US tour ends

Well that's it they can come back and concentrate on the start to the premier league rather than trying to drum up money. It was hard to expect too much good football as they trained for a day, played a game then hopped on a plane to the next city to play out the same scenario for two weeks.
There were some positives to come out of the trip, Cleverley looks like a real player, Welbeck looked good, though it's the correct decision to send him out on loan and the timeless Scholes and Giggs look set to give us another season of class and experience.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7920122/Alex-Ferguson-applauds-Javier-Hernandez-after-Manchester-United-lose-to-Chivas.html

Ferguson talks about his striking options for the frthcoming season. Mark Ogden interprets what Fergie says completely different to me. I read that as Fergie thinking he won't be pairing them up too much to start with. And if they do play together i would think Fergie will be asking Rooney to be going back to playing in the hole.
Macheda may have scored two goals the other night but he has stll impressed far less than Welbeck. Saying that i definitely agree with sending Welbeck away on loan as he does need to play a full season at a good level of football, something he won't get at United at present. As for Macheda, he has got talent, but his decision making on the pitch is nowhere near where you would want it to be yet. Will he have enough games to see his career progress if he stays all season at United. It's hard to see him getting many games ahead of Rooney, Berbatov, Hernandez and Owen.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7917236/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-to-pair-Javier-Hernandez-with-Wayne-Rooney-in-new-look-strike-force.html

The Independent looks to the future with a profile on Hernandez and Macheda
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/the-odd-couple-look-to-strike-it-lucky-at-united-2040764.html

United in link with Danish goalie Lindegaard.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11667_6284904,00.html

Hamann rightly blasts City's transfer policy. I don't know why some United fans are so gloomy about the season ahead, on the pitch anyway. Chelsea haven't really bought anyone yet, Liverpool's summer transfer outgoings haven't been as bad as i expected yet, but they won't challenge for the title, it's hard to tell what Spurs and Arsenal will do, but with City it isn't hard. They will find it hard to to finish in the top four again, never mind any nonesense about challenge us for the league. He is exactly right, you can't go changing your entire squad around every summer. For all the players they have bought, they are now going to have sell and sell big to meet the 25 man rule. And from the sound of it, the players who will be going will be their best players from last season, who unsurprisingly were men Hughes had bought.
This will be a big season for Mancini and the people at the top at the boo camp. If Mancini does struggle and then they do fail to finish in the top four, or do they really believe they will challenge for the title, what happens then. If they replace another manager next summer and go through this process all over again, they will make Real Madrid look like the ideal model of stability.
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Manchester-City-old-boy-Didi-Hamann-blasts-big-spending-policy-and-claims-they-have-no-chance-of-winning-the-title-article541377.html

Jim White talks about youth football.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/7917311/England-Under-19s-face-barren-future-in-a-wasteful-system.html
I don't think that's quite fair on Fergie when he talks about Pique. At the time Pique was allowed to leave, United had Vidic and Rio playing together both fit and rarely injured and they were the best central defensive partnership playing in Europe. United had Jonny Evans coming through the ranks as well, so at the time there was no way Fergie could keep them all happy.
I was a big fan of Pique in the youth team and thought he would go on to be the player he has become. But once he let it be known he wanted to go back home, what could Fergie really do, but let him go. The problem, was the same problem Arsenal are having with Fabregas now, nicking promising youth players from Barca must have seemed like a good idea at the time when Barca were going through a bit of a lean spell. But it doesn't look like the greatest move in retrospect does it.

The Mail looks at football in the USA
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1298386/On-tour-Manchester-United-Wizards-left-spellbound-Kansas-City.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Two differing views on Cameron and the tories foreign policy, because it doesn't show much input from the Lib dems.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/29/david-cameron-obamas-useful-idiot
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/adrian-hamilton/adrian-hamilton-back-to-the-past-with-foreign-policy-2037833.html

Jeremy Warner asks what happened to rebalancing the economy, er the tories won most seats at the elction and the hedge funds are big donors to the tory party.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/7918098/Whatever-happened-to-the-rebalancing-act.html

Andreas Whittam smith talks about Gove's new academies bill. New boss, same as the old boss. don't forget Cameron, Osborne, Gove and co watched and modelled their approach on Tony Blair and new Labour. Isn't Cameron once supposed to have called himself Blair's heir. So it's not that much of a surprise they should treat the house of commons with such blithe disregard. The question should be what were the lib dems doing when this was announced, did they argue or did they nod it through.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/andreas-whittam-smith/andreas-whittam-smith-a-case-of-contempt-of-parliament-2038891.html

Classic Steely Dan