In my clumsiness again I seem to have missed a memo. Apparently Manchester City now rank among the big clubs, at least according to the words of Mark hughes:

I’m not surprised David feels a bit aggrieved with the situation, you always are when a big club is trying to sign one of your best players.

We already analyzed Mark Hughes’ behaviour in the past but things seem to become worse and worse every day.

You don’t become a big club because of your spending power, but because of your results!.

According to Sparky’s logic, who seems to have another Code of Conduct than every other manager and will continue his chase to sign Joleon Lescott from Everton, there have been many big clubs in recent years, but he forgets where these clubs have ended. Continue reading »

Tags:   Manchester City · Mark Hughes · Truth

Manchester United 4 – Manchester City 3
Scorers
Manchester United: Rooney (2), Fletcher (48, 80), Owen (90+5)
Manchester City: Barry (16), Bellamy (52, 90)

What better could a United fan ask for.The match was on the minute ref blew the whistle.For the first time  team selection was perfect. Defense looked better in shape and mid-field just required as to be aggressive.
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Tags:   Derby · Manchester City

Ever when Mark Hughes, a former ManUtd legend who helped us achieve European glory, was announced at Eastlands I knew things would quickly deteriorate and ‘Sparky’ was on a path to destroy his status with the ManUtd fans. During his first press conference at The Council House he answered that he ‘had played for other teams as well‘ when asked if he thought there would be problems between him and Manchester United. Now he managed to drag our favourite whiner to the other side of town. But things are becoming totally ridiculous. Rumours say that Adebayor already passed a medical at Eastlands and will sign at City for a reported fee of £25m. That is still not enough for Sparky. Realizing that City has only invested in offensive talent he has been flirting publicly with Mr. Chelsea. sadly a reported weekly fee of £250k still haven’t convinced John Terry to move to a club who even did not qualify for the UEFA cup under Hughes and the City manager not has to beg publicly to convince the England international and Skipper, AKA Mr. Slippery, to make the move to Eastlands:

We would like to think we could offer him a different challenge

No truer word could be spoken in matters of challenges. Instead of challenging for the European Champions League titel Terry would have to compete to qualify for the UEFA cup, possibly using backdoors such as the Intertoto or Fair Play challenges. The whine continues: Continue reading »

Tags:   John Terry · Legends · Manchester City · Mark Hughes · Smug

BBC Sport’s Chief football writer Phil McNulty has the best analysis around Tevez’s importance for ManUtd and Man City now the Argentinean has agreed a deal worth £150k/week at Eastlands and around £25m to put his pen down on said paper.

The absence of Tevez, as well as the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo, makes more room in the middle for Wayne Rooney – a superior talent and goalscorer to the Argentina international.

This, however, does not make him a questionable purchase by Hughes. He is an upgrade on what City currently have and he will be at a club where – and even Eastlands fans must recognise this – aspirations and expectations are currently on an entirely different level.

Would a huge outlay on Tevez have taken United on to another level? No. Will a huge outlay on Tevez improve City and help them towards their eventual target? Every chance. This alone makes perfect sense of City’s new signing.

He fulfils two time-honoured transfer criteria. Is he better than what City currently have? Can they afford him? Yes, and most emphatically yes.

McNulty correctly outlines that A. Tevez wasn’t worth the money to assure a stay at OT and B. ManUtd have a superior talent, Wayne Rooney, already.

Source: BBC Sport.

Tags:   Manchester City · Quotes · Rooney · Tevez

In a less surprising Sunday afternoon rumour the NOTW tries to create some buzz around glamour boy David Beckham by announcing that he would return to the Premier League if AC Milan would not sign him again. Becks has more than once expressed his intention to participate to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, probably as often as Capello has said that he would have to play regularly in the period before the World Cup and play on a high level. As known the MLS has a break in the months before the tournament.

Last season Becks was loaned out to AC Milan for 5 months and he hopes to return to the Italian squad next January. But the rumour mill obviously has started and he is said to be in touch with Spurs and the Council House in case a deal with Milan would fail. In the 2007-2008 season Becks trained 2 months with Arsenal to stay fit and maintain his chances on being selected for the England squad. That was a rather big slap in the face of many a ManUtd fan but how would we feel if now he would opt for the big bucks and sign for several months at Manchester City?

Tags:   Beckham · Gossip · Manchester City · Rumours

By now panic must start to set in at the Council House. Other than the signing of Roque Santa Cruz, and Gareth Barry who could not wait for an offer from Rafa but chose for the big bucks, nothing much has happened. Other than failures.

City are said to make a THIRD approach for John Terry with a staggering £40m offer for the international, even though Ancelotti already claimed that Terry is going nowhere. Over here at ManUtd Blog we love JT because he’s always good for some funny lines or slippery. JT certainly is a great defender but one has to wonder if the international £40m worth is. Especially since City seems to aim at Champions League football any time soon but still struggles in the offensive department. Last season the skyblues managed to capture a player who went signed for the wrong squad and for a long time didn’t show his immense talent because of the attitude ‘We’ll never win anything’. Continue reading »

Tags:   John Terry · Manchester City · Smug · Tevez

I Sorry to miss for my CL report.It has been happening repeatedly that i am missing out champions league drama every now and them.But this one was by far the best.I looks things get better when we approach finals and we get an epic game when we reach finals.However both semi’s were far more exciting than last month in whole.For Chelsea and Barca,Drogba was my man of the Match:P.However,we are heading to Rome facing one of the most attacking team in the world and god knows what consequences we are going to have back then.
Last night’s match was a usual United at home.Fergie didn’t leave much regular absentise.Rooney was on bench and Ferdinand was rested.Apart from that there was no change.League is our top priorty and there was no chance of taking City at ease.
Game commenced and we took early lead through Ronaldo free kick.You can call his geniusness or luck but both ways it was good for United.Ball pitching ahead of keeper piercing through the wall.City was looking to score but their league standings are in such position that winning or losing would hardly matter.
With all contreveries surrounded around Tevez he wasn’t going to be anybody’s shadow.First he came close with an outrageus strike and then we went for a killer.Berba passing him with just one man to beat and Tevez striking from outside the box,shreading keeper into bits.
There was nothing more to be played for Mark Hughes side.Robinho was all pumped when he entered back in after break but lost his air very quickly had go into summer mood.Man City didn’t have enough fire to burst themselves to another level and the game never looked moving from United.Fergie quickly managed to get few of his best men out and one of them being an asshole.(i will be posting a whole lot on him.)
Fergie managed to get Scholes in taking off Park and Rooney in place of Ronaldo.The game ended real quick with only 2 minutes on extraa time and United crusing for another three points.The team on whole had brilliant vision.The game passing had improved over months and definately there are reasons why we can Make 2 in a row.
Just 2 more games to go and we wrap another trophy winning season.United now can focus better on CL finals.

Tags:   League · Manchester City

United keen for Derby match as SAF and club prepares for the occasion to be a special night.

This will be a night to be remembered.For first time we are having this Derby along with Munich disaster in same week.United has a lot of importance to this day keeping in mind that winning here can cutoff those points against Arsenal. United are going to be strict with this one and has made their point to City fans.So its high time that they start behaving like a good crowd and respect to things other than just rivalry.United are playing in those vintage United T-shirts which were worn by Busby babes.Rooney and Evra are missing this their respective matches due to supension so a lot of changes are going to be seen today.This makes possibility for Welbeck to make his appearance.The 17 year old has already made his appearance in their South Arabia Tour and he looks quite promising. Other than that no changes.United if they win are surely going to close the gap with Arsenal and if lose then were are going close to Chelsea.The day is full drama,guys its all going to be great.

Old Trafford
Sunday, 10 February
Kick-off: 1330 GMT

Tags:   Busby babes · Derby · Manchester City · Manchester united