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MACHEDA MAY MOVE

It seems that the Manchester United striker Federico Macheda will not be moving to another club in the English football during the month of January. The 21-year-old has been linked with a move away from Old Trafford at least on a short-term basis in order to revive his year. He has barely featured for the first team at Manchester United, despite making one of the stunning announcements into the first-team more than three years ago. He scored on his debut for United to send them on their way to a 3-2 win over Aston Villa.

However, he has struggled to score goals since then and has been sent on numerous loan spells to clubs like Sampdoria and QPR in the last few seasons. It has been little that this will be his last season at the club, as he struggles to establish himself and get regular game time. There have been suggestions of a move to a lower league club in the January transfer window, but the player has said that he will be favouring a move to either Portugal or Spain rather than play in England. His agent has also been supportive of the same by saying that Spain or Portugal will suit the player much better.

“Federico obviously wants to play more and also Manchester United agree to let him go. Blackpool and Hull City? No, he definitely won’t go to one of them. We’re talking with two or three clubs in Spain and Germany, which I don’t want to name,” said his agent Giovanni Bia in a recent interview. The player has scored only a handful of goals in the appearances he has made for United in the last three seasons. His two loan spells at Sampdoria and QPR were also extremely unproductive in terms of playing time.

MACHEDA WILL MOVE

The agent of the Italian striker Federico Macheda has said that his client is likely to leave Manchester United in the January transfer window after growing frustrated about the lack of first-team opportunities in the club. The 20-year-old Italian striker made his debut for the club in the most stunning manner after scoring his debut at the club win the match against Aston Villa 3-2. However, he has lost his way since then and has not been part of the first team under Sir Alex Ferguson. The manager has sent him off on loan deals to various clubs in the last two years, but that has not been any different from his situation at Old Trafford.

Rather than move once again on loan deal this season, the striker decided to stay at Old Trafford and fight for his opportunities. The arrival of Robin van Persie from Arsenal for £ 24 million changed the situation. His arrival has meant that Sir Alex Ferguson has four strikers at his disposal apart from Federico Macheda. This has seen him get very little opportunities to even get on the first-team bench. He did not even start the league cup match a few weeks back.

“How can he be decisive for the team if he never plays?. Manchester United have some phenomenal players in attack, so it is truly difficult for Federico to find space. It’s not true what they write in the English papers that he’s going through a bad spell. He wants to play and if he cannot do so by January then we’ll try to find an alternative solution. I will talk to Sir Alex Ferguson over the next few days,” said the agent of the player. He only has a few years left on his contract and is expected to move in the January transfer window.

DEFENCE WINS PRAISE

The Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has praised the defence of the club by saying that it was some of the important reasons for them comfortably winning against Newcastle United during the weekend. Manchester United came into the match against Newcastle United after having just been beaten by Tottenham 3-2 at Old Trafford. In fact, this is not the first time Manchester United have conceded more than two goals this season.

As a result, there have been a lot of questions asked about the defence, which does not have many key players like Nemanja Vidic and Smalling. Liverpool news even linked United with a bid for Daniel Agger.

However, the players managed to keep a clean sheet in the match against Newcastle United during the weekend. The 3-0 win help the Manchester United reached the second position in the Premier league table ahead of the rivals Manchester city. Speaking after the match, the England international Wayne Rooney said that it was extremely important that the club kept a clean sheet in the match because it is one of the hardest games during the course of the season. He has also acknowledged the fact that the club have not defended well in the first few matches of the season, but is hoping that they continue in this form throughout the season.

“It’s a great result. Everyone knows this is probably one of the hardest games of the season. We came here, defended brilliantly. We fully deserved the victory. The first six games of the season we haven’t defended well enough — not just the back four, the whole team, and today we were brilliant against a physical team,” said Wayne Rooney after the match. Despite this victory, Manchester United are still four points behind the table leaders Chelsea. Manchester United will be facing Chelsea in the next few weeks in the Premier league and the league cup.

UNITED SIGN ANOTHER YOUNGSTER

Manchester United has signed the Chilean youngster Angelo Henriquez.  Sir Alex Ferguson, the manager of Manchester United, has confirmed the signing of Henriquez. Ferguson said that Henriquez has become 18 years old now. So, he has got working permit which makes him eligible to sign for the club. He is a very talented young footballer. He is enormously capable at such a young age. He has shown his skills playing for Universidad de Chile and he is a very good buy for the club.

Ferguson has also made it clear that Henriquez is the last player to be bought by the club this summer. Ferguson said that he is quite satisfied with the players that he has had and he is not going to sign any more player this summer. United has signed five players since the opening of the transfer window. Those five players are Alexander Buttner, Robin Van Persie, Shinji Kagawa, Nick Powell and Angelo Henriquez. Buttner has been signed by the club this week and Ferguson hinted that he might get a chance to play in the United’s second game of the season against Fulham.  As per Ferguson, Buttner has looked in good nick in the training sessions and he might be sent on to the field at some point of time in the match against Fulham.

Manchester United hasn’t made a very good start to the season and the team lost its opening match against Everton by 1-0. On being asked about that match, Ferguson said that he is very disappointed with the team’s performance in that match. The team should have easily won that match, but, the players looked rusty and didn’t show enough hunger on the field. On being asked about the club’s new signing Robin Van Persie, Ferguson said that Persie went on to the field pretty late in that match and it is not easy to go on to the field and score straight  away. Ferguson hinted that Persie would be a part of the first XI in the match against Fulham.

Focus on Macheda

Young Italian forward Federico Macheda was snapped up by Manchester United from home-town club Lazio at the tender age of 16 and burst onto the Premier League scene with a spectacular last minute winning goal in his debut game, a 3-2 victory of Aston Villa in April 2009.

He repeated the trick in the next match away to Sunderland, again scoring the winner, ultimately ensuring that the Premier League trophy would stay at Old Trafford for a third consecutive season.

Despite this early blistering form, he struggled to break into the Manchester United first team and made only a handful of appearances in the following two seasons.

He has spent the majority of the last two seasons out on loan- firstly to Sampdoria during the 2010/11 season, and secondly to Queen’s Park Rangers during the latter half of last season. However he endured a fairly torrid time during both spells, again featuring for the first team only intermittently, and failing to score for either club. Injury cut short his stay at QPR and he has since expressed his relief to return to United for pre season training.

Despite failing to make the step up thus far, Sir Alex Ferguson obviously retains hope that the young forward can still live up to his potential, having included him in the squad for United’s pre-season tour of South Africa and the Far East.

Macheda went some way to showing that this faith is warranted, his fine finish proving to be the decisive goal in United’s 1-0 victory against Amazulu in their first warm up game of the tour.

Another loan move has been touted in the press, and with the likes of Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck, Javier Hernandez and Dimitar Berbatov to compete with, first team chances could again be few and far between should he remain at Old Trafford.

Regardless of where he ends up this season, Federico Macheda will be desperate to ensure that this is the year when the scintillating talent which has been witnessed in fits and starts over the past few seasons can be materialised into a run of consistent goal scoring form.

MACHEDA MAKES HIS MARK

Despite his young age (20 years old) Federico Macheda has already had quite an impact on English football. In his first full team appearance for Manchester United Macheda scored a superb winner against Aston Villa and went on to make some important performance in the run in to United’s league winning campaign in the 2008-2009 season, as well as winning the United academy player of year award.

Despite this promising start the following two years proved less fruitful and Macheda was moved on loan to Samporia and more recently Queens Park Rangers. With little impact during his loan spells it seems likely that Macheda may not survive the summer exodus from old Trafford this summer. Many believe that Sir Alex Ferguson’s main transfer target, Argentinean international midfielder Nicolas Gaitan is likely to move from Benfica for an estimated £20 million, with Macheda moving permanently to the Portuguese side as part of the deal.

Macheda who is one game off 50 appearances for the United, will no doubt feel some unfinished business with English football, with no real, decent chance to prove himself and at such a young age is seems strange that he would be cast aside so early. This is of course not the first time this has happened. Alex Ferguson has already seen highly rated Giuseppe Rossi slip through his fingers after he was let go without a proper chance to establish himself. With age on his side the Italian Under-21 star has plenty of time left on his career and If the transfer of Gaitan goes through and Macheda leaves, only time will tell to see if he is able to live up to his potential and become one of the small number of players to prove Alex Ferguson wrong.

MACHEDA OUT ON LOAN

It is a well-known fact that Manchester United striker Federico Macheda will be sent out on loan next season in order to provide him with experienced before getting a shot at the Manchester United first team.

Sir Alex Ferguson has already said that in a recent interview. Hence, it was initially rumoured that Manchester United were looking at the possibility of sending back to Italy with Sampdoria on a loan deal till the end of the season. However, it is learnt that the player is against such a move because of the fact that Macheda’s earlier loan spell with the club was a major disappointment.

In the previous season, Macheda spent a large portion of the season on loan at Sampdoria after not getting regular football at Manchester United. However, the Italian youngster was extremely unlikely, as the manager who had brought him to the club was sacked immediately after a few matches following his arrival. The new manager did not see Macheda as a viable alternative to the striking options he had at the club.

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FERGIE BELIEVES

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has said that he has complete faith in youngster Federico Macheda, whose loan spell with Premier league club QPR has been cut short due to an injury.

He has now returned to Manchester United will be undergoing treatment in order to return when the pre-season begins in the summer. Federico Macheda was signed by former QPR manager Neil Warnock in a move which was seen as the last hope for the Italian, who has failed to impress Sir Alex Ferguson in various loan spells. However, Ferguson has reiterated that he has complete faith in Macheda even though his loan spell has been cut short.

Immediately after the arrival of Macheda, Neil Warnock was sacked as the QPR manager. His replacement, Mark Hughes, has not seen Macheda as someone who can lead the line at the relegation threatened club. This coupled with the arrival of a number of players like Cisse has meant that the opportunities have been limited for Macheda. Now, the long term injury suffered by the Italian has prematurely brought an end to the loan spell. Ferguson revealed that Macheda will be undergoing surgery in order to recover from the injury problem.

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MACHEDA WANTS TO STAY

QPR’s on loan striker Federico Macheda has said that he wants to become a first team regular at Old Trafford. Federico Macheda is currently on loan at QPR after having arrived from Manchester United in the January transfer window. This is the one of the many loan deals Federico Macheda has been part of in the last few seasons ever since making his debut for Manchester United in 2009. Despite being sent out on loan at various clubs in the last few seasons, Federico Macheda has said that his dream is to play for Manchester United as a first-team regular.

Federico Macheda made a sensational debut for Manchester United coming late on in the match against Aston Villa in 2009 to score the winner. It is a debut that will be remembered by many, but the subsequent performances has not been good enough to convince Sir Alex Ferguson to retain him at Old Trafford. Federico Macheda has admitted that Sir Alex Ferguson does have the habit of sending young players out on loan deals in order to provide them with experience before handing them a chance at Old Trafford. Federico Macheda has told an Italian radio station that midfielder Tom Cleverley is a perfect example of this case.

“I am still owned by Manchester United. I don’t know what the future will hold, but I will definitely go back to Sir Alex Ferguson’s club at the end of my loan spell. My dream is to establish myself in a United shirt, even though I know that will be difficult. I will do all I can to make that happen,” he told Radio Mana Mana. Federico Macheda has been on loan at Sampdoria last season, although he failed to score even a single goal in most 15 appearances.

HUGHES WILL REVIEW MACHEDA TWEET

QPR manager Mark Hughes has said that he will be looking at the tweet made by QPR striker Federico Macheda after the match against Everton recently. Federico Macheda made an abusive comment after being left out of the squad that was set to face Everton.

QPR came into the match against Everton knowing that they should make use of their home matches much better than they have done in recent past. However, manager Mark Hughes was coming under intense pressure after failing to change the fortunes of the club after arriving at the start of the January transfer window and spending heavily to spice up the team.

Mark Hughes has only two wins out of the eight matches he has been manager of QPR. This abysmal record would have provided Everton with a major hope of getting something from the fixture at Loftus Road. However, they were disappointed as QPR managed to come into the match and claimed a credible draw. Federico Macheda was not part of the QPR side that took on Everton at the Loftus Road.

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