BUFFON REJECTS MAN UTD RUMOURS
-
Tomasz Kuszczak Admits He Might Leave Manchester United To Find First Team Football
Pole needs to feel more involved...
Tomasz Kuszczak has expressed anxiety that his career is passing him by as long as he remains second-choice goalkeeper at Manchester United.
The Pole feels that he may well have to leave Old Trafford in order to progress, and cites Ben Foster, now at Birmingham City, as an example of a keeper who has left United to find regular football elsewhere.
"I could understand Ben's position," Kuszczak told the Manchester Evening News.
"He wanted to move because he wanted regular football and he wanted to play for England.
"But if I don't get enough games I will have to do the same as Ben."
Kuszczak is clearly concerned that his peak years could be behind him before he has the chance to enoy his football properly again.
"The years are going by and I will be 29 after this season," he added.
"I want to enjoy football and I want to play." -
byebye and thanks for the service.
-
Small fish in the ocean or big fish in small pond? He suits the latter. After all, most times in goal, he's just another Pole haha.
-
He plays quite alot of games for a second choice keeper. And his skills are definitely far more superior than Foster's.
-
If he goes, then Man U does not have any stand-by keeper already? Then who will take over Van Der Sar when he retires? Maybe buy another goalie?
-
Atletico Madrid goalkeeper David De Gea has played down suggestions he could be set to join Manchester United.
Sir Alex Ferguson is known to be looking for a replacement for Edwin van der Sar, who turns 40 next month, and he has long been linked with a move for 19-year-old De Gea.
As his side took on Scunthorpe in the Carling Cup last week, Ferguson and his goalkeeping coach, Eric Steele, went to watch Atletico's 1-1 draw with Valencia, United's next Champions League opponents.
However, De Gea insists he is happy to continue his development in Madrid and has no intention of leaving before his contract expires in 2013.
"I learned [that Ferguson was there] the next day on TV and the news," he told Radio Marca. "I think that rather than seeing me he was watching Valencia, who they are facing in the Champions League.
"The important thing is that I have a contract here and I'm an Atletico player until 2013. That's what matters. The truth is that everything is turning out well here and I'm with family and friends, which is what I need. I think that is very important."
He added: "When the year is out, we'll see if things are going well, and those who have to talk [about an extension] will talk."
De Gea's agent told ESPNsoccernet in January that United were showing interest in De Gea.
-
http://www.tribalfootball.com/man-utd-open-atletico-madrid-talks-%C2%A318m-de-gea-1217861.
Manchester United have made a firm move for Atletico Madrid goalkeeper David De Gea.
The Sunday Mirror says United have already opened talks with Atletico Madrid over an £18m move for De Gea.
United are on the look out for a new goalkeeper with Edwin van der Sar's, 40, career drawing to a close.
Sir Alex Ferguson has identified De Gea as the man to succeed the Dutchman.
-
Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has once again dismissed reports that he could join Manchester United at the end of the season.
Buffon has yet to play for Juve this season after undergoing back surgery in the summer and he did not turn up for an official team photograph last week.
His absence from the photo call prompted fresh rumours that the Italy international could be ready to end his nine-year association with Juve.
However, after rejecting the idea that he could move to United last month, the 32-year-old has again stressed there are no developments regarding his future.
"Manchester United? I am used to living with these rumours, people have been speaking about this for six years now, but nothing has happened," he told Tuttosport.
Juve's general manager Beppe Marotta, meanwhile, played down suggestions that Buffon's absence from last week's photo had caused a rift with his team-mates.
Marotta said: "Juve have nothing to reproach Gigi for.
"Actually we expect him on the pitch as soon as possible. No such incident with Buffon exists."
