神奇男孩渴望加盟曼联
效力于意甲乌迪内斯的智利攻击手阿莱克西斯-桑切斯(Alexis Sanchez)近日明确表示，自己有能力效力欧洲豪门，参加欧冠联赛，而他最希望投效的则是欧冠卫冕冠军、英超霸主曼联。
生于智利的桑切斯能踢前锋，亦能担任边锋，在南美大陆，他被称作el nino maravilla，意思就是“神奇男孩”，南美洲预计他将是下一个明星。
属于乌迪内斯的桑切斯曾被租借到阿甲劲旅河床效力，在那里他已经吸引了不少欧洲豪门。桑切斯有速度，有能力盘过任何后卫，而且头脑思考迅速，在意甲也已经成为备受看好的年轻球星。
现年只有20岁的桑切斯并不认为乌迪内斯是属于自己的合适归宿，在Udineseblog.it上，智利小将毫不忌讳自己的远大理想。“我希望踢英超，第一选择，当然是曼联。”桑切斯说，“我喜欢曼联，还有他们的打法，而且他们拥有伟大的球员。过去，我曾想到西班牙踢球，但现在我的想法已经改变。”
今夏，乌迪内斯曾表示不愿意转让桑切斯。然而，最近“乌鸡”成绩下滑，追逐欧战资格的目标遭到沉重打击。在桑切斯明确表示希望离开的情况下，乌迪内斯恐怕难再挽留这位未来之星。 热刺2万镑周薪挖角福斯特
热刺主帅哈里-雷德克纳普依旧渴望从老特拉福德带走红魔未来一号候选人本-福斯特。根据《太阳报》报道，热刺打算在一月的冬季转会为福斯特出价。
17次代表巴西国家队的热刺门将胡里利奥-戈麦斯在埃因霍温曾受到高度评价，然而，27岁的巴西国门自从来到英超后，出现过多次低级失误，简直犹如保罗-罗宾逊附体。虽然他最近似乎状态有所回升，然而，老雷德克纳普依然打算为门将位置增加竞争性。
范德萨的续约，让福斯特离队的传闻升温，因为未来18个月荷兰门将都可能继续占据曼联一号门将的位置。《世界新闻报》称25岁的英格兰后备国门考虑离开，去争取更多一线队机会，以便参加2012年南非世界杯。
不仅如此，本赛季结束后就要合同到期的福斯特得到曼联的新合同周薪只有1.5万镑，而热刺据说愿意开出2万镑周薪。 鲁尼科琳圣诞送礼30万镑
鲁尼和妻子科琳在“圣诞礼物大战”中最终1-1战平，两人都为彼此在同一家商店买了名贵手表做圣诞节的礼物。23岁的鲁尼花费7万镑为妻子买下一只劳力士钻石手表，而科琳则趁着丈夫到曰本踢世俱杯的时候，到同一家钟表商店买下一只价值8万镑的沛纳海(Panerai)手表送给他。
此外，22岁的科琳还接到鲁尼送给她的第二辆宾利房车，价值15万镑，以及一条金项链。据粗略估计，鲁尼和科琳夫妇这个圣诞互送的礼物总价值达到30万镑。最高兴的是谁？当然是他们位于柴郡Wilmslow豪宅附近的那家钟表店Cottrills，虽然鲁尼和科琳起初并不知道对方也是在这家店买的礼物。
一位鲁尼夫妻的朋友透露：“他们想给对方一个惊喜，结果都去了同一家商店。直到圣诞节的早上他们才发现，不过他们还是非常喜欢自己得到的礼物。他们想给对方买一个特别点的圣诞礼物，因为这是两人结婚后的第一个圣诞节，有象征性意义。”
另一个知情者则说：“他们对自己将要得到的礼物其实已经早有一点点了解了，科琳一直都开宾利，但她希望得到一辆新款的，还有换个颜色。她还想要个有自己名字的白金项链。她已经有一条这样的项链，但那是黄金的。” 曼联另有三大巨星买宾利新车
尽管目前全世界都在遭遇金融风暴的冲击，但曼联阵中豪气过耶诞的不仅有鲁尼和妻子。和Cottrills钟表行一样愉快的还有销售宾利的中介，他们在曼联上演了“帽子戏法”，除了鲁尼，C罗、吉格斯和范德萨都为自己买了一辆价值20万的宾利Speed。
一位老特拉福德内部人士透露：“金融风暴？这对这些伙计完全没影响。如果有新款汽车面世，他们都想拥有。吉格斯已经开了宾利好多年，因此他买最新款的一点都不奇怪，克里斯蒂亚诺也一直都在收集名车。”
宾利Speed以马力大著称，能够在4.3秒内从静止加速到60英里时速，最高时速可达200英里，而且，这款汽车的转弯性能也非常出色。 卡拉格：曼联下半程轻松是胡说
利物浦后卫卡拉格豪言这次他们终于有夺冠机会，并且否认曼联的上半程更困难。“那是胡说八道。”卡拉格说，“如果你上半赛季要踢更多困难的客场比赛，那么也就意味着你下半赛季主场更多困难的比赛。”
“我们也有很多艰难的客场比赛，在切尔西、阿森纳、维拉和埃弗顿，当我们主场对阵他们的时候，也会一样困难。因此我不认为这种争论有任何影响。”
“这个赛季的结果证明，有些人们认为轻松的比赛并不轻松。所谓四大豪门在不同的时间都遇到了困难。你可以看到切尔西、阿森纳和曼联也遇到了他们自己的问题，事实上是，在圣诞节我们的积分比他们多，这说明我们的环境更好，我们的赛果比他们更好。而且，在托雷斯缺阵的情况下取得这个成绩，也是不可思议的成就。当你有托雷斯这样的球员缺阵，或者就像曼联没有C罗，肯定会有影响。”
果然是没文化滴逻辑判断。 又到不知多久一度的学英语时间
《世界新闻报》曼联半程总结之弗格森的球队必须忘记四冠奢望。大卫-哈里森预计，曼联依靠下半赛季更好的赛程，可以卫冕英超，联赛杯也能夺冠。但足总杯可能遭遇和上赛季一样的冷门，因为裁判判罚或者表现不佳出局。而欧冠两回合的比赛，曼联犹如骑士的打法会带来弱点，因此最终可能只得到四冠中的两冠。而贝尔巴托夫将是关键球员。 曼联阵容不足以夺四冠
United squad just isn't strong enough to challenge for all four trophies
作者：DAVID HARRISON
MANCHESTER UNITED — bloated by their own greed and destined to choke on a desire to win everything in sight? Or fired by a hunger to become the greatest team ever to emerge from these shores?
The answer to both questions will be determined over the remainder of the season and will reveal whether Sir Alex Ferguson’s team have bitten off more than they can chew.
Many have tried but no team has ever succeeded in winning the quadruple of Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and Carling Cup.
Fergie himself concedes privately that it might be beyond the limits of his ambitions to win all four. But that will not stop him sending out a team in every stage of each competition and believing they will win each game.
He insists he has a squad far better than the one which won the treble in 1999 when he was even able to overcome suspensions at vital times for Roy Keane and Paul Scholes.
Threatening
But the real depth of his existing pool of players is now built around youth and potential.
Youngsters Rafael da Silva, Darron Gibson, Rodrigo Possebon, Danny Welbeck and Manucho might be good enough to steer them through Carling Cup games against QPR and Blackburn Rovers.
But as yet they are untried and untested in the tougher and more demanding competitions at home and in Europe.
It will mean the likes of Nani, Anderson, John O’Shea and the ageing Gary Neville stepping up to the plate when injuries and suspension inevitably take their toll.
The real challenge for United will again fall at the feet of Fergie and whether he can manoeuvre and manipulate his players through a fixture list that is already threatening to sabotage their hopes.
The Old Trafford boss has mastered the art of rotation and has the knack of extracting the maximum from players of high talent and massive egos without causing too much unrest.
He will need that expertise through the coming months like never before.
Fergie showed an example of his diplomatic dexterity when he recalled Carlos Tevez to his team for the Carling Cup game against Blackburn after the Argentine had earlier let it be known that he was concerned about falling behind in the queue of strikers.
Tevez was straining at the leash and responded with four goals. Fergie showered him with praise — and then promptly dropped him to the bench for the next game against Sunderland.
Talent
The on-loan striker was back and scoring in the Champions League game against Aalborg — no doubt convinced that he had a full part to play in United’s quest for world supremacy.
Pound-for-pound, United have the best array of attacking talent in the Premier League — possibly in Europe.
DIMITAR BERBATOV - key player
They will need to keep Tevez, Wayne Rooney, Dimitar Berbatov and Cristiano Ronaldo at full throttle at various stages.
The enigmatic Berbatov has given Fergie an extra option which has allowed the team to play with more variety and in a less frantic fashion.
The Bulgarian conserves energy — some critics call it idleness — but he has a calm assurance and a range of passing which offers the other three strikers free rein to run past opposing defences.
Ronaldo has yet to reproduce the form which made him such an irresistible force last season. Some fans have not forgiven him for flirting so outrageously with Real Madrid last summer.
His manager will expect more from him during the second half of the campaign and so will his team-mates, some of whom privately despair at his histrionic ways.
Fergie got it just right when United stuttered through the opening months.
Rivals
“Give us until October,” he declared. “Then we will hit our best form.”
His crystal ball was crystal clear and now he is promising a long barnstorming run to the end of the season.
All United’s main rivals have to go to Old Trafford and they are proving as difficult as ever to topple on their own patch.
They will have Scholes fully fit by the end of the year and that will be akin to signing a world-class player.
At some stage Owen Hargreaves should be back in the first-team fold after undergoing surgery on both knees.
His return should be crucial because if there has been a weakness in the United squad so far it has been the absence of a midfield enforcer.
Their mid-season diversion to Tokyo to contest the World Club Championship will not have helped their cause. It has left United needing to add another re-arranged fixture to their already congested programme.
Success
FA Cup replays and a midwinter freeze-up will make it an even more hazardous list.
Fergie has already been expressing fears that his team might suffer the same fate as Rangers, who caved in at the end of last season when playing catch-up.
Unquestionably United have the talent to complete a clean sweep, but do they have the staying power and resilience to contend with their own success?
I doubt it.
United have the easiest run in the second half of the season, which will make their defence of the Premier League title relatively comfortable and Fergie’s shadow team should be good enough to lift the Carling Cup.
But it only takes one bad day — or a bad refereeing performance, as witnessed against Portsmouth last season — to cost them success in the FA Cup.
And in the Champions League they can be vulnerable over two legs because of their cavalier style. They might have to settle for two out of four.
