The Guardian report that the Glazers have took £71 million out of the club in order to pay off the debt and buy back the bonds, yet still the tabloids will link us with everyone under the sun. That story about United sounding out clubs about the availibilty of Nani if he doesn't agree a new contract sounds feasible after those figures. To bring anybody in United will have to sell more than just Berbatov. Of course that makes absolutely no sense football wise. I'm not Nani's biggest fan, but when he is on his game he is a top European talent, he's far more talented than Ashley Young and more skilful though far less consistent than Valencia.
Still those are not the headlines that the Glazer's will be glad to see, i wonder if these kind of quotes make there way into the press in south east Asia, that would be most unwelcome for the hoped for IPO. The BBC report might as well have come from the Glazer's PR department, pitiful.
Andersred blogs why the Glazer's future strategy for the club and possibly for getting out of their takeover with a healthy proft is heavily bound up with the proposed far eastern IPO. If they don't buy and the IPO went ahead and didn't value the club at a price they are happy with, what then, for them and the club.
It was nice to see the reserves beat the divs last night at the council house to finish the season off by winning the Manchester senior cup 2-0 , last minute crowd invasion and all. United played reasonably well for the first 45 minutes, and just about deserved the lead given to them by Will Keane's goal.
The second half wasn't pretty to watch to be honest, United just seemed to sit back and hope to catch City on the break. Problem was you still have to play football to do that and too often our lads were just booting the ball anywhere instead of trying to build from the back to catch them on the break.
United still had all the best chances, Lingard had a chance and Will Keane set up Pogba superbly but the Frenchman couldn't finish it off. It was great to see the young sub, Salfordian Giverin brought on at the death, break free in the last minute to seal thw in and celebrate like it was the best thing to ever happen to him. What a week for him, he got a 45 minutes with the first team and then this. He will obviously never make it at the club, but he will have a couple of special special moments.
Nobody expected Pogba to play, and i suppose some will hope this was a sign that maybe he will stay. Of more note to me, was the fact that once again he couldn't manage to stand out at this level and yet his agent wants and United seem to be prepared to pay him a supposed £20 grand a year. That just seems totally unjustifiable and totally nuts to me.
Whatever happens over the summer, barring the exit of the Glazer family from the ownership of our football club of course, it looks like we are in for one more season of apalling atmosphere at Old trafford after the news that the setting up of a singing section inside the ground has been postponed.
Gill talks the talk about United being able to compete for the very best players, unfortunately for him it's the gimps that will have to walk the walk. Ronaldo talks about losing money when City pipped us to the title, wow that must have hurt his bank balance and then goes all coy when asked if he would come back to United. How can they write that with a straight face, i'm sure i'm not alone in fearing the day he comes back to Manchester, it would be in a sky blue shirt, not red.
Patrice Evra reflects on a difficult season, talking of the pressure surrounding the Suarez controversy and playing the Manchester derby after hearing that his brother had just died. I suppose it a bit hard, but the way he played in that gam, maybe Fergie should have left him out. Because in another sub standard season from the French left back, that was up there with his worst performances.We really must buy a left back or somebody who can do a job there like O'Shea did this summer, we can't put up with another season like the last two in this position.
Fascinating piece by David Winner on Wayne Rooney, if you didn't know who had written it, but had read Winner's book on Dutch football, Brilliant orange, you would probably be able to guess who had wrote it. I'm a fan of Rooney but i'm afraid a smirk appeared on this mush when i read the sentence "his close control is miraculous", when he is on his game it might be, but when it's not, for a top player, it can be fucking embarassing at times.
I'm not sure what to make of the possibility of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer taking over the reigns at Villa Park. I'm aware that to enhance the possibility of him succeeding Fergie he could do with establishing himself in the premier league. I'm just not sure that Villa park is the best place to start.
I haven't got much time for Villa's fans though i don't mind the club that much. They were always one of the potentially bigger clubs in the years before the money started flowing into the premiership. But they haven't really competed since, it said it all to me that the fans took Lerner's side over O'Neill. It was obvious to me that they were a club punching above their weight mainly due to the manager. The record since would seem to bear that out.
Going there at this present time with an unhappy fan base, what appears to me to be a piss poor squad and presumably only modest means to stengthen it means he is giving himself a really tough challenge. If he does take this, i suppose it shows two things, firstly he is up for a challenge and secondly he must have confidence in his own ability.
He is a top man, so if he does take the job, i will be watching out for Villa's results and hoping that he can turn things around for the Villaaa.
Rafael Behr looks at Europe's endgame and asks who will dare make the pro-EU cas, whilst Peter Oborne asks why on earth are we trying to save the Euro. Robert Peston tried to make that case with his BBC2 documentary tonight, an interesting watch.
We really could be at that much prophesied Lehman brothers moment as Ben Chu reports Europe and the markets have been spooked by a potential Spanish banking crisis.
Jeremy Warner tells David Cameron he should admit the truth about the UK economy, i have noticed recently that the tory press have become even more critical of the coalition's competence over the economy than the usual subjects.
Zoe Williams can't believe Cameron and his tory chums, now we no whose fault the recession is, ours.
Still those are not the headlines that the Glazer's will be glad to see, i wonder if these kind of quotes make there way into the press in south east Asia, that would be most unwelcome for the hoped for IPO. The BBC report might as well have come from the Glazer's PR department, pitiful.
Andersred blogs why the Glazer's future strategy for the club and possibly for getting out of their takeover with a healthy proft is heavily bound up with the proposed far eastern IPO. If they don't buy and the IPO went ahead and didn't value the club at a price they are happy with, what then, for them and the club.
It was nice to see the reserves beat the divs last night at the council house to finish the season off by winning the Manchester senior cup 2-0 , last minute crowd invasion and all. United played reasonably well for the first 45 minutes, and just about deserved the lead given to them by Will Keane's goal.
The second half wasn't pretty to watch to be honest, United just seemed to sit back and hope to catch City on the break. Problem was you still have to play football to do that and too often our lads were just booting the ball anywhere instead of trying to build from the back to catch them on the break.
United still had all the best chances, Lingard had a chance and Will Keane set up Pogba superbly but the Frenchman couldn't finish it off. It was great to see the young sub, Salfordian Giverin brought on at the death, break free in the last minute to seal thw in and celebrate like it was the best thing to ever happen to him. What a week for him, he got a 45 minutes with the first team and then this. He will obviously never make it at the club, but he will have a couple of special special moments.
Nobody expected Pogba to play, and i suppose some will hope this was a sign that maybe he will stay. Of more note to me, was the fact that once again he couldn't manage to stand out at this level and yet his agent wants and United seem to be prepared to pay him a supposed £20 grand a year. That just seems totally unjustifiable and totally nuts to me.
Whatever happens over the summer, barring the exit of the Glazer family from the ownership of our football club of course, it looks like we are in for one more season of apalling atmosphere at Old trafford after the news that the setting up of a singing section inside the ground has been postponed.
Gill talks the talk about United being able to compete for the very best players, unfortunately for him it's the gimps that will have to walk the walk. Ronaldo talks about losing money when City pipped us to the title, wow that must have hurt his bank balance and then goes all coy when asked if he would come back to United. How can they write that with a straight face, i'm sure i'm not alone in fearing the day he comes back to Manchester, it would be in a sky blue shirt, not red.
Patrice Evra reflects on a difficult season, talking of the pressure surrounding the Suarez controversy and playing the Manchester derby after hearing that his brother had just died. I suppose it a bit hard, but the way he played in that gam, maybe Fergie should have left him out. Because in another sub standard season from the French left back, that was up there with his worst performances.We really must buy a left back or somebody who can do a job there like O'Shea did this summer, we can't put up with another season like the last two in this position.
Fascinating piece by David Winner on Wayne Rooney, if you didn't know who had written it, but had read Winner's book on Dutch football, Brilliant orange, you would probably be able to guess who had wrote it. I'm a fan of Rooney but i'm afraid a smirk appeared on this mush when i read the sentence "his close control is miraculous", when he is on his game it might be, but when it's not, for a top player, it can be fucking embarassing at times.
I'm not sure what to make of the possibility of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer taking over the reigns at Villa Park. I'm aware that to enhance the possibility of him succeeding Fergie he could do with establishing himself in the premier league. I'm just not sure that Villa park is the best place to start.
I haven't got much time for Villa's fans though i don't mind the club that much. They were always one of the potentially bigger clubs in the years before the money started flowing into the premiership. But they haven't really competed since, it said it all to me that the fans took Lerner's side over O'Neill. It was obvious to me that they were a club punching above their weight mainly due to the manager. The record since would seem to bear that out.
Going there at this present time with an unhappy fan base, what appears to me to be a piss poor squad and presumably only modest means to stengthen it means he is giving himself a really tough challenge. If he does take this, i suppose it shows two things, firstly he is up for a challenge and secondly he must have confidence in his own ability.
He is a top man, so if he does take the job, i will be watching out for Villa's results and hoping that he can turn things around for the Villaaa.
Rafael Behr looks at Europe's endgame and asks who will dare make the pro-EU cas, whilst Peter Oborne asks why on earth are we trying to save the Euro. Robert Peston tried to make that case with his BBC2 documentary tonight, an interesting watch.
We really could be at that much prophesied Lehman brothers moment as Ben Chu reports Europe and the markets have been spooked by a potential Spanish banking crisis.
Jeremy Warner tells David Cameron he should admit the truth about the UK economy, i have noticed recently that the tory press have become even more critical of the coalition's competence over the economy than the usual subjects.
Zoe Williams can't believe Cameron and his tory chums, now we no whose fault the recession is, ours.
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