United no to Ljajic

This came out of the blue, i and a lot of others i suspect thought he had been signed when Tosic was and then lent back. Only 6 weeks ago Fergie was praising him and saying he was looking forward to seeing him. It looks like another Glazer cost cutting measure to me i'm afraid. Even if he wasn't a sure thing United usually take the punt and according to reports he has been playing well. Purely on the playing side i am not too upset because i would sooner see talent from the British isles coming through. But it makes me think that the finances aint looking too great for our despised owners.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/united-deny-cash-crisis-claims-after-failing-to-land-serb-1832981.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/united-deny-cash-crisis-claims-after-failing-to-land-serb-1832981.html

At todays press conference Phelan said he thought it was down to not being able get a work permit for the lad. Sounds like they are singing from different hymsheets, whatever that means.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/dec/04/manchester-united-adem-ljajic
The plot thickens

United miserly spenders under Glazers shocker
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/6720847/Manchester-United-quiet-in-transfer-market-since-Malcolm-Glazers-takeover.html
What kills me is that it seems that the media know there is something rotten in the state of Denmark at Old Trafford but there are no proper investigations of the situation. Echoes of the credit crunch !

Ronaldo says he doesn't want to play United. A bit bizarre thing to say after you have got your dream move to one of our biggest competitors in Europe. Surely when he went there saying he wanted to win the champions league in the white of Real he would have thought there was at the least a fair chance that he might have to play against the red of Manchester.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/cristianoronaldo/6716425/Cristiano-Ronaldo-I-dont-want-to-play-against-Manchester-United.html

Robert Fisk on Obama's faliure to learn from history
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-this-strategy-has-been-tried-before-ndash-without-success-1833133.html
I suppose he thinks he can get out without the loss of face suffered by the Soviets et al, it would be a surprise if that happens.

I used to think that this man was a liberal, he seems to have got into bed with the neocons thinking the west can go anywhere in the world and sort out everybody else's problems when we can't even sort out our own mess.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6943372.ece

When two tribes go to war, new labour versus news international as Mandelson lays the media empire.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/02/peter-mandelson-rupert-murdoch-war

Ex MPC member David Blanchflower is not too confident of economic recovery any time soon and critical of bank governor for keeping secret loans to RBOS AND HBOS during the crisis.
http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2009/12/bank-loans-fell-news-economic

Anatloe Kaletsky points out the bleeding obvious over the RBS bonus's. I enjoy reading him seeing as though he is definitely not on the liberal left and writes for one of the most malign forces in the western world since the second world war.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/anatole_kaletsky/article6943418.ece
It is so obvious that this is the correct way to proceed that you can't believe the government don't bite their hands off. I'm afraid the fact they didn't shows us as if we needed showing all this class war talk is just for show and new labour are as in thrall to the pre credit crunch establishment as they ever were. Still it's nice to hear the Cameroons to be shown up for what they are. It's just a pity we don't seem to have a party that has the bottle to do something about it, now this golden, maybe even once in a lifetime opportunity that has arose.