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Motterman
26 Mar 2004, 10:00 AM
Manchester United have announced they will tour the Far East next year. 4 matches in late July / early August are planned.
Achtung
26 Mar 2004, 10:09 AM
Manchester United have announced they will tour the Far East next year. 4 matches in late July / early August are planned.
Road trip to China, anyone? :cool:
Motterman
26 Mar 2004, 02:27 PM
Reuters) - Brazilian midfielder Kleberson has been ruled out of next week's World Cup qualifier away to Paraguay because of a knee injury.
Mystery injury solved, apparently.
Achtung
29 Mar 2004, 11:11 AM
UEFA drop Keane stamping appeal
Roy Keane will be free to play in Europe from the start of next season after UEFA withdrew its appeal against their own disciplinary sanction against the Manchester United captain.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=295661&cc=5901
Good to know UEFA's appeal against... themselves failed.
Anteaters FC
29 Mar 2004, 11:41 AM
However, UEFA disciplinary inspector Gerhard Kapl has now confirmed the action has been abandoned.
'Given the situation in the European Champions League and taking into account Manchester United have been eliminated we are content to allow Roy Keane to play next season,' he said.
While understandably delighted Keane is now free to play in next year's competition, United officials are fuming with the wording of UEFA's statement.
They feel the implication is that the action would have continued had United advanced to the last eight and do not understand the apparently arbitrary nature of UEFA's disciplinary process.
Yeah, what's up with that? Other managers should be more than a little nervous about hearing about the arbitrary nature of UEFA's discipline.
Motterman
29 Mar 2004, 11:57 AM
I bet they're still pissed about Sir Alex calling them out over their fixing of the draws in the Champions League last year when we got Real Madrid.
billyireland
29 Mar 2004, 12:36 PM
Road trip to China, anyone? :cool:RRRRRROOOOOAAAAAAADDDDD TTTTTTRRRRRRIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!
delmundo
29 Mar 2004, 12:52 PM
.......Road trip to China.........
this has all the makings of a Hope/Crosby film.
Of course the lads will be singing the oscar nominated hit "blame it on Rio"
Potomac Red Devil
29 Mar 2004, 01:53 PM
You know, it's good to see that due process has made such good progress in England and Europe since July 4, 1776....
billyireland
29 Mar 2004, 05:59 PM
Of course the lads will be singing the oscar nominated hit "blame it on Rio"I don't know, "Blame it on Blatter" has a much better ring to it.
cachundo
30 Mar 2004, 02:15 AM
Keane's suspension not to be lengthened. Duh!
Achtung
30 Mar 2004, 10:50 AM
Barthez is officially gone on June 30
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/3581391.stm
Au revoir...
Achtung
30 Mar 2004, 10:51 AM
Man United scores 32% profit leap
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3581367.stm
johno
30 Mar 2004, 01:04 PM
Maybe the purse-strings will be slightly looser now... we need to spend I wager about 50-60 million dollars over the next 2 years in the purchase of a cb a dmid and a rb/lb and then money like that will have to be spent a further 3-4 years down the road to replace Ruud and Scholes... but I am looking way too far down the road... Bellion might become Henry by then :)
Mason16
31 Mar 2004, 09:07 AM
Nice business write-up from Forbes via Yahoo Finance:
http://biz.yahoo.com/fo/040326/bf55ef47ace1f6f9540fbc3621f25e6b_2.html
Father Ted
31 Mar 2004, 09:51 AM
Barthez is officially gone on June 30
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/3581391.stm
Au revoir...
"As a result of this agreement, the second-half results will include a write-off of the un-amortised balance of the original registration cost and compensation to the player on termination. The total charge will be £5m."
SO can someone explain this in plain English? If this 5million just a book-keeping number or actual money? We're letting him go on a free? I think we should get some sort of compensation as his contract runs for two more years.
Achtung
31 Mar 2004, 10:29 AM
Yeah I figured this was a loan with a view to a permanent transfer. But now it seems like we are just cutting him free, and he'll go essentially on a Bosman? Doesn't make any sense to me...
johno
31 Mar 2004, 12:41 PM
at the least we should have let them pay whatever they valued him at... i mean he is playing for them...
Mac_Howard
01 Apr 2004, 08:46 PM
>Bellion might become Henry by then :)
And Ronaldo could solve out CB problem :D
johno
03 Apr 2004, 03:24 AM
I know it sounds absurd but Henry was a quick winger who could dribble at Juve... Bellion is a quick winger who can dribble... however he cant shoot... but seriously he is young and if he learns a few tricks from Ronaldo and passing skills from Kleberson and shooting skills from Ruud, (this is not to be taken seriously guys) hell, we will all be talking about who will be the next Bellion in the next 30 years...