Manchester United Rumours Archive January 23 2013

23 Jan 2013 22:38:48
Crystal palace believed to have made bid for Swindon winger matt ritchie, could this mean a possible in for Wilfred zaha going out!

23 Jan 2013 21:29:05
so will hazard get a 3 match ban or longer?

JK92

Hopefully a ban as long as cantona got. He's done the exact same thing in my opinion.

Andyp MUFC

3 minimum IMO. Absolutely disgraceful what he did.

Ozzy

Cantona got nine months.......oh but he played for united......FA bias hey Rafa!

23 Jan 2013 23:26:37
he will not get a ban, I believe there has been an apology issued and it is all settled, and also for you saying fa are biased towards united, don't be so absolutely crazy

Who actually cares since he choose Chelsea? Not me one bit but I hope he has fun watching man utd v real Madrid play as he choose Chelsea because they won the champs league!!

I think he will get a 6 match ban maximum. He won't get the same as Cantona as there is a difference in the fact that Cantona had already been sent off before the kung fu kick where as Hazard was sent off for the kick.

The ball hits the advertising board and is rolling towards Hazard. The ball boy then throws himself onto the ball, like some G.I Joe in self-sacrifice mode who throws himself onto a hand grenade to save his mates. Hazard tries to kick the ball from under him like you did when you were at school and the fat kid who was in goal laid on the ball as you claimed he didn't have two hands on it. He should have his red card chalked off, it wasn't even two-footed.

The boy in question apologised to Chelsea for his actions (he had tweeted that he was told to slow play down, so Swansea might get in trouble) Hazard apologised to the boy / Swansea / Chelsea, so that is all cleared up.

A straight red = 3 match ban, I am not sure why this is even a question.

Andyp MUFC, a 9 month ban, are you serious? Did you even see the "kick"? Hazard barely touched the boy, and the kid went down, ironically like a pro footballer. A 3 match ban is all it should be.

RedDub

I assume that he will automatically get a three match ban for the red card for violent conduct. Whether the FA take further action remains to be seen. The fact that he has apologised will be in his favour but will not affect the FA's decision whether to take matters further or not. His offence was not as serious as the Cantona "assault", but, in my view, still warrants a lengthy ban.
Mike B.

RedDub..............Not true...The ballboy bent down to get the ball when Hazard pushed him out of the way, that's offence 1. The boy fell on the ball and tried to stop Hazard from getting it, that's offense 2. Hazard kick boy and ball. The boy made a meal of it yes, but he was still kicked..How hard doesn't matter. NOTHING gives Hazard the right to kick the ballboy, its common assault. {Ed001's Note - it is more likely to be considered battery, a much lesser offence, and it can be argued that the ballboy's own actions provoked it anyway. It is childish that people are so biased against Chelsea that they are trying to make more of a nothing incident.}

Ed...........Don't know how you can call it a nothing incident. Retaliation has always been seen as more serious than provocation and rightly so. When Cantona got sent off and then kicked a fan, do we say the fan was asking for it? If so, what about the foul that got Cantona sent off? The guy had been kicking lumps out of Cantona for the whole game! No mention of that in the FA's report. Assault or Battery, its a violent act. Not a Chelsea hater at all, but you are almost condoning the act in saying its a nothing incident. Your attitude will just lead to it becoming a normal part of football. {Ed001's Note - like cheating is already you mean? if the lad hadn't been cheating there would be no problem. End of. It was a nothing incident blown out of proportion. Hardly violent. He didn't pin the kid down and stick the boot in, he tried to kick the ball. This is idiotic comparing it to Cantona jumping into the crowd with no ball anywhere near him. Such a childish and nonsensical comparison it is laughable. There is absolutely no comparison between the two incidents at all! That is the end of this lunacy. No more talk about this, move on.}

23 Jan 2013 21:26:17
That ball boy could give biscuits a run for his money .

Jono

23 Jan 2013 17:56:12
According to a website, man united are interested in wanyama and are set to make a bid by the weekend. what do you think eds? {Ed002's Note - For fear of repeating myself, both Manchester United and Arsenal both remain interested in Wanyama but are reluctant to pay the sort of figure Celtic are looking for right now. Given that Begiristain has hinted that Manchester City are considering making a bid for the player as well, one or both might look to try and tempt Celtic to sell and the player to drop his Champions League ambitions for the rest of the season.}

Eds/Syd/Shappy,

In your opinion, is Wanayama good enough to be attracting this much interest from top clubs?

TomBomb {Ed004's Note - Defensively he is brilliant. Though I do not know how good he is on the ball}

I think he is good, but equally Phil Jones sat in Celtic's midfield wouldn't be bad either.

I like the idea of having a defensive midfielder that can also play as a CB. It would mean not having to replace Rio and us being able to buy a youngster like Zouma instead.

Sydney!

Phil Jones played that role for Blackburn, does that mean SAF doesn't know Jones best position or is he a victim of his own success playing in so many different positions?
Acker

Wanyama's mainly a defensive minded player but technically very good, he's not skilful and can't dribble past players he just battles his way through players because he's a unit. Very good composed passer and has a good shot on him, 8 goals in 33 games.

23 Jan 2013 17:56:26
Sir Alex Ferguson is after Victor Wanyama. Deal to be done at weekend

Let's hope so he is one for the future

Deal won't be done at the weekend, that's just cockiness to assume that. He won't be leaving this window, as Ed has mentioned fergie or no one else are willing to meet celtics asking price. He will probably leave in the summer possibly to man utd, but it will still take a huge offer in the summer for celtic to sell as he still has a few years on his contract and celtic don't have to sell anyone because they are financially well off just now,

Celticthomas

A deal won't be done at the weekend! United haggle too much, negotiations take at least 2 weeks if the price is anything over £10m!

24 Jan 2013 00:59:16
SAF was in Glasgow for Sean Fallons funeral, so don't read too much into him being at Celtic Park last night. Andymac

23 Jan 2013 16:12:18
ed is there anything regarding the torino centre back Ogbonna? not just from united but any club. cheers.
Mickeyslim {Ed002's Note - Since last spring, PSG, Roma, AC Milan and Manchester United have all made enquiries with Torino regarding the sale of Ogbonna who at one time interested Arsenal and Lyn Oslo. The summer might be a more likely time to move.}

23 Jan 2013 14:05:46
Anybody seen anything of this Coll Donaldson we have offered a trial? I know he is 17 and a centre half but is he any good?

UnitedRunited

He lives near me in North Berwick. He's a good player, very fast, agile, and good in the air. Quite a cocky lad but he has potential.

Cs93

23 Jan 2013 14:50:10
2day..heared that Zaha At Old trafford Office..for finalizing d pending Deal


Wakepump

23 Jan 2013 14:37:35
Beckham signs for Chelsea

Brooklyn that is! Let him use their facilities and cash and when Victoria gets bored and wants to move back up North in 3 years, we'll take him on!

SB

23 Jan 2013 18:23:30
why would ugly spice want to move back up north? She's from outside london anyway and hated being up north. She couldn't wait to get dave away to somewhere more glamourous. The whole galaxy farce reeked of her. The only mildly entertaining thing she ever did was her dig at jordan in the players lounge.

23 Jan 2013 10:43:30
Edd's first time poster here.
Although i'm sure that you must've answered this question before, but I still had the urge to ask,

IS it true that David De Gea's days at Old Trafford are numbered. A lot of rumours circulating around that he will be sold during the summer.

Raghav. {Ed002's Note - You need to read the posts Raghav and give the search engine a try. There has been plenty of discussion that will no doubt interest you.}

I'm an expat living in Saudi Arabia and I was watching Premier League Years earlier and they showed Utd v Southampton. It was the match where Taibi made that horrendous blunder.
Right at the start of the match, the commentator said: "Could this be the long-term replacement for Peter Schmeichel?"
Talk about the kiss of death!
This was ultimately the end of his Utd career.
Let's not also forget how Fergie ruthlessly dropped Jim Leighton for the FA Cup Final replay in 1990.
DDG should be worried.
I can see a more commanding replacement being signed this summer such as Begovic.

23 Jan 2013 08:13:26
What are the chances of bidding for Julio Cesar from QPR.
He will help DDG and Lindegaard to develop and can provide few years of good service.
He is doing good for QPR
VDS was around the same age when we signed him {Ed002's Note - I would doubt it.}

One of the worst posts ever

Dustbin

Do you really think (in the unlikley event) if we signed Cesar that DDG and Lindegaard would be hanging around to play 2nd and 3rd choice!

IrishRed