FOOTBALLERS WHO BECAME MANAGERS, WHO PLAYED UNDER SIR ALEX FERGUSON.

  So when playing under a manager like Sir Alex Ferguson ,who was the manager of Manchester United for a period of 27,twenty seven years.

 We do expect that these former footballers to have done well as managers, but all have failed.

1) Bryan Robson.

2) Steve Bruce

3)Gary Neville.

4) Philip Neville.

 5) Mark Hughes.

6) Paul Ince.

 7) Roy Keane.

 8) Wayne Rooney. 9) Ryan Giggs.

 And you can add a few fantastic footballers who also failed as managers. Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira.

ARSENAL LACK A REAL LEADER ON TH PITCH.

  Yes it is indeed a very long time sine Arsenal had a real leader on the pitch,a player who lead by example and controlled them on both pitch and  as well as the dressing room.

 They are really missing players who were leaders like Patrick Vieira , Tony Adams and Cesc Fabregas.

 I miss these three players.

ELEVEN BEST FOOTBALLERS TO PLAY FOR ENGLISH CLUBS.

 Over all these  years  there have ben many foreigners to play for English cubs in the English Premier League. But this is made of the very best eleven players, in all the positions.
1) Goalkeeper. Peter Schmeichel . Denmark.
2) Defence Virgil Van Dijk, Holland. Nemanja Vidic. Serbia.  Vincent Komaany. .
3) Midfielders Cristiana Ronaldo. Portugal. Eric Cantona. France. David Silva Spain. Patrick Vieira. France.
 4) Strikers Sergio Aguero. Argentina. Thierry Henry France.

THIERRY HENRY THOUGHT CESC FABREGAS WOULD FAIL AT ARSENAL..

Thierry Henry after seeing the Spanish 16, sixteen year old  train for the first time at Arsenal, he was indeed very sceptical , that Arsene Wenger  had made a major mistake in signing the 16, sixteen year old Spanish midfielder Cesc Fabregas, from the Spanish giants Barcelona..
 On the first day  of training Cesc Fabregas who was only sixteen years a skinny young unknown  boy .
 Thierry Henry even  asked Arsene Wenger {Who the hell this kid is}Cesc Fabregas  he was  wearing a Arsenal jersey which was too long for him looked like a dress on him..
 Arsene Wenger   told Thierry Henry he is Cesc Fabregas and he has won the under 17 world cup in Finland, he has won the Golden Boot as well as well as the man of the tournament.
 Thierry Henry was seriously thinking  if he could  fit in at Arsenal's midfield with Patrick Vieira  Edu, Gilberto D 'Silva and  Robert Pires.
 But that first day Cesc Fabregas let his feet do the talking and held the ball from m Patrick Viera , Robert Pires, Edu, Gilberto D'Silva,
 And the rest is history as they say.
 Cesc Fabregas took jersey number 4, and the armband from Patrick Vieira..

WHEN A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD SPANIARD JOINED ARSENAL ON A FREE TRANSFER.

 In the year 2003 a young sixteen year old Spaniard  joined Arsenal, from the Spanish giants F.C. .Barcelona, he came to Arsenal on a free transfer as well. His name was Cesc Fabregas, he was product of the Barcelona, famous youth Academy called THE LA MASIA, the CASTLE.
 Arsene wenger was famous for sporting as well as nurturing young talent, e always looked to the future. But the deal never was going to be smooth sailing after all.
 Arsene Wenger wanted to see Cesc Fabregas playa game at the Nou Camp,But Barcelona warned Arsene Wenger that he should not enter Barcelona ever. No problem here..
 Arsene Wenger flew down to Helsinki, Finland  to watch the  under 17, seventeen world cup final game. There  Spain won the world cup with goals scored by Cesc Fabregas, who also won the Golden Boot as well.
 He Cesc Fabregas  was brought by Arsenal to replace  Patrick Vieira , who had joined Juventus in Italy. Cesc Fabregas demanded that he be given more paying time at Arsenal, Arsene Wenger agreed and also gave the jersey number 4 for Cesc Fabregas , as well as the armband later on.

FOOTBALLERS TO PLAY FOR BOTH A.C.MILAN AS WELL AS INTER MILAN.

Before I write this article let me give you all a little bit of Milan football history. 1) A.C. Milan and Inter Milan wee one club till the year 1909. When A.C. Milan broke up with he new club called Inter Milan, so both share the SAN SIRO. Inter Milan are the only football club in Italy never to be demoted in their history. When Juventus was demoted into the second division, there was a exodus of players joined Inter Milan and A,C. Milan. A.C.Milan originally was founded by two English brothers , please note the A.C. Milan logo has the GEORGE CROSS on it. These are footballers to play for both Milan clubs. 1) Patrick Vieira. 2) Ronaldo.. 3) Edgar David's, 4) Taribo West. 5)Andres Pirlo. 6) Mario Balotelli. 7) Sully Muntrie. 8) Zlatan Ibrahimovic. All of them were really good. Please note Ronaldo the Brazilian , played for all four giants Barcelona, Real Madrid , Inter Milan and A.C. Milan.

TEN BEST CAPTAINS IN THE ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE.

Over the years there have been many good and famous captains to play in the English Premier League. 1) Alan Shearer. Blackburn and Newcastle United. 2) Roy Keane. Manchester United. 3) Patrick Vieira. Arsenal. 4) Tony Adams . Arsenal. 5) Vincent Kompany. Manchester City. 6) John Terry. Chelsea. 7) Steven Gerrard. Liverpool. 8) Jordan Henderson. Liverpool. 9) Wes Morgan. Leicester City. 10) Nemanja Vidic. Manchester United.

HARD MAN ROY KEANE IS ANGRY WITH THE BRAZILIAN FOOTBALLERS. FOR CCUDDLING BEFORE THE DEBY MATCH.

The former Manchester United captain Roy Keane ,who is a real hard nut to crack is vey angry at the four Brazilians from both Manchester United and Liverpool. The reason being these four Brazilians Fabiano and Robert Firmino , who are playing for the English club Liverpool. And the two other Brazilians who play for Manchester United Andres Pereira and Fred, who were seen hugging and cuddling in the tunnel well before the match even started. Roy Keane has said that this should not happen on the pitch the players were al to soft. Roy Keens method was well known under Sir Alex Ferguson especially during the clashes with Arsenal and the fight's orally and physical wer figts with Patrick Viera and Martin Keown are something of the past, something we will not see again. Honestly those players had loyalty to the club and a very big fire in the belly to perform sadly lacking today.We saw it in the Liverpool and Manchester United . Todays players only want money, fancy watches and big houses.

HOW MUCH MONEY DID MANCHESTER UNITED SPEND ON BUYING PLAYERS SINCE 2013.

Since the year 2013,it was he year when Sir Alex Ferguson finally retired from being the manager of Manchester United. And from the year 2013 or in the pat six years Manchester United had four managers David Moyes, Louis Van Gaal, Jose Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solsjkear. But what is scary here s that Manchester United have gone and spent a huge sum of money to a total of 741. Seven hundred and forty one million pounds. And they have gone ad brought a total of 28, twenty eight more or less average players. But at the same time the famous French manager Arsene Wenger who was the manager of Arsenal for a period of 22 twenty two long years. And during that time Arsene Wenger had spent a total of 700, seven hundred million pounds , but at the same time he brought a total of 126, one hundred and twenty six footballers. So if we look closely we see that Arsene n Wenger and Arsenal purchased a 100 a hundred more players then Manchester U And Jose Mourinho brought total of eleven players for Manchester United. But the players brought for Arsenal were far better footballers I would say, players like Thierry Henry, Marc Overmars, Dennis Bergkamp, Robert Pires and Patrick Vieira were far better.

THE MANCHESTER UNITED AND ARSENAL RIVALRY HAVE REALLY LOST THEIR GLOSS FOR GOOD I FEEL.

In the 1990s and early 2000s the rivalry between Arsenal and Manchester United were very famous and were waited eagerly for. The fights on the dugout between Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson were great to watch. The fights between Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira in the tunnel are unforgettable to us football fans. The Cesc Fabregas throwing a pizza at Sir Alex Ferguson was a good moment as well. He admitted recently that he was the culprit who dirtied Sir Alex Fergusons suit. The fight between Martin Keown and Ruud Van Nistelrooy after Arsenal were defeated by Manchester United for the first time in 42 games TE INVINCIBLES. And referee Mike Riley gave Manchester United a penalty, when he claimed Sol Campbell brought down a Manchester United player and Ruud Van Nistelrooy scored the winning penalty kick. Oh will these days ever come again.? Then both Arsenal and Manchester United were fighting each other for the title as well as a place in Europe. Now sadly both these clubs are playing in THE EUROPA League. Let me ask you now it is say Granit Xhaka verses Jesse Lingard and UnnaiEemery verses Ole Gunner Solsjkar. Do thise players and managers make your heart miss a beat, honestly they do not increase my pulse one bit even the rivalry was fierce rivalry then.

REAL MADRID TRIED TO SIGN UP CESC FABREGAS FROM ARSENAL A FEW TIMES.

Cesc Faberge's the talented Spanish footballer who is a graduate from the Barcelona youth Academy called THE LA MASSIA , or The Castle. Now the Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger , who had made a name for himself for spotting young talented footballers , and polishing them up like diamonds, he very badly wanted to see Cesc Fabregas play for Barcelona, as Cesc Fabregas , Gerrard Pique, and Lionel Messi are from the same group of players who graduated from THE LA MASSIA at the same time. But Barcelona flatly told Arsene Wenger not to dare put his legs at the Barcelona stadium Nou Camp. So Arsene Wenger flew to Finland to watch the Spanish play in the under 17, seventeen world cup. Cesc Fabregas won the under 17 world cup as well a the Golden boot award then. Arsene Wenger promised Cesc Fabregas that at Arsenal he would get starting place and could really be captain one day of Arsenal. Now Patrick Vieira was sold to Juventus, and the place and jersey number 4 was vacant, Fabregas made that place and jersey his very own at Arsenal, mind you Cesc Fabregas was only sixteen years old then. He may not have won the English premier League with Arsenal, but he won a few F.A.Cups and Community shields as well. While he was at Arsenal Real Madrid phoned him two or three times asking him to join Real Madrid, but he eventually joined his childhood club Barcelona instead. He was later sold by Barcelona to Chelsea along with Alexis Sanchez to fund the Neymar deal.

WHEN THIERRY HENRY WAS ABUSED RACIALY BY LOUIS ARROGOANES.

People might be seeing footballers wearing colourful wristbands, Thierry Henry was famous for wearing this wristband, please note it was not a friendship band , it had far and a deeper meaning for introducing it. Nike introduced it after a incident that shamed football greatly , and it had the words STAND UP SPEAK UP engraved on each wristband. These wristband was introduced after 2004, in tat year the Spaniard the late Jose Antonio Reyes was joining Arsenal from the Spanish club Seville. Then the coach of the Spanish team Louis Arragoanes made this dirty and unforgivable statement. He told Jose Antonio Reyes the following. [ YOU GO AND SHOW THIS BLACK SHIT THAT YOU ARE BETTER THEN HIM. He was clearly referring here to Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira , two black but very popular footballers.. But what Thierry said was very well said , Henry said we all make mistakes in our lives some are small mistakes some are very big mistakes. Thierry Henry then said I am sure the Spanish F.A. will look into this matter, and the chapter closed. But footballers came forward to support this movement , they were Thierry Henry,Carle's Puyol, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldinho . But sadly Racial abuse I very much still thee we saw recently Paul Pogba and Marcus Rushford abused for missing a penalty on twitter.

NICOLAS PEPE COMPLETES MEDICAL AT ARSENALONLY SIGNING LEFT.

The French winger Nicolas Pepe ,whose parents immigrated to France from The Ivory Coast. Nichols Pepe, as a boy had no toys to play as they were considered a luxury. So it was ball he played with and wanted to be a footballer. As a six year old boy with his first club, he was caught stealing chocolates, but very luckily the coach instead of terminating his contract at that club, he decided to give the young boy a second chance. He now becomes Arsenal's costliest player ever. e is a highly talented gifted player uses both his legs, can play as winger, striker, midfielder and defender as well, he also good at freekicks and penalties a all round footballer that will change results or Arsenal. But why did he chose Arsenal ,? Over Napoli, Manchester United, Liverpool, P.S.G and other clubs. He says he chose Arsenal over the other very big clubs, mainly he knows that Arsenal are known o give footballers from Africa big breaks, like Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Bacray Sagna, , Alexander Lacerate, Pierre Emerick Abumayeang. Arsenal will pay up front to Lille 20,twenty million pounds, and the remaining 52, fifty two million pounds will be given in instalments in the next five years. Mind You Nicolas Pepe was costing 72, seventy two million pounds, the price went up as Arsenal are paying big money after five years. His weekly salary is cheaper then Wilfred Zaha.

OLE GUNNER AMITS THAT JADON SANCHO AND DECLAN RICE ARE FAR TO EXPNSIVE..

It is a honest truth that the young English footballers , like say Jadon Sancho and Declan Rice are fa to expensive. And Ole Gunner knows this very well. But honestly looking at this it has always been the case. Arsene Wenger, the former Arsenal manager, who was the Arsenal manager for 22, twenty two years. Knew this very well, and he had a sharp eye for buying youngsters, who were talented. But he always said that the English youngsters were always more demanding and their weekly salary wad far to inflated. That is why he did most of his football shopping for players from French clubs , and French players as well like Henry, Cygan, Pires, Willtord., Patrick Viera . Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade Chamberlain , were far to costly , and had very high weekly salaries.

JOSE ANTONIO REYES IS KILLED IN CAR CRASH NEAR SEVILLE..

The Spanish footballer Jose Antonio Reyes, who was 35 year-old, who had joined Seville as ten year old boy, and also became the youngest footballer to play for Seville, in Spain at the tender age of 16, sixteen years of age. He was killed along with his cousin Jonathan Reyes who was 23, twenty three yeas old, as they were travelling in a Mercedes Benz, at 120 k.M. a hour. Jose Antonio Reyes lost control of the car, it went spinning and ended up in a ball of flame. Now Jose Antonio Reyes and his cousin Jonathan died on the spot, but the third person in the car survived the crash but had a lot of burns. Jose Antonio Reyes joined Arsenal in the year 2003/2004, for a sum of 17, seventeen million pounds. In his first year at Arsenal, he won the English Premier League, the F.A. Cup as well a the Community Shield, he I the first Spaniard to win the English Premier League medal. He then went back o Spain, and played for Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Seville and Espanyol. In Spain he holds the record for winning the most Europa League Cups, formerly called THE U.E.F.A cup, he has on two with Atletico Madrid and three with Seville, no footballer has won five U.E.F.A trophies. Jose Antonio Reyes was gifted silky touch footballer, very pacey winger with crispy passing, and had a football brain as well. He was useful for Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp. Jose Antonio Reyes was part of the Arsenal invincible as well. He leaves behind a wife and three children two daughters and a son from a former relation. The Arsenal players have paid rich tribute to Jose Antonio Reyes, especially Cesc Fabregas, who joined up with Arsenal, from Barcelona, at the tender age of sixteen, It was fellow Spaniard Jose Antonio Reyes who made him feel at home in a new land. Actually Arsene wenger wanted to have a look at Cesc Fabregas play at Barcelona, Barcelona warned Arsene Wenger not to enter THE NOU CAMP. So Arsene Wenger flew to Finland to watch the under seventeen world cup, which Spain won, and Cesc Fabregas won the golden boot there. Cesc Fabregas joined Arsenal at sixteen years, and replaced Patrick Vieira at Arsenal.

CESC FABREGAS NAMES HIS FAVOURITE ELEVEN.

Cesc Fabregas the Spaniard who played for Barcelona, Chelsea, Arsenal and is now playing n France with Monaco. He has named his favourite eleven now, and some like David Villa, Carles Puyol and others miss out sadly. 1) Goalkeeper. Iker Casillas. 2) Defenders Jordi Alba, John Terry, Danny Alves. Gerrard Pique 3) Midfielders Eden Hazard , Lionel Messi, Patrick Vieira. Andres Iniesta. Strikers Thierry Henry, Diego Costa.

THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A FRENCH FOOTBALLER TO WIN A ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE.

History tells us that in the English Premier League over the years , that there has always been a French footballer to win the English Premier League each year. 1)Thierry Henry . 2 E.P.L s. 2) Eric Cantona. 4. E.P.L.S. 3) Fabian Barthez. 2. E.P.L.S. 4) Patrick Vieira. 3. E.P.L.S. 5) Nicolas Anelka. 2 E.P.L.S. 6)N'Gola Kante . 2. E.P.L.S. 7) Patrice Evra. 5. E.P.L.S 8) Pascal cygan. 1. E.P.L.S. 9) Benjamin Mendy. 1. E.P.L.S. 10)Robert Pires 2 E.P.L.S. 11)Samir Nasri. 2. E.P.L .S.

WHEN LIONEL MESSI ALMOST LEFT BARCELONA FOR ESPANOYL.

Lionel Messi was a 18 eighteen year old fringe player in the year 2004/2005, Lionel Messi had played his first few games for Barcelona. But he was clearly told by the then Argentinean coach Jose Peckerman that Lionel Messi should play at least a total of 20 twenty games for Barcelona in a year, to then make it the Argentinean team for the World Cup in Germany 2006. Now this is what Mauricio Pochettino , had to say, as he had played for Argentina in the 1998 world cup in France, and was then playing in Spain with Espanyol. Now in the year 2005 Lionel Messi did not have a Spanish citizenship so he was considered a non EUROPEAN UNION player. According to the U.E.F.A rules a club can only have three non E.U. players in their team, Barcelona already had Yaya Touré Ivory Coast, Samuel Eto'o Cameroon, Rafael Marcus Mexico Lionel Messi Argentina and Ronaldinho Brazil. So in fact Lionel Messi had put a loan application to Barcelona so he could join p with his friend fellow Argentinean defender who won the under 20 world cup Paulo Zabelata . It was 24/8/2005 and Barcelona were playing Juventus in the annual Joan Camper trophy, now Juventus had Fabio Capello as their manager, and players like Fabio Canavero, Patrick Vieira, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Giorgio Chiellini and Alexander del Piero. But in the match the star was Lionel Messi who did Johan Cruyff turn and fooled Fabio Canavero. he even embarrassed a vastly experienced and stronger Patrick Vieira. Fabio Capello had to say this after the match[ I have never seen a eighteen year old footballer who was so talented today he wriggled his way from five Juventus players.] In fact Fabio Capello even asked Franck Raijkard if Juventus could sign up Lionel Messi. But as the NOU CAMP filled the capacity were chanting the name of Lionel Messi for the very first time. The following year Pep Guardiola took over as the manager of Barcelona and both yaya Touré and Ronaldinho were sold and Lionel Messi solved the three non European Union problem. But Mauricio Pochettino says Lionel Messi came so very close t5o sign up for Espanyol, and if he did it would have been one of the greatest tragedy in football history , his world records would not be standing today.

WHEN ARSENE WENGER MISSED OUT ON LIONEL MESSI< GERRARD PIQUE BUT GOT CESC FABREGAS.

Arsene wenger always had a eye for very good young talent and he was always there to give these youngsters chances in the League cup and F.A cup.. In the year 2003 Arsene wenger wanted to sign Lionel Messi, Gerrard Pique and Cesc Fabregas, all three were students of the the Barcelona youth Academy called the La MASSIA or THE CASTLE. Barcelona had made it very clear to Arsene Wenger that he would not be allowed to come to Barcelona , and see these footballers play at the Nou Camp. But all three were brought to Arsenal and talks were held of their move to Arsenal. Now Gerrard Pique sponsorer was Nike, and they were not willing to let Gerrard Pique, join Arsenal instead they wanted him to join Manchester United instead, so he joined up with Manchester United in the year 2004 to the year 2008, he then re-joined up with Barcelona gain. Barcelona then offered Lionel Messi a new contract and he made his debut for Barcelona in the year 2004, under the manager Franck Raijkard. The rest is history. But Arsenal did get Cesc Fabregas from the La Massia and Barcelona, at that time Patrick Vieira had left Arsenal and had joined Juventus. So the play maker Cesc Fabregas was promised that lead role at Arsenal and he took over the captains armband as well., The Spaniard played 303 games for Arsenal , was greatly loved by the Arsenal fans So this is a clear story you buy a few loose a few as well in football,.

ARSENAL ARE HAVING A TOUGH TIME FINDING A GOOD MANAGER .

There is no doubt about it that the Arsenal board are having a real tough time finding a manage who ants to be the new manager of Arsenal, afer Arsene Wenger doesleave at the end of the season. The had made a shortlist of candidates to take over the job of Arsene Wenger. 1) Carlo Anchelotti. has bee offered the job of manager of the Italian national team, as they missed out of the world cup. 2) Brendan Rodgers. Prefers to stay at Celtic. 3) Diego Simone. Wants to remain in sunny Spain with Atletico Madrid. 4) Patrick Vieira wants to stay on in the U.S.A with Major League Soccer. 5) Joachim Low says he will be to fatigued after the world cup. 6) Luis Enrique wants 15, fifteen million pounds a year at arsenal. I do agree he shoes left by Arsene Wenger were going to be to big to fill for sure. Arsenal's trouble have just started.