Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has compared in-form striker Wayne Rooney to Brazilian legend Pele ahead of his side’s Champions League clash with Benfica on Wednesday.
The Portuguese club’s coach Jorge Jesus had earlier in the week stated that Rooney was ‘more Brazilian or Argentinian’ than English, and the Scot has stated that his player has similarities with a number of the past greats of the game.
“Look at Pele. He was a very aggressive attacker as well who could look after himself. So can Rooney. There are similarities that way in strength, speed and determination,” he told Sky Sports.
Despite the Benfica trainer’s thoughts however, Ferguson believes Rooney typifies the qualities of a strong British player, and has compared him to former home-grown attackers.
“Wayne is a typical British player. But there have been British players who have great qualities that made them great players.
“(Paul) Gascoigne, George Best, Bobby Charlton and Denis Law. The similarities are that the boy has great courage. He wants to play all the time. He has incredible stamina. These are added extras to the talent he has,” Ferguson concluded.
Benfica will need to mark Rooney tightly when the sides meet at the Estadio da Luz on Wednesday, as the England international has been in scintillating form, scoring eight goals in four matches including back-to-back hat-tricks against Arsenal and Bolton.
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Darren Bent’s scoring record speaks for itself. Since his difficult spell as a bit-part player at Tottenham ended, Bent has produced the goods week in, week out in three Premier League seasons with Sunderland and Aston Villa. He has scored 41 goals in the last two Premier League campaigns – more than any other English striker.
Bent’s record in the England youth teams is no different. He produced nine goals in 14 games for the under-21 side, having managed three in three at under-19 level. And yet, in the five years since his England debut, the pre-World Cup 2006 friendly against Uruguay at Anfield, Bent has amassed just 11 caps. He started his first competitive international when England faced Wales in Cardiff back in March (and scored). In all, Bent has four goals in those 11 appearances – not bad as half of them were cameo run-outs as a substitute.
And yet whenever Bent’s name is seen in an England squad, even now, he appears to inspire only doubt and concern among national team supporters. It is as if Bent is becoming the 2010s equivalent of his current club teammate, Emile Heskey. He has neither the trust nor the confidence of the England faithful, and except for the few minutes after he scores, it is none too difficult to find yourself a fellow detractor with whom to share a complaint about his performance.
Are England fans right to doubt Bent’s value in the national shirt, though? This is a man who has demonstrated an instinctive predatorial ability ever since he burst onto the Championship scene at Ipswich Town, forming an unstoppable strike combination with Shefki Kuqi. (I know that sounds absurd, but I watched them a lot, so trust me.) Only Wayne Rooney among English strikers challenges Bent’s strike rate over the duration of his Premier League career – the likes of Jermain Defoe, Peter Crouch, Ashley Young et al are lagging some way behind.
There are certainly elements of Bent’s game which appear to diminish his value to Fabio Capello’s squad. Bent tends to be very quiet for spells of a game when his team is in the ascendancy; although there are signs of him developing the ability to drop deep and link up in a Villa shirt, it has never been a strength of his and it is yet to be witnessed of him at national level. As a result, his work rate has often been criticised as sub-standard for an England player.
Bent is much more comfortable, quite clearly, using his pace and power to lead the line, making runs off the last defender for through balls and poking in loose balls in scrambled penalty area situations. I have also heard criticisms of his passing and he either does not possess, or at least has never showcased, a regular ability or affinity to shoot from range.
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It should be remembered, though, that these are not the skills on which Bent’s career has been built. He is, purely and simply, a goalscorer. He is a proven goalscorer who now has a decade of experience of leading a line. In six Premier League seasons since leaving Ipswich, Bent has scored 92 goals in 209 Premier League appearances. And in the post-Rooney preparations for England’s 2012 European Championships, a record of practically one goal in two should be enough to merit Bent a prominent role in the construction of England’s new strike force.
Manchester United face stiff competition for the signature of Paulo Henrique Ganso’s signature with Italian giants AC Milan lining up a January bid according to the Metro.
Sir Alex Ferguson has had the 21-year-old Brazilian’s progress monitored throughout his time at Santos and is convinced he can fit straight into the young side he is currently building.
But the Red Devils boss now has to two major obstacles to overcome if he wants to bring the talented playmaker to Old Trafford with the price tag on his shoulders and Milan’s interest potential stumbling blocks.
The Serie A side haven’t exactly kept their intentions under wraps with coach Massimiliano Allegri desperate to bring one of South America’s rising stars to the San Siro in January.
Santos will settle for nothing less than half of the £40 million buyout clause in Ganso’s contract with the Rossoneri set to bid £21 million when the transfer window opens.
United will either have to match or exceed that offer and also persuade the midfielder that his future lies in England as opposed to Italy where he could link up with international teammates Alexandre Pato, Thiago Silva and Robinho.
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Whilst United have a Brazilian trio of their own in the form of Anderson and the Da Silva twins they aren’t as involved in the national squad which could prove to be a hinderance to their chances of securing his services
A radical plan to reform youth football in England was announced last month in order to improve the quality of our national team and give youngsters the best possible chance of making it in the beautiful game.
The current system was deemed not strong enough according to the Director of Football Development at the FA, Sir Trevor Brooking in his FA youth development review taken place earlier this year. This coincided with the arrival of Gareth Southgate as the head of elite development and he had an input in the development revue alongside Sir Trevor.
In the old system children from the age of 10 and above were being thrown onto full size pitches and had to learn to adapt to them, whereas the new review will ensure no youth player will play on an 11-a side pitch until they are 13. The winning mentality was also pressured onto children at a young age; and that will be tough to shy away from; but that is going to be withdrawn, with games having smaller, or no goals, to focus on skill and first touch rather than getting the ball in the goal.
The current 11 a side leagues at ages of 13 and below will slowly come to an end and 9-a side leagues will be introduced to improve touch and skill to add to the smaller goals which will improve accuracy and finesse.
Another criticism is that competitive football was introduced to early which is unhealthy for young children as it can dent their confidence and change the style of football that they play. The age of competitive football will be raised to ensure that leagues and cups are no longer available until the age of nine when the 7-a side game is introduced.
The extra hours and facilities that have been insisted in the plan; that all 20 Premier League clubs agreed to this year; will give youngsters aged nine to 16 up to 20 hours of coaching a week, a huge rise from the current five hours a week that is on average spent with the youth teams in Premier League clubs. The rise will give the chance for more coaches to get involved as well as the coaches getting to see the real strengths and weaknesses of a player in depth.
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Some have said that the amount foreign players coming to English game has affected the level of home-grown talent, but there were 222 English-qualified players who played first-team football in the Premier League last season, surely that is enough to find 11 to perform in international competition. Time will tell if Mr Capello can select a squad good enough to have a chance at the Euro’s next year but this tournament will just be the start of what the FA hopes will be a long term success of their scheme.
The scheme is hoped to be fully functional by 2014 and that could create a whole new era of English football, making the nation more competitive and producing more, talented players.
However, could the FA have gone a different way of putting together this plan? You would have thought that the big wigs would have hired the help of the people who know more about academy football in this country than anyone else, namely, Tony Carr.
The head of Youth Development at West Ham United is famous for consistently bringing through young stars over his 38 years of coaching at Upton Park. There is no man in English football with a better history or experience than Carr, so should he not have lead any plan into reforming youth football.
Carr had seven players in the England World Cup squad last summer that have come through his youth system including John Terry, Frank Lampard and Rio Ferdinand, showing what a dominance he could have over the English game and surely his expertise could have been used this summer.
With the likes of Jermaine Defoe, Michael Carrick and Glen Johnson struggling for first team football at their respective clubs, Carr’s players may be victim of being edged out by foreign players that will infuriate the East End born coach and you would like to think he had some answers to questions posed by the FA during the reform.
While cleaning the boots of Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst as a youngster, Carr said he dreamt of becoming a professional footballer but was declared not good enough by West Ham and he turned his attention to coaching, which he has been doing ever since. Football fans, managers and players alike, all around the country will sit up and listen when a coach of Carr’s experience has ideas so why didn’t the suits at the FA?
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With clubs such as Southampton, Leeds United, Everton and Middlesbrough having fantastic youth systems that were equally not involved in the new reform, surely firsthand experience will be more relevant than numbers on a page for the future of English football.
Tony Pulis will be demanding his side take all three points against relegation threatened Blackburn at the Britannia Stadium on Saturday lunchtime and avoid a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
The Potters were narrowly beaten by QPR last weekend losing out by the odd goal in five although Pulis will be disappointed that his players were outperformed by the newly promoted side. The defeat was Stoke’s seventh from their last eight games and they now sit in 14th just three points above the relegation zone. It was another performance that promised so much but delivered so little as the Potters once again as they started the game brightly with Jon Walters opening the scoring after eight minutes. However they faded drastically as the game wore on allowing Rangers to see it out with ease. Their entry into this season’s Europa League has certainly put a massive burden on them with league performances suffering as a result and they’ve struggled to string a consistent run of positive results together. Pressurising their opponents high up the field has been a huge factor in the clubs success over the past few years but their exploits on the continent have sapped energy levels giving their opponents the edge. The Britannia, which was labelled a fortress after the avoided defeat until the end of October, has now bore witness to consecutive defeats for the first time this season. Confidence is clearly low at the Potteries and Pulis will need his big hitters to get them out of this rut with the likes of Peter Crouch and Matthew Etherington anonymous against QPR on Saturday. The visit of Blackburn this weekend will give them a real chance to get out of their rut and get a win on board before the frantic festive period begins.
Rovers seem to have forgot how to win games having failed to emerge victorious from their last seven games since beating Arsenal 4-3 at Ewood Park in September. Boss Steve Kean was once again the subject of negative chants from the away stand during last week’s 3-3 draw with Wigan although both parties will be happy with the resilience shown by their side. A last gasp penalty from Yakubu saved Rovers from the ignominy of losing to the rock bottom Latics but it was the never say die attitude that shone through as they kept plugging away until the end despite David Dunn’s sending off. Truth be told they deserved to take all three points away from the North West derby but once again defensive frailties cost them dearly as they saw their goals against tally rise to an alarming 27. Scott Dann looked shaky alongside Christopher Samba who had to cover two positions at times whilst Michel Salgado’s age finally caught up with him. The back four will be vital against a brutish Stoke attack who take no prisoners when marauding forward with their physical approach likely to prove a huge problem to the Rovers rearguard. However should they combat and excel over the Potters forwards then they should stand a chance with goals no longer hard to come with Yakubu and Junior Hoilett supplying goals on a regular basis with the pair contributing five of the six scored in the last three games. The chances of them winning are high with Stoke looking frail and although three points wouldn’t lift them out of the relegation zone it would certainly boost confidence levels at Ewood Park. Saying that they’ve managed to remain unbeaten in the last three on their travels.
Stoke – 14th
Last Five: Lost 3-2 v QPR (H) Lost 5-0 v Bolton (A), Lost 3-1 v Newcastle (H), Lost 3-1 v Arsenal (A), Won 2-0 v Fulham (H)
Potential Starting X11: 1. A. Begovic 28. A. Wilkinson 17. R. Shawcross [C] 4. Robert Huth 12. M. Wilson 16. J. Pennant 6. G. Whelan 24. R. Delap 26. M. Etherington* 19. J. Walters 25. P. Crouch
Injury News: Tony Pulis has no new injuries to worry about with Mamady Sidibie out long-term with a knee tendon problem.
Key Player: Matthew Etherington
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Despite a few under-par performances in the last couple of games the winger is still a danger whenever the ball is at his feet. His speed and trickery haven’t been utilised as much as usual by Stoke with Pulis opting for a long ball approach that hasn’t paid dividends. Using Etherington more often could be the key to ending their barren run of form with his ability to bring the ball out of defence and use it wisely in the final third vitally important to the clubs attacking game.
Match Fact: Stoke have a strong record against Blackburn beating them in four out of the six Premier League meetings keeping five clean sheets in the process and have won the last three.
Former Liverpool and Everton defender Gary Ablett has died at the age of 46, succumbing to cancer on Sunday night.
Ablett was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 16 months ago, and leaves behind his wife Jacqueline and three children.
Ablett’s last role in the game was as manager of Stockport in 2009-10, and the League Managers Association revealed his death.
“On behalf of Gary Ablett’s family the LMA has today confirmed that Gary passed away peacefully last night following a hard fought 16-month battle against non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,” an LMA statement reads.
“Respected throughout the game by players, coaches and managers alike Gary will be sadly missed.
“The LMA’s thoughts and condolences are with Gary’s wife Jacqueline and children,” it concluded.
Condolences have come flooding in from many in the game, with Kenny Dalglish leading the tributes to his former player.
“It’s a sad, sad day for his family and everyone connected with Liverpool Football Club,” he told The Reds official website.
“The most important thing just now is to pay our respects to Gary, his wife Jacqueline, the two boys and his wee girl.
“Obviously he had a long battle and I’m sure it was a lot of suffering and a lot of pain for him but the only thing you can say is at least he won’t be suffering any longer.
“I gave Gary his debut and remember him scoring on his first start at Anfield against Nottingham Forest.
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“He was a really good servant to the football club not only as a player, but also as reserve team coach.
“He served the club proudly and credibly. It’s very sad for everybody,” he commented.
Carlos Tevez’s adviser Kia Joorabchian is set for talks with French side Paris Saint-Germain on Friday over a possible transfer, according to The Telegraph.
The Argentina international is currently back in his homeland after going AWOL from Manchester City training; this was the last straw for the Etihad Stadium club, who are now eager to offload the South American in January.
AC Milan and Inter have been the frontrunners for the attacker’s signature, and it is believed that Claudio Ranieri’s men still hold out hope of meeting City’s asking price for Tevez and bringing him to Italy.
Scudetto holders Milan meanwhile have dropped their interest in Tevez for the time being, as they were eager to secure his services on a loan basis but the Premier League leaders would prefer an outright sale.
Milan and PSG’s pursuit of Tevez has changed recently as Alexandre Pato turned down a move to Carlo Ancelotti’s side, which has sparked a revitalised interest from the Ligue 1 leaders.
The Telegraph state that talks will begin on Friday, with City looking to recoup around £30 million in selling Tevez.
PSG are backed by the Qatari Investment Authority, and paid a similar price to secure the services of Tevez’s countryman Javier Pastore in the summer.
By Gareth McKnight
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Steven Gerrard and Roberto Mancini were embroiled in a tunnel bust-up last night in the wake of Liverpool’s 1-0 win at the Etihad Stadium. The Reds skipper accused the Italian of double standards, as Mancini was fuming that Glen Johnson should have been shown a red for a late challenge on Joleon Lescott.
Elsewhere in the news Demba Ba clarifies agent clams; John Terry plays down injury, while Mark Hughes targets January signings.
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Demba Ba clarifies agent claims amid rumours
Luis Suarez targeting silverware
Van Persie urged to stay at the Emirates
Michael Carrick focussed on role
John Terry plays down talk
Vincent Kompany airs concerns
Queens Park Rangers target signings
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Spurs launch bid for Samba to stop defender joining QPR – Daily Mail
Palace whizkid Zaha told: Don’t sign for Liverpool – Mirror
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Everton line up Man Utd’s Gibson – BBC
Fed-up Chelsea warn Cahill: It’s now or never – Mirror
Toon snubbed in £500,000 bid to sign United teenage contract rebel Morrison – Daily Mail
When you start off reading a football autobiography, your hopes aren’t always that high. Perhaps a few inside stories on players you know, insight into managers, the odd anecdote – the usual stuff. Having said that, nothing quite prepared me for the contents of this book. I had fairly clear memories of Andy Morrison, and his role in the resurgence of Manchester City football club. I knew he liked a drink, that his knees had caused him trouble, and that his role at City didn’t last that long for those reasons. Little did I know just what else had gone on in his amazing, and often shocking life.
Morrison was born in Kinlochbervie, a small fishing village of 500 people a 100 miles north of Inverness. He had a happy childhood, but at a young age, took the 750 mile journey south with 3 brothers to Plymouth as his father moved away for work. Morrison clearly fears and respects his father in equal measures. He is described as a tough man who helped shape his son. Soon his parents had split up, but his focus turned towards football, and aged 10, he was selected for Plymouth schoolboys. As he grew older, his football skills developed at Plymouth, but there was a new thing in his life too. Alcohol.
“The booze cured me of my chronic shyness. I felt relaxed and the world was a better place. Drink filled in the void in my life and I knew from that moment on, I had something I could turn to when I need to blot out a memory or just feel better about myself.”
And with alcohol came fighting, and lots of it with his elder brother Ian, as they tried to be like their father, who himself wasn’t averse to the odd “scrap”.
Nights out almost inevitably ended in violence, and the consequences often spread to his football career. The fans didn’t mind, as long as he did the business on the pitch, and he was a fans’ favourite wherever he went because he was a leader, who always gave his all. He seemed fortunate that various managers gave him second (and third) chances and accepted him for what he was. It was even more fortunate that he didn’t end up in prison – fighting even crossed the path of Plymouth football club’s hooligan element.
After over a 100 games for Plymouth, Kenny Dalglish surprisingly signed Morrison up at Blackburn as he began building his title-winning side, in 1992. Morrison got few opportunities there though, now a small fish in a big pond. Missing Plymouth, depression began to set in for the first time also. It also marked a cycle of fights with team-mates – the red mist often descended under the influence of alcohol, memories of what happened hazy or non-existent most of the time.
Eventually Morrison moved to Blackpool, experiencing more success, though once more violence reared its ugly head, Morrison narrowly avoiding prison after a fight. On the day he was cleared, the night’s celebrations ended with yet another fight, and another escape from the arm of the law.
But on the pitch, a disastrous collapse meant Blackpool blew an almost nailed-on promotion push, and Morrison soon moved to Huddersfield under Brian Horton. It wasn’t long before injuries started damaging his career, and a serious knee injury meant he only played sporadically for the Terriers over three seasons.
And then came Manchester City, in 1998. Joe Royle needed a leader in the City dressing room, where morale was rock-bottom in the third tier of English football – the rest is history. Morrison’s arrival made all the difference along with a few other shrewd signings, and the season ended at Wembley, and a famous play-off victory over Gillingham.
Soon the knee was controlling his life again though, and Morrison would not feature much more for City – on his return to fitness he made a couple of loan moves to try and reach his previous levels of performance, even returning briefly to Blackpool, but his career was effectively over, and eventually he was forced to retire.
Life didn’t get any simpler though. Cashing in his pension early on retirement landed him in court once more, this time for benefit fraud. His younger brother was lost to a drug overdose, his brother’s propensity for violence led him to prison with a conviction for manslaughter, and his wife had to have a cancerous growth removed – three events that happened within a mere six-month period. And Morrison’s link to violence hadn’t ended either – after turning out for a pub team, a barrage of abuse by three opposition players led to him following them to a pub post-match and wreaking his own brand of revenge.
But somehow he survived, turning his hand to management, and that is how he found himself on the management team at Northwich Victoria, and now in the Welsh Premier League with Airbus UK.
The book stands well against other footballers’ autobiographies, the bland, featureless tomes of recent years having been replaced by a raft of good stories like this or Paul Lake’s. Morrison’s book does not tug at the heart-strings like Lake’s and isn’t as professionally written or as polished, but it is still excellently styled, and pulls no punches, written in an honest, straight-forward manner. Never has the word candid been more apt. There’s so much in there that no incident gets more than a page of comment, so in a book that is not overly-long, you are pushed along on a roller-coaster ride. Morrison does not hold back, his honesty resulting in great criticism of many famous names from the past twenty years of British football, and plenty of praise too. Clearly Joe Royle is the man that he respects more than any other, as it is he who provides the foreword to the book, showing the feeling was mutual.
There are also little gems in there, like the time Shaun Wright Phillips tried to fight him after a bruising first training session together, and who could forget him getting sent off for licking Stan Collymore’s ear? He even ended up at Philosophy School after Willie Donachie helped him to try and defeat his demons. He also ended up in Antigua, coaching youngsters.
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Like Lake’s book, it is not just about football, it at times is barely about football. This is the man who has been charged with a Section 18, wounding with intent, GBH (twice), affray, actual bodily harm ,threatening behaviour, and many public order offences. Morrison does not have to have played for your club for the book to be of interest. In the end, the football is skimmed over much of the time, a backdrop to the craziness of his personal life. At times you feel the relief when you read four pages without anything bad happening to him – but with the anxiety that comes with knowing another fall is just round the corner.
It’s hard not to like Morrison at the end of it all, despite feeling guilty for doing so considering all the wrongs his life has contained. I guess that’s often the way when a story is told from one man’s perspective. But he does not seek to excuse many of his actions, just to explain why his life has taken its particular path. Whatever you think of the man, it’s an interesting read. And let’s hope that he has at last found some peace in his life so that the sport that made his name can provide for him for the foreseeable future. This is an autobiography that is a cut above most you will read.
As fans we have a pretty good idea about our club and indeed the playing staff that represent us every week. As you know, these days clubs have to submit 25-man squad lists to the Premier League upon the eve of the season, detailing all the names that are trusted with delivering some sort of target come May time.
In reality, some in that list may be world beaters scoring the vital goals to boost your side up the table. Some might be young precocious talents, who are fleetingly used every once in a while in the eyes of their development. But then you get the few who define the word ‘utility’. Every squad must possess some depth but football onlookers are often baffled be the retention of certain pros who never really make it into first team contention on any sort of basis.
These are the Premier League’s ‘forgotten’ men and you may hear their names read out over a stadium announcement system once in a blue moon! Strangely inactive in pursuing a loan move also, the following players fill the full roster list but don’t achieve much else! Let us take a look starting with one Norwich City benchwarmer, if that!
Click on the image below to see the Top TEN Prem Forgotten Men
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