With Manchester United strongly in the running for winning the Premiere League Championship once again this year, Man Utd fans are becoming increasingly stoked about the team’s prospects even with strong competition facing them in the coming months.

But the enthusiasm is not being relegated to fans. Even the members of the team are becoming increasingly optimistic about their chances for a record fourth consecutive championship. And no one is more optimistic than Manchester United Captain Gary Neville, who has been quoted as saying “It is in our hands now and it has not been like that for a while.”

Key to the Red Devils’ success if Wayne Rooney’s amazing run this season. Rooney has been on fire and is ably replacing the void that Cristiano Ronaldo has left. the striker has already scored his 23rd goal this season, which already equals his career best.

Neville wants the Red Devils to maintain their winning form, which is needed now more than ever as they prepare to play AC Milan in the Champions League.

All eyes are now on Nani, who has been playing extremely well in their last few games. If Nani gets his groove, he’ll be a perfect partner to Rooney.

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Cristiano Ronaldo may have had a bit of a troubled relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson by the end of his last season for Manchester United because of his very vocal desire to leave the team but now that he is with Real Madrid, the Portuguese winger has come out to say that he misses being with the Red Devils.

Ronaldo was transferred to Real after an unprecedented £80million fee this summer. But even though he misses life at Old Trafford he still maintains that he made the right choice in going to Real Madrid.

Ronaldo has also dismissed comments that Manchester United has been struggling without him this season. He said that even though the team has lost the last two games they are still the second placers in the league.

I think that it’s very sportsmanly of Ronaldo to say such things about his old club. We’ve often seen players who transfer to a new team lambasting his former teammates and the manager just to justify why they had to transfer in the first place. Ronaldo has proven that you can transfer without having to show any kind of animosity to your former teammates. Yes, he may be seen as a little bit of a brat by most fans but he’s shown that he can also be a stand-up guy.

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It didn’t come as a surprise at a ll.

Ryan Giggs has signed a new contract with Manchester United, extending his stay with the Red Devils until the summer of 2011.

The new one-year deal will mean that Giggsy will be staying at Old Trafford past his upcoming 37th birthday. Giggs has been declared the BBC Sports Personality of the Year and with good reason, the man has been in fine form this season. We all know that Giggs is a stable and consistent player but this year looks like he has upped his game and he’s been performing exceptionally well. In the Fantasy League I play in, practically everyone has him on every team roster, and that’s a fair indicator of the numbers he’s been putting out this season. Even Sir Alex Ferguson couldn’t help but remark about the amazing form Giggs has been showing this season.

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Every year again, when it’s quiet during the off and pre-season the same topic comes up. Over and over again and last week was no exception to this: José Mourinho hopes to lead Manchester United some day.
Before I analyze what he could bring and wouldn’t bring to Old Trafford, let us get the facts right.

Mr. Mourinho, brilliant strategist as he might be, certainly is NOT the Special One. If one manager deserves this title, it can only be Sir Alex Ferguson. A clsoe contender to SAF would be Carlos Ancelotti, but Mourinho still has lots to prove before he can make his claim valid.

Mourinho a great manager?

There is no doubt that the Portuguese manager a brilliant trainer is and could succeed at most top clubs, as he has proven with Port, Chelsea and Inter Milan. His managerial track record is marvelous and glamorous with 5 league titles and 2 European Cups:

• Porto: Portuguese Liga: 2002-03, 2003-04 – Taça de Portugal: 2002-03 – SuperCup Cândido de Oliveira: 2003 – UEFA Champions League: 2004 – UEFA Cup: 2003
• Chelsea F.C.: FA Premier League: 2004-05, 2005-06 – FA Cup: 2007 – Football League Cup: 2005, 2007 – FA Community Shield: 2005
• F.C. Internazionale Milano: Serie A: 2008-09 – Supercoppa Italiana: 2008

He is is currently on a run of 117 home league matches unbeaten, his last and only defeat at home dating from 23 February 2002.

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So there we have it.The draws Finally are out and United land again with Celtic and Villareal.Chelsea again gets a safe cushion grouping with easy asses.Liverpool too are getting tough ones while Gunners seems to land in same conditions.
Continue reading the groups results and facts for the night….

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I dont know whether its 100% sure or to be taken in correct sense but Vida’s mouth just spoke something that he was keeping inside himself for long time.Telegraph went on too harsh with quoting a headline saying “I will not stay at United”
Quotes from Vidic’s Interview

I will never stay to live in England, that’s for sure.You get only a brief glimpse of sunlight before it’s all cloudy again. The winters are mild, but in summer the temperatures seldom go higher than 20C. And it rains, rains, rains.
In future, I would like to test myself in another top league. I’m thinking of Spain. At least there will be no reason to complain about the weather. In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. Its main attraction is considered to be the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.Throughout the week they all work so hard. They only talk to people at lunch break. Then in the evening they come home and watch the telly, so they can get up early for work the next day.
The only time to meet friends is at weekends, but for football players it’s the busiest time of all. It was much easier for me to adapt to Russia than England. In England I had no one to talk to. The first month was especially hard. I lived alone in a hotel, which I left only for training. I thought I would go crazy inside those four walls”.

After like United went serious with the article it was changed into different manner saying

I’d like to clarify that I did not make these particular remarks. I spoke about the difficulty I had settling in to life in Manchester, but that does not reflect how I feel now.

“I enjoy my life very much as a footballer at Manchester United and I’m very happy to be a part of this great club. I think I show that in the way I play every week. I also have far too much respect for the people of Manchester, and England, to criticize them in this way

Well whatever he blurted out first may be correct to some extend for him.To be honest England does have a bad weather but that don’t mean it sucks.Actually he needs a walk around The Lake District and a small party at Knutsford.It’s more than heaven for me. :P
This are still not cleared with his words cause somewhere Vidic is denying such talks.

Mean while, Fergie is confirming that he won’t be playing easy against Zenith FC.The team will be strong and Fergie’s men will enter the game with intentions to win.This will be one of a kind experience to all of them while majority will be playing this for first time.Match is on 29 August which kinda ruins my Friday night. :P

Also,with Super Cup Hargo will try to bring his form back.There’s enough break for him now and he needs to get back regular with United.We all now his injury problems since his days with Munich but his commitment and sincerity over shadows his flaws.

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Marching from first game!!
That too without Rooney and Ronaldo.For me the bad part was that i missed the first half and also the game was aired at Sony PiX which ruined my mood with ESPN.Always enjoyed BPL matches over there.

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Finally breaking into to this dark place of rumors and talks we finally here a positive and firm note about Ronaldo.He’s staying.Yea he finally declared that he’ll be with club for yet another year.Quite an happy news to me.

And Hats off to Ronaldo.He has pulled out a decent way to market himself pretty well.
The hype that he went on creating was quite large and also eye catching.No doubt why world is running behind him.
So Ronny is back and now we can cut the chase for another striker. :) .At least for the time we are happy to stay away from striker’s rumours.
Those guys who are interested why Ronaldo was attracted to move to real can Carry on reading more over here. Where Fergie explains why Crisitano got tempted for Real’s Deal.

As with the Juventus match it was yet one more game without stars.Almost half of our first team players are down with one or another reason.It was kind of head-ache to pick correct team for Fergie regardingselection.

Tevez ,Fletcher and Scholes were the only who managed to set the foot on the ground for quite a time and did well.All the rest didn’t look too prefect.Although our lads are doing quite an amazing work with present situation.It won’t be shocking if couple of those get promoted to the first team.Also Tevez is the main reason for Uinted’s Preseason success.he has already forced himself to play 6 matches already in this pre-season tour and has done extremely well without any anyone around him.

Good Work Fergie and United

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After my busy week around with my work,United too will be getting busy with Ronaldo’s arrival back at Old Trafford.

Its said that he’s coming to finalize his decisions regarding his career at Real and he should now be let moved out.
According to Telegraph,the reported sum of 68 millions pounds will be offered for Winger by Real in favor of his service.Which will also catalyze the deal of Robinho at Chelsea and Berbatov at United.For many reasons,all this is going to change a lot of things regarding the transfers and signings for players in footballing world.
There were days when players feared from Club owners and managers regarding their footballing careers and decisions.But things are now moving fast.The footy geniuses are bending the rules and taking possibilities to their favors.I mean take a look at any transfer for last 5 years that has been forced by managers.Exactly none but u can find 100′s where a player wants to move out of his team when he wants.
I mean has their been times that clubs missed paying their players.Or has their been times that sponsors didn’t provide him shoes.Whats a purpose of a contract if its not made to fulfillment.And there we are,FIFA prez consolidating these money hungry people as modern age slaves or how about modern age blackmailers…

Right now lets talk about Ronaldo as i can’t get any better example than any.He was brought at United when he was a boy.A raw talent which didn’t have any direction.Hardworking at United and also from United staff pushed him from a kid to a player.All those years they kept him pushing to limits till this boy turned to a man.And now when he knows that playing for him isn’t everything he is trying new things and wants to move out of club for fatter cheques.

Is their any point in having a 5 year contract ???

By tomorrow things are getting finalized between United and Ronaldo lets see what results are we getting from the meeting .

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Last season it was double for us.Played our lives out and made the matches look easy.Though things are looking different this time.Not regarding with the team or players but more with the competitors.Massive million signings and new blood of youth filling premier ship is making our ties really uneasy.So what are the sections we can still get even better… Continue reading »

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