Jul 22
Sunday Roundup: Heinze Speaks Finally
If you believe the News of the World that is. Although I have a strange feeling about this. I mean, only NOTW seem to be carrying his quotes while any other blog and forum seem to have copy-pasted the entire article.
Anyway, here is what he had to say.
To quote:
Heinze revealed he has heard nothing about a possible move away. He said: “I have a deal signed with United and no offers have arrived. “In the last weeks there’ve been many rumours in the press but in reality where are Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, etc? I know the rumours of the interest from Liverpool by the newspapers.
“This is a delicate subject, especially for the fans. “They are the people who have always done so much to help me since my arrival and I believe that to leave United for Liverpool would not be understood by them.”
Seems like what Heinze might say, but what sounds fishy is that these quotes appeared on the sports blog of NOTW, hosted on Typepad. (For heaven’s sake, they don’t even have a self hosted domain for a blog!)
However, what remains true is that Heinze has not personally said anything about quitting United. It’s his agent that is stirring shit at the moment. I bet Heinze hasn’t even met SAF (or Queiroz) face to face for around two months now, and until that happens we can’t really say much here. In fact had he really wanted to leave, he might have as well bought out his contract before the FIFA enforced deadline. So at the moment, all rumours of him wanting to leave are utter bollocks (which, I admit, I must have said for the millionth time in this site).
I’ll keep this post rather short today and sign off with some links to interesting stories.
David Gill once again discusses club finances, insisting that the club is in good shape and tries to dispel doubts, people may have had, on the failure to go for restructuring this year. I don’t know what to make of all this, because matters regarding club finances have anyway been kept under wraps ever since the takeover. So not much to say on that, really.
FIFA reps will meet their FA counterparts to discuss the Tevez issue tomorrow. That’s basically a meeting to decide on whether to rule on the case or not. I could go on and on about this, but let’s leave it at that until we get to hear something really worth reporting.
Finally, pre-season friendly tomorrow against Shenzhen FC as Dong joins the tour party. That’s probably to cash in on the Chinese presence, because he is not expected to play at all. Nani is expected to play some part in the game.
Related items from Red Rants:
- Today’s Roundup: Good News from the Boss
- The Official Word on Heinze | Rooting for Real
- Heinze loses arbitration for Liverpool move, what’s next for him and United?
- The Red Hot Roundup: Scholes, Eggy, FIFA, Evra
- Heinze Set to Leave OT
Tags: Daily Roundup
July 22nd, 2007 at 13:36
on sky sports it says he’s demanding 1st team football.
July 22nd, 2007 at 18:49
let manutd publsh and then we’ll break some bottles
July 22nd, 2007 at 18:51
Heinze expected for pre-season
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={B4CEE8FA-9A47-47BC-B069-3F7A2F35DB70}&newsid=446541
July 22nd, 2007 at 19:54
Heinze is demanding first team football ?who does he fink he his.he is a good player but no one demands a startin place.especially not at united.
July 22nd, 2007 at 21:03
Saying “I will only leave if Alex Ferguson says to my face I do not enter in his plans” is hardly ‘demanding’ first-team football, I’d say most people would agree that he’s our best left back, everyone knows he’s better defnsively but as he shown for Argentina he can do well going forward(he provided two assists, probably because he was given more freedom), and even if Evra’s better at attacking we already have enough players who can score the goals. We should just rotate Evra and him depending on who we’re playing, and from what he said it seems he won’t be too unhappy with that.
July 22nd, 2007 at 23:12
Does anyone out there know what was the result of the u-20 final? I was so f%cking bored i made a silly bet over it (the loser has to pay the winners cable bill for a month)-and i’m way to lazy to look it up on the internet.
July 23rd, 2007 at 0:38
[Rock artist]
At least I would do that – seemed most logical.
Argentina won it. I hope you put your money on them.
July 23rd, 2007 at 3:18
I did. Kinda obvious I guess.
July 24th, 2007 at 19:20
oh yeah isnt there some fifa deadline to buyout your contract.
something lke a coupe of weeks after your domestic season finishes?
anyways i frankly am tired of agents stirring up shit but what I am more pissed off about is that heinze hasnt bothered to come out with a statement to say whether he wants to leave or whether he is happy or anything till sunday which again was on notw which i wouldnt trust as it is the sunday edition of the sun.
July 27th, 2007 at 14:50
Hey i dunno if anyone else agrees or not, but with the whole heinze
thing and him bring in liverpools agents in, do we really want
someone in our team who wants to leave united and join our
rivals? cause i for one have lost respect for him the way he has
been acting trying to push this transfer through, i no it could be
all paper or his agent talk, but it is still quite annoying hearing
him talk about wanting a move to liverpool