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Yorke: England Relies Too Much on Rooney
Category: England - National Team (England)
Created by: worldfootballbook Create Date: May 27, 2010 Last Comment: July 23, 2010
Former Manchester United and Trinidad & Tobago star Dwight Yorke believe the England team has to get away from the fact that they have Wayne Rooney in their team. Yorke is of firm belief that the squad relies too heavily on the Man Utd striker and need to stop saying ‘We have Rooney’ otherwise the World Cup may be a huge disappointment.
“You need him to relax instead of saying: ‘We have Wayne Rooney - this and that’. Yes we know he is easily one of the best players in the world, if not the best player in his position right now,” Yorke said.
“But why put all that expectation on a 24-year-old guy? Especially when you’ve got the likes of Gerrard and that all around him. It’s a collective team. England are supposed to do better with the calibre of players they have and I just feel the approach is always a little bit wrong.
“You’ve had a good campaign so far and everyone is getting a little bit excited. But when the World Cup comes around it's a different prospect.
“I keep hearing all these debates about who is going to partner Rooney. But it's not about that. You don’t have to have a big and a small player to be successful.
“It’s about picking the right formation, picking the right team and getting people playing in the right areas. Getting the team playing in a way that makes them likely to win a football match at a very crucial time.”
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Fabregas Takes on Arsenal Training Regime
Category: England - Barclays Premiership (EPL)
Created by: worldfootballbook Create Date: June 16, 2010 Last Comment: June 16, 2010
Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas claims Spain's preparations for major games are better than those he's experienced at club level. The 23-year old midfielder's relationship with the Frenchman is understood to have become strained after he expressed his desire to move to Barcelona.
"Here they give us much more information than they do at Arsenal, definitely," Fabregas told the BBC.
"At Arsenal we don't really look at anything from the other team, we look for ourselves and that's it.
"Here, maybe two three days before the game, we start looking at some videos, we know more or less the starting eleven that is going to play ... we know nearly everything about them.
"You just have to have your group of friends here, you play cards, you play Playstation, you have fun. We train morning, afternoon, go to sleep early ... you don't have much time to think about it really."
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Liverpool Open Inquiries About Hodgson
Category: England - Barclays Premiership (EPL)
Created by: chelsea4ever Create Date: June 9, 2010 Last Comment: June 9, 2010
Liverpool are to make a formal approach to Fulham for talks with Roy Hodgson before the weekend. The Mirror says Hodgson is the clear front-runner from a short list drawn up by Kop legend Kenny Dalglish and MD Christian Purslow, to be presented to the Anfield board this week.
The club's directors are certain to give the green light to make Hodgson their official target within the next two days, and approach his London club with an offer of compensation to make him the next Liverpool manager.
Former Inter Milan boss Hodgson has a one-year rolling contract with the Craven Cottage outfit, negotiated at the start of the just completed season. Crucially, it contains a clause which allows him to leave to join a top club for a compensation figure of around £2.5million.
The experienced coach has maintained a diplomatic silence over Liverpool interest in recent days, but he has made clear his desire to have one last opportunity with one of the Premier League's leading clubs.
Hodgson has a contract to work for the BBC as pundit during the World Cup in South Africa, but he will be happy to break off from commentating to conclude any negotiations with the Anfield board, and will be in position to identify potential transfer targets.
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Wenger Looks Interested in Joe Cole
Category: England - Barclays Premiership (EPL)
Created by: chelsea4ever Create Date: June 7, 2010 Last Comment: June 8, 2010
Arsenal see Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole as a replacement for want-away captain Cesc Fabregas. The Sun says Arsene Wenger has already held talks with Cole over filling the gap left in the Gunners midfield.
Chelsea star Cole met Gunners boss Wenger before jetting out to South Africa with England last week. The former West Ham starlet, 28, is out of contract and set to quit Stamford Bridge after seven years.
Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti has not given up hope of keeping Cole. Assistant boss Ray Wilkins admitted: "Carlo and myself would love Joe to stay. But it's down now to the club to see what we can do."
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Glazers Killing The Cash Machine?
Category: England - Barclays Premiership (EPL)
Created by: chelsea4ever Create Date: May 5, 2010 Last Comment: May 18, 2010
Desperate times at Manchester United. The renewal rate for season tickets has been lower than expectation and many United fans have simply had enough of the Glazers and the fact that 70 pence in the pound goes to pay off the club’s debts.
The January bond prospectus made for hideous readings, with such forward looking statements like: "We have been able to consistently increase matchday ticket prices for both general admission and seasonal hospitality seats at levels above the rate of inflation.
"Between the 2006/07 season and the 2008/09 season, weighted average general admission ticket prices for Premier League games increased 8.5 per cent on a compound annual growth rate basis. Furthermore, while other Premier League clubs have experienced a flattening or reduction in ticket prices in response to the economic downturn, we were able to increase aggregate ticket prices for the 2009/10 season by 2.5 per cent."
Ticket prices have risen by an average of 48% since the Glazers seized control and United are the only Premiership club to have increased its ticket prices in each of the last five years – though they have been held for next season.
Bleak times, indeed.
source: four-four-two magazine
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