United at full strength?

It looks like Fergie is going to have a full squad to choose from with the news that Scholes and Rio are both back in training and in contention for tomorrow nights match. Ala Hansen uses his BBC column to argue that tomorrow nights fixture is a big test for Arsenal. He thinks that they have the creativity going forward to win any match but suggests that their achiles heel as always is at the back and between the sticks.
Anderson's improved from has encouraged the club to reopen negotiations with a view to extending his contract. Fuck me, he should be given until the end of the season to prove that he has improved and has improved consistently. I do hope that is not an ecuse for not signing a top midfield player in the summer, because we are still short of top quality in midfield.
Unfortunately it looks like that top quality midfield player won't be the German Schweinsteiger who revealed that he had signerd a new contract with the Bavarian giants yesterday. Paul Scholes had better not be announcing plans to retire any time soon then.

Nasri claims that Arsenal are no longer scared of United, they don't have the aura they had when Ronaldo and Tevez were at the club. Fair enough, i don't think many reds would disagree, though that does rather let the cat out of the the bag that they have been intimidated by us, which i would have thought they would rather the world hadn't have known. And of course another mauling tomorrow night, which is always possible, and they will be back to square one. I'm confident about tomorrow, though not as confident as i usually are when we play this lot at home. With Rooney almost back to his best i can't see the north Londoners defence being able to contain our attack. We have just got to hope our midfiled holds its own to protect our defence.
Nasri.
Sagna warns his team mates that Evra likes to stir things up before the game and that they should just concentrate on the game and not seeking retribution. He does have form i have to admit, every time we play Arsenal or Chelsea he seems to pop up in the press with a litle dig.

Fletcher insists he is not a dirty player as he responds to Wenger's dig at him from last season. It's not just United who play the mind games, is it. I'll be interested to see whether the Scot plays tomorrow, he hasn't had a good campaign so far and i'd even go as far as to say he has been involved in most of our worst displays. Tomorrow would be the perfect game to bounce back and recapture the form that has made him a thorn in Arsenal's side for most of his career.

Paul Wilson reports on the maturing of the talent that is Nani. He has had an excellent seasonm so far it has to be said, i don't know where we would be without his assists. He was especially vital to our campaign earlier on in the season when we weren't clicking as he was the one player that actually came up with the goods from time to time. It does have to be said for all of his brilliant displays and we have seen a few this season, he can still make you tear your hair out at times. He does tend to really strut his stuff when the game opens up in the last twenty minutes, which is no bad thing. It's a pity that Anderson doesn't share the same trait.
I'm always worried that Nani will start to let the good headlines and the praise from the press go to his head. But to be fair, we haven't had any sign of that, yet.

So if has finally happened, Tevez's representative has put in a transfer request on behalf of his client, which City have turned down. It was only a matter of time, it's interesting to see City blame the agent for all of this. Of course he is an out and out wanker, but they don't expect us to think all is sweetness and light between Mancini and the little Argentinian do they. There are still shit loads of rumours about how the players don't get on or rate their Italian manager and Tevez hasn't even hid it showing the world what he thought last week. Welcome to Manchester indeed Carlos, just when everything seemed to go be going swimmingly for them.

Gordon Brown has risen from his political graveyard with the publication of his new book and has been giving interviews to publicise it. In an interview with the BBC's Robert Peston he argues that we have a major crisis in the Eurozone with the laibilities of the banking zone being an accident waiting to happen. No arguments there, though it's a western phenomenon that's hitting Europe first because of the unstable nature of the Euro. It could spread back to the States if it really blows up.
Martin Wolf uses his FT column to ask if there is the will to save the Euro. Should that be have the Germans the will or even the inclination to save it. He doesn't know the answer but is pretty certain that we will be given one in the not too distant future. Sean O'Grady compares the situation of the Euro with that of the ex Soviet Union, not a happy comparison.
Adrian Hamilton warns us not to give up on the Euro yet and argues that though the citizens of Europe are up arms over the austere cuts being prescribed by their national governments there have been no call from anywhere to blame all their ill on the Euro. He also points to the will of Europe's countries to try and find a way through this together.. I suppose the question is will they be able to, it's one thing to have the will, but have they the means to get through this intact.
William Keegan looks at the way the coalition have got away with their approach for now but looks at how ex chancellor Alistair Darling has also now entered the debate on the future of the Euro and the future of the financial sector. Has Osborne ever uttered a thing about the future of anything except that whatever it is it must be cut. Or does he leave thr grown up thinking to King and co. 

Europe's regulators are set to link banking bonuses to X times basic salaries. That's the kind of thing that will get the population onside and will help individual countries to tackle the financial interests that are refusing to live in the real world. Earlier in the week Robert Peston had warned that the governments banking commision would be powerless to enforce the reforms it believed would be needed to shake this countries financial sector without the support of the EU. Let's hope that this is the start of that help.

David Blanchflower takes aim at the record of Bank of England governor Mervyn King's record again. Polly Toynbee applauds the tax dodging protesters and argues that there is nothing scarily left wing about fair tax collection, it's the price we pay for living in a civillised society. And so say all of us.
Which makes it all the more risible to read this from the paymaster general and tax dodger in chief of the tory party. Read some of the comments.