Will he stay or we he go now

Ronaldo that is, as Real start the summer speculation yet again
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/real-claim-negotiations-have-started-over-ronaldo-1701897.html

The Spanish press seem to thik they have already got him
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article6471565.ece
I wanted him to be sold last summer and even though i'm afraid it probably means we won't win the title next year i am of the same opinion this summer. We have got to get back to sharing the goals around the team. It's not Ronaldo' fault we have relied on him too much of course. But given that we all know his heart is certainly not in Manchester, let's use this moment and money to rebuild. I would rather use our youth system rather than spending big, but with football as the business it unfortunately is today there is no chance that they will be given the time. So my first priority would be to use the money received, if he goes, to buy Ribery, a proper wide man, with bags of talent, but also a real team man. I would like to see Rooney moved back inside to play more centrally and with Tevez almost certainly going to go they will have to look at whether Macheda and Welbeck will play enough games next season or whether we need to spend big for a goalscorer. We still need a replacemnt for Scholes, a man to go next to Carrick with Fletcher as the defensive midfield player. But i can't see where that player is coming from. It will be an interesting summer as if we do sell Ronaldo will Fergie be given the money anyway or will the gimps use to help pay off the debt. In times gone by i wouldn't have minded United not splashing out but if the Glazers did it, well nobody could tell us they have been great for the club then.

Jim Leighton has said Fergie was on the verge of going to the Arse in the eighties
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/5493028/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-turned-down-Arsenal-job-says-Jim-Leighton.html

Johann Hari gives his assessment of the political situation after last weeks elections and gets it pretty much spot on for me.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-three-ticking-timebombs-under-british-politics-1701047.html

Are the Iranian going to have an Obama moment as the elction nears
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/10/iran-elections-mahmoud-ahmadinejad

Is the German economy on the rocks, Europe is in big trouble, eastern Europe especially if it is. Will Hutton has got a very good record of getting these things right so we should be worried.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/09/angela-merkel-germany-recession

Death bed constitutional conversion by Brown
http://todayinpolitics.independentminds.livejournal.com/27449.html

John Keane on a radical isnpiration for today, Tom Paine. I have got his biography of this great English radical but have still not got around to reaing it. Of course one of the Blairites biggest faliures, Tony Blair's especially was their lack of respect and even disdian for history. Everything has been modern, modernise, new labour bla bla bla.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/09/tom-paine-political-reform