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Elano:
Villa: I'd sign for the Gunners
DAVID VILLA is ready to snub Chelsea and move to Arsenal.
The £20million-rated Valencia striker, 26, shot to the top of Avram Grant's summer hitlist after netting 63 goals over the last three seasons.
Chelsea chief Grant is thought to have made contact over a move.
But Villa insists he would rather be a Gunner.
Villa said: "I watch the Premier League a lot and the team I'm most attracted to is definitely Arsenal.
"Their brilliant one and two-touch football and the whole style of rapid counter-attack which dominates the top level of the Premier League now is the one which suits my game best of all.
"I think I'm made to succeed in England but of course it's one thing saying it and quite another getting there and then doing it.
"The Valencia president always told me he wouldn't sell me until summer 2008. If an offer comes in I'm hungry to test myself in England."
If Villa cannot agree a deal with Arsenal, his next option would be to join fellow Spain international Fernando Torres at Liverpool.
He added: "It's great playing alongside Fernando. We understand each other totally and we get on brilliantly off the park."
Elano:
Mourinho: I was the best
JOSE MOURINHO says Roman Abramovich will never be able to replace him at Stamford Bridge.
The Special One insists he is no longer Chelsea boss because he was a victim of his own outstanding early success. Owner Red Rom is ready to call time on Avram Grant's reign this summer if the Blues fail to capture any silverware. And Mourinho has turned up the heat by reminding the billionaire Russian that even Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger struggle to match his record in England. Guus Hiddink, Frank Rijkaard and Henk Ten Cate have all been touted as possible new managers but Mourinho does not feel anyone can measure up to him.
Looking back to the end of his three-year reign, Mourinho said: "When Chelsea dropped points to Manchester United, for months everyone had their right to speculate.
"They said Chelsea were no longer dominant. In three months, without Chelsea having lost anything, they invented 14 future managers of the club to replace me.
"I was the first manager in Premier League history to become a champion in his first season. "Perhaps I won too soon. I felt I was the victim of my own success, that the victories in championships and cups came too early."
In a book called ‘Jose Mourinho: Born Winner' he adds: "The percentage of wins by Arsene Wenger in his first 100 games in the English league is 50 per cent.
"And Alex Ferguson, in the same number of games, barely managed to achieve three points in half of them.
"And my Chelsea beat those numbers completely, with well over 70 league wins, two titles in a row without blinking and leaving the directors of the Premier League on the verge of a nervous breakdown?
"Does that make me a better manager than Wenger or Ferguson? "No. But it does not make me a worse manager than them."
K.Dub:
--- Quote from: Elano on April 16, 2008, 03:06:12 AM ---Villa: I'd sign for the Gunners
DAVID VILLA is ready to snub Chelsea and move to Arsenal.
The £20million-rated Valencia striker, 26, shot to the top of Avram Grant’s summer hitlist after netting 63 goals over the last three seasons.
Chelsea chief Grant is thought to have made contact over a move.
But Villa insists he would rather be a Gunner.
Villa said: “I watch the Premier League a lot and the team I’m most attracted to is definitely Arsenal.
“Their brilliant one and two-touch football and the whole style of rapid counter-attack which dominates the top level of the Premier League now is the one which suits my game best of all.
“I think I’m made to succeed in England but of course it’s one thing saying it and quite another getting there and then doing it.
“The Valencia president always told me he wouldn’t sell me until summer 2008. If an offer comes in I’m hungry to test myself in England.”
If Villa cannot agree a deal with Arsenal, his next option would be to join fellow Spain international Fernando Torres at Liverpool.
He added: “It’s great playing alongside Fernando. We understand each other totally and we get on brilliantly off the park.”
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Elano:
--- Quote from: K.Dub on April 16, 2008, 05:05:29 AM ---
--- Quote from: Elano on April 16, 2008, 03:06:12 AM ---Villa: I'd sign for the Gunners
DAVID VILLA is ready to snub Chelsea and move to Arsenal.
The £20million-rated Valencia striker, 26, shot to the top of Avram Grant's summer hitlist after netting 63 goals over the last three seasons.
Chelsea chief Grant is thought to have made contact over a move.
But Villa insists he would rather be a Gunner.
Villa said: "I watch the Premier League a lot and the team I'm most attracted to is definitely Arsenal.
"Their brilliant one and two-touch football and the whole style of rapid counter-attack which dominates the top level of the Premier League now is the one which suits my game best of all.
"I think I'm made to succeed in England but of course it's one thing saying it and quite another getting there and then doing it.
"The Valencia president always told me he wouldn't sell me until summer 2008. If an offer comes in I'm hungry to test myself in England."
If Villa cannot agree a deal with Arsenal, his next option would be to join fellow Spain international Fernando Torres at Liverpool.
He added: "It's great playing alongside Fernando. We understand each other totally and we get on brilliantly off the park."
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The :sun:
KURUPTION-81:
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well it looks like there giving up for now
"I just don't care what the whole world seems to want to say about me or speculate about my future," Ronaldo told The Sun.
"I've said it a thousand times and, by now, people should realise...I'm totally happy at United.
"Right now it is impossible to sign Cristiano Ronaldo," Mijatovic told Marca.
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