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Messi and Guardiola were full of praise for Chicharito at their latest press conference.
Only 11 more to match Giggs
In my current FM11 game in 2022 he is about 3/4 of the way there. I'm not managing in the PL btw ;p
So this means that worst case scenario United will win 8 or so more titles in the next decade.
He scored over 150 International goals in my game by the time he was 31, had more goals than caps too
He's got 108 goals in 152 caps in my game and my game is off the original database where his ratings were pretty much rubbish!
Javier Hernandez's agent has moved to distance his client from recent rumours linking the striker with Real Madrid
The striker's stunning form for Manchester United this season has caught the eye of Europe's biggest clubs, and Jose Mourinho was thought to be preparing a bid to tempt the Mexican to Spain.
However Eduardo Hernandez told Goal.com: "Real Madrid are a very big club, but then so are Manchester United. I think this is a subject between directors. We would expect to look closely at any offer from Real Madrid, if Manchester told us there was one.
"We would only look at it, though, because in the first place Javier is extremely grateful to Manchester for having given him this chance, and also because it is reciprocated from the club."
"I don't think this is the right time to leave, but we have seen everything in football. Both he and Manchester want to continue working together, but anything can happen in football."
Champions League final: 'I will sweat this shirt to death,' says Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez
Hernandez's performances this season have alerted Barcelona ahead of Saturday's Champions League final, with Lionel Messi and Pep Guardiola singling out the Mexican as a potential threat.
"It's amazing to be praised by football legends of that calibre, with those careers," said the 22 year-old striker.
But when he was asked if he aspired to the status of the Argentinian double Ballon d'Or winner, Hernandez was quick to play down his achievements.
"No. I am a player of this great team," he said.
"I don't aspire to be like Messi. I'm just a simple footballer."
Hernandez has picked up a reputation as a poacher after scoring 20 goals in his first season at Old Trafford, many of them as a substitute, but he insists he is not obsessed with scoring.
"What obsesses me is sweating this shirt to death, and I will never stop running."
"I'm not obsessed with goals. The goals are the result of the work of the whole team. The forwards only have the good fortune to score them. In a team like ours, even Edwin (van der Sar) can claim the goals.
Hernandez said he has "no idea" whether Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes has any weaknesses.
The striker claims United are paying no heed to Barcelona's status as favourites to repeat their victory in the 2009 final.
"We have to forget that," Hernandez said. "Barcelona is an extraordinary team that plays beautiful and eye-catching football. But we are not in the final for nothing."
"Football is the least predictable sport in the universe. There may be a very open game or a very close one."
Hernandez has become a fixture in Ferguson's first-choice side, but he acknowledges that he might not start in the final if he does not fit into Ferguson's tactical plan for the game.
"If I start or not depends on the manager, but I'll be happy whether I have to play or not."
Hernandez surprised many, including his own manager, with the pace of his adjustment to the Premier League. The key, he said, was the presence of his family - and the familial atmosphere at Old Trafford.
"The key was that my family has come. I'm in the best club in the world. All people, all the staff will help you. Here they all treat you as if lke one of their own. That environment leaves you able to concentrate one hundred percent on work, on games. I am delighted with my life in Manchester."
"Everything that is happening to me is unbelievable."
fecking agents, probably a tactic to get a new contract.
I read that agent Jorge Mendes stands to make £8m out of a De Gea move to United. Seeing as the financial rewards for a transfer are so enormous, how can a player expect their agent to give the best, impartial advice about staying with - or leaving - their club?
Big first season, angling for a new contract. To he honest he probably deserves a pay rise.
Big first season, angling for a new contract. To he honest he probably deserves a pay rise.
Being a football agent is better than being a footballer these days without sweating it around, isn't it?
if you are an agent for some of the best footballers around, then yes it is...
Real Madrid will surely try to go after him.
Absolutely no question about that.
He is such a big star in Mexico.
If Oshea is on 90k then 60k is the least Hernandez deserves. And don't get me wrong I love our Sheasy, just trying to put things into perspective here.
Even if not for the best, its still bloody good.
'It is the look in his father's eye that Javier Hernández remembers most of all. "Something was different," he now recollects of that day early last year when they met outside the gates of the Estadio Jalisco, the home of Chivas de Guadalajara, and he found out life was never going to be quite the same again.
Talking about it now, Hernández still sounds almost disbelieving. First, his father, Javier Sr, told him he had some important news. Then he pressed a business card into his son's hand, and his words were simple and to the point: "There's someone who wants to speak to you."
Hernández was suspicious at first. "I had never heard of Jim Lawlor," he explains. "I didn't know who he was." The card told him it was Manchester United's head scout, but there is no trace of ego about the young Mexican, no sense that he always felt destined for a moment like this. "I didn't believe it. In Mexico, the agents put the badges of all the big clubs on their business cards. I was thinking: 'OK, another one of them, hey?' I turned to my father and said: 'Don't joke with me.' But that was when I saw him crying. That was when I knew. That was the moment I realised it was really true, that it really was Manchester United."'
Javier Hernández Interview | The Guardian