Posted on Friday, 30th December 2011 by Chudi
With so many first team players out, Sir Alex spoke to the club’s official website to give a fresh injury update.
Injuries have been coming thick and fast for United but it appears that we will be seeing faces back in the next few weeks, encouraging especially with the run of fixtures coming up.
Nemanja Vidic had surgery earlier this week and despite his injury being a long term one, Sir Alex bore good news in regards to his captain.
Speaking to the club’s site, Sir Alex said,
”He had surgery on Wednesday and came through fine.
“They didn’t remove anything at all, everything’s clear, but it’s a cruciate so it’ll be next season.”
There was further good news too:
“Anderson’s coming on great,” he said. “He’s showing great progress. He’s trained well. We’re just monitoring him, because he still has to do a lot of work in the gymnasium, but he’s coming along.
“Fabio Da Silva’s not far away, he should be back in maybe 10 days. The centre-backs (Chris Smalling and Jonny Evans) aren’t long-term – they should be available in the next week or two.”
The only downer came in regards to midfielder Tom Cleverley and striker Michael Owen.
Cleverley was making serious waves prior to picking up an ankle injury and with Sir Alex stating he is ”still nowhere near” returning, his absence will continue to be felt,
“Cleverley’s a massive loss.
“He, to my mind, is probably the best midfield player in Britain, potentially. He has fantastic promise, so it’s a loss to us.”
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December 31st, 2011 at 12:06 am
“He, to my mind, is probably the best midfield player in Britain, potentially. He has fantastic promise, so it’s a loss to us…”
even SAF could see how important he is..get well soon cleverley..:(
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December 31st, 2011 at 12:41 am
I feel we are doomed not to have a top class midfielder this season. Cleverley injury is definitely a blow and its bad news over his update. I agree with Ferguson that potentially Cleverley is one of the top midfielder’s in the country.
Hopefully it isn’t too long until he returns to the football pith. I feel sorry for the lad as he has waited so patiently for his opportunity, and typically injury gets in his way. He will return though and hopefully fully recovered this time. He is the first of the trio of midfielder’s I want to see coming through, the other two being Pogba and Morrison.
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December 31st, 2011 at 1:12 am
thats not gud at all, bt worse stil management doesnt seem to want to sign replacements i can trully understand wen evra sayz its beginin to get annoying!!,sem thing rooney highlighted last season! “united must show cause and sign players! we r not orphans!this club generates funds !thoz players mek money 4 this club and they nid to b supported not asked to multi task alltym to cover managements failures!!!!!
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Robbo Reply:
December 31st, 2011 at 4:19 am
Wow you sound like an illiterate cunt
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Robbo Reply:
December 31st, 2011 at 4:23 am
How you can question SAF and his decisions is beyond me. He has rebuilt team after team and despite our obvious weaknesses in CM we are joint top and just beginning to hit top form. If we bought somebody like sneijder then it would halt pogba and Morrison who are potentially two of the biggest stars to come from our academy! What if Fergie had bought ronaldinho the established star and not plucked a young boy called ronaldo from Lisbon…leave the decisions to SAF and just sit back and enjoy the results. We all want the best for our club…but anyone who thinks Fergie and his ‘managent failures’ aren’t the best for the club has absolutely no clue about football or our great club
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eric the king Reply:
December 31st, 2011 at 3:46 pm
Why abuse thus guy for having an opinion, we all have one.
Mine is that the sir Alex knows best brigade(also known as take the fans for mugs,say we don’t need to buy anyone,rather than admit the gimps have pissed the pot of gold up the wall in interest payments), are the ones helping the glazers bleed the club dry by letting them get away with it.
When has Alex never wanted to sign the most expensive players? With the exception of berba, since about 2005.
It’s not like he can come out in the open & publicly slate them, with them as his paymasters, doesn’t mean everyone has to take his word as gospel.
Oh, & anyone who can’t see we’ve needed a top centre midfielder for over 2 years, been getting away with it in an average league since then, & that the likes of gibbo are what a team with the possible income(before glazer tax), & that bundling all our hopes on a all be it fairly promising kid in Cleverley after a handful of first team games, is a bloody idiot.
December 31st, 2011 at 1:48 am
I love cleverley to bits, and have said for many seasons that he will be the best thing out of Manchester since scholes, but as I said at the beginning of the season, we cannot rely on him to save us because unfortunately he has had a bad history with injuries, and I knew he could pick up a bad injury and be set back, which is why we should have signed someone to cover the loss, why we did not move for Parker is beyond me, he’s playing the best football of his life for spurs, he was extremely cheap compared to other top players, at 5.5mill, and at 32 he is the perfect age so as to not ruin the chances of youth coming through for many years
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December 31st, 2011 at 2:35 am
Sad to hear that Tom isn’t in a state of returning soon,coz i like the footballing style of the lad.we miss him alot.The best solution now is for saf to dip into the window and get sneijder,next week,but i don’t know maybe there is still no value in the market.The fact is that United desperately need a creative cm player,with the quality of the Netherland int’l.so fergie most accept the fact and buy him. GGMU.
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December 31st, 2011 at 3:46 am
Yeah well, let’s consider what put him out in the first place and how little protection United’s players have had from referees in recent times. Look at Nani last year with Liverpool’s resident thug and the manner in which Gerrard tried pulling him up from the ground when he had a serious injury. Look at Chelsea’s Luiz and how he could have had two red cards in a game for all the vicious fouls that went unpunished. Cleverly got stamped earlier this season, Jones copped a deliberate elbow to the face which received no penalty. Finally, when Carrick copped an elbow in the face, the player got sent off – only to have the decision rescinded! Watch the replay in slow motion and it’s clear the contact was both deliberate, high, and with the elbow, not the hand.
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December 31st, 2011 at 5:08 am
Well 4 me i tink wot was happening in Manu now is wot has been comon wit d club. Plz signing dis n dat play has neva bin a yardstick 4 d club winning d league. If SAF has refused deeping in d january window. I tink he has a solution 2 dat
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December 31st, 2011 at 5:45 am
It is a sad news 4 me and he is d player everyone has been waiting 4,cleverley was the key to man utd success at the begining of the season , they shud just go on wit it,and sign apotential midfielder like sneijder, modric or better still harzard
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December 31st, 2011 at 6:05 am
how you can say the best midfielder in britain
he only play two or three game even he dont score
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December 31st, 2011 at 7:48 am
robbo,am redy to b an iiletert cunt 4 sayn the obvious! mayb rooney evra r also koz they share m view! play the futbo,why buy de gea yet amos z present lets not halt hz devt and sel de gea!u thnk every 1 ths sturred 4 united haz bin fro the academy!roy kean, andy cole,ferdinand,rooney,carrik,vidic etc,why dint we let academy kids play then!u thnk thy want there? abt questionin fergie!u sound lyk the fa abt the refs!fergiz alwayz questionin them koz hiz got brainz hz not akid so perhaps u nid to growup! n ths wald men r questiond!jst luk round
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ayobami Reply:
December 31st, 2011 at 9:06 am
Its a pity u can’t even construct basic simpl sentence…go back and read your post amd make fun of yourself…if fergusson is not buying, then he has a solution to the problem, we are not city and we don’t run to the market when a problem arises
@jarul did u read the post at all, fergir said he’s the best in britain in terms of potential, remove the darkness in ur eyes or maybe get a recommended glasses…
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Zoidberg Reply:
December 31st, 2011 at 1:53 pm
“why buy de gea yet amos z present lets not halt hz devt and sel de gea!”
Can anybody translate this into English?
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December 31st, 2011 at 7:53 am
wel 4 me, am dissappointed for cleverley, but Sir Alex excuse for not spending is getting old and boring. I dont care what the likes of Robbo says
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December 31st, 2011 at 8:19 am
onyema ur rite, tiz not a yadstik 4 wining the league! and neither iz not signing the yardstik eitha!the point iz!u nid to cover up the loss,koz evn wen jones kem round vidic,rio wer oredy playn bt u nided cover!and reliable cover! that midfild nids reliable cover not wayne rooney,not pogba!van der sar nided reliable kava, thts why de gea waz signed! amos was around then,kuzak!…. thts why SAF regreted 4 not havn signed parker recently!so he kud c hz mistek! koz hiz not immortal, thts why hiz got a team!its teamwak!
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December 31st, 2011 at 10:24 am
ayobomi tht showz hw naive ur abt shorthand messages! i kud evn b mo stark than that! its kold; “slang and shorthand” wen writin here!athayz wil fil up ths page am not here to prove to u m distinctions n the queenz langauge! tht stopt at school,i dont evn use it in my architecture,i only uze it wen i hav to & if i hav to! athyz here its freestyle rily
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December 31st, 2011 at 2:42 pm
happy birthday fergie, come on you rovers
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December 31st, 2011 at 10:14 pm
Sir Alex please buy players the team is not for u and the money too is not yours so why u greedy..u are killing us this old man
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January 1st, 2012 at 12:03 am
“dont question th manaj” i hear!! sayz the robbozz!!!! complit naivety! think we r daft!the only pasn they don question z GOD! HZ IMMORTAL almighty! bt fergie!!! wil question the nosense on pitch koz were not bakwad, daft!! ril men r questiond! kidz r pampered and deceived by illusion fairtale! ihear top form!!!! top form or not we r tokn abt signin players!, u thnk barca want on form wen they signed fab,sanchez!u think they dint hav academiz! stop playn pipo out ov positionz! siggggn players! parker waz only 5.5 an we jst lukt on lyk kean waz born yestd!and nw i hear “rafael in mfild,rooney, even 4got hw to score!
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January 5th, 2012 at 9:02 am
Lets be realistic – given the current squad of players a top4 finish is the most realistic target
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