VIDIC ON COURSE

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The Serbian defender and Manchester captain Nemanja Vidic has been out of the game with a knee ligament wound, since December, but he is now ready to participate in the pre-season training following a current improvement. He is making quite an impressive build up in recovery from a severe ligament injury and he expected to be fit before the start of the next league season.

In recent few weeks, Nemanja Vidic has stepped up his workload and at this point of time he will participate in most of United’s pre season trainings. The thirty year old Vidic endured a cruciate ligament harm at Basel in the Champions League match in December. That time, Manchester United feared that he would be out of the game for about a year or so, after he went through a surgery on New Year’s Day.

Now he is spending most of his time at Manchester United’s Carrington training base and working on toughening his muscle around his knee area, with medical personnel expecting Vidic to begin running and also start ball work at the end of this month.
United truly missed their captain’s influence on the field that has been felt keenly during the run-in, most importantly in last month’s 4 – 4 home draw against Everton.

The United coach will deny any kind of risks with his comeback but the defender is penciled in to participate in United’s pre-season Asia tour in July. The Serbian player has turned one of Manchester United’s most prominent footballers since going to United from Spartak Moscow in 2006 for £7 million, snatching 4 Premier League and Champions League in the year 2008.

VIDIC WILL PLAY ON

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Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic has said that he expects to be back in the Manchester United team from the season onwards. That was initially rumours surrounding the Serbian that he may return with a few games in the Premier league remaining. However, that has not turned out to be the case, as the Serbian has now revealed that he intends to be back only from next season onwards. Nemanja Vidic injured his cruciate ligament in a very bad way during the final group stage match for Manchester United against FC Basel. It was a match that the club lost 2-1, which also result in the elimination of the team from the Champions League.

Speaking to the official website, Nemanja Vidic said that he is making incredible progress with regard to his rehabilitation, but is not looking to make a comeback to the team until next season. According to him, a realistic target would be making it into the squad by the time the pre-season kicks off. Manchester United are looking to win the 20th Premier league title, which would extend their record over Liverpool. However, Vidic will not be a part of it. United clearly have the easier run-in compared to Manchester City, but Vidic refuses to get carried away with that notion saying that all matches are important and difficult.

“My recovery is going well. Obviously the projection was I would be ready for the next season. I am on schedule and will hopefully start training again in July. I’ve had the belief from the beginning, and if you look at the schedule of the games we have left to play I would like to say we are the favourites. We still have to win the nine games and need to be focused,” Nemanja Vidic said.

VIDIC BACK SOON

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Manchester United defender and captain Nemanja Vidic is expected to be back into the first-team squad by the time the title run-in kicks in. Nemanja Vidic was initially ruled out for the rest of the season after suffering a serious injury in the final group stage Champions League match against FC Basel. However, the Serbian defender has made an amazing recovery from injury, which have now led to suggestions that this could be back by the end of April. Even though he will not be part of the Manchester United squad for most of the remaining matches, Sir Alex Ferguson will be extremely happy to get him at least into the squad for his experience.

It has been reported by major tabloid in Britain that Nemanja Vidic has made a great recovery from the injury. Even though he was initially expected to be out for the season, he will now be available at least for a few matches. In fact, Manchester United might be able to call on their inspirational captain for the Europa league final, if they make it to this stage. Manchester United are one of the favourites to progress into the last 16 of the Europa league ahead of Ajax. They currently lead the tie 2-1.

Despite being available for the last few matches of the campaign, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will be extremely careful not to aggravate the injury, as it was a serious one in the first place. Hence, it might be conceivable that Nemanja Vidic could just be in the squad for Manchester United without actually taking part in any of the matches. Manchester United are currently in the second place just behind leaders Manchester City. They are left only in the Premier league and Europa league this season.

VIDIC: WE’LL WIN THE TITLE

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Manchester United defender and the club captain Nemanja Vidic has said that Manchester United will finish at the top come the end of the season.

Manchester United traditionally do well in the second half of the season, while there will be certain struggles during the initial parts of the campaign. However, this season has been totally different because Manchester United have kept pace with leaders Manchester city, who have been excellent this season after making a number of high-profile signings in the summer. This makes Nemanja Vidic believe that Manchester City and Manchester United will be challenging for the top honours come the end of the season, although he believed that the Red Devils will be finishing above Manchester city.

Manchester United are currently behind Manchester City by three points and it is a gap that can be closed over the next few weeks according to Nemanja Vidic. This is certainly not the first time Manchester United have been involved in the title race, as they have won 12 Premier league titles and also came close to winning many others. It is this experience that will guide them to victory in the end according to Nemanja Vidic.

“We will be better than we were in the first half of the season. It’s not bad for the city of Manchester to have two teams competing for the title – as long as we finish in first place. How we finish is most important. We will be better,” Nemanja Vidic was quoted as saying to a British tabloid. The Serbian defender is currently out with a long-term injury and is not expected to come back into the first team action until August of next season. There have also been reports that his career has come to an end, but the 30-year-old has rejected any such rumours.

Vidic Ruled Out

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Nemanja Vidic, the captain of Manchester United, suffered a terrible knee injury during their match against FC Basel on Wednesday in the Champion’s League. Reports claimed that he could be out of the game for up to a year as he had damaged three major ligaments in his right knee. He ruptured his cruciate ligament during Wednesday’s 2-1 Champion’s League defeat to Basel, a result that saw the Red Devils knocked out of the competition at the group stage for the first time in six years.

Nemanja Vidic suffered this injury during the match and was carried off the St. Jacob-Park pitch on a stretcher after colliding with Marco Streller during the first half of the game. He was in agony as he signalled to the bench that he needed to be substituted immediately. He left the stadium on crutches and Alex Ferguson announced in the pre match conference on Friday that he will be out this term.

Phil Jones is likely to replace Nemanja Vidic, playing alongside Ferdinand, with Jonny Evans and Chris Smalling also able to fill in the spot at centre back. Ferguson said in an interview: “We thought it was a bad one. He’s out for the season. It’s not unexpected but it’s still bad news. He’ll see a specialist on Monday to work out the progress of when he has the operation. It won’t be immediate as we have to let the swelling come down.

Ferguson now plans on offloading Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand as he thinks they are past their best. There will be no shortage of takers for Vidic as Real Madrid, Juventus and super rich Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala are all keen on the 30 year old. There have been signs of their transfer according to recent reports.