June 2, 2011 – There are more Manchester United stories in the media than any other club – some are worth reading, others are absolute garbage! How can anyone possibly keep up with them all? Truly Reds does it’s best to bring you the latest news but there’s only so much that can be covered. One alternative is to collate the stories which cannot be updated daily so that they can at least be brought to your attention each Thursday of every week

The primary target was 19 which was successfully won!

Anything else would have merely been a bonus

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Veteran goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar will not be saying goodbye to Manchester United when he hangs up his gloves after all but a mere fond farewell to his playing days. He has made it clear that he will remain at Old Trafford when he hangs up his gloves telling Dutch magazine Life After Football that he plans to stay at the club in a non playing role. The big Dutchman has ruled out a return to Ajax, thus going back on a 12 year old pledge to return to the club he won the Champions League with in 1995. “I might occasionally visit training with them but I will not be going regularly” he revealed.

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Following that quarter Final 2-0 defeat of Arsenal at Old Trafford, Manchester United are now just two wins away from lifting the FA Cup for the first time since 2004. Veteran goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar knows what must be done to make his heroics in that game worthwhile. “An FA Cup winners medal would mean a lot despite what I have already won in my career” he said “it is there on my list but I wouldn’t look back in regret if I don’t win it. In any case, it doesn’t do a lot for me to lose a semi final. Football is about winning trophies. Although we’re at Wembley we are still one match away from the final.”

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Following that quarter Final 2-0 defeat of Arsenal at Old Trafford, Manchester United are now just two wins away from lifting the FA Cup for the first time since 2004. Veteran goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar knows what must be done to make his heroics in that game worthwhile. “An FA Cup winners medal would mean a lot despite what I have already won in my career” he said “it is there on my list but I wouldn’t look back in regret if I don’t win it. In any case, it doesn’t do a lot for me to lose a semi final. Football is about winning trophies. Although we’re at Wembley we are still one match away from the final.”

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From The Times:

René Meulensteen, the Manchester United first-team coach, has revealed that Maarten Stekelenburg is the club’s first-choice target to replace Edwin van der Sar in goal next season.

Van der Sar, 40, announced this week that he will retire at the end of the season and United have identified Stekelenburg, the Ajax goalkeeper and Van der Sar’s successor in the Holland team, as the man Sir Alex Ferguson believes is best suited to fill the huge void that Van der Sar will leave.

Stekelenburg, 28, will have only a year remaining on his existing contract with Ajax in the summer, which significantly reduces the Dutch club’s capacity to demand a large transfer fee. Read the full story

Veteran journalist David Miller has been writing football for over half a century, became sports editor of the Times of London and a columnist for the Daily Express. He has also been awarded the famous Jules Rimet Centenary Award in 2004 given to journalists who have covered 11 or more World Cups. Miller has now revealed just how close Manchester United came to replacing Sir Alex Ferguson in the winter of 1989 but that sensational story which could have changed football history was never published. Miller goes on to explain what happened in this Daily Express story twenty years later.

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