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The Manchester United legend Roy Keane retired last May and he has never considered coaching or other jobs hinted by his previous club.

Instead, the media is buzzing right now as Niall Quinn who function as the chairman and manager of Sunderland is bent on getting the former player at all cost instead of settling for Martin O’Neill and Sam Allardyce for the managerial position expected to bring salvation to their fate.

Arsene Wenger played a pshychological warfare with Ashley Cole by keeping him out of the Premier League opener sending a message that they are open to transfer him to another team.

About a year ago, Ashley Cole backstabbed Arsenal by talking to Chelsea officials for a possible transfer without the knowledge of his club, though, the deal has not materialized but interest and negotiations between the two clubs have risen following the exclusion of Ashley from the lineup.

Does Arsenal Want to Keep Cole?

They are saying one thing but they are doing the opposite. They have setup a smoke screen to appease Ashley Cole by declaring their willingness to move him and by leaving him out of the team lineup, they are placing more weight on where they stand.

Manchester United cannot screw this season up as massive number of fans has declared their allegiance to the English super power house by chipping in to break record sales for most number of tickets sold in the permiership, which now stands at 67,500.

Manchester is a great team but it’s quite impressive for them to manage outgunning everyone else in ticket sales because of controversies surronding it’s players.

It’s obviously no brainer that Reyes’ denial of his interested transfer to Real Madrid was meant to shut everyone up and appease his club to put him in a better bargaining position. He is no superstar and could not make any Christian Ronaldo type stunt; but accept the fact that he needs to bow down to get decisions in favor of him. Well, you better shut yourself up too, because you are just another card to be dealt with.

Ferguson is lying when he said their parting with their scoring Machine Ruud Van Nistelrooy was “very painful”. He plotted it, wanted it, and drove him out of Old Trafford; but what he doesn’t realize is that the parting with his prized striker is going to get more painful than he thought as the season starts and progress deep into the year.

As Ferguson says: It’s how they react and adapt to being left out that counts. Ruud was different in that way and so that’s what happened.

Van Nistelrooy scored 150 goals for United in 219 games, but was dropped during their final game with Wigan Athletic in favour of France striker Louis Saha.

Carrick was given the number of Manchester legend Roy Keane, 16, who already retired from the games. The number is directly a message telling all fans to expect a legend like future from the 25-year-old former Spur.

Do the club’s expectations a little too high?

But, did they pay more to justify the expectations?

Manchester United made the young player the fifth most expensive signing of the club at £14 million and probably £4.6 million more depending on club’s success this season. The details of
what constitutes success has not been reported but anything less than leadership on standings is considered a failure, I assume.

Patrick Viera is the latest player to be dealt out of Juventus and both Manchester United and Inter Milan are in the hunt for veteran midfielder.

The French midfielder expressed his desire to leave the club and is certain he’s going to leave Juventus because of it’s relegation to Serie B – I will certainly not be playing for Juventus next season after they were relegated to Serie B.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy is finally happy to settle down in his dream team, Real Madrid, after he fell out of grace from Alex Ferguson over Christian Ronaldo and his antics. As posted previously, no matter what Alex Ferguson says, Ruud is going to be dealt out of Manchester United, and true enough it did not take too long to kick him out of the English club.

He is a very happy man to play in what he calls as the greatest team in the world; he adds that he is somehow nervous on his move to a team like Real. What? If I may ask, what is he nervous of? Sitting on the bench?

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez made a good decision in acquiring Jermaine Pennant from Arsenal despite his reckless driving, alcoholic behavior and attitude problems.

Was it Risky to sign Jermaine?

Who cares? At £6.7million, the winger they acquired ranks number 1 in Premiership with 497 crosses last season, a feat bigger than what was paid for him. They got a superb right-midfield player sans his attitude, for almost £6.0million less than what was asked for by Sevilla for Daniel Alves.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy is politically used to increase his value before Alex Ferguson milks and acceptable amount of money out of his transfer.

His feud with Christian Ronaldo, the increase in playing time for Louis Saha and his exclusion from Roy Keane’s retirement celebration game does not seem to favor Ruud; enough to believe Alex Ferguson’s public announcement which says he ain’t going anywhere and shall be in an United shirts when the season starts.