Rafael Benitez says Alex Ferguson ignored pre-match handshake

 
 Chelsea Manager Rafael Benitez said Manchester United administrator Sir Alex Ferguson abandoned their handshake afore Sunday's FA Cup quarter-final.

The brace accept had an more abounding accord back the Spaniard's time at Liverpool and the astriction alike afresh at Old Trafford.

Benitez said: "I was cat-and-mouse for him at the beginning, so you should ask him. I accept education. I was ready.

"I apperceive a lot of humans were watching and I knew what to do."

He added: "It's up to him. I was in the way waiting. If you are adventurous enough, ask him."

A growing acrimony amid Ferguson and Benitez, aforetime on affable terms, came to a arch in January 2009 if the afresh Liverpool administrator abundantly claimed the Scot accustomed best analysis from the football authorities.

"Everyone can see that I'm talking about facts," the Liverpool administrator told journalists. "I'm just adage things that everybody can see."

Most recently, Ferguson declared the above Valencia and Inter Milan bang-up as a "lucky manager" afterwards he landed the column at Stamford Bridge.

The brace afresh bootless to agitate easily at the final blare on Sunday afterwards Chelsea staged a active improvement from 2-0 down, goals from acting Eden Hazard and Ramires in the additional bisected ambience up a epitomize at Stamford Bridge for the appropriate to face Manchester City in the semi-final.

Early strikes from Javier Hernandez and the recalled Wayne Rooney had put United in command.

Benitez explained: "I was with my players, celebrating."

It is not the aboriginal altercation surrounding Ferguson and a handshake. In February 2012, if Luis Suarez banned to agitate Patrice Evra's duke afore a match, Ferguson said: "I couldn't accept Suarez banned Evra's handshake. You saw the adjudicator [Phil Dowd]. He didn't apperceive what to do. It was a abhorrent alpha to the bold and it created a abhorrent atmosphere.

"Suarez is a abasement to Liverpool Football Club. He should not be accustomed to play for Liverpool again. He could accept acquired a riot."

Chelsea concluded the bold in the advantage and Benitez said: "We accept analysed the bold and we adapted to win.

"We had some acceptable counter-attacks even if we were two goals down in the aboriginal bisected and in the additional bisected we were on top of them with some acceptable football, abundant aggregation spirit and alive harder with affection and commitment."

Benitez afflicted the advance of the bold just afterwards the breach if he replaced Frank Lampard and Victor Moses with Hazard and Jon Mikel Obi.

He said: "I am a professional. We had been to Romania in the Europa League on Thursday and I knew we had players who would be annoyed and we had to administer the squad.

"We started with beginning legs but knew we would accept to accomplish substitutions and Hazard is a amateur with superior who can change [a game]."

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Wayne Rooney will stay at Manchester United - Sir Alex ferguson

 
 Sir Alex Ferguson has promised that Wayne Rooney will still be a Manchester United amateur next season.

The England striker, 27, was alone by Ferguson for Tuesday's annular of 16 tie additional leg adjoin Real Madrid, with Danny Welbeck preferred.

This led to boundless letters in Thursday's civic newspapers that the England striker would be awash by United in the summer.

"He'll be actuality next year," Ferguson said. "You can accept my chat on that."

Ferguson was aswell speaking for the aboriginal time about Nani's arguable sending off in the 3-2 accumulated accident to Madrid. "This is the third time we've been agape out by the referee's decision, it's not simple to take," he said.

Rooney, who reportedly earns ВЈ250,000 a week, had been affiliated with a alteration to a amount of clubs, including Paris Saint-Germain.

But Ferguson said: "There is no affair amid myself and Wayne Rooney. To advance we don't allocution is nonsense.

"He accepted the affidavit completely. Tactically we got it right. We don't consistently but we did then.

Ferguson, who appear he had banned The Daily Mail and The Independent newspapers "until they apologise" for the Rooney story, said the striker would be complex adjoin Chelsea in the FA Cup quarter-final on Sunday.

However, he beneath to say if he would start.

"Why should I advice anyone by cogent them my team? We don't do that," Ferguson said. "But Wayne does charge a lot of football. He has consistently been that type."

Rooney has denticulate 14 goals this division from 24 starts and 5 acting appearances. According to statisticians Opta, his scoring and abetment amount of 0.92 per Premier League/Champions League bold is according to his best-ever season.

The United administrator had beneath to allege to the media anon afterwards the Real Madrid bold as he was "distraught".

On the touchline he appeared bent at Turkish adjudicator Cuneyt Cakir for sending off Nani for a top claiming on Real's Alvaro Arbeloa on 56 minutes. At that point United were arch 1-0 through Sergio Ramos's own goal. Within 13 account United were 2-1 down.

"It is harder to accumulate your acceptance if you accept things like that," Ferguson said.

"But in the algid ablaze of day, we accept to get on with it. Annihilation can be done. This is addition day in the history of our club - not a acceptable day, but a day.

"I was concerned. I said that to my staff," Ferguson added. "I had a big anguish about it but it is gone now. There is annihilation we can do about it."

Uefa is demography activity adjoin United for Ferguson's "non-fulfilment of post-match media obligations" at Old Trafford, as able-bodied as the actuality that the appropriate two players did not allocution the media.

Manchester City administrator Roberto Mancini said he did not anticipate Rooney would leave United in the summer.

"I anticipate that Rooney is one of the best strikers in Europe but I anticipate it is difficult he can leave Man United - I don't anticipate [so]," said the Italian.


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