NYHETER: Ex-player/-manager news, Part IV

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Former Leeds Skipper Crocked



Former Leeds skipper Kevin Nicholls has been hit with a double injury blow after doctors found he has a hairline fracture as well as a damaged cartilage. 
The Preston midfielder had an operation on Friday on the knee he injured in a reserves game at Tranmere.
Preston boss Alan Irvine revealed: "They have found he has a bit of a crack in the bone as well."
Preston are hoping the fracture, believed to be at the top of his tibia, will not delay his return to action.
"We are still looking at between four and six weeks," added Irvine. "The crack should take as long as the knee problem to heal, so that should not make it any longer."
Nicholls will probably go down in recent history as one of the worst skipper's to have worn the armband at Elland Road and we at LeedsUnitedMAD hope his return to football is long delayed!

leedsunited-mad.co.uk

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Newcastle striker Viduka to reject Verbeek approach
http://www.tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=85531

Tottenham's Lennon on Newcastle radar
http://www.tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=85560

Villa move for Newcastle's Milner
http://www.tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=85562

Spurs want £2M for Robinson
http://www.tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=85578

Spurs to offer Robinson in bid for Middlesbrough's Johnson
http://www.tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=85577

[janove]

Ikke meninga aa gaa deg i naeringa Kjelvi!
Andy Richie er sparket fra Huddersfield, iflg Radio Leeds for en time siden.
Overlater klipping og liming til deg.

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Ikke meninga aa gaa deg i naeringa Kjelvi!

Alle må bidra!
Også du Janen, som sitter midt i smørøyet!!
Får du fulgt med AaFK fra 'over there'?

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Andy Richie er sparket fra Huddersfield, iflg Radio Leeds for en time siden.
Overlater klipping og liming til deg.

Ritchie leaves Huddersfield post 


Ritchie won 22 of his 51 matches in charge of the Terriers

Huddersfield Town manager Andy Ritchie has left the club by mutual consent.
Ritchie was only appointed boss at the Galpharm Stadium last April and leaves the club sitting 14th in League One.
Chairman Ken Davy said: "The reality is that, despite an increased spend and new signings, we have not progressed as we hoped this season."
Director of football development Gerry Murphy has been put in caretaker charge and the club hope to appoint a new manager before the end of the season.
Davy added: "Andy Ritchie is as nice a person as you could meet and we wish him every success in the future.
"Going forward, however, our focus at Huddersfield Town now has to be appointing a new manager for our centenary season."
Murphy spent a month as caretaker manager towards the end of last season, between the sacking of Peter Jackson and the appointment of Ritchie in April 2007.

BBC

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Ferdinand wants new Man Utd deal 
Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has signalled his intent to spend the rest of his playing career at Old Trafford.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/7322412.stm

[janove]

Ikke meninga aa gaa deg i naeringa Kjelvi!

Alle må bidra!
Også du Janen, som sitter midt i smørøyet!!
Får du fulgt med AaFK fra 'over there'?

Foelger med saa godt jeg kan. Hoerte kampen mot VIF paa Sunnmoerspostens nettradio.
Saa siste treningskampen mot Start paa nett tv.
Tror de har faatt en god trener og at de vil havne paa en 8-10 plass.
3 foerste kampene er vanskelige selvfoelgelig.

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Sheffield United striker Geoff Horsfield will quit the club in the summer and move to Southampton on a two year deal. (Daily Star)

Micky Adams and Chris Hutchings are heading the chase to succeed Andy Ritchie as Huddersfield boss. (The Sun)

Micky Adams is the leading contender to take over at Huddersfield after the departure of Andy Ritchie. (Daily Express)

David Lilley admits he's ready to end speculation over his future and sign a new two-year deal at Kilmarnock. (Daily Record)

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Sheffield United striker Geoff Horsfield will quit the club in the summer and move to Southampton on a two year deal. (Daily Star)

Micky Adams and Chris Hutchings are heading the chase to succeed Andy Ritchie as Huddersfield boss. (The Sun)

Micky Adams is the leading contender to take over at Huddersfield after the departure of Andy Ritchie. (Daily Express)

David Lilley admits he's ready to end speculation over his future and sign a new two-year deal at Kilmarnock. (Daily Record)

Er David Lilley egentlig vår gamle Derek ?

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Sheffield United striker Geoff Horsfield will quit the club in the summer and move to Southampton on a two year deal. (Daily Star)

Micky Adams and Chris Hutchings are heading the chase to succeed Andy Ritchie as Huddersfield boss. (The Sun)

Micky Adams is the leading contender to take over at Huddersfield after the departure of Andy Ritchie. (Daily Express)

David Lilley admits he's ready to end speculation over his future and sign a new two-year deal at Kilmarnock. (Daily Record)

Er David Lilley egentlig vår gamle Derek ?

Tror det ja. Derek er vel bare et kallenavn akkurat som Andy er det for Andrew...

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David Lilley admits he's ready to end speculation over his future and sign a new two-year deal at Kilmarnock. (Daily Record)

Er David Lilley egentlig vår gamle Derek ?

Tror det ja. Derek er vel bare et kallenavn akkurat som Andy er det for Andrew...

Sorry venner!
Her er det nok Kjelvi som sover litt. Med det ene øye på jobb, mens det andre er inne på engelske nettsteder.
David er ikke Derek. David har ingenting med Leeds å gjøre - og dermed her ikke noe på denne tråden å gjøre.

Vår Derek er still going strong, men for beskjedne Sterling Alb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Lilley

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Her er det nok Kjelvi som sover litt.

Skremmende når man har startet å omtale seg sjøl som tredjeperson.
Litt Lars Sponheim'sk.....   

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Her er det nok Kjelvi som sover litt.

Skremmende når man har startet å omtale seg sjøl som tredjeperson.
Litt Lars Sponheim'sk.....   

Vel, du er i godt selskap. Julius Cæsar omtalte alltid seg selv i tredje person. Eks: Han hare bestemt at....... 

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England defender Rio Ferdinand is set to sign a new five-year contract with Manchester United, keeping him at the club until he is 34. (Sun)

RIO SET TO EXTEND UNITED STAY
Manchester United are "not far away" from agreeing a new contract with Rio Ferdinand.
http://www.sportinglife.com/football/transfer_centre/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/08/04/04/SOCCER_Man_Utd_Nightlead.html

CARSON SEEKS PERMANENT MOVE
Goalkeeper Scott Carson has admitted he wants an end to his days as the loan ranger and has "big decisions to make" over his future this summer.
Carson is currently on loan at Aston Villa from Liverpool and previously had similar spells at Sheffield Wednesday and Charlton following his move from Leeds to Anfield.
http://www.sportinglife.com/football/transfer_centre/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/08/04/04/SOCCER_Villa_Carson.html

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Cardiff chairman Peter Ridsdale says the club could go into administration if they lose their court case against their creditors on March 10.

How Cardiff set Ridsdale on road to redemption

You can easily scoff at the idea of Peter Ridsdale smiling down from the posh seats at Wembley Stadium tomorrow: the man who came to personify financial mismanagement in football basking inside our great monument to overspending, in the middle of a credit crunch.
Five years after he resigned as chairman of Leeds United, his infamy lives on. To many, he will always be the man who squandered millions and brought a proud club to the brink of ruin.


Ridsdale: changing his reputation

But there is a rebranding operation under way in Wales. Ridsdale has Cardiff afloat and in an FA Cup semi-final on a shoestring budget.
It is the club's first trip to Wembley since they won the trophy in 1927 and a wonderful experience beckons, but the chairman is convinced the arena should never have been rebuilt.
It is, he insists, a waste of money. 'It's a magnificent stadium but I wouldn't have been in favour of Wembley at the time,' says Ridsdale, who was appointed to the FA Board when he was at Leeds.
The decision to rebuild had already been taken but he watched the saga unfold at close quarters.
'The right thing was to move the national team around the country, taking the game back to its roots, which is the supporters, and to play the FA Cup Final at the Millennium Stadium, a truly neutral ground. I wouldn't have had a national stadium.
'I also believe if the amount of money that was invested had been put back into grassroots football we would stand a far better chance of competing at international level.
'Schools football needs pitches, there's no money in the Championship, League One or Two. There's no money below that level and yet you see these superstars and multi-millionaires in the Barclays Premier League.'
Some might consider him the last person to preach, especially Leeds fans, who saw their club crippled by debts of £103m and who travel to Leyton Orient today. But Ridsdale has always tried to connect with supporters.
Those who watch teams fighting to survive outside the Premier League might find it hard to disagree.
'The game is starved of cash outside the Premier League, and the Premier League have distanced themselves from the normal supporter and from the rest of professional football,' Ridsdale added.
'When it was formed, the TV revenues were probably two or three times what the Championship got. Now it's about 35 times.
'That can't be right. How do a club like Cardiff, turning over £10m a year, suddenly find they can get promoted and have £35m of TV revenue and two more years of £11m parachute payments?
How can a wage bill be £120m a-year at one Premier League club?
'The Premier League are in grave danger of creating a sterile environment where you know who the top four will be and you know the promoted teams will probably be in the bottom three.
'Who is going to watch that? There's a massive gulf. I think the Premier League enjoy that. It means most of their participants are safe most years.'
Cardiff's opponents at Wembley are Barnsley, where Ridsdale made his return to football after leaving Elland Road in 2003.
He was invited to Oakwell to help them out of administration and his methods included sacking popular, long-serving backroom staff and offloading high-earning players while still paying a share of their wages.
'I look back now and realise I should not have gone there,' Ridsdale said. 'I was still mentally scarred from what happened at Leeds.
'I wasn't confident and, while I did the job and was proud of it, it was right to move on.'
Sam Hammam took him to Ninian Park. Ridsdale inherited the hot-seat and plenty of problems.
The FA Cup run has been clouded by a High Court battle over a £24m loan, settled in Cardiff's favour last month. They will have to repay the money, but not yet.
Ridsdale said: 'If you turn over £10m a year and you inherit debts of £24m, it's a massive challenge ever to pay that back.
'In addition, we owe the Inland Revenue £1.7m, local architects more than £2m, former directors £2m and without the new stadium we have no chance of survival.
'We had to come in and be ruthless. We had to sell anybody with any value. We brought in the best manager we could afford in Dave Jones and we've used our skills and talents to acquire, in the main, free transfers.
'Each summer we've sold another player to top up the cash to make sure we survive.'
The sales of Danny Gabbidon, James Collins, Cameron Jerome and Michael Chopra helped pay the bills but, when the court case threatened the cashflow again, Spurs were encouraged to pay up to £2m for Chris Gunter in January.
'There isn't a bank in this country that will lend us money,' said Ridsdale. 'If people ask what our bank overdraft is, the answer is nothing. Why? They won't give us one. We'd love to have one.'
The FA Cup has thrown a financial lifeline to Cardiff and Ridsdale feels a far greater sense of satisfaction than he did taking Leeds to the last four of the UEFA Cup in 2000 and then the Champions League, a year later.
'At Leeds, we assembled a team we expected to be in Europe most years, we had so many international footballers.
'At Cardiff, you don't enter the FA Cup believing you're ever going to get to the semi-final. The achievement feels a lot greater than it did at Leeds.'

Daily Mail

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En skammens mann

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Tottenham's Lennon on Newcastle radar
http://www.tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=85560

Newcastle boss Kevin Keegan wants to swap Charles N'Zogbia for Spurs' Aaron Lennon, who is also wanted by Liverpool. (News of the World)

Tottenham will fight to keep Newcastle target Aaron Lennon. (Daily Star)

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Ian Harte is being chased by Ipswich, Leicester and Norwich. (News of the World)

Kevin Blackwell could have the choice of managing Sheffield United or Leicester in the summer. (Sunday Mirror)

Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill will move for Jussi Jaaskelainen if he fails to land Scott Carson on a permanent basis. (Daily Star)

Geoff Horsfield will quit Sheffield United in the summer and move to Southampton. (Daily Star)

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Trenger en venstreback til neste sesong vi. Hva med Ian Harte?

Må vel kanskje rykke opp først da...

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Ian Harte, nei takk!!!!!!!!
Han har gått ut på dato

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Ian Harte, nei takk!!!!!!!!
Han har gått ut på dato

Harte er jo til tross for litt manglende fart i beina, en moderne backtype. Offensiv og skuddvillig!

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Huckerby - unsure of future.

HUCKERBY'S FUTURE REMAINS UNCLEAR
Darren Huckerby admits he is still in the dark as to what the future holds for him.
The Norwich forward is out of contract at the end of the season and after the 2-0 win over Burnley revealed he had no concrete plans.
He said: "No-one has said anything to me about a new contract but I'm not going to put any pressure on the club by saying too much about that. If they offer me a contract they do and if they don't, they don't. I'll just wait and see what happens.
"The most important thing was that we won the game. It was nice to play well and get the result we deserved especially after what happened last week when we were very unfortunate to lose.
"We should have probably won by a few more but at the end of the day, we'll take the points. Whether that makes us safe I don't know, we've just got to keep on racking up the wins if we can.
"Now we can all look forward to Ipswich next Sunday. That could be my 200th appearance for Norwich so hopefully I will be involved."

PA Sport

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Nok en dyrt kjøpt og betalt flopp for oss, men han fikk vel ikke så mange sjansene heller...

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Top 10 fat footballers

En ex-spiller er inne på The Suns lite flaterende liste?
Gjett hvem?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article962304.ece

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Måtte jo bli Brolin

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http://www.rivals.net/news/pgarticle.aspx?artid=13662_3398004&id=42

Still going strong

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Newcastle boss Kevin Keegan is targeting a £6m summer move for Liverpool midfielder Jermaine Pennant. (The Sun)

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Liverpool-folk vil nok le hele veien til banken om de får den summen...

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FourFourTwo har satt opp liste over de 100 beste utlendingene gjennom britisk fotballs historie.

Her er lista: http://www.dagbladet.no/sport/2008/04/09/531998.html

Ex-players på lista er:
1. Eric Cantona, Frankrike (Leeds, Manchester United)
27. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Nederland (Leeds, Chelsea, Middlesbrough, Charlton, Cardiff)
65. Mark Viduka, Australia (Celtic, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Newcastle)
73. Albert Johanneson, Sør-Afrika (Leeds, York C.)
75. Gustavo Poyet, Uruguay (Chelsea, Tottenham)
76. Harry Kewell, Australia (Leeds, Liverpool)
82. Lucas Radebe, Sør-Afrika (Leeds)
84. Tore André Flo, Norge (Chelsea, Rangers, Sunderland, Leeds)
90. Tony Yeboah, Ghana (Leeds)

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SPURS striker Robbie Keane will remain as Republic of Ireland captain under their new Italian chief Giovanni Trapattoni. (The Sun)

Newcastle striker Viduka undecided over quitting Socceroos
Mark Viduka's international future with Australia is still in the balance.
The 32-year-old Newcastle striker admits he is undecided on whether to continue to represent his country, who have already started their 2012 World Cup qualifying campaign in the Asian section.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=558474&in_page_id=1779

Keane happy with capital life
Tottenham striker Robbie Keane says he is loving life at the club as he prepares to reach a personal milestone.
Keane is in line to make to his 250th appearance for the club in the weekend clash with Middlesbrough.
The Republic of Ireland international has established himself as a firm fans' favourite at White Hart Lane since his arrival from Leeds in 2002 and Keane is determined to prolong his stay in north London.
http://www.teamtalk.com/football/story/0,16368,1765_3403642,00.html