The Telegraph are reporting that United have called it quits with Ravel Morrison and have put him up for sale with Newcastle having already had one bid turned down. I'm afraid it's all too believable, something has been going on over the past month, that has seemed quite obvious.
It's a shame as he was definitely a talent, but it was always a question of how much he really wanted it. As i'm sure i'm not the first and won't be the last to say it today, if he can't get his arse in gear to make a go of it at United, it's hard to see him ever achieving what his talent suggests he should do in the game. I can't argue with the decision to try and make some money from him, if true of course, he was lucky that United stuck by him after his court case. He was easily the best of last year's youth cup squad, you have to wonder how many of that group will actually make it at United, will Pogba still be here next season, he looks miles away from the first team from what i have seen of him in the reserves this season.
I watched Tunnicliffe play for Peterbrough last week against Sunderland last week, but it was hard to judge his performance as he was given a role that was totally deifferent from his role at United. He didn't do anything wrong in a defensive role but his passing wasn't as accurate as i would have liked it to have been. I still think Will Keane has a great chance, he looks a real player, i would have liked to see him go out on loan for the rest of the season, but i suppose it's harder to get games on a regular basis when you play up front.
Of the others who knows, Will's twin Michael Keane seems to have shot up and his game has come on, but first team potential, i don't know. Larnell Cole looked good last year, but is he strong enough, Fryers has played for the first team and looked decent at times but has got away with a couple of bad mistakes. Lastly one of the players i really liked the look of last year has hardly got a look in this year, and when Tom Thorpe has played it has been in midfield. It's too early to say the hopes that we placed in the youth cup winning team of 2011 has not lived up to the hype, but they all have a lot of work to do.
The Mail report that Everton are hoping to clinch the signing of Darron Gibson. I don't rate him, but i suppose with the size of Everton's squad and their lack of money he could turn out to be a decent signing. As for Gibson, it has to be a good move for his career overall and for his chances of going to European championships in the summer with the Republic.
Mark Ogden claims that Fergie is glad to have Scholes back for his experience as much as anything as he regrets selling O'Shea and Wes Brown after losing Van Der Sar, Neville and Scholes as well. I had wondered whether Fergie regretted letting O'Shea go in the summer as he would have filled a few holes for during this injury crisis.
Andy Mitten speaks with ex United youth player Bojan Djordic after the player was released by Blackpool recently. He looked a really good player in the youth team, maybe not good enough for United but i thought he would have had a career as premier league football. I suppose he has had an interesting and varied career but he would have made a better living if he made it as a premier league player. I can remember the chipped goal he scored at Celtci, it was a real beauty.
Ahead of last Sunday's derby Daniel Taylor profiled Roberto Mancini and compared him to Fergie, well we are going to see if there is any validity to the claim with the dismal run City are currently going through. They were shocking last night, and what about that crowd, 36,000 for a semi final, massive indeed. I'm looking forward to seeing that City line up take on Spurs in a couple of weeks time.
I enjoy reading Peter Oborne even if i don't really agree with him on most of the big issues, but i would go along with almost all of this column prasing the Union and hoping that the Scots don't vote for independence.
Of course if Osborne is thinking he is playing a win win game, hoping to thwart the Nationalists but if not making sure that England will become a one party Tory state, five, ten years down the line when England's loss of influence becomes obvious he won't seem so clever. Oborne is totally correct that the four constituent parts of Britain were piffling inconsequential places in the grander cheme of things before the act of Union. I read one nationalist comparing England's attitude to Scotland as typically imperialist, fuck me has he ever read the history of the empire and the disproportionate role the Scots played in it. Scotland wasn't a conquered nation.
Michael White compares SNP leader Alex salmond to the English Euro sceptics with his blame game, Teddy Taylor won't be pleased to be described as English.
I have just read Paul Mason's Meltdown : The end of the age of greed, which was fantastic read and am looking forward to buying and reading the follow up. The Guardian ran an extract from it last week, it seems to continue with some of the issues touched from Meltdown, such as the network and i love the way he uses historical comparisons whether or not they turn out to have any validity it makes you realise what a historicaly important time we are currently living through.
Another book i'm going to have to read eventually is Richard Murphy's new book, here in his blog he argues what the new social democracy will have to look like. Whether he is right or wrong, and i would think that is the way we have to head the one thin all these articles are surely right on is that we will not be able to go on doing things the way we have done them for the last 30 years.
Mason made much of the forward march of the east and the developing world in Meltdown and Martin Wolf used his FT colum to look ahead to the economy for this part of the world in the year 2012. He sees high hopes for them but argues that they will not come to the developed world's rescue, we will have to sort things out for ourselves.
John Gray pens an fascinating review of a new book by Philip Coggan called Paper promises: Money,debt and the new world order in which he agrees with Mason that the Neo-Liberal era is over and it's time that our politicians and economists woke up to the fact.
Hans Kundnani fears that the Eurozone will pay a high price for Germany's economic narcissism espoused by its pursuit of ordoliberalism which will leave deficit countries facing greater austerity.
It's a shame as he was definitely a talent, but it was always a question of how much he really wanted it. As i'm sure i'm not the first and won't be the last to say it today, if he can't get his arse in gear to make a go of it at United, it's hard to see him ever achieving what his talent suggests he should do in the game. I can't argue with the decision to try and make some money from him, if true of course, he was lucky that United stuck by him after his court case. He was easily the best of last year's youth cup squad, you have to wonder how many of that group will actually make it at United, will Pogba still be here next season, he looks miles away from the first team from what i have seen of him in the reserves this season.
I watched Tunnicliffe play for Peterbrough last week against Sunderland last week, but it was hard to judge his performance as he was given a role that was totally deifferent from his role at United. He didn't do anything wrong in a defensive role but his passing wasn't as accurate as i would have liked it to have been. I still think Will Keane has a great chance, he looks a real player, i would have liked to see him go out on loan for the rest of the season, but i suppose it's harder to get games on a regular basis when you play up front.
Of the others who knows, Will's twin Michael Keane seems to have shot up and his game has come on, but first team potential, i don't know. Larnell Cole looked good last year, but is he strong enough, Fryers has played for the first team and looked decent at times but has got away with a couple of bad mistakes. Lastly one of the players i really liked the look of last year has hardly got a look in this year, and when Tom Thorpe has played it has been in midfield. It's too early to say the hopes that we placed in the youth cup winning team of 2011 has not lived up to the hype, but they all have a lot of work to do.
The Mail report that Everton are hoping to clinch the signing of Darron Gibson. I don't rate him, but i suppose with the size of Everton's squad and their lack of money he could turn out to be a decent signing. As for Gibson, it has to be a good move for his career overall and for his chances of going to European championships in the summer with the Republic.
Mark Ogden claims that Fergie is glad to have Scholes back for his experience as much as anything as he regrets selling O'Shea and Wes Brown after losing Van Der Sar, Neville and Scholes as well. I had wondered whether Fergie regretted letting O'Shea go in the summer as he would have filled a few holes for during this injury crisis.
Andy Mitten speaks with ex United youth player Bojan Djordic after the player was released by Blackpool recently. He looked a really good player in the youth team, maybe not good enough for United but i thought he would have had a career as premier league football. I suppose he has had an interesting and varied career but he would have made a better living if he made it as a premier league player. I can remember the chipped goal he scored at Celtci, it was a real beauty.
Ahead of last Sunday's derby Daniel Taylor profiled Roberto Mancini and compared him to Fergie, well we are going to see if there is any validity to the claim with the dismal run City are currently going through. They were shocking last night, and what about that crowd, 36,000 for a semi final, massive indeed. I'm looking forward to seeing that City line up take on Spurs in a couple of weeks time.
I enjoy reading Peter Oborne even if i don't really agree with him on most of the big issues, but i would go along with almost all of this column prasing the Union and hoping that the Scots don't vote for independence.
Of course if Osborne is thinking he is playing a win win game, hoping to thwart the Nationalists but if not making sure that England will become a one party Tory state, five, ten years down the line when England's loss of influence becomes obvious he won't seem so clever. Oborne is totally correct that the four constituent parts of Britain were piffling inconsequential places in the grander cheme of things before the act of Union. I read one nationalist comparing England's attitude to Scotland as typically imperialist, fuck me has he ever read the history of the empire and the disproportionate role the Scots played in it. Scotland wasn't a conquered nation.
Michael White compares SNP leader Alex salmond to the English Euro sceptics with his blame game, Teddy Taylor won't be pleased to be described as English.
I have just read Paul Mason's Meltdown : The end of the age of greed, which was fantastic read and am looking forward to buying and reading the follow up. The Guardian ran an extract from it last week, it seems to continue with some of the issues touched from Meltdown, such as the network and i love the way he uses historical comparisons whether or not they turn out to have any validity it makes you realise what a historicaly important time we are currently living through.
Another book i'm going to have to read eventually is Richard Murphy's new book, here in his blog he argues what the new social democracy will have to look like. Whether he is right or wrong, and i would think that is the way we have to head the one thin all these articles are surely right on is that we will not be able to go on doing things the way we have done them for the last 30 years.
Mason made much of the forward march of the east and the developing world in Meltdown and Martin Wolf used his FT colum to look ahead to the economy for this part of the world in the year 2012. He sees high hopes for them but argues that they will not come to the developed world's rescue, we will have to sort things out for ourselves.
John Gray pens an fascinating review of a new book by Philip Coggan called Paper promises: Money,debt and the new world order in which he agrees with Mason that the Neo-Liberal era is over and it's time that our politicians and economists woke up to the fact.
Hans Kundnani fears that the Eurozone will pay a high price for Germany's economic narcissism espoused by its pursuit of ordoliberalism which will leave deficit countries facing greater austerity.
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