Manchester United Rumours Archive February 03 2012

03 Feb 2012 20:34:58
Would people be surprised if Jones became England captain or do you think it is still too early. I don't think it should be Gerrard or Lampard as they are now too old in my opinion. Aside from Jones I could also see Parker or Hart getting it. What do you lot think?

Jones is 19 so impossible he becomes captain maybe if he was captain of united, rooney has better chance

It'll be offered to one of the old gaurd(Gerrard, Lampard, Rio or Cashley), then who's succeed them will be down to the new manager. It'll be a short term thing as Capello is only here short term.

Shappy

It's more likely to go to Rooney than Jones haha!

Could either be Hart, Rio might get asked again.. Who knows.

Ozwald

Jones is not ready! he has only played a few games. It will more than likely go to Gerrard but i'd like to see Parker get the armband.

You mentioned Gerrard and Lampard being too old... Parker is the same age as Gerrard...

Jones is probably too young at the moment though in a few years when Gerrard (who will most probably be offered it) retires from internationals, then he may be offered it.. or Rooney

Rio has ruled himself out of the running FYI

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As much as I hate him I think it'll be Ashley cole just because he plays every week if it isn't Gerrard , Rooney for sure if he wasn't suspended

Rio hasn't ruled himself out, he just said he doesn't bother him what happens with the captaincy..

Ozwald

Jones is still 1-2 years off being first-choice for England/Utd, let alone being captain. Right now, Downing has a better chance of being captain than Jones. It has to be Rooney for me

I cant see it going to cashly as i am not sure he will even be in the starting 11 come summer, i think baines will be the lb this summer, he has certainly deserved it more than cole has

It'll either be Hart or Johnson/Lescott IMO. The point is the guy should be a leader by default.

IBleedBlue

Are you serious? when people say jones is going to be a future united and england captain, they mean probably five years from now or something like that. even so, these are people's opinions, the future managers may have there own plans.
Here is a list of players that will currently be ahead of jones for england captaincy:
Lampard, Ferdy, gerrad, rooney, cole, young, cahill, hart, parker, barry, milner, bent e.t.c.
Give the kid abit more time, he has'nt even established a place in united's starting 11 yet.

Millz

Jones lol, Parker is 32 this year lol and Rooney has a questionable tempermant and has ruled himself out with his on and off field "antics". Ballon.

I think Rooney Could be Englands captain in the future.. If there's any English player that wants success for England it's Wazza, his red card was down to venting his frustration with the poor performance of the team that day. Rooney is inspirational, even to some of the older players because he's achieved so much from such a young age for such a big club. I think after his last red card and everything that happened with it, he wont be getting anymore like it. I'd like to see Wayne captain england anyway..


Ozwald

How about Rooney

Rio HAS ruled himself out of the running for captaincy in order to concentrate on his United duties.
Agree that Jones is too young, but in the future he's a definite candidate.
I don't care who gets the Ingurland cpataincy, they'll be crap whoever it is.

'Ingurland' ?! Can't even spell the name of the country where football originates from.. Tut.

I would like Rooney but i can honestly see it being given to Hart, he's always good, always shouting at players making his thoughts known and has quite a lot of experience playin top level football.

Ozwald

New manager after euros will prob change captain do need short term one
Paul scholes

03 Feb 2012 15:07:44
Sir Alex Ferguson may lose another of his youngsters after defender Ezekiel Fryers turned down a new deal worth a basic £1,500 per week.
Fryers, 19, asked his advisers to find him a move ahead of the transfer deadline.

I struggle to believe that Fryers, a player with potential that has already made first team appearances, was offered a poultry £1,500 per week. Maybe add on another 0.

TK-Red

Not to mention hasn't the deadline passed 2 days ago! Excluding Russia/Brazil etc

I know the ed is not a big fan of twitter, but Fryers has twittered about 10 mins ago saying " why is everyone believing what they read.... i havent rejected the contract!

Papertalk just like i said yesterday, press scare mongering as they have no morrison to write about now. we have so many exciting youngsters coming through at the minute, not had this many since beckham/scholes/butt/nevilles.
Jenny

I agree with Jenny - its all crap, boring journalism. He like Pogba knows that they are in the plans for the near future, they will both sign new deals. I'm sure when they sign new deals stories about Petrucci, Januzaj or some other player will come up.

RedDevil19

I would think he may be on that amount now, If thats what he was offered it would be an insult to the player. Jenny's got it right here, journo's with nothing better to make up.... HERBIE

Spot on Jenny. Exciting times ahead IMO! Pogba & Fryers will sign. Hopefully Keane & Tunnicliffe will be tied down over the next months/year.

Surely Fryers would be offered £15,000 anyway not £1,500?!

Gav

03 Feb 2012 00:30:16
Has anyone actually heard anything solid on Ross Barkley? Because all I know is that his name popped up in the press a couple of months ago, there were a few days of crazy prices and silly stories and now two months later we all seem to be chatting about it like it's a dead cert, or he's SAF's first choice.

Have I missed something? Has SAF or anyone at United confirmed this interest, or have we just forgotten that this was a story started by the papers and over a couple of months it has slowly seeped into our heads as a reality?

Joe

You make a good point, I think since the Rooney signing and the Rodwell interest and now Gibbo going the other way, we just tend to assume that any talented youngster from Everton will end up at OT!

Only time will tell I guess

Gav