挪威维京斯塔万格Viking Stavangar小将兰度Christian Landu Landu受到英超球队青睐,这位17岁中场接到了曼联、切尔西、利物浦和热刺的邀请。
维京主席Egil Ostenstad证实:“许多俱乐部都希望他去训练一段时间。” 斯图加特准备接受戈麦斯报价
斯图加特总经理赫尔特Horst Heldt暗示射手马里奥-戈麦斯可能会在今夏离开,曼联是对他感兴趣的球队之一,但曼城兴趣更浓。
月初赫尔特已经暗示为了财政平衡可能出售戈麦斯。《图片报》称共有11家俱乐部的球探出现在斯图加特对圣彼得堡泽尼特的联盟杯比赛看台,赫尔特预计很快就有俱乐部出价:“出价很快就会来到。我们不能愚弄自己。”
本赛季,戈麦斯31场比赛射入24球,对于自己的未来他也表态愿意离开:“如果我某个时候离开,一切必须都很合适才行。” 布鲁斯:曼联不大可能用英国教练
“外国教练似乎是未来的趋向,曼联现在会去找阿伯丁的主教练吗?”维甘主帅布鲁斯说,当年弗格森就从阿伯丁被邀请到曼联,但现在已经几乎不可能。“我真希望一个英国教练得到四强执教的机会,因为我们现在几乎没机会赢得什么。” 曼联VS热刺经典战回顾
每日邮报回顾了曼联对热刺的三场经典比赛 1967年社区盾:曼联3-3热刺 很少社区盾比赛会成为一场令人难忘的比赛,但是这场显然是例外。在本场比赛前,曼联刚刚在3个赛季内第二次赢得联赛冠军,而且在1968年,曼联还赢得了冠军联赛。
博比查尔顿热刺当时也是一支强队,他们在3个月前在温布利击败了切尔西赢得7个赛季以来的第三座足总杯。这个赛季的首场比赛在老特拉福德进行,人们对此充满期待,而双方也没有令球迷失望。
曼联传奇三圣之二包揽了红魔一方的全部进球,博比-查尔顿梅开二度,丹尼斯-劳打进一球。吉米-罗伯森和弗兰克-索尔为热刺各进一球,他们的最后一粒进球令这场比赛变得闻名。帕特-詹宁斯快速开出球门球,皮球在落地反弹后越过曼联门将阿列克斯-斯特尼的头顶入网。 Manchester United: A Stepney, S Brennan, A Dunne, P Crerand, W Foulkes, N Stiles, G Best, D Law, R Charlton, B Kidd, J Aston. Tottenham Hotspur: P Jennings, J Kinnear, C Knowles, A Mullery, M England, D Mackay, J Roberston, J Greaves, A Gilzean, T Venables, F Saul. 1983年英甲联赛(当时英格兰最高级别的联赛):曼联4-2热刺 在某个赛季,这场比赛总是令人难以忘怀。其中一个最主要的原因是这场比赛是在周五晚上由BBC直播。那一代英国人在电视上一般只能看到巴塞罗那的比赛直播,这个赛季是英格兰联赛首次出现在电视直播之中。 凯文-莫兰在一个寒冷的12月份的夜晚,曼联用梦幻演出4-2击败了热刺。亚瑟-格拉汉姆(曼联球迷还记得他吗?)在边线打进一粒诡异的进球,没有人能碰到他的传中球,结果皮球直接入网。阿兰-布拉吉尔用一记精彩的倒钩射门帮助热刺将比分扳平。
凯文-莫兰帮助曼联再度领先,格拉汉姆打进红魔本场比赛的第三球,在迈克-法尔克为热刺扳回一球后,莫兰再进一球锁定胜局。 2001年英超联赛:热刺3-5曼联
这场比赛的戏剧性充分显示出曼联对英超联赛的统治,你还记得8年前的这场比赛吗?
All hail the winning 60s STEVEN HOWARD - Chief sports writer
THEY always said football was a young man’s game.
Not when it comes to modern-day management, though.
There will be no greater example that “age cannot wither nor custom stale their infinite variety” than when Alex Ferguson and Harry Redknapp lead Manchester United and Spurs out for the Carling Cup final at Wembley on Sunday.
Ferguson, 67-years-young, and Redknapp, the little whipper-snapper, 62 next Monday.
Proof that age is no barrier can be seen in Guus Hiddink (62) replacing Phil Scolari (60) at Chelsea.
Then there’s Fabio Capello (62), while Sven Goran Eriksson (61) waits in the wings.
Roy Hodgson and Joe Kinnear are both 61, Arsene Wenger 59, while Martin O’Neill, believe it or not, will soon be 57. Young Sam Allardyce is even 54.
Technical skills
The average age in the Premier League is 52 — with only Gareth Southgate (38) and Gianfranco Zola (42) under 45.
Yet when Liverpool last won the title in 1989-90 the average was 46.
Kenny Dalglish was just 38 and Steve Coppell barely out of university at 34.
Ther was a clutch of managers in their early to mid-40s — Bruce Rioch and Lennie Lawrence (both 42), Bobby Gould and Chris Nicholl (both 43), Howard Kendall (44) and George Graham, Colin Harvey and Graham Taylor (all 45).
None were in their 60s and just five over 50 — Don Howe and Brian Clough (both 55), John Sillett (53) and Arthur Cox and Ron Atkinson (both 50).
So why the change?
For a start, English football has become far more technical.
Twenty years ago, our clubs were still banned from Europe and playing their own game to their traditional strengths of pace and power.
But the return to European competition and having to catch up, the sophistication of both the Champions League and Premier League formats plus the arrival of a number of highly-skilled foreign players has changed everything.
Strong, experienced managers with long-established contacts and the ability not only to coach these players but handle their diverse temperaments and win their respect are now the men in demand.
Hence the vast salaries.
Yes, there are the odd exceptions. Jose Mourinho, 46, of course, while Rafa Benitez is still only 48.
As for the men who contest Sunday’s Carling Cup final — Redknapp is the identikit of the veteran trouble-shooter brought in to put clubs back on their feet. To sift through, buy and sell and generally cajole and encourage performances out of players who, for one reason or another, have lost their way.
And then there’s Ferguson, the doyen of them all.
He has management now down to such a fine art that re- inventing both himself and his sides is second nature to him.
He has also set up a network of scouts that has even surpassed Wenger’s and bought in young talent from all over the world.
He has even proved to all the rest that you CAN rotate.
And, at 67, his work ethic is admirably undiminished.
So let us salute these swinging sixtysomethings of English football, men who have shown that the cult of youth and a tracksuit top emblazoned with coaching badges is not necessarily the way forward.
I believe there will also be a few old duffers in the Press box on Sunday...
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JOSE MOURINHO has upped the ante for Inter Milan’s Champions League game against Manchester United at Old Trafford.
After the goalless draw in Milan, he claimed Inter would get through if they “received as much protection in Manchester as the away team did at the San Siro” from the referee.
Though UEFA let him off this time, Mourinho has still succeeded in his plan to put pressure on the prospective officials at Old Trafford.
It’s all reminiscent of the 2004-05 season when Mourinho claimed Barcelona manager Frank Rijkaard was seen going into referee Anders Frisk’s room at half-time of the Barca-Chelsea game at the Nou Camp.
In the second half, Didier Drogba was sent off and Barca hit back from a goal down to win 2-1.
Mourinho correctly predicted Pierluigi Collina would referee the second leg, which Chelsea won 4-2.
There was an almighty fall-out with Frisk quitting and UEFA calling Mourinho “the enemy of football” and banning him from the Bayern Munich clash.
Mourinho, hilariously, got round this by allegedly being smuggled in and out of the dressing room in a laundry basket. Mourinho also claims United get preferential treatment at Old Trafford and that Premier League teams are afraid of them.
So, in the space of two days, Mourinho succeeded in not only winding up UEFA and United but also put the boot in on the Premier League!
What next has he up his sleeve?
No doubt suggesting there is only one man capable of taking over at Old Trafford when Ferguson retires.
No prizes for guessing who.