlighted.
But this is how it is analyzed after almost all our games now and it is starting to get to me. Even the City game, after we were denied the third goal from Young, right before they scored their first goal, you’d think that’d have been up for serious discussion, but nope, instead the questions being raised were about whether Rafael went down easy for the free kick that RvP stuck away, and then to add insult to injury, the outrageous lie that Rio provoked City fans by celebrating in front of them. And don’t even get me started on the build up and reaction to the Anfield game in which we were all implicated in chanting about Hillsborough wrongfully too. We NEED to use the hate as energy and make them all suck it at the end of the season.
@fergie is the boss –> Yep, I remember it now that you mention it, claimed he wouldnt be active and interfering with play unless it came back out to him? LOL,gee I wonder why Shearer would see it that way
@Samuel
Ha. Kanchelskis nailed it dead on with one sentence. You know, I sort of understand what’s going on in an Arsenal fan’s head. RVP wasn’t the first to leave them and do well elsewhere. But comments like these are their worst nightmare. They could always blame Adebayor or Nasri’s departures on them being money whores, but RVP’s hit them hard. Deep down they know why he left and that’s what gets them. Let Michel have his fun over here. He can’t keep relying on his inflatable girlfriend for that.
@Daniel88
Rafael had a great game, right up until the end, when it cost us. He thought we’d won the ball and started trotting upfield. We hadn’t, and when BAE got the ball, he had all the time in the world to measure his cross cos rafael was nowhere to be seen. Love the guy, but still has very slight concentration issues. Today’s was costly.
Dela – if you followed my post, you would have seen me giving my real concerns about these decisions, even after the win, lets list since the chelsea win, reading, shitty, newcastle swansea liverpool spurs, these were a mix of banana skin matches and big matches which we could have lost allot of pts gained. The spurs game was has bigger joke as the Swansea one, which was hilariousness. I found the welbeck foul even more crazy than the Rooney pen incident, how about how spurs fouled one of our players during one of spurs chances. Can someone tell me how spurs did no get a cad for the parker dive? and the lenon dive which was even more hilerious
@Kanchelskis
Don’t you think the whole team was the blame for not closing the game out? Just like the Chelsea game in The Capital Cup. Keeping possession and not giving it away cheaply in the closing stages. Somebody needed to direct the team on the pitch but it just didn’t happen. A team with the experience of Vidic, Rio, Carrick, Rooney, RVP, should know this.
@kanchelskis
Its a stretch to blame Rafael.
I’m not sure if we are talking about the same incident here. Was it the instance Welbeck was about to get a clear run to goal through the centre late in the game? I think he was called for an offside rather then fouling the last defender
The cross leading up to their equalizer, my opinion is that both Rafael & Valencia is at fault. Rafael had no business thinking of an counter attack with 30s of the game left, so instead of running forward he should have just have gone for the ball. Valencia, he did neither defending nor try to push out, God knows what he was doing standing there so far away from his man who went to retrive the ball that he couldn’t react
P.S. Don’t feed trolls. They are a sad bunch who probably need some help from mental institutes if their idea of fun is going around looking for trouble
To me, the key moment in that match occurred when LittleRedRafa got free down the right side and crossed the ball through the box – DannyTheLad was a step short and the chance trickled away.
In my estimation, IF Chicharito had been in Welbeck’s position he would have run hell-for-leather to the far post – not loped forward – and slotted it home for a 2-nil lead.
I know that this is an unfair comparison but while DannyTheLad’s athleticism is astonishing, his finesse and game awareness are still raw. That moment can be classified as an example of “growing pains”. He’s still a long way from being the finished article but he was a real handful for the Spurs’ defenders so it’s painful to isolate one incident – but “goals change games” and THAT was an especially clear-cut example of the truth of that cliche.
a good goal for rvp, then we failed to see him for the rest of the match. consistency is a big problem in the team so far, the gaffer needs to work on this and also i believe rvp needed a rest and chicharito should have come on for the last 15 minutes or so.
a little off topic from Eritrea
The negative approach from the manager cost United the precious three points yesterday. He was very cautious and gave Spurs too much respect. What made me and many others become fans of the greatest club in England (Manchester United) was the attacking style of the club. But the way United approached the game, it was pretty boring to say the least. When i saw the starting line up comprising so many defenders in it, i felt it was gonna be a long night, and indeed it was. The only chance United created was when they scored, but Spurs had so many goal scoring opportunities to win the game specially in the second half. Why Rooney was left on the bench is beyond me. Kagawa is still adapting to life in England and seems not the finished article i was expecting to see after two prolific seasons in the Bundesliga. Why the manager chose him ahead of Rooney is appalling. The way the game unfolded yesterday against Spurs, Spurs should have won it. If the Old man gives Spurs that much respect, i can’t imagine what he is going to do against Real Madrid…………!!!
We have a growing tendency to just hoof the ball upfield in the later parts of the second half. We played a brilliant first half yesterday. Great energy, moved the ball and kept it well, but past the 70 minute mark, our possession play fell apart thoroughly.
Robin van Persie: “Makes you feel like you are surrounded by champions”.
Robin loves this club. Hear him talking about United. Class! So respectful of everyone.
http://www.skysports.com/video/inline/0,26691,12606_8417689,00.html
Have you seen this peeps ?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/manchester-united-agree-15m-deal-1547600?
it was a great game and what a fantastic header from our star man rvp.the lads did play well and we should keep our heads down and concerntrate on the upcoming fixtures.not a bad point at the lane and man city players or fans should not think that we are going to drop points like last season.come on guys keep the defensive performances up.glory glory man united.
We dodged a bullet. Wesley Sneijder has left Inter Milan for Galatasaray on a transfer fee of 7.5 million euros, the Turkish club was quoted as saying.
Knightsmith Cheers mate. Wilfred Zaha to ManUtd a bit like a tennis match from center court. Back and forth till your neck hurts. The Mail says a £12m deal is still on but the Mirror said yesterday that a £10m deal had collapsed.
You can tell there is plenty of non truth in all these stories, if any of it is true at all.
I think Palace wants to keep him till the summer, which would probably benefit both sides unless there is a pressing need to backup our wingers.
Gone yesterday, here again today?!
http://bit.ly/VEHDyS
This RvP Interview is really top drawer!
Interesting discussion from 4:30min
“#9 suits me great” Discusses #9, #10, #9-1/2.
http://www.skysports.com/video/inline/0,26691,12606_8417689,00.html
The entire interview is brilliant really.
@AlphaRS
I agree with your comment about closing out the game, especially after Nani had been publically castigated for not heading for the corner deep into injury time in the Chelsea League cup match.
Valencia had a chance to run for the corner injury time yesterday, all he had to do was knock the ball passed the defender and run after the damn thing, he should have been fresh enough to beat the defender who had been playing for 90 minutes. This would have given our defence a much needed breather.
Instead, maybe due to a lack of confidence, he stopped and turned the ball back inside, we lost possession and the Spuds were back at us.
I enjoyed how our team defended. Maybe it was our finest defensive display in past few years I have seen. Bar Evra who got owned by Lennon everyone else did a fine job.
I am a bit surprised De gea is getting some shit as he had a tremendous game. It makes me laugh when people compare him with Schmeichel or Van der Sar. They were complete products. De gea is still learning is trade. Give him one Premier league trophy his confidence will go sky high.
Have to say I AM not disappointed by the draw. After watching Spurs yesterday I have to say they deserve to be in top 4. They are a strong side. Give them one quality striker I can bet they will easily finish in top 4. It will be a shame if they miss out on top 4 this season. Credit to them for playing well.
I thought we were playing to deep especially in last 25 mins. We need to attack. But I thought Sir alex wanted to have this game over. This has to be by far our toughest challenge and if you ask me we passed with hardwork. City has still to travel here and also go to Everton. I laughed when dzeko said man united will continue to drop points. I like this care free attitude from their team. I don’t want their managers or players to praise us. Last season Micah Richards and Mancini praised us by saying United will win the league and it backfired on us.
Just one big negative from this game and that has to be Valencia. I have been continuously defending him but he is having a torrid time. I don’t like our players getting criticized but its very surprising that no one is mentioning about Tony V’s poor form. We used to jump when Nani had a bad game but I can’t see anyone doing that with Valencia. He is neither attacking well nor is he defending well. Rafael played much better as winger than Valencia did in those 17 mins he got. There was a situation when rooney was alone in wings but valencia stopped and made back pass which resulted in tottenham counter attack. I still have faith in Valencia but he needs to get his act going. At this form I would prefer Nani.
This is not resulted to our club but I have to take this out of my chest. Man how shit have arsenal become. It is very sad to see them becoming a mediocre club. They were playing shit against the most overrated team in Chelsea yesterday. As usual media were trying their best to prove Torres is not a flop. Speaking of arsenal I can bet they will play like cup final against us when we go to emirates in late april.
Ash @ 14:36: ” I still have faith in Valencia but he needs to get his act going. At this form I would prefer Nani.”
Me, too – but, then I’d prefer Nani to Valencia regardless of “his act”. For me, Nani offers a bag-of-tricks whereas AV7 is one-dimensional.
It’s funny, though, that the less Nani appears the more love he seems to be getting, eh ?
Actually you cant blame him. All United football fans wants to play for United. I wanted to play too. Even though i didnt went there, i had a sense of how the club will feel. Its a magnificent and grand feeling you get. You are thinking wow, im surrounded by champions, wow you feel so happy.