Nemanja Vidic has come out and criticised the Manchester weather,the city, and it's people. He said the best place in Manchester is the train station out! He also says that in the future he wants to play in another European League like Spain.

Has this guy been taking lessons from Cristiano?

Well done.

Barcelona tourist video in the post.

The bookies are taking odds already!!

From SkyBet

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Which Club will Vidic join after leaving Man Utd?
Barcelona 7/2, Real Madrid 7/2, Inter Milan 5/1 or AC Milan 8/1

From the Telegraph

Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic says he would never stay to live in England
Nemanja Vidic has placed his long-term Manchester United future in doubt after criticising the English way of life and admitting that he hopes eventually to play in another European league.


In a frank interview, the Serbian defender was scathing of the climate in Manchester, and said he had found it hard to adapt. "I will never stay to live in England, that's for sure," said Vidic, 26. "You get only a brief glimpse of sunlight before it's all cloudy again. The winters are mild, but in summer the temperatures seldom go higher than 20C. And it rains, rains, rains.

"In future, I would like to test myself in another top league. I'm thinking of Spain. At least there will be no reason to complain about the weather. In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. Its main attraction is considered to be the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities."

Vidic, who joined United from Spartak Moscow in January 2006, also had harsh words for the English approach to work. "It's not only the weather that I'm not happy about here," he told the Russian magazine Football Weekly. "In Russia and Serbia the people's way of life is similar. In England it's totally different. Here they just don't have time to feel the joy of life.

"Throughout the week they all work so hard. They only talk to people at lunch break. Then in the evening they come home and watch the telly, so they can get up early for work the next day.

"The only time to meet friends is at weekends, but for football players it's the busiest time of all. It was much easier for me to adapt to Russia than England. In England I had no one to talk to. The first month was especially hard. I lived alone in a hotel, which I left only for training. I thought I would go crazy inside those four walls."

Despite his own dismay at life in England, the Serbian defender would like to see one of the stars of Euro 2008, Andrei Arshavin join the Premier League.

Vidic, who could face the playmaker when United take on Zenit St Petersburg in the European Super Cup in Monaco on Friday, believes the 27-year-old could benefit from a stint in England.

“Arshavin is a seriously good player. He was one of the best when I was in Russia,” he said.

"How he would do in England is difficult to know. I didn't know how I was going to do in England.

"He is a good player and I would like to see him in England. It would be good for him to come to see how good it is here compared to Russia."

I'm a bit surprised that someone who lived in moscow for two winters would be that preturbed by a bit of rain. It is also worth noting that he doesn't exactly come from a tropical desert himself the average rainfall in the uzice region is 700-800 mm per annum, The average rainfall in manchester is......806mm.

I would be a little sceptical of anything written in the russian media about England at the moment, or that a player that signed a five year contract less than a year ago is that unbelievably unhappy at having to live and work in manchester.

Stories like this, that show everything is not always perfect in Big-4-land, brings warmth to my heart, and hope to my soul.

"Throughout the week they all work so hard. They only talk to people at lunch break. Then in the evening they come home and watch the telly, so they can get up early for work the next day."

Ah, then the solution is simple.

Move to Liverpool...

And I am the Life wrote:

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From the Telegraph

Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic says he would never stay to live in England.

Hmmm... I'd probably swap "stay" and "live" around now.

i don't know. they come over here, slating our jobs..

Why do quotes in British newspapers always sound like they were made up by the writer of the article? I mean, does anyone believe he actually said this, for instance: "I thought I would go crazy inside those four walls."

I would also be very sceptical about an interview where a premiership footballer (a) complains that the average persons philosophy of life, and how that prevented him from really getting to meet the real english people, and how it got in the way of him making friends. (even though he didn't speak a word of english) (b) that english people don't get to feel the joy of life like Russians. There is something about that phrase that makes me very suspicious

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I would be a little sceptical of anything written in the russian media about England at the moment, or that a player that signed a five year contract less than a year ago is that unbelievably unhappy at having to live and work in manchester.

Well, we don't have to look very far for similar examples of players in a similar and very real situation do we.

I do understand the concept that Manchester is not the centre of the universe and Manchester United is not the ultimate peak of footballers' career aspirations is an alien one for you to grasp though Colm.

This is a bullshit. non-story. Just like the 'ROONEY SET FOR FERGIE BUST UP' after 'refusing' to change his style of play. Crock o'shit.

All seems a bit pat to me.

Dalliance, you remind me of the line in the boxer about how A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

once again, I would be sceptical of anything written in the russian media about england at the moment. Particularly an article that (a) relies on a footballer finding the same amount of rain that he has grown up with as a child intolerable (b) unfavourably compares the english way of life with the Russian life because the russians get to feel the 'joy of life' more (c) is upset at the way that the way the average english person has to live their life made it difficult for him to make friends when he moved to England (d) that if life was so unbelievably hard and soul destroying for him he probably wouldn't have signed a five year contract, and (e) is printed three days before man utd play the footballing arm of Gazprom in the European super cup final.

He probably said he found moving to a new country and learning a new language difficult, and that it made making friends a bit difficult in the beginning. (which is what every footballer says) maybe he complained a bit that there aren't defined seasons in england, and that it is a bit overcast. But then again he doesn't have to play in the snow.

Looks like AIATL and EIM are right:

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Manchester United's defensive rock Nemanja Vidic has denied quotes attributed to him in Russian magazine Football Weekly.

The Serbia hard-man apparently spoke out about the dreadful weather in Manchester and expressed a desire to play in Spain in the future.

However, Vidic has attempted to defuse the row and stressed he was referring to his early days living in a hotel in a strange new city.

"I'd like to clarify that I did not make these particular remarks," he told United's official website.

"I spoke about the difficulty I had settling in to life in Manchester, but that does not reflect how I feel now.

"I enjoy my life very much as a footballer at Manchester United, and I'm very happy to be a part of this great club. I think I show that in the way I play every week.

"I also have far too much respect for the people of Manchester, and England, to criticise them in this way."