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Date: Fri Jul 31 GMT+00:00 1998
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PRE SEASON - FIRST TEAM CALENDER
July 25 Birmingham City (A) result: L 3-4
27 Valerengen (A) (Oslo) result: D 2-2
31 Brondby (A) (Copenhagen)
Aug 4 Brann Bergen (A)
9 Charity Shield at Wembley
18 Eric Cantona XI (H) - Munich testimonial
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:38:16 -0700
From: L Harvey
Subject: RE Cantona will don a United shirt again - confirmed on GMR
Friends,
I've just read my email and seen the above headline. This wonderful news
has also been confirmed on GMR, Eric will indeed don a Red shirt again on
18th August and hopefully, also playing will be many of our greatest stars
of the 90's.
It's been a sad couple of years, with the gradual break-up of the
Double-winning side. In the last couple of seasons, we have said goodbye
to so many heroes. With the recent departure of Pally, we are left with
only Denis, Ryan, Peter and Roy from that great squad. Personally, I've
found it tough - as much as I love our youngsters, I seem to have been in a
perpetual state of mourning as one after another, the players I adore have
left. This very special game will not only honour the Busby Babes, but it
will also allow us to salute and thank some of the greatest talents ever
seen at OT.
And before anyone asks, Andrei and Ince will get as big a welcome from me
as will all the others - out of respect for what they helped us achieve.
I'm in tears already - God help me on the 18th when Eric, Sparky, Robbo,
Brucey, Pally etc etc run out onto the pitch. I'm going to need a bloody
ton of tissues!
Yours with a very big grin,
Linda
PS I'm not sure about bloody Batty though!!
>On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, P.J. Thum wrote:
>> Man United 30 Jul 1998
CANTONA WILL DON A UNITED SHIRT AGAIN
Eric Cantona has got his wish - to play for Manchester United again.
The Frenchman has switched sides for the Munich Testimonial match at Old
Trafford on Tuesday, August 18, and instead of playing against his former
team-mates, Cantona will line-up with them.
He will skipper the side for the last time and pull on his famous number
seven shirt as Bryan Robson takes his place in the Cantona XI.
Former United stars Steve Bruce, Mark Hughes, Gary Pallister, Paul Ince,
Lee Sharpe and Andrei Kanchelskis are all expected to play along with David
Batty, Gary McAllister and Gary Speed - three of Cantona's colleagues at
Leeds.
Cantona's former French international partner Jean-Pierre Papin is also
expected to turn-out.
******************************************************
Linda Harvey
linda@eccles.u-net.com
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This Issue:
1. Keane Ad (PA)
2. Kluivert / Yorke / Carew (TeamTalk)
3. Kluivert In £9m Deal To United (MEN)
4. Eric's Farewell (MEN)
5. ESL (Times)
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Subject: Keane Ad (PA)
FA TO TREAT KEANE AD AS 'HUMOUR'
Roy Keane is unlikely to face disciplinary action after admitting to a long
list of footballing crimes in a magazine advertising campaign.
The Manchester United midfielder, advertising Snickers chocolate bars,
confesses to a priest about how he has kicked and punched opponents and
sworn at referees.
Keane, who has just returned after 10 months out with a cruciate ligament
injury, claimed recently that his wild days are over.
But Football Association spokesman Steve Double implied there will be no
tough punishment for Keane from the English game's governing body - as has
been suggested in the press - when he said: "It's humour and we treat it as
such."
© PA Sporting Life
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 01:08:59 +0800
Reply-To: Red Devil Marcus
Sender: "Manchester United Football Club (soccer)"
From: Red Devil Marcus
Subject: Kluivert / Yorke / Carew (TeamTalk)
United Confirm Kluivert Bid
United have confirmed that AC Milan have accepted their offer for Patrick
Kluivert.
United have tabled a bid worth a reported £9m for the Dutch striker, but
chairman Martin Edwards also added that a move for Kluivert does not end a
move for Aston Villa's Dwight Yorke.
Edwards said:
"It doesn't mean our interest in Dwight Yorke has dropped because it hasn't.
"We can be a bit more relaxed about the Yorke situation now."
United officials must now arrange a meeting with Kluivert, who is expected
to return from a Caribbean vacation on Monday.
The capture of Kluivert, and indeed Yorke, would ultimately end Alex
Ferguson's two-year search for a world class striker after previous
knock-backs, namely Alan Shearer and Gabriel Batistuta.
And with Saturday's European transfer deadline day fast approaching, United
officials will be keen to complete formalities so that Kluivert will be
eligible to play in United's Champions League qualifying games, starting
against LKS Lodz.
United also have until August 20th to register additional players for the
group stages.
One potential stumbling block, though, still threatens to jeopardise the
move, that being Kluivert's insistence on a £500,000 signing-on fee.
But there now appears to be favourable evidence to suggest that the former
Ajax ace is willing to drop his wage demands to secure a move to the
Premiership.
Ferguson may well be forced into making an improved offer for Dwight Yorke,
whose club manager John Gregory refuses to compromise over a £16m price tag.
Gregory added:
"The price is £16m. I will not budge. In fact I'm wondering whether I have
underestimated Yorke at that.
"I would think the next 48-hours will be interesting."
There is also mounting speculation that United could make a move for the man
who scored the opening goal against them on Monday.
Valerengen striker John Carew caught Ferguson's eye and the Norwegian club
are said to have offered him to United for £4.5m.
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 01:12:01 +0800
Reply-To: Red Devil Marcus
Sender: "Manchester United Football Club (soccer)"
From: Red Devil Marcus
Subject: Kluivert In £9m Deal To United (MEN)
UNITED LINE UP KLUIVERT IN £9m DEAL AND STEP UP THEIR CHASE FOR YORKE
Paul Hince Reporting
WORLD Cup star Patrick Kluivert is on his way to Manchester United to end
Alex Ferguson's two-year chase for the brilliant Dutch striker.
Both the Reds and Kluivert's Italian club AC Milan confirmed today that they
had agreed on a £9m fee for the powerful 22-year-old marksman. But the
imminent arrival of the world-class Kluivert does NOT mean that United have
abandoned their bid to land Aston Villa striker Dwight Yorke.
The one remaining obstacle to completing Kluivert's transfer to Old Trafford
concerns the personal terms which the young Dutchman is demanding to bring
his talents to the English Premiership. Arsenal dropped out of the race to
sign the big striker because they were not prepared to meet Kluivert's pay
demands which were reported to be a staggering £50,000 a week. But the Reds
will not baulk at making their new capture the highest-paid player in
English soccer.
The timing of the deal means that United will be unable to complete
Kluivert's signing before the European deadline on August 1.
But that date only applies to the qualifying rounds of the Champions' League
with clubs having a further two weeks in which to get new players registered
in time for the Champions' League proper. United now play Lodz of Poland on
Wednesday August 12 with the away leg on August 26.
``We have not actually had the opportunity to speak to the player as yet,''
says Reds' chairman, Martin Edwards. ``He went on holiday immediately after
the World Cup finals and wasn't due back until today.
Despite the £9m outlay on the exciting Kluivert, the Reds have no intention
of shelving their interest in Villa star Yorke providing the Midlanders
reduce their sky-high £16m asking price for the Trinidad international.
The Kluivert-Yorke combination has been Ferguson's ``dream ticket'' all
along and it now looks inevitable that the Reds will include Andy Cole in
the package they will put to Villa to tempt them to part company with their
prize asset.
Meanwhile it is understood that, along with Arsenal and Liverpool, United
have given the Premiership an undertaking that they will not be joining the
proposed Euro midweek league.
David Beckham seems set to miss United's second pre-season tour game in
Copenhagen tomorrow because of an ankle injury sustained in Monday's 2-2
draw with Valerengen.
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 01:16:26 +0800
Subject: Eric's Farewell (MEN)
CANTONA'S OLD TRAFFORD FAREWELL IN RED
UNITED I STAND - ERIC
By Tom Tyrrell
ERIC CANTONA will play his final game at Old Trafford in a Manchester United
shirt.
The famous Frenchman says au revoir to his fanatical followers next month as
he brings an all-star side to his former club to raise cash for the Munich
Testimonial Fund. But instead of playing for the visitors, he wants to turn
out for United on the big night.
Original plans were for Cantona to begin the game playing against United
then switching sides at half time. With a typical Cantonesque gesture Eric
has changed things, and a packed house on Wednesday, August 18, will now see
two of Old Trafford's most famous number sevens on the pitch at the same
time - Cantona will skipper United while Bryan Robson leads the Cantona X1
``Eric wanted to leave the shirt in his side clear for Bryan Robson,'' says
a spokesman for the organisers. ``He has requested to play for United, the
club is happy for him to do so and Bryan is delighted to lead the
opposition.''
Former United stars Gary Pallister, Steve Bruce, Paul Ince, Mark Hughes, Lee
Sharpe and Andrei Kanchelskis are all expected to play in Robson's side
along with England's David Batty, Gary Speed of Wales and Scotland's Gary
McAllister.
There will also be an injection of foreign talent with Cantona bringing
several of his French friends. They include goalkeeper Pascal Olmeta, and
defender William Prunier, who had a short spell at Old Trafford in 1995.
Others are Christophe Galtier, and Bernard Ferrer of Marseilles, Gilles
Rousset of Hearts, Jean-Pierre Papin of Bordeaux and Pascal Vahirua from
Caen.
Originally the organising committee planned the event for February, but an
FA Cup replay against Barnsley clashed with the date.
Then Cantona left for Mexico to complete location work on ``Mooky'' in which
he plays the part of a boxer. He has been keen to return to Old Trafford
after he surprisingly quit football at the end of the 1997 season.
His last game in a United shirt was at Coventry in May 1997 when he took
part in the David Busst Testimonial, and the last time he played at Old
Trafford was in the closing game of United's last championship winning
campaign a week earlier.
The shirts he wore in both those games were sold but this time Cantona will
be handing back the kit to give a boost to the fund which will help the
players who survived the 1958 tragedy and the dependants of the United staff
and players who died in the crash.
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:24:56 -0400
Subject: ESL (Times)
Clubs ready to fight for right to join European super league
BY ROB HUGHES
THE whole of European football, and particularly the game in England,
remained tense last night over the threat of a breakaway super league
involving the elite of England's Premier League clubs.
The FA Premier League had demanded written undertakings from Manchester
United, Liverpool and Arsenal that they were not involved in discussions
with a conglomerate, led by Italians, to form a midweek European league that
would threaten the thriving Premier League.
Nothing was received and the threat of a legal injunction to prevent English
clubs from entertaining ambitions to join a franchise outside the Premier
League or the Football Association remains.
Conversely, the lawyers representing the proposed super league are
considering a restraint of trade action against leagues that "prevent clubs
maximising their earning potential".
Furthermore, the authorities in Europe are well aware that more English
clubs - Newcastle United, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa and Leeds
United - are being lured towards the proposed league.
The danger, if it came to fruition, is obvious; if such a core of England's
elite, the very glamour of the multimillion pound Premiership became
involved, what power would the English authorities retain over the sport in
their own land?
Although Manchester United have refused to confirm it, I have it on good
authority that representatives of the club have attended meetings set up by
Media Partners and J. P, Morgan, the investment bank, who have no vested
interest in the present Uefa tournaments. Furthermore, Liverpool and Arsenal
attended a meeting for the proposed league for the first time at the end of
last week. The other English clubs being mentioned in private dispatches
have not attended any meetings so far.
Proposals for the new league would be for 16 "permanent" members, the
self-elected European elite, and then by clubs invited on an annual basis to
take part. There is strength in numbers and Silvio Berlusconi, the owner of
AC Milan, who has been desperate for some years to persuade others to form a
breakaway league, is behind the new conglomerate.
Berlusconi, and those in his conglomerate, view football as the milk cow of
the late 1990s. Even Franz Beckenbauer, the president of Bayern Munich, is
reported to have echoed the rhetoric of Berlusconi, stating that within the
next decade, club football will completely usurp national team football in
importance and scope.
Uefa, European football's governing body, tomorrow intends to counter the
super league proposals with its own ideas for the European Cup Champions'
League beyond the millennium. These apparently revolutionary moves include
conceding profits to the leading European clubs, thus diminishing Uefa's
handout to the less privileged. Central to everything that Uefa intends,
however, is that no team will play in its three tournaments unless they
qualify to do so.
This is the fundamental difference between Uefa and Berlusconi. The
conglomerate is created for greed, while the existing bodies have a duty of
care towards the grass roots.
Yet, despite the meetings, it is arguable that it is not in Manchester
United's interest to break with tradition or with existing structures. The
only times in recent years that Old Trafford has been less than full to its
55,000 capacity have been on European nights. The fact is that England's
tribalism, and the love for and identification with local teams, still
guarantees a sell-out at most of the leading clubs, so long as the
opposition is English - despite the trend at Chelsea and some other clubs
for entire teams that scarcely contain an Englishmen.
United can count on very nearly £2 million each time they play a domestic
league match, which might explain why the club regularly abstains when the
question of reducing the 20 clubs in the FA Carling Premiership is on the
agenda. The proposed £3 million signing-on fee to clubs invited to join the
super league is a drop in the ocean of United's worldwide merchandising
income. Yet add to it the supposed guarantee of £20 million per club per
season in a new super league, and you would have a sum that would pay even
Chelsea's phenomenal wage bill.
Against that, threatening to dismantle or destabilise what is working so
profitably in England is a risk beyond contemplation. The "greed is good"
league is on offer to the very few - but what the Italians, among others,
really envy is the seductive glamour that allows United to sell merchandise
and replica shirts through 200 established supporters' clubs from Altrincham
to Singapore.
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