[BrianCappellieri]

FERGIE: VIEIRA WANTED TO JOIN UNITED

Sir Alex Ferguson has claimed Arsenal midfielder Patrick Vieira wanted to join Manchester United last season, but the move was blocked by the Highbury board...
Sporting Life

Gunners hold fire on Fergie taunts

Arsenal will not seek to extend their feud with Manchester United into the new season, despite a fresh bout of taunts from Sir Alex Ferguson about his biggest rivals...
SoccerNet

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For my thoughts on this, go to www.arsenalamerica.com

[HighburyGoon]

He's such an ass.

[Gunnersaurus]

Looks like he's trying to psych up his own players, as if they don't have swell enough heads to start off with...

-G. Rex

[JohnW]

One more reason to hate ManU and Fergie.

[Coach_McGuirk]

Does this mean that, deep down inside, we all want to be Man U fans as well?

Geez, didn't he learn anything from last season? Mind games with Arsene only end up making HIM look like an idiot. And that excellent disciplinary record was certainly on display when Arsenal went to Manchester and took home a certain trophy with them.

[revelation]

Who is this guy? Isn't he some escapee from a mental ward that has no ideas since his assistant left him? Why bother with him?

BTW - Why would Viera want to leave a double winning side to go somewhere that failed to bring any silverware last season?

[dwinkler]

They would all like to come here. Vieira would have loved to have come here last year but they wouldn't let him. Players will always want to go to a better club. That's life.

How would Red Nose know that Vieira wanted to play at ManUre unless he had approached him illegally?

Ferguson's undoubtedly a great manager who's finally met his match. Used to jousting with the Kevin Keegans of the world, his attempts at what he thinks are mind games fall flat every time.

[dwinkler]

Here's The Fiver's take:

After breaking the British transfer record three times, griping at losing the championship, swearing at the inestimable gentlemen of the press, not to mention spending more time playing mind-games than he does with his nags (horses, not Neville brothers), wouldn't it be awful - wouldn't it just simply be terrible - if the Imperial Lord Ferg went on to vacate his plush mansion in Premiership Street with barely a shiny pot on the mantelpiece.

That was the outlandish possibility that settled on the Fiver's shoulders this morning when we heard Fergie broadcast his latest opinions loud and clear through that hated channel, the media. Apparently, Manchester United are the biggest and bestest club in the world, better than anyone else, and especially better than Arsenal whose captain - M P Vieira BA - would rather play for United than Arsenal any day of the week. Not that the Ferg actually knows that for sure of course, because that might well have constituted an illegal approach to a contracted player.

"Players will always want to go to a bigger club. That's life. They would all like to come here." That is the Ferg speaking, if you were wondering. "Patrick Vieira would have loved to have come here last year but they wouldn't let him." Oh those Southern meanies. "We have the best disciplinary record in the country. We score the most goals. We entertain the most." Yes, it's the Ferg. "And we put more into winning a game than any other team in the world. I am lucky. I am working for the best club in the world." Now, after all that, reconsider the outlandish scenario of the opening paragraph. After such a confident outburst, retiring with no trophies would leave any
manager with a red face. Even one who's already got one.

[fox point fury]

Sounds like the baby needs to be changed.