Ferguson savages Kenyon over Ferdinand meeting

[narcolepsy (凡人的執著)]

由於之前被報出Rio和他的經紀人在倫敦的一家餐廳碰面商量事情時
Kenyon也"相當巧合"的出現  和他們倆共同用餐了一個小時
(同一天, 同一時刻, 同一地點, Rio到倫敦赴經紀人的約,
 整個倫敦這麼多餐廳中就剛好那一家,
 Kenyon和他倆同時出現的巧合機率有多大? Ashley Cole anyone?)

雖然Chelsea之後否認對Rio有興趣
Rio說事先不知道Kenyon會在那兒
他的經紀人卻說Rio事先知道...
Sir Alex還是發表他對Kenyon一再使用這種伎倆的意見

Manager refuses to accept Chelsea's innocent explanation
as United's former chief executive becomes the target
of deep suspicion at Old Trafford.


Sir Alex Ferguson's suspicions about Peter Kenyon descended into
open hostility last night, with the possibility of further recriminations,
when he poured scorn on the Chelsea chief executive's explanation
for dining with Rio Ferdinand in a London restaurant.
Ferguson said Manchester United had been treated "with contempt"
by their former employee, a man who once claimed to be
their most ardent supporter.


Ferguson is so incensed he even floated the possibility of
filing an official complaint to the Premier League to go with
the existing inquiry into Chelsea's alleged clandestine meeting
with Arsenal's Ashley Cole at a London hotel. The United manager
suspects Kenyon deliberately orchestrated the encounter with Ferdinand
and his agent Pini Zahavi and, making no secret of his disgust,
he broke his silence to deride Chelsea's version that it was
"purely by chance".


"My concern is our supporters and what they think, so I'm letting know
that I'm not happy about it whatsoever," said Ferguson.
"We're leaving the matter with the authorities but I think
they were aware of it anyway. We are definitely discussing what to do next."


Ferguson later found an unusual ally in Arsenal's manager
Arsene Wenger and, choosing his words carefully, he added:
"I can't say I'm overly encouraged by Peter Kenyon's words
that he doesn't want to sign Rio. And I have to say that
when the chief executive of a Premier League club,
with the history they've got in recent times,
continues to sit in that restaurant...well, it's contempt,
them thumbing their nose at us.
I'd say it was ill advised at the very least."


Ferguson has been deeply suspicious of Kenyon's motives
since his defection to Stamford Bridge but it was a measure
of his anger that this was the first time he has felt compelled to
speak out against a man who, as United's chief executive
until September 2003, is privy to all sorts of supposedly
classified information at Old Trafford, not least the salaries of players
such as the centre-half Ferdinand. Ferguson blames Kenyon for Chelsea
gazumping their transfer of Arjen Robben from PSV Eindhoven
last summer and any remaining cordiality has been dispelled
since details emerged of Saturday's rendezvous in Carpaccio restaurant,
little more than a hoofed clearance from Stamford Bridge.


Officials at Old Trafford had previously suggested that
the club had accepted Kenyon's version of events
but when this was put to Ferguson he blew out his cheeks
and shook his head in disbelief. "That might be someone else's view here
but it's certainly not my view," he said.


Ferguson had clearly prepared his speech and he will relish
the prospect of offering another juicy distraction to
Chelsea's success on the field. Another barrage of hostile headlines
will be of intense irritation to Jose Mourinho and if it continues
at this pace Chelsea may not only supplant United as England's
leading team but also take over as the country's most reviled club.


Sir Philip Otton, a former Lord Justice of Appeal,
has been appointed to chair a three-person panel into
the Cole affair alongside Malcolm George, who ran police operations
at Euro 96 as assistant chief constable of the Greater Manchester
constabulary, and David Dent, a former secretary of the Football League.


Chelsea's relationship with the European governing body Uefa
has all but disintegrated after several weeks of acrimonious mudslinging
and it speaks volumes for their increased unpopularity that
they seem to be bringing United and Arsenal closer together.


Wenger pithily described the Ferdinand controversy as
"a movie I feel I've seen already" and he wants the Premier League
to make sure there are no more sequels. "I respect what Chelsea
are doing on the pitch but I expect them to behave and respect
the rules off the pitch, like everybody else," he said.
"It is down to the Premier League to get the rules respected.
They either say it's a minor incident and it will happen again,
or they take action."


The Premier League will investigate United's grievances only if
there is an official complaint. It should be pointed out that Ferguson,
for all his head-shaking and wide-eyed protestations,
has risked opening himself to allegations of hypocrisy.
When it comes to tapping up players he has been accused on
more than one occasion in the past, not least over Ruud van Nistelrooy
and Jaap Stam. Nor did he ever complain about Kenyon's modus operandi
when they were colleagues. Despite his anger, it is unlikely a complaint
will be made.


Inadvertently Ferguson may also have made life more difficult for Ferdinand,
whose cultured performances have failed to win over some of
the more sceptical supporters. There have been discrepancies
in the accounts put forward by Ferdinand and Zahavi since the weekend
 - Ferdinand denied knowing Kenyon would be present;
Zahavi claimed the player knew in advance - and, though Ferguson
was at pains to absolve his player, questions surely have to
be asked about what the world's most expensive centre-half
was thinking about spending an hour at the same table as a man
who is already under investigation for tapping up another England defender.


Given the loyalty that United showed towards Ferdinand during
his eight-month suspension for missing a drugs test,
a period in which irreparable damage was caused to two Premiership
campaigns and he was paid ￡2.4m in wages, it was naive, to put it mildly,
for him not to foresee that a meeting in a packed restaurant
on a Saturday night would be reported and would cause a furore.

Ferguson, however, stuck by his player. "However he was enticed to
that meeting, I believe Rio wants to sign a new contract and stay here.
I believe in him and I'm sure we're very close to signing a new,
long-term contract that will put all this to bed."

Ferdinand and Zahavi went into damage-limitation mode yesterday
when they met United's chief executive David Gill
and the club's solicitor Maurice Watkins at the training ground.
Ferdinand reiterated that he wanted to sign a three-year extension
to his present deal, which has two years to run, and Zahavi concluded
that "it was a good meeting although we still need to work on
certain things". Perhaps unsurprisingly, he did not want to comment further.



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