Berbatov: the forgotten man

Whilst Rooney is getting all the praise that he deserves following his brilliant displays recently, James Ducker considers the predicament of £30 million, misfit? Dimitar Berbatov.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article7031094.ece
I can't say i'm quite so sure he will be here next season myself. I still rate him, but it's increasingly looking like that this was a move that hasn't worked out for us or him.

Rooney takes over the mantle of Keano as the man who sets the standards according to Daniel Taylor after his half time " words " at the san siro. As Taylor says, there will be no complaints if it leads to rsults on the pitch.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/feb/17/wayne-rooney-manchester-united-milan

Oliver Kay thinks Rooney will be a shoe in for both of English footballers player of the year awards as long as stays fit.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article7031425.ece

Kevin McCarra thinks experience is papering over the cracks as United mount their challenge for the league and the champions league. It's pretty hard to disagree with most of that. Still it tells you what a great football manager Ferguson is and the character of players he has assembled over the years at our club, with the odd exeption included of course.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/feb/18/manchester-united-milan-champions-league

Vidic tells the Serbian press he won't be going anywhere in the summer. It seems likely for all the rumours we keep hearing, though you never know Smalling could be Ferdinand's replacement. Ferdinand wasn't any better than the rest of the back four in the first half, though fortunately he picked up in the second half. I still have my doubts over his fitness and wonder what the prolonged time he has been out, will have been for, if we find out he still won't be able to play consecutive games consistently.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/feb/18/nemanja-vidic-manchester-united

Robert Fisk thinks that there is far more to emerge from the case of the Mossad execution of the Hamas commander Al-Mabouh.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-britains-explanation-is-riddled-with-inconsistencies-its-time-to-come-clean-1902994.html

Spain's economic woes could be worse news for British companies than at first feared according to the Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/17/pain-in-spain-could-fall-on-uk-firms

Anatole Kaletsky thinks there isn't much to choose between the main parties as the election nears, there will be cuts whoever wins.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/17/pain-in-spain-could-fall-on-uk-firms

David Blanchflower hasn't got much time for the economist's letter that was sent to the Times last weekend.
http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2010/02/letter-inflation-economics-mpc

The New Statesman's leader wonders what they were actually calling for, quoting the "caveats "
http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2010/02/economic-letter-fiscal-cuts

Dave Clarke from 1996