BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Man Utd | Man Utd sell Rossi to Villarreal

BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Man Utd | Man Utd sell Rossi to Villarreal
Oh dear it didn' take Fergie long to change his mind, I've got to say I am pretty disappointed,as far as I am concerned that is another youngster not given a chance at United. It will be interesting to watch his career, it has to be admitted that Fergie doesn't let youngsters go if he thinks they are good enough. I cannot remember him letting a youngster as talented as Rossi go before though. Look at the chances Kieron Richardson was given at United, and then compare that with the sparse opportunities Rossi has been given. Anybody that watched the youth and reserve sides that they both played for could surely see that Rossi was the miles more talented of the two. I just hope that there is a bigger picture that Fergie can see, if that involves Frazer Campbell or Febian Brandy then fair enough. Both of these show potential, all though i wouldn't say they show any more potential than Rossi did. Some observers seem to think that his size was always against him, but i have always believed if you are good enough you are big enough. Sure it would have been nice if he had grown an inch or two more but size didn't stop Scholes, Zola, or Maradona from becoming great players. A great first touch and an ability to shield the ball can more than make up for that.

It also seems a bizarre time to sell as the Tevez saga just seems to go on and on. With each day unearthing some new evidence from one side or the other proving he is their man. To be honest i don't think i would be quite as trusting of tevez's handlers as United seem to be. Honest upright citizens are not words that spring to mind if you bother to read about the backgrounds of these people. If we had beaten West Ham on the last day of the season as we should have done( and what a downer that put on the day )would this have been any easier, I don't know.



The plot thickens, it looks like Fergie didn't want him to go, Rossi wanted first team football, thats fair enough I suppose. I have always thought that when players reach 20 they need to be playing regular football to a decent standard if their careers are going to be as successful as possible. I hope Nani and Anderson prove their worth as these were the signings that probably persuaded Rossi his future lay elsewhere. I would be surprised if the buy back clause( whatever that is ) is ever activated.
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={B4CEE8FA-9A47-47BC-B069-3F7A2F35DB70}&newsid=449324

BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Man City | Thaksin 'not fit to run Man City'

BBC SPORT | Football || Man City | Thaksin 'not fit to run Man City'
It could only happy to City couldn't it, i am not expecting anything to come off it though. As much as i despise the Glazers, Abramovitch and now this guy Thaksin are in a whole different ball game. I have read enough about Russia since the fall of the Soviet state to know that Abramovitch and his fellow oligarchs basically stole their ill gotten gains from the mass of ordinary Russians, who after seventy years of communism didn't understand what was happening to them. I can't say i know enough about Thailand or Thaksin to know whether he has violated human rights, but he can't be the type of owner you would want for your club, to be even suspected of it.
But does anybody seriously think that this lot of incompetent, spineless and head in the sand administrators are actually going to do anything to rock their own gravy train.


Meanwhile in the telegraph Fergie reassures us that the Busby way is still the right way for Manchester United.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2007/07/31/sfnman131.xml

The big sell out | Sport | The Observer

The big sell out | Sport | The Observer
An interesting article from Tom Bower about the the foreign takeover of English football clubs. I would have to say i am not usually convinced by his articles on football as i don't think he is a real football fan. But his contention that some owners are looking to get rid of Scudamore would seem to suggest all of these foreign takeovers do have some logic behind them, unfortunately.
David Conn writes http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,2134277,00.html
For anybody that loves their football and thinks that things aren't quite what they should be, his columns are a must read.


Is the never ending saga of the Carlos Tevez transfer nearing a resolution, maybe so, although I think I'll believe it when I see it http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6912571.stm
If I am honest whilst I rate him as a player, I am not totally convinced he was worth all this polaver. I am waiting to see what the transfer arrangements are, if it is the two year loan deal, then I think it's a decent move for us. But those reports that quote £10 million for a 2 year loan deal and then £30 million outright transfer make me worry a bit, because he is nowhere near worth £30 million as far as I am concerned. I am glad it seems that Rossi is going to stay, and he is one of the reasons I can't really see why we would be willing to stump up so much for Tevez when we already have a young striker who could possibly be another big potential star for us. And until he is given a decent chance we are never going to see if he can realise that potential, in fact that is the one thing that has been disturbing about our summer transfer activity. I want to see the traditions that Busby laid down continue, and that means that youngsters who come through the ranks given a chance. A lot of the young players who went out on loan last season seemed to me to have the potential to be, at the very least, future squad members.

music

Music

1. Ash - twilight of the innocents - the usual solid catchy rock we have come to expect from the boys from ulster
2. Calvin Harris - I created disco - good catchy stuff from the pop/dance act of the summer, even though i can't help feeling, i might find it all a bit cheesy a few years down the line.
3. The Bees - Octopus - decent enough, but not quite as good as their last. i seem to like their more adventurous stuff best
4. The Chemical Brothers - We are the night - the last of the nineties big beat acts still going, still deliver the goods, not amongst their best albums but good enough to hope they continue.

Viewed
T.V - The Shield - compulsive as ever
- Rome - if i am honest the last couple of episodes were a bit of a damp squib. the storyline that saw Caesarion survive was a historical liberty too far for me.
- Cape Wrath - not top notch, but usually anything David Morrisey is in is worth watching and this is.
MISC - The Spanish civil war - An old six part granada series from the eighties. absolutely top notch viewing , i read a couple of paul preston books last year and this series captured the complexity of this spanish conflict very well. it needed all six parts to get that across

Terry becomes highest-paid player in Premier League history | News | Guardian Unlimited Football

Terry becomes highest-paid player in Premier League history | News | Guardian Unlimited Football
When we are seeing our season tickets rising by 12% and 14 % with seemingly no end in sight,this is the kind of story that makes me puke. And even more so for us united fans helping our despised owners pay the debt off that they had to borrow to buy a club they couldn't afford. I am afraid the greed in football seems to have no end, does anybody in football realise how much of a chunk of what you earn in a week, or a year goes to funding their snouts in a trough lifestyle. I don't mind them earning substantially more than i do, but when you are almost being priced out of being to able to go and watch the team you have supported through thick and thin for thirty odd years ( and there was plenty of thin in there ) it's just getting way out of hand for me.
Another article from the guardian this morning discussing the overpaid ( though it doesn't mention footballers )provides some perspective http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/khaled_diab/2007/07/our_economic_alchemy.html

Yahoo! 360° - den's Blog

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