Some areas of the press have today claimed that Nemanja Vidic’s Manchester United future is in doubt after he “refused” to play against Leeds on Sunday, despite taking part in the warm up.
It makes sense with rumours mounting over Vidic’s supposed unhappiness in Manchester.
Unless you read the interview with Vidic from the weekend, before the Leeds game, where he talks about the greatness of our club and manager.
“When I came to England I struggled to adapt to the speed and intensity of the Premier League,” he said. “But the manager made me believe in myself. I will always remember one conversation we had. He came up to me and said: ‘Vida, I brought you to Manchester United because I know you are good enough to be one of the top defenders in the world – and I am never wrong!’ When someone shows that faith in you it is amazing. That is why I owe him so much. The great thing about this club is that there are winners everywhere.”
So could it possibly be that Vidic felt a niggle in the pre-match warm up and between Sunday just before kick-off and Sunday just after kick-off, the manager hadn’t been informed of what it was?
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Players pull out of games with niggling injuries all the time. More winding up from the tabloids. Considering Vidic has been out injured its hardly that unlikely he may tweak something pre-match.
The post match reaction by Sir Alex didnt seem to encouraging, saying something along the lines of I couldnt tell you. If it was an injury get well soon Vida, if however you thought it below yourself to play Leeds (completely understandable – fucking sheep shaggers) and its resulted in a lost then thankyou for your service and good bye. Unless someone at OT tells us what happened or he plays against City I supose well never know.
It might have been a genuine “niggle” but we might have another Louis Saha on our hands. “Ohhh boss, my head is not right… I’m feeling my hamstring… I’m not 100%… I don’t want to take a chance…”
What’s he saving himself for? The World Cup or his move to Spain? Probably both. Hardman my arse.
He has been great player for us but his form has been deteriorating since about midway through last season. His mind is obviously elsewhere and I just hope Sir Alex is allowed to reinvest the money we get for him in new players. If we get about £30m for him we’ll have sold two of our best players for a combined £110m. Add that to the alleged £20m-per-season transfer budget and the supposed £25m we saved on Tevez, and we should be able to make some important signings this summer, to say the least. So why am I not convinced?
Then there is the message it sends out to the likes of Real and Barca: United are easy pickings. Who else do you want? Evra? Rooney? The Da Silva twins? They’re all yours for the right price!
I pray I’m wrong.
We need to rethink our defensive lineup. That’s what I feel about it.
Fergie’s “I am NEVER wrong” fucking astounds me, the man doesn’t seem to know himself! I can think of quite a good few times he has got it wrong – even though there are the many times he has got it right – NOBODY is infallible SAF, nobody!
So could it possibly be that Vidic felt a niggle in the pre-match warm up and between Sunday just before kick-off and Sunday just after kick-off, the manager hadn’t been informed of what it was?
In a nutshell, no. If he pulled out for whatever reason, the manager would have been told.
If he wants to go then let him go, nobody’s bigger than the club.
Deja Vu! I can see most people are thinking the same thing.. he’s going to do a Ronaldo!
Hi to Scott and all. Happy new year!!!
Big Bad Wesley Brown I totally agree with what you have said and I also hope we´re wrong. But, unfortunately, I am beginning to have my doubts and I´m getting increasingly concerned with the way things are going.
We´re not in form and I agree with you Scott that we have had LOADS of problems with injuries. But we´re not. Scott, I´d like to know what you think about all the chopping and changing around, ignoring all the injuries, if you can. I´v just never been comfortable with the amount if changes from one game to another even when there are few injuries.
And lastly to ISAIDSO – I think it is SAF´s way of boosting the guys confidence.
No matter what the problem might be, it’s not a good omen when a player pulls out of warm ups. We went throught the same kind of thing with Ferdinand and Saha. If he is having trouble getting over his injuries, then the medical stuff will take a look into it and figure if he needs to rest more. If he is having a problem with his wife moaning, then I suggest that he takes a page out of Van Der Sar’s play book. The lad is already returning to Manchester.
I agree with rubito, I’m worried about the ever increasing tinkering. Some is necessitated by injury, of course, but every time we seem to have a settled team it gets changed and no system or formation ever quite has time to bed in. Sometimes new tactical formations (the woeful back-3 at Fulham) are seemingly improvised on a whim, with disatrous consequences.I know players from top to bottom of the club are trained to enable them to fit in with the United way, but too often in recent weeks players seem uncertain of their role. Some of the bad results are certainly down to absenses through injury or lack of match fitness among those actually playing, but beyond that there’s a worrying pattern of errors through on-pitch communication failures. That’s where the older players like Neville , Scholes and Giggs should have had key roles to play, but in the case of the first two they failed lamentably , Neville against Leeds, Scholes against Fulham. We can’t keep expecting Giggs to rescue us with his unique composure and eye for the penetraing ball. The other thing that really bothers me is that in the really BIG matches, the ones we care more than any other – Barca, Liverpool, Leeds, (City??) – United seem paralysed by fear or caution or lack of passion, or collective failure of nerve. We seem to have lost that indomitable spirit in the face of adversity. All those 1-0 defeats this season fall into a pattern where any neutral spectator would say United no longer look as though they believe they can retrieve the situation. I’m tremendously sad that we’re out of the FA Cup, which has alaways meant a lot to me, and it’s even more galling to see the hated Leeds tip us out. It makes it worse to see people writing up Leeds prospects – a’turning point’ in their fortunes etc – at United’s expense.We must keep it all in perspective however: United have problems but we are still well-placed in the Premiership, we’re through to the next stages of the Champs Lge, and we’re in the semis of the Lge Cup. It’s still all to play for, but some of the players need to take more responsibility for the team and re-discover that immense Will-to-Win that has won us so many trophies. It’s there, lads, let’s see it again. Starting on Wednesday…
Oh, Fergie saying ‘I’m never wrong!’ was clearly a joke fellas.
Another thing that I wanted to add is that this season we go 1-0 behind a lot. More times than any other season I can remember. I think yesterday was the 13th time it has happened this season. This can be attributed to our defensive problems and the fact that we enter most games in a relaxed manner.
I fear “only God” knows Vidic’s future.
Costas, that goes to show that our attack has not been up to scratch. Look at our defeats to Villa, Fulham, Liverpool, Leeds, Burnley and Chelsea. We barely even looked like scoring in any of those games.
ferdinad should be sold in the summer not vidic. no offence but ferdinand is way to injury prone vidic seems to be now but I think vidic has anothor year in him at united
if he didnt want to play, why did he show up to the game? if he didnt want to play he could have told a lie from the start..
Have to agree with Giles and the lads about the tinkering.Does anybody realise,yesterday was Fergie’s 100th consecutive game to pick a different line up.Fuck me,if the FSW did that,we’d all be laughing ourselves silly.
Unfortunately,I also share BBWB and Rubito’s fears as regards funds or the lack of them.We are increasingly looking like a feeder club to Vulgar Madrid,totally paralysed by Glazers debt.I’m just throwing my toys out the window cos we lost a few games but I believe our success the past 3 seasons has masked the financial disaster our club is now in.Everything we have done is despite Glazer and even though most people don’t want to hear this,we are missing Ronaldo badly and bad times are quite possibly ahead……….
Sorry for being so negative but I’m calling it as I see it.Depite all this I still believe
rooney: “ferdinad should be sold in the summer not vidic.”
Rio has no value unless – and until – he can prove himself to be reliable. Vidic’s value, in contrast, is probably at the highest level it would ever be. You might want to read my other post today on Vidic, for my further comments on this subject.
If he does not want to play for United, he should then fuck off. As simple as!!!!
A little unrest in the red camp !
Just because you were beaten by a league one team who have forgotten
what its like to play in front of seventy thousand fans.
Man Utd are a great Team, Fergies done a brilliant job, But the Glasier Guys I reckon they are the problem.
Sunday was just a blip – it happens
I am a life long Leeds fan, Call me what you want. But Leeds ended up where they are today because of money men – Man Utd are now saddled with a massive debt thanks to the Glasiers – I really hope that doesn’t stop them carrying on their fantastic achievements…
Whatever you want to call us – Old Trafford on Sunday had a fabulous atmosphere – and 9000 sh -shs – call us what you want – contributed massively to that – Win lose or draw – I relish the game being a regular fixture .
You still have a great team…
Stoff with these over reactions. He most likely had a niggle, end of story. He is a true RED, so why make up thinks and get our knickers in a knot???? Lets wait and see what really transpired.
denton davey – well vidic now if he leaves because of the city and the weather I will put him in my new list which has ronaldo I have made up which is called the football snob list.
You have to consider the fact that vida has been injured a lot this season, and has kept coming back and then picking up niggles and missing more games. If he did feel that something wasnt quite right, and he didnt want to risk further injury, who are we to hold that against him?
If he had played, picked up an injury that would keep him out for another 2/3 weeks, and then said ‘ i felt something in the warm up but thought id play anyway’, then we’d be saying why did he risk further injury when we have barely any fit defenders?
Players pick up small strains etc in warm ups and dont want to risk it in the games. it happens. Schmeichel did the same thing in a new years day game in the 90′s at white hart lane, leaving us i think with Kevin Pilkington in goals in a game we went on to lose 4-1.
If we believe everthing we read in the tabloids then Rooney and Evans are off to Madrid, Vidic to madrid/barca, carrick back to spurs, scholes to oldham, Evra to Barca, VDS retiring, Foster to Spurs/anywhere, Coupled with the fact that hargo and rio will never play again and we have no money to replace any of these players.
Yesterday was an appaling performance, and we are all understandably livid, but lets not start jumping to masive conclusions based and tabloid speculation
Well Sir Alex’s post match comment that he “didn’t know” what was wrong with Vida is concerning, although he was probably too involved in preparing the team to enquire about Vida’s injury/disinclinaion to play.
I think this is just the press wanting to magic another ‘scandal’ but, in the unlikely event it’s true, fuck off Vida!
Some o youse need to get a grip, or fuck off n put ur post on Twitter. U talk shite. Would fergie lie, or was he more pissed off about losing. Until then, shut the fuck up second guessing. Vida is a major player for us n has historically stated his intentions. So until he hits back on his words some of u should wait on before second guessing any intentions
Typo. Goes back on his words
Seriously, we are all upset about Sunday but let’s stay focused here. Do we not think that it is possible that he thought he could play but didn’t feel like he could in warmups and that the staff didn’t think that they should risk injuring him in a match against a League 1 team with Citeh coming up next week? Just relax, this will work itself out.
You could see that not many of the coaching staff knew what was going on in the warm-up with Vida. When I got to the ground the TV’s in the concourse were showing footage of Vida warming up but when I got to my seat 20mins before the game he was no where to be seen. One of the coaching staff came out of the tunnel and went to say something to Wes, they then went to complete a tougher warm-up. During this Rene and the fitness coach came over to ask what Wes was doing, so it seems that the coaching staff on the pitch didn’t know about Vida and if Sir Alex was doing interviews or dealing with other pre-match things he was probably only told there was a problem but not what the root of the problem was.
I cant believe that so many Man United suppoters are doubting Nemanja on the say so of the press.
When will you realise that these journalists have no real qualification to report on football? All they have is a degree in journalism and no desire to report the facts with integrity. 80-90% of the time that you read “a source says” in a newspaper the source is another journalist, thats how they get thier “sources” two journo’s in a pub making up stories. IT happens time and time again.
I can remember TWICE reading headlines in the tabloids that Shearer had signed for united. I can remember that Stevie me had signed for the rentboys. I can remember bout 10 years ago that a deal had been done for our boy Giggsy to sign for Inter that summer, and the list goes on…….
These drunken toffs with over active imaginations and a total disregard for the truth try with all thier might to create a story to sell newspapers, they have no intentention of reporting the news, reporting the news does not sell newspapers.
Trust our manager
Trust his players
For fucks sake he’s earned it
C’MON UNITED
i am really hoping that this is the press saying much ado about nothing, like someone else mentioned on here it is starting to sound like a deja vu of last summer/yr – just with a different player. There are just too many sources by too many media outlets for all off them to be feeding off nothing – trouble is us fans don’t know if the sharks caught wind of a drop of blood or a full wack corpse in the water so it sound like we won’t have a definite clue of what is/isn’t going down till the summer. personally i can’t go through another season with one of our players where the press say one thing, the player in question and club say another and come the summer the media get all smug as they are proved correct and then you end up wondering how long the ‘fibbing’ has been going on when club/player releases statements aimed towards us fan. If we are due more misery in terms of losing fan favourites, please mufc line up a replacement to sign on in the summer then release a club statement saying that this current season will be the players last. building up a fans hope that a player is staying then knocking them down like the situ with 2 (former) players of utd is just cruel. on a personal note i hope vidic stays till at least the end of his current contact and i hope that these stories coming out from some sources that he ‘refused’ (if for an invalid reason) to play are untrue -if true what club would want a player who there was a chance that they would refuse to play if they were upset about a every little thing (vidic though doesn’t sound like a player who’d throw a strop or refuse to play even if he is unhappy – he seems like the type in all situ’s to just get on with it unless he actually physically can’t) but if we do sell working to the theory “one’s enemy enemy is ones friend”, please sell to barca (milan, bayern, liverpool…. come to think of it which big clubs in european football have real not made enemies of!) so we don’t have to endure another summer of those cocky central spanish sods how they can buy any play they want, how there’re the greatest and will win everything – it’s bad enough already!
can’t believe a United website is dignifying this crap with a response
Whether he was injured or not i stil love the man in our defence though with all these rumours, there must be some truth in them. Jonny Evans needs to step up big time and lead our defence in the years to come not to forget Corry & Reece. Loyalty in this business is slowly becoming a myth.
no one seems to have picked up on the fact that Vidic intentionally or not is not cup tied, lets hope agents haven’t done deals for big wages at citeh or chelski etc?, looked like Vidic was going in the summer but didn’t, he keeps saying the right things to the press for our ears but is he really content or has he been got at with promise of big dough, after all he’s only playing for the money