Andrei Arshavin (Russia) Arsenal
Karim Benzema (France) Olympique Lyon then Real Madrid
Iker Casillas (Spain) Real Madrid
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) Manchester United then Real Madrid
Diego (Brazil) Werder Bremen then Juventus
Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast) Chelsea
Edin Dzeko (Bosnia) VfL Wolfsburg
Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon) Barcelona then Inter Milan
Cesc Fabregas (Spain) Arsenal
Fernando Torres (Spain) Liverpool
Diego Forlan (Uruguay) Atletico Madrid
Steven Gerrard (England) Liverpool
Ryan Giggs (Wales) Manchester United
Yoann Gourcuff (France) Bordeaux
Thierry Henry (France) Barcelona
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden) Inter Milan then Barcelona
Andres Iniesta (Spain) Barcelona
Julio Cesar (Brazil) Inter Milan
Kaka (Brazil) AC Milan then Real Madrid
Frank Lampard (England) Chelsea
Maicon (Brazil) Inter Milan
Lionel Messi (Argentina) Barcelona
Luis Fabiano (Brazil) Sevilla
Franck Ribery (France) Bayern Munich
Wayne Rooney (England) Manchester United
John Terry (England) Chelsea
Nemanja Vidic (Serbia) Manchester United
David Villa (Spain) Valencia
Xavi (Spain) Barcelona
Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast) Barcelona

There’s no award that Ronaldo has left out this year and this one had no way to snatch out of his hand.United’s Crisitiano Ronaldo has been named as Fifa Pro Footballer of the year after beating the list of 54 veterans who were one of the strongest in their team.

The list consists of 55 players including fellow team mates Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand.The Fifa Pro Organization consists of about more than 57000 members and it was the majority who voted Ronaldo as the winner.

His last season play of 42 goals lead United to win Premier League and CL trophy,also beating G.Best record of most goals in one season.

Ronaldo is also the possible candidate to win this year’s Fifa World Player of the Year award and the Ballon d’Or.

A team of 11 players was also selected by FIFAPro community after picking players from different divisions.Rio Ferdinand and C.Ronaldo were the ones representing United.

Goalkeeper: Iker Casillas (Spain/Real Madrid)

Defenders: Sergio Ramos (Spain/Real Madrid); John Terry (England/Chelsea); Carles Puyol (Spain/ Barcelona); Rio Ferdinand (England/Manchester United)

Midfielders: Steven Gerrard (England/Liverpool); Xavi (Spain/Barcelona); Kaka (Brazil/AC Milan).

Forwards: Lionel Messi (Argentina/Barcelona); Fernando Torres (Spain/Liverpool); Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/Manchester United)

Gary has been out since last May and has been suffering from multiple injuries.United though, has a set team in defense its hard time now for Gary to return into his place.Danny Simpson and Brown both have improved a lot after Gary absense.I recommend Gary to still take rest for another 2-3 weeks and return back with bang like or Scholesy did.I still suggest that right the team is perfectly biased and any changes in squad can unbalance things.For example,if Gary returns back, he wont be that fit or equally fit compared to Brown.So he might reduce the attack speed at flanks.

Saha has also returned back into first team and now we hardly have any injured in beds.So its all know working on our sides.

Lets see how will Fergie figures and takes Gary.

Ryan Playing out his 100 UFEA appearance and still many to come from him,he indeed stands out as United’s loyal servant.

Reaching another milestone and still doesn’t care to end,Ryan Giggs seems to have conquered every goal.He has been with United since 1990 and has tasted every bitter and sweet game.Playing more than 743 matches and scoring 136 goals i would play every game with golden boots to show my worth but he hasnt.

Full Name : Ryan Joseph Giggs OBE

DOB: 29 Nov 1973

Appearances: 734

Goals : 136

With United since 1990

Manchester United (1990-present)

• FA Premier League – Champion (9): 1992-93, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2002-03, 2006-07
• FA Premier League – Runner Up: 1994-95, 1997-98, 2005-06
• FA Youth Cup Winner: 1992
• FA Cup Winner (4): 1994, 1996, 1999, 2004
• FA Cup Runner Up: 1995, 2005, 2007
• League Cup Winner (2): 1992, 2006
• League Cup Runner Up: 1994, 2003
• Community Shield Winner (6): 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007
• Community Shield Runner Up: 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004
• UEFA Champions League Winner: 1998-99
• UEFA Super Cup Winner: 1991
• UEFA Super Cup Runner Up: 1999
• Intercontinental Cup: 1999

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• Barclays Premiership Player of the Month: August, 2006, February 2007.
• Intercontinental Cup Man of the Match: 1999
• Manchester United Players Player of the Year Award: 2005/2006^{[citation needed]}
• U-21 European Footballer of the Year: (1993)^{[citation needed]}
• Wales Player of the Year Award: 1996, 2006
• Inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame: 2005
• Inducted into the Premiership Team of the Decade: 2003^{[citation needed]}
• Inducted into the FA Challenge Cup Team of the Century: 2006^{[citation needed]}
• Only Manchester United player to have played in all 9 Premiership title winning teams; also a record of English title holders overall
• Only Manchester United player to have played in both League Cup winning teams
• Only player to have scored in 12 consecutive Champions League tournaments
• Along with Gary Speed, the only player to have scored in every Premier League campaign since its inception
• Member of PFA Team of the Year: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2007
• OBE for services to football

We salute this man for all his noble plays and games.

Van der Sar has played all the games so far, 7 in the Premiership and the UCL game in Lisbon. VDS had come in in the line of fire after some errors at the end of last season. The tall Dutch international has this year been a role player and a rock in our system.
Although rarely tested during the Community Shield against Chelsea, VDS was our hero when he won the trophy for us by stopping 3 penalties.
VDS, backed by an awesome defense so far, has mostly only been tested by long range shots and always stood solid. EVDS made the difference in last week’s UCL game with two brilliant world class saves.

EVDS has hardly ever been caught on an error in this season so far, although one could say he might have done more with Citeh’s goal, but deflected shots always are hard for a keeper. As known, VDS has ruled on both long distance shots and in the air and kept 5 consecutive clean sheets.

The value of VDS for the team can’t be better worded than Giggs did it some days ago

He has a calming effect on the whole team because he doesn’t make that many mistakes. He has been doing it for so long now, you take it for granted

Today was a rather bitter day for our junior squad ManU. We were eliminated mercilessly by Coventry in the Carling Cup. Sadly I didn’t have the opportunity to view the game and can’t say much about the game.

SAF’s bet to start with no senior player has proven to be an expensive one. The quadruple won’t be for this year. Period.

Our starting eleven: Kuszczak, O’Shea, Bardsley, Pique, Simpson, Evans, Eagles, Martin Dong, Nani and Anderson. At half time Brown and Campbell replaced respectively Bardsley and Martin. 10 Minutes later Carrick came replaced Evans.

Coventry won 0 – 2, Mifsud scored both goals.

He is a talent, but if you look at the European Championship in Portugal and the current tournament in the Netherlands – Nani has not shown any progress.

Therefore I think Manchester United have paid too much money for a player who has talent, but has not developed since last year.

But what De Visser seems to forget is that there’s a huge difference between Chelsea and ManU. Chelsea buys stars and they perform or don’t perform. No matter if they are over paid or not. Look at the best performing players at Chelsea : except for Lamps and Terry, they all have been very expensive players, in the range of 20million and above.
Others are highly under performing. Just to mention some, SWP, Robben, Ballack, Sheva. Chelsea doesn’t grow players. They perform or they don’t.

But here at ManU, we buy talents and then Sir Alex and Queiroz start working them. Turn them in to world class players. We know how to get the best out of players. Examples are numerous.

Becks.
Rio has grown into a world class player.
Rooney, who gets better every season. And always learns to do more, more than just score. He’ll become deadly in the box, but most of all he’s growing in to the role of a player who can cover the whole pitch wisely. Not like in his first 2 years at Old Trafford when he ran over the whole ground and one wondered why he was at that spot now.
Cristiano. Cristiano was a talent. Nothing more. An expensive talent. Fergie made one of the world’s best players out of him.
Ruud was a talent. He became world’s deadliest striker at Old Trafford. Performing well in The Netherlands doesn’t make you a worldwide fear, just look at Kezman’s performance at Chelsea.
Giggs was a talent.
Both Neville brothers were.
No one knew who Vidic was, today he’s among the world’s defensive elite, together with Rio and Neville.

I could go on for hours with more examples. Fact is, we buy young talents and grow them, turn them in to world’s elite. And then one day, they move on. That’s when Roman, Jose and Chelsea come in play : they want to buy the best players. We make them. Young talents at Chelsea fail.
I’m sure Robben would perform a lot better if he were managed by Fergie. ;-)

It was poetry in motion for Rooney as he executed a goal on a perfect assist coming from Paul Scholes. The hard earned win was evident as emphatically stated by Rooney after the game. They now carry the momentum going into the second leg next Wednesday in the Champions League decider in San Siro.

“It’s a great feeling,” he told ITV Sport. “It was a difficult match but when it got late we kept going. We knew the victory would make it a little bit easier for the away leg. And to get a goal in the last minute is a great feeling.

“It was fantastic. At 2-1 behind at half-time against a very good Milan team, we knew it would be difficult to get the win. The manager told us too keep pushing, keep going and we’ll get the goals, and we did.” –Rooney relieved by winner

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Saha is recuperating from a hamstring strain injury and may be a doubtful starter on their Tuesday game against Sheffield United at Old Trafford. O’Shea on the other hand suffered a calf injury in their last game against Roma.

“John didn’t train on Friday,” confirmed Sir Alex Ferguson at his pre-match press conference. “But hopefully he will be OK for Saturday. Patrice Evra came in at right-back on Tuesday and did very well.”

If it is any consolation, Paul Shoes will be back from serving a suspension and will be able to play. But Fergusson is weary that at this stage of the tournament, adjustments to the winning ways of the Reds may prove to be costly for where they have accomplished by this time.

“My other decision is that Paul Scholes is back from suspension. Changing a winning team is very difficult after the way they performed against Roma. But Paul’s experience could be important in a semi-final.”

Another doubtful player is that of Gary Neville who will still be out for another week. While he was reportedly going to be ready by the time they face Sheffield, Fergusson doubts the healing time and would rather not risk aggravating injuries of his player’s careers. Call it a spade of bad luck!

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“He’s been on fire this season, his form has been unbelievable. For someone in his position and of his age to be as consistent as he has been is remarkable.”

“There is no-one who can rival him as the best in the world at the moment,” he added. “He’s improved as a player, but he’s continuing to improve which is the scary thing. Whatever challenges he faces, it doesn’t bother him or faze him.

“The thing he needs to do now is to be consistent for the next ten years. If he does that he’ll rightly be up there with the greats.” – Giggs delight at Ronny deal.

Based on winning tradition and how United rewards deserving players, Cristiano Ronaldo is certainly a player on the rise that will be among the greats one day. Giggs has challenged Ronaldo to maintain his rise towards stardom and from all indications, it doesn’t seem to be a hard task for the Portugese player.

Looks like United will continue to rise on the top with its roster of talented players. The best part of it is that the players are doing it wholeheartedly and easily.

[tags]cristiano ronaldo, united reds, fa cup 2007[/tags]

With an estimated value of £10 million offers, Bale has remained unfazed and chose to concentrate on continuously playing his love for the sport at St. Mary’s. There is no pressure whatsoever from this 17 year old sensation, who is busy preparing for Wales’ Euro 2008 qualifiers against the Republic of Ireland and San Marino.

Taking the right approach, nothing would be definite and all are speculations for now taking the load of the pressure from such transactions if they should push through. With this kind of attitude, it is not surprising why this 17 year old star is a prized player that is dangling much money from clubs who wish to have him under their wing.

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