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Oh and YES ]]> http://redarmy.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=1078 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 07:51:46 +0100 http://redarmy.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=1078
You have to search deep into football’s history to find someone of his kind of class and honour. Players like that don’t seem to exist any more. There might be no knighthoods, no MBEs or OBEs, but every single team-mate will say he is the best they have ever played with. And every player he had played against, including Xavi and Zinedine Zidane, would say he is the best midfielder they have faced. Every fan or every club, no matter who they support, loves the way Paul Scholes plays.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz26c11vM5j]]>
You have to search deep into football’s history to find someone of his kind of class and honour. Players like that don’t seem to exist any more. There might be no knighthoods, no MBEs or OBEs, but every single team-mate will say he is the best they have ever played with. And every player he had played against, including Xavi and Zinedine Zidane, would say he is the best midfielder they have faced. Every fan or every club, no matter who they support, loves the way Paul Scholes plays.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz26c11vM5j]]> http://redarmy.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=1075 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:44:37 +0100 http://redarmy.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=1075 http://redarmy.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=1070 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:57:01 +0100 http://redarmy.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=1070
The three-metre tall bronze statue will go on a canopy to be built outside the North Stand/Sir Alex Ferguson Stand.

United announced last year that they had commissioned Philip Jackson, an award-winning fellow Scot, to make the tribute. – a celebration of his 25 years at the helm.

Read the full article ]]>
The three-metre tall bronze statue will go on a canopy to be built outside the North Stand/Sir Alex Ferguson Stand.

United announced last year that they had commissioned Philip Jackson, an award-winning fellow Scot, to make the tribute. – a celebration of his 25 years at the helm.

Read the full article ]]> http://redarmy.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=1054 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:35:23 +0100 http://redarmy.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=1054 http://redarmy.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=1023 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:36:24 +0100 http://redarmy.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=1023 WHEN Sheikh Al Mansour’s Manchester City take on Borussia Dortmund they will face the man who wants them expelled from the Champions League.
Dortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke has called for heavily-indebted City to be disqualified by UEFA when the Financial Fair Play rules kick in.

City drew Dortmund in a group that includes Real Madrid and Ajax.

But the Borussia vs City face-off is more than a match — it is a clash of cultures.

Watzke saved Borussia after years of mismanagement, huge transfers, sky-high wages and stadium expansion led them to debts of £125million in 2005.

They sold their stadium but Watzke managed to buy it back and ship out the big earners.

During his seven-year stewardship Dortmund have slashed their debts back to £30m, won back-to-back titles and posted a German record £32m pre-tax profit 10 days ago.

The differences with billionaire Al Mansour’s City are staggering.

Borussia’s wage-bill is £40m — a QUARTER of their £162m turnover.

Carlos Tevez and Yaya Toure pocket £10m per season EACH. City posted whopping £194.9m losses last year and their £174m wage-bill was £22m MORE than their turnover.

Dortmund retained the title in 2012 despite losing Nuri Sahin to Madrid for just £8m.

But even that was an example of good housekeeping, Borussia accepted the bargain get-out clause in the contract to keep his salary low and balance the books.

They are favourites for a Bundesliga hat-trick this season even after Shinji Kagawa’s sale to Manchester United with the £12m fee not even included in this year’s record profits.

They manage to do all this with ticket prices ranging from just £11.50 to £52. You pay as little as £170 for a season ticket — £620 is the priciest — and they throw in the Champions League matches for that price!

Borussia’s average gate last season was 80,552, Europe’s highest.

Watzke makes no secret that he hates the approach of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and Sheik Mansour. he says: “Financial Fair Play (FFP) means clubs can’t spend more than they receive.

“It’s over for Italian tycoons, Russian oligarchs and sheikhs that buy clubs for personal fun and spend billions just because life in a yacht is boring.

“Manchester City lost £195m with the spending of their Abu Dhabi investors.

“From 2014-15 such clubs will be threatened with exclusion from the Champions League.

“This is not about German virtue against southern European profligacy or Arab football immorality. Such businessmen existed in German football too and had success even at Dortmund.

“We must allow a football culture to prevail. It allowed Dortmund to win two titles by having a good structure, a healthy fan base, a full stadium and a patient, financially viable policy.”

In a swipe at City, whose £350m deal with Etihad airlines (owned by the United Arab Emirates government who have close links with Sheikh Al Mansour) has come under UEFA scrutiny, Watzke insists: “UEFA must find the thin line between sponsorship and excessive back-door funding. They must show strength to expel big clubs.

“No tycoon should be allowed to pump crazy money into a club with sponsorship from five companies he controls. If that happens FFP will fail.”

Watzke likens City with big-spending Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala, who pay Sam Eto’o £17.5m a season, and Malaga, who reached the Champions League under Arab owners who ran into trouble and slashed costs. They ended up flogging stars like £25m-rated Santi Cazorla to Arsenal for just £16m.

He added: “I doubt Eto’o can earn £17.5m a year from a club that has nothing. It’s sick.

“With FFP this club should never play in European competitions. It will be as tough for Malaga and Manchester City. They will have a massive problem when FFP is implemented.”

The customary pre-match meal between both sets of directors when City play Dortmund promises to be rather spicy.]]> WHEN Sheikh Al Mansour’s Manchester City take on Borussia Dortmund they will face the man who wants them expelled from the Champions League.
Dortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke has called for heavily-indebted City to be disqualified by UEFA when the Financial Fair Play rules kick in.

City drew Dortmund in a group that includes Real Madrid and Ajax.

But the Borussia vs City face-off is more than a match — it is a clash of cultures.

Watzke saved Borussia after years of mismanagement, huge transfers, sky-high wages and stadium expansion led them to debts of £125million in 2005.

They sold their stadium but Watzke managed to buy it back and ship out the big earners.

During his seven-year stewardship Dortmund have slashed their debts back to £30m, won back-to-back titles and posted a German record £32m pre-tax profit 10 days ago.

The differences with billionaire Al Mansour’s City are staggering.

Borussia’s wage-bill is £40m — a QUARTER of their £162m turnover.

Carlos Tevez and Yaya Toure pocket £10m per season EACH. City posted whopping £194.9m losses last year and their £174m wage-bill was £22m MORE than their turnover.

Dortmund retained the title in 2012 despite losing Nuri Sahin to Madrid for just £8m.

But even that was an example of good housekeeping, Borussia accepted the bargain get-out clause in the contract to keep his salary low and balance the books.

They are favourites for a Bundesliga hat-trick this season even after Shinji Kagawa’s sale to Manchester United with the £12m fee not even included in this year’s record profits.

They manage to do all this with ticket prices ranging from just £11.50 to £52. You pay as little as £170 for a season ticket — £620 is the priciest — and they throw in the Champions League matches for that price!

Borussia’s average gate last season was 80,552, Europe’s highest.

Watzke makes no secret that he hates the approach of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and Sheik Mansour. he says: “Financial Fair Play (FFP) means clubs can’t spend more than they receive.

“It’s over for Italian tycoons, Russian oligarchs and sheikhs that buy clubs for personal fun and spend billions just because life in a yacht is boring.

“Manchester City lost £195m with the spending of their Abu Dhabi investors.

“From 2014-15 such clubs will be threatened with exclusion from the Champions League.

“This is not about German virtue against southern European profligacy or Arab football immorality. Such businessmen existed in German football too and had success even at Dortmund.

“We must allow a football culture to prevail. It allowed Dortmund to win two titles by having a good structure, a healthy fan base, a full stadium and a patient, financially viable policy.”

In a swipe at City, whose £350m deal with Etihad airlines (owned by the United Arab Emirates government who have close links with Sheikh Al Mansour) has come under UEFA scrutiny, Watzke insists: “UEFA must find the thin line between sponsorship and excessive back-door funding. They must show strength to expel big clubs.

“No tycoon should be allowed to pump crazy money into a club with sponsorship from five companies he controls. If that happens FFP will fail.”

Watzke likens City with big-spending Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala, who pay Sam Eto’o £17.5m a season, and Malaga, who reached the Champions League under Arab owners who ran into trouble and slashed costs. They ended up flogging stars like £25m-rated Santi Cazorla to Arsenal for just £16m.

He added: “I doubt Eto’o can earn £17.5m a year from a club that has nothing. It’s sick.

“With FFP this club should never play in European competitions. It will be as tough for Malaga and Manchester City. They will have a massive problem when FFP is implemented.”

The customary pre-match meal between both sets of directors when City play Dortmund promises to be rather spicy.]]> http://redarmy.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=1007 Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:52:39 +0100 http://redarmy.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=1007 http://redarmy.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=976 Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:39:48 +0100 http://redarmy.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=976