Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Late spring clean for United?

Stuart Mathieson sees a summer clear out of United's squad, with a shake up of the playing staff. We have already released Owen and Kuszczak, Berbatov seems almost certain to join them, though how much United will get for him seems a moot point.
I don't think anybody expects Paul Pogba to be still at the club come pre-season training, though who knows for sure, the way that saga has dragged on. I won't lose much sleep if he swicthes to Juve myself, he could still turn out to be the player some see him developing into, but as far as i'm concerned he has already shown he hasn't got the character that we want to see in a Manchester United player.

The sun argue that Facebook share flop is bad new for the Glazer's proposed far east IPO share floatation as companies who over value their company, as the Glazer's patently had at £2 million and that was before the present market uncertainty, will struggle.
Forget fantasy football, the Star seem have to have started a summer fantasy transfer competition, as if we are going to be able to lay out £30 million for Modric. I'm fairly sure if we had been successful in our pursuit of Hazard, Nani would have been on his way out to balance the books. United have been getting their excuses into the papers whilst Chelski have been splashing the cash. To be fair to United, if those the figures that have been quoted are correct, United do have a case. I rate Modric as a decent player, but i don't have him down as top notch, i wouldn't want us blowing £30 million on him. As for the others, silly money again.

Losing councillors by the thousands, now the Indy reports the lib dems are losing members, as one fifth of the parties activists quit across the country. Just as bad, remaining members are refusing go out and campaign for the party, presumably in disgust at the rightward drift the party has took before and whilst joining the tories in coalition.
Polly Toynbee tells the Lib dems left wing, it's now or never, it's time to wield the knife. She can be guilty of misreading the political mood, but if a split in the Lib dem ranks is to happen, now seems to be the time it would happen. I'm not sure whether that would be in the best interests of the party though, obviously it would be in the best interests of the country. If Cable and the left of the party stick it out, when the seemingly inevitable wipe out happens at the next election, the left will surely take the party back with the David Laws and his ilk crossing the floor to the natural base, the tory party.  The Torygraph are also reporting contacts at senior level between Li dems and the Labour party, maybe something is going to happen.
Toynbee is right that there will never be a better time to engineer the parties exit from the coaltion. An economic ploicy that is destroying the economy, a prime minister throwing Warsi to the dogs but keeping the equally incompetent Hunt in place as a human shield, never mind judgement what about morals. Even worse maybe it's politically incompetent, i think it was Iain Martin who tweeted last night that this was O' Level politics.
 

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