Fergie is supposedly thinking of starting Pogba tomorrow night in the second leg of the tie against Ajax, according to the press this morning amongst reports that Fegie is hoping Rio Ferdinand can persuade the young Frenchmen his future should be at Manchester United.
When the second goal went in at the Amsterdam Arena the thought that Fergie may be able to blood a couple of youngsters did pop through my mind. The trouble is Cleverley is a player that definitely needs minutes on the pitch, and tomorrow's match is the perfect opportunity for that. But would Fergie want to go into the match with a central midfield pairing of Cleverley and Pogba.
Henry Winter has called on Stuart Pearce to forget Rio and Terry for next weeks friendly against the Dutch, and pair his former under 21 partnership Smalling and Jones at centre back, that's not a bad call, i wouldn't mind seeing that tomorrow with the two twins at full back. It may be that Fergie will want Jones for the Norwich game at right back, whatever it will be great to see him back in the team.
One player that i think we can assume will start tomorrow night will be the revitalised Hernandez who has been telling the press that he is happy enough with the way things have gone and is content to score goals coming on as a sub. He has been doing better, we are still noticeably better when Welbeck starts up front though, he just offers our game that much more variety. He's not a bad sub though is he. To be fair to Hernandez the stronger the squad and the better the service he may yet regain last season's end of season form. I suppose the question is who will play alongside him tomorrow, i was suprised that Berba wasn't in Amsterdam last week, if he doesn't start tomorrow, i can't see him getting many more starts this season.
Giggs is hoping that United's experience and players returning from injury will give United the edge over City come the end of the season. Providing United and City both get through the next round of the Europa league we will be seeing a lot of blue against red in April. I'm pretty sure i won't have seen United play City so many times in one season.
Fergie's interview with Radio 1's DJ Spoony has been all over the papers over the last couple of days, i suppose one of the most interesting answers was his assertion that his players want to know how long he will carry on before they enter into contract talks. I'm not sure if that was aimed at anybody or not.
It must be food for thought for the gimps anyway, as yesterday's quarterly reports showed that they have been using the Ronaldo to buy back the bonds amidst results that showed once again most of the clubs profits are being used to pay off the debt in one way or another.
Andersred's blog focuses on a suprisingly big increase in the wage bill. David Conn using Andersred's figures wonders how anybody can justify the £500 billion that has now leaked out of Manchester United to service the debt laden ownership.
United's reserves have hit a little dip in form recently with the defeat to City and yesterday's 0-0 draw at Wigam which apparently wasn't the best. It was a bit of a suprise to see Ryan Tunnicliffe make an appearance, i wasn't aware he seems to fallen out of favour a bit in recent weeks at his loan club Peterborough.
A bit ironic really after Warren Joyce was praising last season's youth team skipper Tom Thorpe for his versatility in adapting to a new central midfield role this season. Obviously it's a good trait to have as a player, the ability to play two or three positions, but i'm not sure it's always the best thing for a young player's career coming through the ranks. After last season he would have expected to have played more regularly than he actually has. Of course Tunnicliffe coming back for a game saw Thorpe drop back to the subs bench, even if he got on reasonably early to replace Reece Brown, another young player blessed/cursed with the ability to play in different positions.
John Pilger's latest New statesman's column warns us to learn from Blair's crimes, so we don't repeat them in Syria. I honestly don't think any of the western nations would have the stomach to get involved in any Syriam civil war however much the reamining neo-cons would like us to.
Blair's former chief of staff Jonathan Powell has also penned a lengthy piece still making the case for western intervention, i think. There parts of that i agree with, but there is no way the west should try intervene in that conflict, Powell's giving Cameron a pat on the back for going out on a limb over Libya, but whilsi definitely shed no tears for Gaddafi's fall, we still have no idea what the endgame will be in that country. It's certainly no functioning state yet, in fact some reports claim it's going backwards, implicit in that being there could be another outbreak of hostilities there.
Peter Oborne argues that the Syrian crisis is leading Cameron and Hague to unlikely bedfellows, warning that they are at risk of over-simplifying a dangerous and complex situation. He's right, but i'm inclined to dismiss the Al-Qaeda theories.
Just in case we wondered how dangerous and unstable the situation comes the news that the Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin has been killed in Homs.
Meanwhile Ian Black looks at Assad and Syria's ally Iran and argues that Iran is in crisis, but it suites everyone to exaggerate its power.
Music
Barn Owl - Lost in the glare: I don't dislike this, but it ends up dragging on a bit. I have heard them described a drone duo, a pretty good description. The problem for me is there is not enough light and shade, individual tracks are good, but it ends up dragging.
Death in Vegas - Trans love energies: A pretty good album, though it doesn't have the stand out tracks of the first two albums and doesn't really match up to that level.
Destroyer - Kaputt: Canadian indie and pretty good stuff, i didn't know that Dan Bejar was a part of The New Pornographers, i like them. I can't put mu finger on why, but if i hadn't have known this was Canadian i would have had this down as very English sounding. There is a lot of good music coming out of Canada nowadays.
M83 - Hurry up, I'm dreaming: I have read this compared to the MGMT debut album and that is a fair comparison for the US based Frenchman's latest album. There are some cracking tracks, not a catchy as MGMT, but not enough for a double album.
Sonny Rollins - The bridge: I saw a documentary on Sonny Rollins on the BBC a few years back related to his time in retiremt when he escaped to the brdige that was excellent. I didn't know that most of the tracks on this are also on his Quartets album. They are excellent though and they seem a lot looser, more fluid on this album.
Wild Flag - Wild Flag: US female indie stalwarts get together to produce a promising debut that veers towards a heavy rock sound, nothing wrong with that. There are two or three cracking tunes, the rest of the album doesn't really live up to that standard, but it's pretty enjoyable.
When the second goal went in at the Amsterdam Arena the thought that Fergie may be able to blood a couple of youngsters did pop through my mind. The trouble is Cleverley is a player that definitely needs minutes on the pitch, and tomorrow's match is the perfect opportunity for that. But would Fergie want to go into the match with a central midfield pairing of Cleverley and Pogba.
Henry Winter has called on Stuart Pearce to forget Rio and Terry for next weeks friendly against the Dutch, and pair his former under 21 partnership Smalling and Jones at centre back, that's not a bad call, i wouldn't mind seeing that tomorrow with the two twins at full back. It may be that Fergie will want Jones for the Norwich game at right back, whatever it will be great to see him back in the team.
One player that i think we can assume will start tomorrow night will be the revitalised Hernandez who has been telling the press that he is happy enough with the way things have gone and is content to score goals coming on as a sub. He has been doing better, we are still noticeably better when Welbeck starts up front though, he just offers our game that much more variety. He's not a bad sub though is he. To be fair to Hernandez the stronger the squad and the better the service he may yet regain last season's end of season form. I suppose the question is who will play alongside him tomorrow, i was suprised that Berba wasn't in Amsterdam last week, if he doesn't start tomorrow, i can't see him getting many more starts this season.
Giggs is hoping that United's experience and players returning from injury will give United the edge over City come the end of the season. Providing United and City both get through the next round of the Europa league we will be seeing a lot of blue against red in April. I'm pretty sure i won't have seen United play City so many times in one season.
Fergie's interview with Radio 1's DJ Spoony has been all over the papers over the last couple of days, i suppose one of the most interesting answers was his assertion that his players want to know how long he will carry on before they enter into contract talks. I'm not sure if that was aimed at anybody or not.
It must be food for thought for the gimps anyway, as yesterday's quarterly reports showed that they have been using the Ronaldo to buy back the bonds amidst results that showed once again most of the clubs profits are being used to pay off the debt in one way or another.
Andersred's blog focuses on a suprisingly big increase in the wage bill. David Conn using Andersred's figures wonders how anybody can justify the £500 billion that has now leaked out of Manchester United to service the debt laden ownership.
United's reserves have hit a little dip in form recently with the defeat to City and yesterday's 0-0 draw at Wigam which apparently wasn't the best. It was a bit of a suprise to see Ryan Tunnicliffe make an appearance, i wasn't aware he seems to fallen out of favour a bit in recent weeks at his loan club Peterborough.
A bit ironic really after Warren Joyce was praising last season's youth team skipper Tom Thorpe for his versatility in adapting to a new central midfield role this season. Obviously it's a good trait to have as a player, the ability to play two or three positions, but i'm not sure it's always the best thing for a young player's career coming through the ranks. After last season he would have expected to have played more regularly than he actually has. Of course Tunnicliffe coming back for a game saw Thorpe drop back to the subs bench, even if he got on reasonably early to replace Reece Brown, another young player blessed/cursed with the ability to play in different positions.
John Pilger's latest New statesman's column warns us to learn from Blair's crimes, so we don't repeat them in Syria. I honestly don't think any of the western nations would have the stomach to get involved in any Syriam civil war however much the reamining neo-cons would like us to.
Blair's former chief of staff Jonathan Powell has also penned a lengthy piece still making the case for western intervention, i think. There parts of that i agree with, but there is no way the west should try intervene in that conflict, Powell's giving Cameron a pat on the back for going out on a limb over Libya, but whilsi definitely shed no tears for Gaddafi's fall, we still have no idea what the endgame will be in that country. It's certainly no functioning state yet, in fact some reports claim it's going backwards, implicit in that being there could be another outbreak of hostilities there.
Peter Oborne argues that the Syrian crisis is leading Cameron and Hague to unlikely bedfellows, warning that they are at risk of over-simplifying a dangerous and complex situation. He's right, but i'm inclined to dismiss the Al-Qaeda theories.
Just in case we wondered how dangerous and unstable the situation comes the news that the Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin has been killed in Homs.
Meanwhile Ian Black looks at Assad and Syria's ally Iran and argues that Iran is in crisis, but it suites everyone to exaggerate its power.
Music
Barn Owl - Lost in the glare: I don't dislike this, but it ends up dragging on a bit. I have heard them described a drone duo, a pretty good description. The problem for me is there is not enough light and shade, individual tracks are good, but it ends up dragging.
Death in Vegas - Trans love energies: A pretty good album, though it doesn't have the stand out tracks of the first two albums and doesn't really match up to that level.
Destroyer - Kaputt: Canadian indie and pretty good stuff, i didn't know that Dan Bejar was a part of The New Pornographers, i like them. I can't put mu finger on why, but if i hadn't have known this was Canadian i would have had this down as very English sounding. There is a lot of good music coming out of Canada nowadays.
M83 - Hurry up, I'm dreaming: I have read this compared to the MGMT debut album and that is a fair comparison for the US based Frenchman's latest album. There are some cracking tracks, not a catchy as MGMT, but not enough for a double album.
Sonny Rollins - The bridge: I saw a documentary on Sonny Rollins on the BBC a few years back related to his time in retiremt when he escaped to the brdige that was excellent. I didn't know that most of the tracks on this are also on his Quartets album. They are excellent though and they seem a lot looser, more fluid on this album.
Wild Flag - Wild Flag: US female indie stalwarts get together to produce a promising debut that veers towards a heavy rock sound, nothing wrong with that. There are two or three cracking tunes, the rest of the album doesn't really live up to that standard, but it's pretty enjoyable.
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