After spending most of last season out of the team through injury, and parts of this season, Nemanja Vidic has had a positive impact on our defence over recent months. The amount of times his head is on the end of crosses in to the box in recent games is incredible.
For Vidic, becoming a professional football was never a decision he had to make, with him falling in love with the game as a child and developing from there.
“Since I was 5 or 6 I started to play football every day,” he said. “I love to play football, it just came naturally. I didn’t have to make a decision; really it was made for me. To play, obviously my family gave me support and obviously I managed to become a professional footballer.”
Vidic signed his first professional contract with Red Star Belgrade, the team he joined when he was 15-years-old and later went on to captain for three years, and can still remember the day he became a pro.
“Obviously the dream came true,” he said. “It will be a day I will always remember. It was a good day for me, my family as I had worked so hard to reach that which I managed in the end.”
Whilst the fans may think Vidic has plenty of skills and strengths, our captain is quick to play down any compliments.
“I am a defender; I don’t have skills!” he joked. “My skills are to take the ball from the opponents and this is what I do best. I like to play in training two touch. We always love to play it here at Manchester United especially. I’m not bad at that.”
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hope he stay injury free
as a defender vida s skill is ok at least his pass better than rio
keep being ‘unskillful’ then Nemanja, we fucking love you as you are………..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21143029
So long as you make strikers shiver am ok
http://www.footballfriendsonline.com/blogs/2013/1/22/united-would-be-foolish-to-let-de-gea-go-video.html
http://beautifullyred.co.uk/2013/01/22/is-david-de-gea-that-bad-his-best-gif-moments-of-the-season-so-far/
many of our players are underrated i don t understand why ddg is a target for the media he is th e best young gk in the world and we forget that he is only 22
i think he need the backing of the team and fans he is an oustanding talent
Re Vidic! He is modest, but one of the best we have ever had when healthy. Was watching a video of a game with Pallister, he was injured alot as well. But back problems like Rio and Carrick. Vidic didn’t have anything wrong with him until someone sat on his knee and bet it sideways. Hope we get another couple of seasons from him.
His organization of the back line is still far superior to anyone else on the team. He is rightfully our captain at the moment!
If he was a English GK, it would be a different story. Says a lot, doesn’t it.
iced earth, I for one don’t thing there is a shred of truth to any of these stories about De Gea. He is a fantastic talent. Remember 2 years ago when Kuz and Ben Foster were duking it out and many suggested one or the other could take over from VanDerSar. Ha, what a load of crap that was eh.
De Gea is miles ahead. Both Real and Barca would snap him up in a second if United was so stupid as to let him go.
Check out this video of keeper bloopers. Not surprising that the focus is United and Liverpool keepers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksY9Pll3gDM
Talbi 58sec
Barthez 2:15min
Schmeichel 2:25min
Don’t know how Roy Carroll escaped!
Fact is, keepers make mistakes. Game changing mistakes often easier to blame on a keeper than on any one outfield player. Unless his name is Nani HA!
When they are United keepers, they get slagged more than the Club debt.
Keep your socks on and support our player. Bet you a load he is still here come the end of the season.
The one concern that you glean from him is that his girlfriend is still in Madrid and there are reports he doesn’t hand with the lads. Probably bull, but look what getting married has done for Rafael.
FletchTHEMAN
spot on mate
. keepers make mistakes. i think casillas make the same thing to clear the aerial ball in his box every week
Cassillas is alot worse in the air to be honest. He never gets tested because his teams are so dominant in that league. Sure hope we get some high areals into the box v Madrid. Like our chances if we do.
It is easy to criticise goalies as they are an easy target . I must admit I’ve had my doubts about De Gea . But let’s put things into perspective.
He isn’t even 23 until November, at his age I would have been crapping lights at the thought of playing in front of 75000, not to mention some of the hostile away venues, home and abroad.
And let’s be honest, with our defensive injuries and weak midfield, he hasn’t had the best of cover has he ?
Ok, he’s made a few mistakes, but don’t we all ? on the other hand he has made some incredible saves.
If he’s that bad, and I know it’s probably bollocks, but if the rumours are true, why are Real Madrid and Barca showing an interest?
In a couple of years time, De Gea will be hailed as one of the world’s greats.
What the British media are doing to De Gea is terrible and should be illegal. Despite saving our asses from a battering on Sunday people are STILL BLAMING HIM. What the fuck did he do wrong? Lad is only 22 and is already better than majority of the keepers in the premier league and in Europe. No way in hell Fergie is even remotely thinking of letting him go. Why would you let a franchise keeper who could man the goalposts for at least 18 years leave just because some daft fucks in the media are putting pressure on him. We need to give De Gea the support he deserves. He’s a great goalkeeper.
Interesting that you can’t find video of Joe Harts clanger v Sunderland. That gifted the points to the black cats. Now that ladies and gents was all Joe Hart.
Interesting pt Danny, might be a tad racist if you think on it. Best keeper in the world Joe Hart commands english and talks back so never gets blamed for his mistakes.
De Gea gets creamed and doesn’t talk back. Be funny if came out and told those pundits what he thought of them.
Next time he gets in front of a microphone:
DeGea: ” Why don’t ya go ask Joe Hart what it feels like to actually blow a game for your team. He’ll be knowing more about it than I.”
@iced earth
THANK you for the videos and GIFS, amazing stuff.
If it weren’t for DDG we would have been chasing the game from 2-1, so THANK YOU DAVID DE GEA.
as for the ABUS go to sleep, you’re dreaming.
Someone should get a video of Joe Harts bloopers this season.
I was fumed
HOw gary Neville can blame David De Gea, yes he should have punched the ball, btu before that Rafael and Valencia were asleep, Evra didn’t mark his player and Vidic lost his header.
And then Neville blames DeGea? NEvilel should sometimes just shut-up aand be biased!
Like many in skysports! He’s not helping us.
David De Gea, I proudly will say, and have said since he came here, he’s one of the best goalkeepers in the world.
Buffon, Casillas, Neuer, DeGea. Cech, Friedel, Howard, Stekelenburg. Hart. Whatever those abus say.
punched the ball BETTER*
icedearth
degea was one of my favourites but
that video made my day and confirmed my believe in him
anyone who blames him should watch that video.
http://www.footballfriendsonline.com/blogs/2013/1/22/united-would-be-foolish-to-let-de-gea-go-video.html
WATCH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can someone post that video to skysport?
WeAreUnited
cheers mate
Ridiculous to blame DeDea it must be someone elses fault it always is it appears.
i know it seems we arent allowed to mention his name on here but pogbas agent is already buttering him up for a move in the summer!! hes not even 20 and he could be at his 4TH professional club in the summer!!! what ever happened to club loyalty
Saying that, after his displays for juventus id happily take him back, as long as his greedy cunt of an agent pisses off. he would be fantastic in our midfield. all along pogba did mention his dream is to play for united in the 1st team, it seems like hes just being dragged about by his greedy agent to me, i bet if you spoke to him hes actually a nice lad.. greedy, but nice.
..that was difficult to say lol
http://www.bitterandblue.com/2013/1/22/3900554/manchester-city-manchester-united-premier-league?
Just read this article. Shows how overconfident these city fans are. Haha I love it. They think they will beat Liverpool at home and Everton away easily but we will drop points against Norwich here. Love this. Please read you will laugh.
No man, ja don’t have skills
No man, ja don’t have frills.
But man ja looks can kill.
Nemanja murders still.
Nemanja Vidic. He’ll fucking murder ya!
Commitment > Skills
That is what defenders should be about
As for DDG, people forget the good things he do, how he kept us in the game until that point. Yes you could argue that Spurs could have done better with their chances, but a save is a save, so I’m happy he is our keeper. Our defence is not doing him justice. He deserves more clean sheet bonus than he has.
For Pogba, just a last word. Yea he scored a goal or two, great strikes, but please, some people making it sound like he is winning games for Juve all on his own every other day. Not taking anything away from him, but if you want great goals, Gibson had a few for us as well, so I don’t think we miss out on anything, yet
De Gea kept us in the game with some incredible saves.
To get back to the post, Vidic is awesome, one of the best centre-backs we have ever had. We have been shit at heading high balls for the last few years. I am only really comfortable when Vidic is playing.
“What’s that coming over the hill – is it Nemanja!”
@ Fletch 14:16
I have to agree about Streller sitting on Vidic’s knee. Looking at the video it seemed a proper brazilian jujitsu takedown . He held Vida’s hand/wrist and rode down on his knee as Vida tried to pull away. It was dirty as can be. I honestly still want Vida to do a Roy Keane on Streller !
tbh the one person blowing up ddg story is gary neville…hes been dishin out criticism on him for 3 days now,and its been 3-4 times…and i think that cunt has to start shutting up and remember who made him
i saww a vid of how he was showin how vida and the other players were lookin at him (tryna blame david) after the goal,and he was throwing comments right left and centre,its like hes trying to unsettle the team and causing sedition in the dressing room when he knows that confidence is instrumental in davids game
hes getting too big for his boots,and i think fergie needs to come out and give him a piece of mind reminding him just who made him
Is this what being an United fan is all about? Probably the finest right back the club has had and a respected commentator/anylist should shut his gob.He knows fuckall,particularly about defensive work and should remember who made him? Yeah right.
Breaking: A list of EPL players with the most defensive errors includes 3 keepers, none of whom is David De Gea.
I”M SHOCKED
If your listen to Sky our keeper is sh*te!
http://www.eplindex.com/24736/defensive-error-prone-players-premier-league-stats-comparison.html …
LoanStarRed Cheers mate.
I am sad the way Gary Neville criticized our lad, I hope this doesn’t affect his psychology the wrong way.and to be honest, I am afraid the worst for him, Fergie will have some response later, and will probably give another counter hair dryer to the legend;)
You would rather have the views of sycophants/lackspittles than informed opinion?
@parryheid
well he should respect the club and not making nonsense about the goalkeeper and just steer the fire.
HE should be a little biased, cause nobody will remember him as a good commentator if you ask the ABUs, he’ll always be the gary neville who hates his rivals.
He won’t win any votes from anyone, he should be a little biased, and not try to highlight some little errors.
all respect towards him though!
i htink he has started this furore,and just because he was one of the greatest right backs the club has produced it doesnt give him the right to slag off our 22 yr old keep in public and try to cause sedition with in the dressing room.
he has to respect the club,the manager,and the coaches,who made him who he is,i accept when he says we play badly,or criticizes the team performance,but criticizing the leeper,and so blatantly trying to cause friction between some players,on more than one occasion,is so disrespectful to sir alex and the team.
i for one hope fergie kicks him up his backside…and publically.
WeAreUnited,
I don’t think there is any doubt where Gary Nevilles loyalties lie,the very fact he is prepared to criticise earns him respect automatically.But let’s be quite clear we United fans would be creaming ourselves if other teams goalies were patting the ball out for our forwards as regularly as GeGea is doing don’t forget the other one in the same match that was called offside.I wonder if it had been lifted over him would the courage be there to chock it off?.
Chalk.
sorry for my poor grammar there…keeper*within*keeper*(again) think*
CONGRATULATIONS to Bradford City FC!!!
I am with Zigoo on this one
1. All respect to GNevilel for what he has done with us and for the service, great lad.
2. “Just because he was one of the greatest right backs the club has produced it doesnt give him the right to slag off our 22 yr old keep in public and try to cause sedition with in the dressing room.”
3. I also accept when he says we play badly,or criticizes the team performance,
4. Criticizing the Keeper and so blatantly trying to cause friction between some players, on more than one occasion, is so disrespectful to the team
5. He will always be the gary neville who hates his rivals and played for ManUtd.
He did his job, when he played for us, so did RoyKeane, but he slags us off sometimes, is that respectful? every player or ex-player has his backround and agenda, but still, respect the team and the supporters that supported you!
Don’t cause more friction. We have Jamie Redknapp and the other ABU folks for that.
peace.
Parry, you are not exactly fond of de gea, you’ve declared that more often than not. Let’s put it this way, gary neville lambasting de gea won’t be castigated by you. “well informed info”, yeah right, he’s only putting more speed into an already flying bandwagon. I respect neville (legend and all) but united will always come ahead of him and if he thinks supporters won’t back up players against his tirades in the media then he’s got another thing coming.
I don’t mind Gary critisising De Gea. It’s his job after all. The only problem I have with it is that he hasn’t been as critical of Joe Hart after his errors. At Sunderland in particular. Plus, looking back at that Dempsey goal, it was a sequence of errors that led to it. De Gea just happened to be the last to make one. In my opinion, there is a tendency by the media to single out De Gea more than other goalkeepers. Neville probably got caught into that and felt that he had to say something about him.
Anyway, congrats to Bradford. Good luck against Swansea.
Some please post where the did joe hart when he is 22 years old
Benitez will surely add more glorious moments worth savouring repeatedly on youtube.
His repertoire is unparalleled, and he’s only 52. What sequels to ‘fachts’ lay in store?
Marco Materazzi yesterday said: “The Inter that won the treble in 2009-10 was well behaved, hard working, disciplined, knew how to go about things. A great coach, like Jose Mourinho or Lippi, lays down unwritten rules on a squad. But Benitez wanted to have ten or 12 written rules. It was like the highway code or being at school.”
Benitez disagrees somewhat: “He’s lying. Marco Materazzi is lying. He’s lying, just lying. Everything that he said is a lie.”
Seriously sick of seeing the witch-hunt on De Gea in the papers. I usually don’t bother with reading about his poor performances, but they’ve thrown a curveball in – homesickness. De Gea’s still so young, his family / partner are still in Madrid. It is definitely not easy. I’m just hoping the homesickness bit isn’t true, but nobody really knows for sure.
Dont buy the homesick nonsense, so if he had kept a clean sheet then would anyone had talked about being home sick. He just made a mistake and the detractors are taking the opportunity to cause dissaray in our squad. Surely! punditry now includes looking at a face that one defender makes at another after coceding a goal….. thats desperate.
Rumor: Sir Alex was apparently at Celtic Park to watch Victor Wanyama. Tidy player. Probably don’t need to repeat my thoughts about African Cup of Nations, but then, Kenya didn’t qualify.
For those who don’t know the rumor, it has been going around that we were interested in Vic Wanyam for several months and several thought it would be done last fall. He is a strapping 1.88m (6’2″) defensive mid who can cover every inch of grass. Built like Anderson, but on Growth Hormone or somat. Seriously, bet the lad would have weight issues every summer. Don’t let him near Andersons cookin’ anyway.
At any rate, Victor scored a goal last night as well. I will post a link, not because of the goal itself, but have a look at the cacking cross in the build up to the goal.
One has to think that second deep crosser of the ball is what United are lacking when we do the short corner crap that we all hate.
Have a look:
http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/video-sir-alex-ferguson-watches-man-united-target-victor-wanyama-score-for-celtic/
samuel united We stand..
Fondness has nothing to do with it I have never thought he is a EPL standard goalkeeper and people seeming unable/unwilling to look and say he made an arse of that.Seems every game he is patting the ball to our opponents but hey it must be somebody else to blame just like Liverpool supporters.Are we so insular we cannot accept criticism of a player by outsiders? After all with the exception of Van Persie we are slaughtering players from our team weekly.
Richard Keys speculates that Neville might have been given instructions to “nail” De Gea. I guess if anyone knows how Sky operates, it’s someone that used to work there…
Parry – “he’s not an EPL standard keeper”. looking at your comment, i rest my case
samuel united We stand.
is my view regards DeGea new to you?Until he convinces me otherwise it will remain so and believe me his cost wont sway me I think he is an average goalie and that is my prerogative.And as for Gary Neville some what 20 years player and captain at our club do some think he has no idea about after match tensions in the dressing room.Do you think Vidic’s look said Well done DeGea?More like what the fuck but hey rest your case as you have not made your point.
Costas.
Richard Keyes speculates? Too right he does the mucky minded fucker,he also doesnt know what he is talking about period.
@parryheid
Or speaking as someone that worked at Sky for years, he might actually be onto something. Like I said last night, Neville (or the outlet he works for in general) was hardly as critical when Hart cost City the game at Sunderland.
Not denying De Gea made a mistake. But so did other United players in those dying minutes. If Neville wants to blame it all on that one mistake, it’s his prerogative. He’s wrong in my opinion.
Costas.
Keyes jointly runs a radio show so anything he says is agenda driven imo.I think you are the first to confirm he made a mistake and I am aware others did also throughout the match.Just seems to me all or most of the posters are only to keen to give a free pass to the one individual,not good enough.Regards other keepers,big difference is our goalie is a vastly overpriced record signing and naturally get more scrutiny and desevedly so.
And where is Smart Alec,get yourself back here man.
@parryheid
Of course I am no expert on goalkeepers, but yeah, I felt it was an error by De Gea at that moment. But I can see the confilct some fans might have when a player has been good for the majority of the game and then does something like that in the end. It’s hard to judge him.
It’s also not uncommon for fans to disagree on who to blame. We also had that issue when Chelsea equalized in injury time at the League cup game. Others blamed Wootton for the penalty, others blamed Nani for surrending possession 30 seconds earlier and others blamed the midfield for not closing them down. For me, in instances like that, you have to equally blame everyone involved. It’s a sequence of players not doing their job properly with one poor bastard being the last to do so. When United conceded Michu’s goal at Swansea, it was mentioned that the defending was average. No one singled out Evra for going asleep in the buildup for that goal. Don’t see why it should be any different with any other poorly defended goal we concede. If a goal is stricly De Gea’s fault, then by all means he should be critisised harshly.
Costas
no dispute with the points you mention,if there is a fuck up you accept and move on,problem is some want to deflect any blame whatsoever away from the person mentioned.For why I dont know but that’s life.
No I agree on Nev. He has become a fucking prick since arse licking those cunts at Sky. Quinn makes no bones about slagging United and being biased to City so perhaps Gaz could do the same and side with United. With Tyler et al there are enough abu cunts on Sky then you have Neville sticking the boot in. Never forget his reaction at the tranny’s goal that night in the Nou Camp.
Costas and samuel – Spot on lads. No Nev won’t slag that over rated toff cunt Hart as he is part of Nev’s Ingerlund contingent.
Got a huge amount of respect for Neville as a player and as a pundit. Don’t actually have a huge problem with him hammering De Gea….coz at the end of the day, he’s paid to give his opinions. Same thing happened last season when Keane hammered some of our players…..people on here were complaining, but not me, coz Keane has every right to give his opinion.
BUT, I will agree with the Joe Hart thing. IMO, Neville gives him wayy too much of a free pass. Barely gives him any stick at all.
I’ll rather listen to this guys opinion than gary Nevilles.
@King Eric SPOT ON!
“He has become a fucking prick since arse licking those cunts at Sky. Quinn makes no bones about slagging United and being biased to City so perhaps Gaz could do the same and side with United. With Tyler et al there are enough abu cunts on Sky then you have Neville sticking the boot in. Never forget his reaction at the tranny’s goal that night in the Nou Camp.”
I understand that he’s doing his job, and righlty so, but so mention Vidic’s reaction and Welbecks etc, he’s making a fool of our team.
DeGEa made a little mistake, but without him it would have been 2-1 earlier! Vidic didn’t win the header and Rafael and Valencia didn’t close down. So wh oto blame?
The team and the tactics to play defensively I say! If you play that defensively, what do you expect? a Golden 3 points?
Anyway, Gary Neville should continue how he critisized our gameplay, but SHUT UP when it’s about one player or giving inside ManUtd tour for free in his comment.
It’s not his business, some respect for the supporters and the team! No one eelse going to slagg their own ex-team!
I’ll rather listen to this guys opinion than gary Nevilles.***
Gordon Banks
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-united-england-world-cup-1551673
He’s only got One yack.
You state you would rather have anothers opinion than Gary Nevilles? Wouldn’t you rather just use your own eyes,you state it would have been 2 -1 but for the DeGea save earlier I assume you are meaning the shot that hit his leg when he dived.Are you seriously telling me you thought that was other than a lucky hit on his leg.and while we are at it what gives with the trying to use his legs for meat and drink saves.
@parryheid you just pushing it, you know that.
When it comes to goalkeeping I’ll trust a goalkeepers opinion more than Gary Neville’s,
THIS MEANS, and be with me: I’ll rather listen to this guys opinion than gary Nevilles when it comes for opinions about goalkeepers! Like for example, if I became a manager, and there would be GaryNeville and SAF, I would rather listen SAF than GaryNeville, and this has nothing to do with my eyes.
Another example, If I would be a Welbeck and there would be RVP and GaryNeville, I would rather listen to RVP for goalscoring advises than GaryNeville. YOU GET THE PICTURE??? or do I have to use another example?
GaryNeville should SHUT UP, and not critisise our players, when he avoids JoeHart. Next time he will make an inside tour to OT by filming what is happening there, just that people would like him as a pundit.
Be reasonable, you just being to be dramatic. You are the one who is going on that bandwagon of DeGea being bad and not me.
He made 2 great saves, you say they were lucky, well if you have really watched our games this season with your own eyes and last season, you would notice that everytime when he’s 1on1 he comes as a winner.
HE never just dives, he waits for the attacker to make his move, that’s why he comes as a winner.
Sometimes, it’s lucky, but when you think about it, it’s not. Because when you are 1on1 it’s either him or you. The job of a goalkeeper is to save our asses, and if you can’t appreciate it. Believe whatever you want.
AND THAT’s A RAFA BENITEZ FACT for you.
get over it, you will be the one eating your words.
If I would be Welbeck, means being in his position.
Cause you obviously grab only the words you like and sounds good for you to make an argument.
“You state you would rather have anothers opinion than Gary Nevilles? Wouldn’t you rather just use your own eyes”
this is so delusional haha
when you have nothing to good to say, better say nothing.
You saying that just for the sake of an argument.
ridiculous mate.
WeAreUnited.
Defend to the death.pointless waste of effort you cant see what’s in front of you like a nuber of others you think fan/pundits are critical because it’s a United player?Wake up man.
parry
look, I never said, he hasn’t make mistakes, did I, I am just saying, if it wasn’t for him we would have lost the game 2-1.
No it’s not just because he’s another United player, though it has alot to do with that also, cause if you’re not a nuber like you called me, you would realise that.
I will defend him to the death cause he’s an exeptional keepr, if you can’t see it, well you have to wait for 5-10 years when he’s off.
So good luck for you.
btw. you never answered in my arguments, like I did in yours, but you just live in denial.
peace.
number of others*
I meant, like I think you also
WeAreUnited.
Ah you noticed the missing M then.I dont see any point you have madeI have missed. Clearly you have a higher opinion of DEGea ability than I and increasingly more observers of him do.And that’s your prerogative.peace man
@parry yeah I noticed the M haha, firstly I was wondering what the.. is a nuber, cause english is not my first language, then you can see that minute later I got it
back to business, I know you are being sarcastic and I don’t mind on that.
I have been a bit arrogant with my opinion, but I am only trying to tell my opinion and not dismiss yours, though it might sound like that.
What irritates me is that GNeville, our legend, instead of bringing other things into account, he goes and points out DeGea, who should have done better, but there were more in that situation than meets the eye. Secondly he tries to implie that our players have a grudge against DDG after that.
It might be, and GNeville has been there inside that locker room, and that’s more of a reason why he should keep his mouth SHUT, because he’s making us look stupid and the ABU’s loves it. Like I said earlier Next time GNev will make an inside tour to OT by filming what is happening there, just that people would like him as a pundit. Why not talk about JoeHart ( though we know the reason)
Then there’s people jumpin on that bandwagon of DeGea’s critisism, which is all the time, pundits and some supporters.
Like it or not, and you should know this as a United supporter, that there are certain people and they are alot of them, that bash our team and tries to bring us down by critisising our players and being biased. IF you can’t see that , it will let me wondering.
We have of course in some occasions our red tinted glasses, and we have been sometimes favoured, but so are many others, and the truth is that we really are under the microscope and many of them are biased towards us.
peace mate!
WeAreUnited.
This is a blog and all about oponions yours and mine both,in some ways yours is much stronger than mine on all things DEGea but I can live with that and I am pretty sure you can live with mine also.Maybe not agree but that’s no big Wow.cheers man.
agree to disagree
cheers!