adminROBIN van Persie has refuted reports he has not been impressed by David Moyes as he insisted he is enjoying playing for the new Manchester United manager.
The Dutchman enjoyed a close rapport with Sir Alex Ferguson, who signed him from Arsenal last summer, and there were suggestions he felt Moyes’ coaching left something to be desired.
But Van Persie, who is currently preparing for the Netherlands’ World Cup qualifier against Estonia today, is adamant that is not the case.
He told De Telegraaf: “It’s great working with the new manager David Moyes. He has his own style and methods and I like this.
“I’m happy with the style of Moyes. He does his own training sessions, he’s close with the players and, with his staff, prepares us very well for the next opponent. That keeps us in shape. Luckily, winning the title last year gave us hunger for more.”
Van Persie earned Moyes the first trophy of his United career when he scored both goals in the Community Shield win against Wigan and scored another brace in his maiden league victory at Swansea.
But he cut a frustrated figure in Sunday’s 1-0 defeat at Liverpool and the Daily Star quoted an unnamed friend of the striker saying: “Robin isn’t happy. He really misses Fergie, who he loved playing under.”
Meanwhile, English soccer’s new head Greg Dyke has painted a potentially bleak future for the country’s national team unless the spiralling influence of foreign players in the Premier League can be curtailed.
In a wide-ranging speech, the newly-appointed chairman of the Football Association said on Wednesday he was setting up a commission to investigate the decline of the number of English players in “the most successful league in the world”.
He stressed, however, he was not blaming the Premier League for the ills affecting the game.
“The issue, quite simply, is this. In the future it’s quite possible we won’t have enough players qualified to play for England who are playing regularly at the highest level in this country or elsewhere in the world,” he said.
“As a result, it could well mean England’s teams are unable to compete seriously on the world stage.”
The FA approved the creation of the Premier League, which began in 1992, because it was sold the idea that overseas players coming to England would improve the standard of English players.
Yet the opposite happened, according to Dyke, who at that time was chairman of a TV company that helped bring the League into being.-Soccernet.
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