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England aint qualifying bro :lol:

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Manchester United first-team coach Rene Meulensteen has denied stepping down or being sacked and says he will report for duty at the club at the start of July.

Sir Alex Ferguson retired as manager at the end of the season and it was announced shortly afterwards that assistant boss Mike Phelan and goalkeeping coach Eric Steele had also left their roles.

David Moyes is keen to get his own backroom team in place and it was thought that Meulensteen may also depart Old Trafford.

The Dutchman has been linked with a move to Wigan Athletic to replace Roberto Martinez and his future still appears unclear, but he insists there have been no developments yet and he is still in a job with United.

He told Dutch football magazine ELF Voetbal: "So far I will report on July 1. I am still under contract at the club.

"I didn't step down, and also I was not sacked by Manchester United. I am still employed."

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11682/8756024

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Manchester United started work on Monday to replace the Old Trafford pitch by committing to £800,000 part-synthetic surface.

The United ground-staff started to slowly remove the turf which ‘collapsed’ under the weight of heavy rain in December 2012, it will be replaced with a brand new Desso surface which is similar to that used at Wembley Stadium.

The Old Trafford pitch has not been changed since the start of the 2003-2004 season and the ground staff have been working really hard to keep it up to standard during the last five months of the season.

The work will continue through-out June and all be ready to go for the next fixture which is the Rio Ferdinand testimonial on Friday 9th August 2013.

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Rooney would be happy to fill that position in the future, but he is keen to have more chances to play up front beforehand.

 

"In the years to come, that might be somewhere I could play, but, right now, I'm definitely a centre-forward. I'm after more goals," Rooney told Four Four Two magazine.

 

"I've played up front on my own a few times for Manchester United and it's a role I'm very comfortable with and have no problems playing.

 

"When you play as a target man, you have to stay up front and help the team out by holding the ball up and waiting for support. That all comes with experience.

 

"It's a good role for me to play, and hopefully I can continue doing well there."

 

:rofl: @ Rooney thinking he will ever be first choice in 4-5-1/4-3-3 leading the line whilst RVP is at the club

 

Fuck outta here

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He wants all the glory. Wasn't long ago when he was saying his favourite position is behind the striker and how he tries to model his game on Jari Litamanen. And now he wants to be a 9 again, smh. PSG or Monaco need to hurry up and buy this mug.

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Manchester United are set to make their first signing of the summer, with 20 year old fullback Guillermo Varela flying to England to tie up a move from Penarol.

Varela spent some time on trial at Old Trafford last month as the club ran the rule over the Uruguayan youngster and apparently they liked what they saw as a move is set to be completed imminently.

Journalist Mark Lacaze, who covers Penarol extensively, tweeted last night that Varela, along with Penarol's treasurer Rodolfo Catino, travelled to England to finalise the move:

El dirigente de Peñarol @rodolfocatino es quien acompaña a Guille Varela en su viaje a Inglaterra para firmar con Manchester United.

— Marcos Lacaze (@MLacaze) June 6, 2013

(The leader of Peñarol @ RodolfoCatino is with Guille Varela who accompanied him on his trip to England to sign for Manchester United.)

Catino also tweeted:

En el aeropuerto de San Pablo esperando la conexión a Londres , el guille un valor

— Rodolfo Catino (@RodolfoCatino) June 6, 2013

(In San Pablo airport waiting for a connection to London, the value of Guille)

Lacaze claimed the deal was worth €1.8m (£1.5million) and that United were keen to tie up the deal before the defender headed off to Turkey for the u20 World Cup.

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Robin Van Persie warns United training methods mean that he can only get better

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By Simon Mullock | 8 Jun 2013 22:30

Robin Van Persie has warned that he is only going to get better.

Van Persie’s scored 30 goals in his first season at Manchester United and won the Premier League.

But even as he approaches his 30th birthday, the Dutchman has revealed that he is so desperate to improve that he even takes his work home with him.

Van Persie gets United’s coaching staff to compile a weekly DVD to help him learn from his mistakes.

He said: “When Sir Alex Ferguson told me he wanted to sign me from Arsenal last year, I said to him that I was still improving as a player.

“I may be 29 now, but everything I do in training is tailored so that I can ­become a better footballer.

“That includes watching DVDs of ­myself. I started doing it when I was at Arsenal. Steve Rowley, who is the head of scouting at the club, used to make me a DVD of all my actions from every game.

“I would collect a new one every Monday morning and I could not wait to watch it ­because it enabled me to study both my good moments and my bad moments in every game I played.

“When I was younger, that kind of ­attention to detail was not possible.

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“Now I get a full understanding of whether I made the right or wrong choices in every game. I have continued to do that at United. Sometimes you think you have done okay in a game but, when you watch it again from a different angle, you realise that there were better ­options you could have taken. I find that kind of detail so ­important for my own development.

“It is not about watching my goals again. It is about identifying mistakes and the desire to improve. I want to learn all the time.”

Van Persie, who has been made ­captain of Holland on their tour to the Far East, insists he has learned from every manager he has played under.

But he admitted that the way United tailored training sessions last season was a real eye-opener.

Van Persie said: “I have been lucky to work with many great managers.

“Bert van Marwijk at Feyenoord and Holland, Marco van Basten and Louis van Gaal at Holland and Arsene Wenger at Arsenal. I learned something from every single one of them, yet the great thing about working under Sir Alex last season was the level of expertise.

“I loved the way Sir Alex and the coach Rene Meulensteen prepared us for matches. They would design ­training sessions to suit both the team and the individual.

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“It was like being a musician in an orchestra. We had a conductor and when everybody did his job the way he was expected to do it, the end product was fantastic.

“We used to train all week on a certain pattern with our attacking play.

“Every detail had to be right, but if we scored on Saturday using the things we had learned in training then the joy was incredible.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/robin-van-persie-warns-united-1940319

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He wants all the glory. Wasn't long ago when he was saying his favourite position is behind the striker and how he tries to model his game on Jari Litamanen. And now he wants to be a 9 again, smh. PSG or Monaco need to hurry up and buy this mug.

 

lool

 

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that team goal video was sick

 

Nani's goal vs the chavs >>

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Seen quotes from Dennis Irwin on ESPN think it was. He was saying United are gonna move heaven and earth to sign Fabregas. Also movements for Baines and Luke Shaw and that Evra and Nani would probably go Monaco...... Dunno how good Dennis is as a source but he apparently was the one who dropped the whole RVP to United thing first as well.

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