otfgoon wrote:

Your English is really coming along mate.

😆

i'm not so sure about the idea of Fellaini blossoming into a great defensive mid. i was watching their game against Southampton this week. one of the Southampton mids went past Fellaini like he wasn't there and that left Rio et al completely exposed. Fellaini was standing in front of him, but instead of meeting him full-on or putting in a foot or elbow, he rotated his body to give the opponent a free path. was very mediocre defense.

Fellaini is an attacking midfielder. not a defensive one. United are in for a lot of hurt if they think they can put him in midfield to bomb from deep or sit like Arteta.

Fellaini started the season well for Everton as a normal CM, passing the ball short and simple and doing well defensively. It's all about the manager he plays for.

Volante wrote:

Fellaini started the season well for Everton as a normal CM, passing the ball short and simple and doing well defensively. It's all about the manager he plays for.

same manager he's played for since he came to England.

Ferguson on Lampard: "Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn’t think of him as an elite international footballer"

Fergie says now friendly with Wenger but in early days 'he [AW] would fix in his mind idea that no-one should actually be tackling his boys'

Fergie on Wenger: 'When you acquire [Nasri, Arshavin, Rosicky] they are almost clones. The team he inherited gave him a start in England'

Keane fuming at Fergie on ITV 😆

Said Fergie doesn't know the meaning of Loyalty.

wrighty and dixon were laughing during that segment apparently. legends

😆 And Keane does, walking out on his country during the world cup?

Fergie was also told what he thought of Mark Bosnich

"Mark Bosnich was a terrible professional,"

"We played down at Wimbledon and Bosnich was tucking into everything: sandwiches, soups, steaks. He was going through the menu.

"I told him, `For Christ's sake, Mark, we've got the weight off you. Why are you tucking into all that stuff?'

"We arrived back in Manchester, and Mark was on mobile phone to a Chinese restaurant to order a takeaway.

"Is there no end to you?

😆 Aussies will find this especially funny as Bosnich (who tbf is a good pundit) is forever lauding Fergie, even calling for him to be appointed coach of Australia for the world cup.

Poor Bozza probably just had the drug induced munchies.

😆 Bosnich isn't a bad pundit but fuck knows what he was thinking suggesting Ferguson as Australian coach for the WC, that was pure nonsense and he knew it.

Seems its all fairly petty from Fergie. Par for the course with him.

The bitterly funny thing for me is the contradiction between his insistence that "no one is bigger than the club" and "at a club, no one is more important than the manager".

What comes out in the wash is that he obviously thinks he's bigger than Manchester United. Absolute prick, and it sounds like this book is just a rampage of bad taste and zero class.

It just clarifies everything we knew about him. He has no class and no values.

In Bergkamps books he says Wenger told him there are people who serve the game and people who want the game to serve them. For all Fergies talent as a manager he's most certainly in that second camp and its why I despise him (you can apply the same to Mourinho).

Yeah I agree with both of you, Bosnich had a drug problem and that's why his career was shortened but he seems to have matured and gotten his act together,
It seems extraordinairly petty (but still funny) that a manager that's held in such high esteem worldwide would stoop to taking swipes at individual players.
As regards the game serving them thing, Wenger has also done very well out of it, all successful managers will become extremely wealthy well respected figures.

Fergie could've at least repaired his reputation for being a dickhead after retirement (he certainly could've stayed quiet, at least), and then at least people might've thought..."Great manager, bit of a twat but he did what he did to win..." etc.... you'll find a lot of fans thinking Gary Neville is not just a complete 'nobhead' any more. But after this, it's quite clear that Fergie is just a shit person in general.

Fergie put under pressure here. Now the media finally have a go at him. When he was managing, he could do no wrong.

Who cares about politics though. This is about footy so keep it on footy. The capitalist contradiction was funny however.

Also it's true he fell out with so many players.

Patters wrote:

Fergie put under pressure here. Now the media finally have a go at him. When he was managing, he could do no wrong.

shoulda put on a manc accent and said

"you know nothing Jon Snow"

Is Wenger trying to wind Moyes up? 🙂

'In six months we’ll know more about that,' Wenger responded to reporters who asked whether Ferguson could return to Old Trafford.
'You cannot rule it out completely. Its difficult to take a drug for 30 years and suddenly get rid of it.'

Read a fair chunk of SAF's autobiography and it's not half as controversial as has been portrayed bu the media. In fact, overall it's a massive waste of time and I feel for anyone who paid for it. Not much that we didn't already know about.

Ferguson has to be one of the most boring characters to ever release a biography.

Bergkamp aint much of a personality either, heard his book was rubbish. I'll have to read it myself though.

Volante wrote:

Bergkamp aint much of a personality either, heard his book was rubbish. I'll have to read it myself though.

Get a prozzie to read it to you

Yeah, I think that football biographies in general tend to suck. Vinnie Jones' book was surprisingly good though.

Those sort of characters seem to have the best anecdotes. Apparently Bellamy's book is quality.

Klaus wrote:

Yeah, I think that football biographies in general tend to suck. Vinnie Jones' book was surprisingly good though.

Did a prozzie read it to you?

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
Volante wrote:

Bergkamp aint much of a personality either, heard his book was rubbish. I'll have to read it myself though.

Get a prozzie to read it to you

'Volly, me speaky no ingles'

You have them call you 'Volly', DaG?