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[Jordi]

He, den Weinbau hat mein Bruder übernommen, nicht ich.

Well played, that man.

Der Keller voll, die Hände sauber.

[Kingkooli]

Die Reserves heute mit einem 4:1 gegen Wigan. Morrison mit 2 sehenswerten Toren und auch ansonsten mit einer starken Leistung. Petrucci und Fryers die übrigen Torschützen.

Rafael ebenfalls auffällig, nichts mehr von der Verletzung zu sehen.

Videos von den Toren gibts hier:

Link

[Starostyak]

Die Reserves heute mit einem 4:1 gegen Wigan. Morrison mit 2 sehenswerten Toren und auch ansonsten mit einer starken Leistung. Petrucci und Fryers die übrigen Torschützen.

Rafael ebenfalls auffällig, nichts mehr von der Verletzung zu sehen.

Videos von den Toren gibts hier:

Link

Thanks for sharing.

Grad ein bissl nachgelesen, dieses Reserveteam ist fast schon zu gut vom Potential her: Pogba, Morrison, Petrucci (als Kapitän ), Keane und dazu noch Fryers, der sehr gute Aussichten auf die erste Mannschaft hat. Bitte jetzt anfangen die einzubauen... gegen Crystal Palace würd ich Pogba, Petrucci und Morrison mal gerne 90 Minuten sehen (Fryers wird sowieso spielen). Und schön, dass Rafael wieder da ist, mehr Optionen für die Viererkette sind immer willkommen!

[Chr1s]

Thanks for sharing.

Grad ein bissl nachgelesen, dieses Reserveteam ist fast schon zu gut vom Potential her: Pogba, Morrison, Petrucci (als Kapitän ), Keane und dazu noch Fryers, der sehr gute Aussichten auf die erste Mannschaft hat. Bitte jetzt anfangen die einzubauen... gegen Crystal Palace würd ich Pogba, Petrucci und Morrison mal gerne 90 Minuten sehen (Fryers wird sowieso spielen). Und schön, dass Rafael wieder da ist, mehr Optionen für die Viererkette sind immer willkommen!

Ich freu mich schon richtig wenn ich an die nächste Generation denke mit Petrucci etc.

[Maulinho]

Wer ist der, der vor Morrison's 2. Tor den Ball so leiwand mit dem Kopf mitnimmt? Will Keane?

Hab mir jetzt mal die Tabelle der Reserve-Liga angeschaut, die ist schon recht toll - von 5 bis 10 gespielten Partien alles dabei.

[Kingkooli]

Wer ist der, der vor Morrison's 2. Tor den Ball so leiwand mit dem Kopf mitnimmt? Will Keane?

Hab mir jetzt mal die Tabelle der Reserve-Liga angeschaut, die ist schon recht toll - von 5 bis 10 gespielten Partien alles dabei.

Ja ist Will Keane. Sicherlich einer der Top-Kandidaten für das First Team. Für sein Alter schon unglaublich abgeklärt vor dem Tor und hat auch technisch durchaus was auf dem Kasten. Im letztjährigen Youth Cup hat er vor allem in den entscheidenden spielen in der Endphase des Bewerbs gezeigt was für eine Waffe er sein kann.

Die Tabelle schaut wirklich relativ lustig aus

Weiß zufällig jemand, ob morgen eine normale PK stattfindet? Wäre schon ganz fein zu wissen, ob Young/Cleverley wieder einsatzfähig sein werden... Wenn ja bitte folgende XI:

Laut Coppack auf Twitter um 13:00 unsere Zeit. Kanns mir leider nicht anschaun.

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[Starostyak]

Lang, aber lohnt sich wirklich zu lesen:

It was after a crushing 5-0 defeat at Haugesund in May that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer decided to give his Molde players a little speech.

'If there's anything about you now lads, I would take all your money, your mortgage, and put it on us winning the league because we will. You'll never get better odds than now.'

Solskjaer knew the words off by heart. He had memorised them 15 years earlier during his first season at Manchester United when Sir Alex Ferguson tried to lift his players after an equally demoralising 5-0 defeat to Newcastle and 6-3 upset at Southampton.

New dawn: Manchester United hero Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is now a manager

'I could remember it as clear as day,' said Solskjaer sheepishly as he admitted stealing Ferguson's rhetoric. 'And of course, United won the league easily.'

So have Molde, although the outcome has been less predictable for this small town on the west coast of Norway. Their club had never won the title since it was formed a century ago, until Solskjaer left Old Trafford and came home to take up his first senior managerial job in January.

He began preparing for the role long ago. At the age of 10, Solskjaer was coaching the other kids in the streets of nearby Kristiansund. Long before he became a United icon and scored arguably the most famous goal in the club's history, he was taking notes in training and learning from Ferguson, the players around him and even his own insecurities.

'That manager was always in me,' he said. 'There was a stage when I wrote what we did in every single training session and then there was a period in my career when I wrote a mental diary as well. It was quite interesting because I struggled with low confidence at times and I used to write about how I reacted mentally to Roy Keane giving me a b******ing, for example, or missing a chance. I was more alert to how I was thinking.

Man in the middle: Solskjaer is never happier than when he is out on the pitch

Out of the woods: Solskjaer and his team have set the league alight

'Towards the end, it was a diary on what the manager was saying and the tactical meetings we had. Different kinds of notes. I still go back to them now but most of it's in my head.'

Solskjaer has based all the changes at Molde on what he experienced during 15 years at United. How the players eat, how they dress. Creating an environment that breeds champions.

'I look at that as the perfect way of running a club.' he said. 'In our little world, with different facilities and resources, you have to make it into a mini Manchester United. How the gaffer runs it is a template for everyone. If it's good enough for United, it's definitely good enough for Molde.'

He refers to Ferguson as the 'gaffer' at all times. On the phone it's simply 'boss'. The respect is clear, but he knows he has to be his own man.

'I've got to do it my way,' said Solskjaer, who has already attracted interest from Portsmouth. 'I can't compromise and be someone else. When I was a player I could never be Giggs, Scholes, Beckham, Cantona or Keane. But I could still take bits from David's mentality or Eric's ability to improve myself.

In the dug out: Solskjaer has guided Molde to the Norwegian league title

'It's the same with the gaffer. He's got a few traits that suit me but others that don't. I try to make that into Ole Gunnar Solskjaer the manager. I don't need it for the money, the recognition or the success, but I really enjoy it.'

So to the million dollar question. Could Solskjaer, once described by Ferguson as United's 'man of destiny', one day be destined to move from Molde to Old Trafford, as he did for £1.5million in 1996, and take over as manager?

'Every manager dreams of managing Manchester United,' he said. 'It was said that Bryan Robson would be the next one and there have been so many great players at United linked to the job. But don't worry, the gaffer will keep going.

'If I got that offer I would say yes without thinking but it's not in my wildest dreams or plans at all. I don't think anyone would have talked about me managing United a year ago, that's for sure. I don't think one year at Molde gives me the right to say I can manage United one day, but everyone can dream. That dream is maybe too big for me at the moment, but if that happens then I will have done a lot of things right along the way.'

Solskjaer stands impassively watching training. His hands are stuffed into the pockets of his black anorak and you can see his breath rising into the autumn air. His hair is greying slightly but the man they dubbed the Baby-Faced Assassin is still fresh-faced at 38.

Behind him, the icy Fannefjord slides past the Romsdal mountains and out towards the North Sea. Normally there is snow on the ground at this time of year but the Akerhallen indoor training pitch is being prepared for a party for 3,000 fans to celebrate Molde's success.

The players are able to train outside on the astroturf at Årøli while Mark Dempsey and Richard Hartis shout instructions. The former United coaches have been instrumental in helping Solskjaer deliver the title to a town with a population of just 26,000 on a total budget of little more than £10m. Dempsey's Mancunian tones, interrupted by the odd word of Norwegian, fill the air but there is no doubt who is the boss.

Old Trafford connection: Solskjaer is assisted by former United coaches Mark Dempsey and Richard Hartis

The training ground: The former Old Trafford star says he used to take notes on Sir Alex Ferguson's style

'I'm not always as quietly spoken as I am to you now,' said Solskjaer, who has had his squad taking ice baths after games by sitting on the rocks in the fjord behind the club's Aker Stadion. He laughs when he recalls the day passengers on a passing ferry called the police because they thought one of the players was drowning.

Some questioned whether Solskjaer's success as United's reserve team manager would rub off on his old club in Norway, but he never doubted his own ability - even after an opening 3-0 defeat by Sarpsborg and that hammering at Haugesund.

'Never,' he insisted. 'It's that United mentality that I've learned through the gaffer. He's had struggles but you believe in what you're doing. I know for a fact people doubted me. They said to me and my friends that it wasn't going to work and that's one of the things that motivates me. When the manager put me on the bench it motivated me to say, "I'll show you". When people doubt me, I love it.'

The boss: Solskjaer now uses what he learned from Fergie to manage his team

Solskjaer accepts his 'supersub' tag now. He does not agree that he was better as an impact player off the bench than as a starter at United, but concedes that his tactical insight gave him an edge over other subs.

'Yes I do think I had an advantage of watching the game and thinking tactically, but the big thing was that I was mentally ready to come on. When I decided to stay at United I put my career in the gaffer's hands: do whatever you want with me, I'm always going to be ready. Other players don't really have that in them.'

It is an attitude that should make his former United team-mate Carlos Tevez blush. 'Some players are too selfish and think, "if he's not starting me I can't be bothered",' he said.

'I never had that sulk. I always felt privileged to have the career I had, just sitting behind the manager watching the game.'

The events of May 26, 1999, are written in United folklore. It was the night Solskjaer emerged off the bench against Bayern Munich to snatch a late winner and deliver Ferguson's first Champions League crown.

For the man himself, however, there were more precious goals among the 126 he scored in 366 games for United. In particular, the two against Newcastle at Old Trafford in October 2006 after coming back from three years plagued by the knee trouble that was to force his retirement 10 months later.

Eye on the ball: Solskjaer keeps a close watch on one of his players during a training session

'I was walking off the pitch and there was my son Noah with his fists clenched,' recalled Solskjaer. 'He was six and he would remember daddy scoring at Old Trafford. That was one of my biggest things to drive me on because he was only three when I got injured.

'My dad used to be a greco-roman wrestler and he was Norwegian champion six years on the bounce from 1966 to 1971. But I never saw him wrestle. I've only read the clippings. My motivation was that Noah wouldn't just read about me, he would remember me.'

On Saturday evening, fireworks will light up the magnificent alpine scene behind Molde's 11,000-capacity home that has been sold out for three weeks.

Eight points clear with two games to go, Solskjaer's players will lift the title irrespective of their result against Sarpsborg. It will be quite a party for the town that supplies 20 per cent of the UK's gas supply and long overdue reward for the club's billionaire owner Kjell Inge Roekke.

'The players have won the league for the first time in a hundred years and when I see my skipper lifting the trophy it will be amazing,' said Solskjaer. 'I used to play with him here at Molde. He's always been at this club and he's never won the league so, for me, that's fulfilment.'

Moving on up: The management team helped Molde win their first league title in over 100 years

Water prospect: Solskjaer has been tipped for a return to Old Trafford to manage his former team

But what is really occupying Solskajer's thoughts when he makes the daily two-and-a-half hour round trip 'up and over that mountain' - the Furseth Fiellet that separates Molde and Kristiansund, where Ole has settled back with his wife Silje and their three children - is what comes next. How to do it all again. It's a classic Ferguson trait.

'I'm thinking about next year,' said Solskjaer. 'Now we've won the league I'll be looking for the response from the players. You can't switch off when you've won things. That should motivate you for next season.

'I know for a fact that one or two of these players won't be as good next year. They think they're Big-time Charlies. So it'll be thanks and goodbye.'

Die letzten zwei Sätze

[Maulinho]

Cleverley out until Christmas. aber wir haben fürs Mittelfeld ja eh Rooney, Jones und ein paar echte CMs, die halt außer Form oder irgendwohin verschwunden sind.

wenigstens ist der Spielplan vergleichsweise angenehm für den Rest des Jahres, aber dass es einen Plan B gibt, wenn die Flügelspieler einen schlechten Tag haben und Produktivität/Kreativität von außen fehlt, glaub ich derzeit erst wenn ich es seh.

[Kingkooli]

Cleverley out until Christmas. aber wir haben fürs Mittelfeld ja eh Rooney, Jones und ein paar echte CMs, die halt außer Form oder irgendwohin verschwunden sind.

wenigstens ist der Spielplan vergleichsweise angenehm für den Rest des Jahres, aber dass es einen Plan B gibt, wenn die Flügelspieler einen schlechten Tag haben und Produktivität/Kreativität von außen fehlt, glaub ich derzeit erst wenn ich es seh.

Ge leck. Cleverley hat momentan auch die Seuche am Fuß. Wie du sagst, düren wir uns jetzt wohl auf ein paar grandiose Spielchen freuen. Ganz hab ich die Hoffnung auf eine baldige Steigerung von Fletcher, Anderson etc. zwar noch nicht aufgegeben, aber sehr zuversichtlich bin ich nicht.

Dennoch sieht man ganz gut was für einen Status sich der Junge schon erarbeitet hat. War vor gar nicht allzu langer Zeit eigentlich undenkbar. Hoff ma mal, dass er früher als angenommen zurück kommt.

[Maulinho]

Dennoch sieht man ganz gut was für einen Status sich der Junge schon erarbeitet hat. War vor gar nicht allzu langer Zeit eigentlich undenkbar.

In Wahrheit hängt eh viel zu viel Erwartung an ihm, aber durch die Kombination "Scholes-Rücktritt/kein neuer CM gekauft/Cleverley spielt super zu Saisonbeginn/der Rest schwächelt" kann man die Fans schon verstehen...

[AustroPop89]

Manchester United verpflichtet Fünfjährigen

Mit der Verpflichtung des erst fünfjährigen Charlie Jackson hat Premier-League-Club Manchester United für Aufruhr im Mutterland des Fußballs gesorgt. Scouts des englischen Meisters hatten Jackson in einer Fußball-Schule entdeckt und laut Medienberichten schon seit geraumer Zeit auf ihrer Liste.

Brisant ist der Deal unter anderem deshalb, weil Spieler in England erst im Alter von acht Jahren einen Vertrag unterzeichnen dürfen. Jacksons Eltern wird vorgeworfen, sich auf Kosten ihres Kindes bereichern zu wollen. Wie viel ManUnited für den Buben bezahlte, ist allerdings nicht bekannt.

Wtf????

Na hoffentlich verliert der Knabe nicht mit 9 das Interesse an Fußball oder ist nach der Revolution in Manchester nicht auf Seiten von City

Jetzt im Ernst, was hat das für einen Sinn??

[Starostyak]

De Gea

Jones - Vidic - Ferdinand - Evra

Nani - Carrick - Giggs - Park _Südkorea_

Rooney - Hernandez

Young auf der Bank, Welbeck nicht im Kader.

Wird wohl ned mehr als ein Punkt werden...

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[BaZiNgA]

Wird wohl ned mehr als ein Punkt werden...

jinxen oder typisches Tiefstapeln? Einerseits verwunderlich "schön" ein 4-4-2 auswärts zu erleben, Giggs und Carrick im ZM zwar aber spielen dass nicht zum ersten Mal und mit Verlaub aber die meisten Herren in der Startelf hatten Länderspielpause! Erwarte nicht viel aber ein 1:0 durch Mr. Owngoal wenns sein muss ... ein Arbeitssieg darfs ruhig sein ...

[Stretford]

Hauptsache Rooney muss ned wieder im ZM aushelfen, wobei mir mit dem aktuell aufgebotenem ZM auch ned unbedingt wohler ist

3 Punkte, wie die zustande kommen ist eh powidl

[Athavar]

Was ist eigentlich die Aufgabe von Park bei United? First Team Cook? Zum Fußballspielen ist er ja schon länger nicht mehr hier.