Sir Alex Ferguson: "Barcelona" - the current draw of the tournament favorite "

Red Devils coach Sir Alex Ferguson described the prospect of playing with Barcelona in the final of the Champions League, as "incredible." Sir Alex is looking forward to meet the current Champions League finals in Barcelona. " Scot completely rejected the possibility of a repetition of last year's British finals, and admitted that, in the semifinals would like to try to force "Arsenal." "I hope that we will meet Barcelona in the finals this year. This is simply unbelievable match," - Ferguson quotes The Sun. "I hope as well that will participate in three English club, which once again confirms the highest level of Premier League." "They too are in a crisis a few weeks ago, but managed to return to his best form just in time. The first time against the" Lion "was above all praise. They are one of the main favorites of this tournament."

"Manchester United" has been negotiating with Prudential for the sponsorship agreement

The new executive director of Prudential Tidzhan Thiam was passionate fans "Arsenal" and would prefer to advertise his company appeared on a T-shirt Seska Fabregas, not Wayne Rooney, but wishes to clubs addiction to achieve a sponsorship agreement with the club from Old Trafford. " According to the Daily Mail talks "Manchester United" with the company on a sponsorship contract with the champions of England is successful, and it is now up to Prudential is the favorite in the race for the title of the title sponsor of the "red devils". Prudential Financial maintains extensive operations in Asia, where their income for last year rose to 321 million pounds. The company owns assets at 2.1 billion pounds, of which 1.4 are concentrated in the provision of banking services. She could easily afford a sponsorship agreement with "United" in the amount of more than 60 million pounds.

Drogba ready to match against Liverpool

Forward "Chelsea Didier Drogba held the second full training session in front of journalists from around the world since the first quarterfinal match of the Champions League with Liverpool" cares not only us. Unusually, it was to see how such a normally quiet Kobhem, where the team is always ready for the games, filling the media, photographers and journalists who coveted see how Guus Hiddink prepares for battle with "Enfilde. When all was as to closely observe how the Dutchman and his team are preparing for battle, operators and reporters noted that Drogba, were not in the Saturday meeting with the "Newcastle", carries out a full training session together with his comrades. Forward, however, not all the jokes were just at the beginning of training, he was mistaken, for that and got on the coach on the nuts. It was the second full practice for many days in the Ivorian forward, but felt a lack of Portuguese defender Jose Bosingvy who is not trained at full strength following the return from the team last week because of the injured leg. In the training exercise on retention of the ball was attended by Guus Hiddink and Ray Wilkins, which showed a master class. Training has started in a relaxed manner, then the rate gradually increase. A short training session is over a small match, Hiddink was able to assess applicants before the start of tomorrow's meeting with Liverpool. "

United fired up for Dragons' visit

Manchester United FC may have only 48 hours' recovery time between the visit of Aston Villa FC and their quarter-final first leg against FC Porto but Sir Alex Ferguson believes his European champions will enter Tuesday's tie re-energised by Sunday's events at Old Trafford.

'Defining moment'

When Italian debutant Federico Macheda struck three minutes into added time to secure a thrilling 3-2 comeback win, he not only sent United back to the Premier League summit, but also restored hitherto flagging levels of belief. "You have to say that winning goal has just galvanised the club," said Sir Alex, who went on to describe it as a "defining moment" in their campaign.

Trademark victory

From staring a third successive defeat in the face with eleven minutes remaining, United were celebrating the kind of victory that has become the Old Trafford trademark under the Scot. "We survived some hairy moments but when it went to 2-1 then you saw Manchester United, the risk came out, everyone started playing with abandon," he said, adding: "We are sending some of our supporters into cardiac treatment, including the manager, but it is fantastic to watch."

'Going into overdrive'

Sir Alex, who said man-of-the-moment Macheda can expect a place on the bench, hopes the return of Wayne Rooney, suspended on Sunday together with Paul Scholes and Nemanja Vidić, will provide extra impetus along with Cristiano Ronaldo's return to scoring form, although Dimitar Berbatov misses out with an ankle injury. "Our team will now hopefully start going into overdrive," said the 67-year-old. He must hope this goes for his suddenly fragile defence too. United have conceded eight goals in the last three domestic outings and even if Vidić returns and Rio Ferdinand shrugs off a groin problem, they cannot afford to repeat recent wobbles against opponents who have registered two goals in each of their last three European away games.

Positive Porto

Moreover, the Portuguese champions secured an eighth successive league away win on Saturday in beating Vitória SC 3-1, and their coach, Jesualdo Ferreira, arrived promising an attacking outlook. "English teams play with speed and high intensity at home but we must not lose our identity," he said. "We have an attacking spirit, we are not going to change and we will play to win. We want a victory above all but to score a goal will be important."

Ronaldo warning

Porto eliminated United when these sides met in the 2003/04 Round of 16, their 1-1 draw at Old Trafford securing a 3-2 aggregate success. It was the only time they have avoided defeat on eleven previous visits to England but Ferreira, who could start with a front three of Hulk, Lisandro and Cristián Rodríguez, is determined his charges rise to the occasion: "We are top of our league and want to show what we can do." Sir Alex is certainly not underestimating opponents who finished ahead of Arsenal FC in the group stage, despite losing 4-0 in London. "The first thing Cristiano [Ronaldo] said to me when we had the draw is 'this is a difficult game'. We have watched them and they are a difficult side. Physically they are very strong, and Hulk up front is a very good player."

President of the Lazio "hit with criticism for" ManchesterUnited "

After an impressive debut Makkedah Federico, president of Lazio stated that buy on the market 15-year-old players - is immoral. Born in Rome, Federico Makkedah joined the "United" 1 September 2007, becoming the last of the English players are not signatories to a professional contract with the Premier League club. FIFA is trying to protect the players under the age of 18, keeping them in local clubs, but this prevents the local labor laws. President of the Lazio "Claudio Lotito said in an interview with Italian television that they had taken Makkedah," United "acted immorally. "It is unthinkable that the boy in 15 years you can buy on the market, if it were market animals. We tried to do everything to prevent the withdrawal of our players in the" Manchester United ", but at this time, Italian law does not give us such an opportunity. This is usually the guys from poor families, and they looked forward options for the game overseas is for economic reasons. I have repeatedly talked with the parents Makkedah, we have a dialogue, but nothing has been able to do. We were not able to compete with the "Manchester United". We knew that Makkedah a very good player and did everything to keep him. But we can not afford to behave in a way, I think it is immoral. "

Kushchak still succeed Malafeev?

Polish goalkeeper "ManchesterUnited" Tomas Kushchak can be sold this summer in St. Petersburg "Zenith", the English edition of The Mirror. Recall that this information is already available before, but now it became known that the transaction approved mankunianskoy team head coach Sir Alex Ferguson.