The Fred the Red suit beckons for Ando next season.
Anderson | 2013/14 Performances (on loan at Fiorentina)
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Who knows, maybe their fans will think he's funny and want to give him "just one more season".
I wonder if Fiora fans were completly clueless about Ando and their initial thoughts were something along 'wow, a player from Manchester United that spent 8 years there and is looking for a new challenge, cool!' just to see this.
They'll probably send us some money plus food at the end of his loan spell because they'll be thinking that we are that poor.
They'll probably send us some money plus food at the end of his loan spell because they'll be thinking that we are that poor.
He has spent 8 years with you? A couple more and it'll be testimonial time!
Joined in 2007 actually, so make it 7.
Testimonial for him will be easy to prepare to be fair. McDonald's are renting those little rooms for children parties so we can fit Ando there.
Testimonial will probably be too big a game for him to start in. Bring him off the bench in the 80th minute
I believe he revised his contract to turn down a testimonial but inserted a clause about taking him to an all you can eat buffet for dinner instead (apparently most of them in manchester have banned him).
On a seperate note I heard man vs food were interested in putting in a bid to replace adam richmond... anderson has described it as his dream move but only god knows what will happen
As long as he's making the players laugh he's worth sticking with for 7 more years
But his contract never expires? He signed a 20 yr lenght deal, it's evident
there was no interview quotes were taken from his introduction to Italian press. Basically he said lots of players get to stage of needing a change of club - nothing about United players. When will people realise jounalists write stories combining truth and fiction all the time.
He deserves his testimonial. He has been an influential figure in the dressing room and has always been popular akong fans and players. Never kicked up a fuss and always has good things to say of our club.
I love him.
I love him.
Where is the correct translation?
Is anyone following Fiorentina closely? Not even in the squad today for a 2-2 draw with Parma. So football not going well then for him?
What a waste of a decent talent. He had some game, not genius game but he was good enough to carve out a decent professional career. Then came Ronald, not Ronaldo, but Mr. McDonald and he ate his way out of what could have been a tidy little footballer career, perhaps even playing for his country.
He's not played for almost a month now. What's happened?
Nothing, Anderson is being Anderson.
Did anyone see the Dr Michael Mosley programme that covered body fat and fitness? I missed it but my Dad was talking about it earlier and said that they did intensive tests on Dr Mosley and it turned out he had a very low natural fitness and very high internal body fat (as in in his veins and arteries). Through no real fault of his own, it doesn't actually matter how much he exercises, his body just doesn't have the capacity to improve it's fitness.
It made me wonder about Anderson. We've all heard the rumours about his lung capacity and criticized him for failing to last anything longer than an hour in games but it does make you wonder if it's something he just can't avoid.
I've always refused to believe that any player at a club like United who have a team of sports scientists who work alongside the football and fitness coaches and measure and calculate every movement they make can somehow get away with being a bit lazy and dip out of fitness training as and when he pleases.
Giggs or Rio said as much in that tour around Carrington, that every player has a personal training plan and if the fitness coaches see that anyone has been slacking off, they'll have a block of extra running or gym work put on their rota.
So maybe it's not so far fetched that he just doesn't have the natural engine and as a result it's always been a massive struggle for him.
It made me wonder about Anderson. We've all heard the rumours about his lung capacity and criticized him for failing to last anything longer than an hour in games but it does make you wonder if it's something he just can't avoid.
I've always refused to believe that any player at a club like United who have a team of sports scientists who work alongside the football and fitness coaches and measure and calculate every movement they make can somehow get away with being a bit lazy and dip out of fitness training as and when he pleases.
Giggs or Rio said as much in that tour around Carrington, that every player has a personal training plan and if the fitness coaches see that anyone has been slacking off, they'll have a block of extra running or gym work put on their rota.
So maybe it's not so far fetched that he just doesn't have the natural engine and as a result it's always been a massive struggle for him.
2003 Van Der Vaart
2004 Rooney
2005 Messi
2006 Fabregas
2007 Aguero
2008 Anderson
2009 Pato
2010 Balotelli
2011 Gotze
2012 Isco
2013 Pogba
Golden Boy winners. Pointless nit-picking really but it's a shame he couldn't have turned out even a quarter as good as most of the players on that list.
2004 Rooney
2005 Messi
2006 Fabregas
2007 Aguero
2008 Anderson
2009 Pato
2010 Balotelli
2011 Gotze
2012 Isco
2013 Pogba
Golden Boy winners. Pointless nit-picking really but it's a shame he couldn't have turned out even a quarter as good as most of the players on that list.
That fee we agreed with them is looking pretty pointless.
I saw that program, I like Michael Mosley. I think the only thing that they were showing, though, was that a small proportion of the population (they said about 10%, and this included Mosley) can't increase their V02 Max, i.e. their lung capacity as you say. Mosley did, however, get 'fitter' in the sense of his body composition changing and losing fat. In other words, it's possible that Ando had reached a ceiling as far as his V02Max was concerned, but if he was working his socks off in training and in the gym, it still would have showed on his body.
Pato went to shit and I don't really rate Balotelli.
So which shirt number will Anderson be given next season here?
Something really undignified like 38 or similar.
Van Der Vaart isn't that good too.
And yet, he's not even a quarter of the player they are.
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Surely he will be sold at the end of the season. I doubt Fiorentina would want him considering he's already sort of frozen out there, I would like to see him stay in the Premiership in all honesty, surely someone can take a punt on him, failing that he will most likely return to Brazil.
Such a shame, an a waste of talent. Never understood why we tried to convert him into a deep lying midfielder.
Such a shame, an a waste of talent. Never understood why we tried to convert him into a deep lying midfielder.
I followed his first 2 or 3 games. Went from starting and performing the worst in the team for 2 games and getting subbed off to being an unused sub if I recall.
Might be released at this rate.
On the plus side Borja Valero got sent off so Fiorentina might be forced to use him next game 
Mario is a class centre-forward. One of the best young strikers in the game without doubt.
He's an absolute dickhead though, that will stop him ever becoming world class.
You mean aside from talent, work rate and fitness him being a dickhead could be another reason why he'll never be world class?
He could be the nicest person in the world and never come close. Thats how good he is
He's twice the player they are. At least. That's part of the problem.
Off topic I guess but what did actually happen to Pato?
Went back to Brazil, isn't exactly setting the world alight there.
I remember a time when my Milan supporting friend wouldn't stop raving about him. Unfortunate, that he could never fulfil his early potential. Mostly injuries though, right?
I'm totally not surprised as to what has happened to him. Anyone could have predicted it after his time here. Loved his jovial personality, but he really was mostly a flop here..injuries or no injuries. Never fulfilled his supposed potential but certainly earned a hell of a lot of money from United....
It's like a broken record in here.
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