I'm not sure why you'd announce a signing before you have got the player to sign on the dotted lines and have shook hands on it to be honest. If he was involved in a car accident between now and the actual signing would United really go through with the deal. Same goes for Chelsea with Hazard and the Hulk signings. I suppose in the case of United, the Glazer's are desperate to allay the impression that we are skint and can't compete, especially a few days before the end of the season ticket renewal date. Maybe even more so, if take up has been slow as Fergie's ridiculous video has led the rumour mongers to believe.
As to the player himself, time will tell, but the signs are good, he may not be a central midfield dynamo, but he brings a little more creativity and hopefully will bring more goals to take a little more of the goal scoring burden away from Rooney's shoulder's. I don't really see him fitting into a 4-4-2 as i have said before, so it will be interesting to watch how our tactics evolve next season. I hope Cleverley can get over his injury problems next term as i can see him and Kagawa combinging well. I hope that our transfer dealings don't stop at Kagawa and the hoped for signing of Powell, but i wouldn't be too downcast if that is it for the summer.
As much as i, along with almost every red with a pair of eyes has beomoaned the lack of recruitment in central idfield over the last 3 years, if you pushed me for where a further priority signing, it would have to be a new left back. It isn't looking likely at the moment though, if Everton are really asking £20 million for Baines, it won't be happening. As for United's supposed interest in Valencia's left back Alba, if Barca are in for him, forget it, he won't be choosing us over the Catalans.
Maybe we will find we have got one over Chelsea if Hazard turns out not the be the new Ronaldo, some have made him out to be. He was pretty underwhelming on Saturday in that mind numbing friendly on Saturday for Belguim. To be fair to the guy, he was played totally out of position up front on his own, so it's far too easily to say. In today's papers he has claimed that it was Abramovitch that persuaded him to opt for Stamford bridge, what does that say about him. A Russian oligarch famous throughout football for knowing the first thing about the sport impressed him more than Alex Ferguson, one of the greatest managers ever.
The only other talking point of that game for me was i was hoping Danny Welbeck would get some time with Rooney behind him, but it wasn't to be. Welbeck took his goal superbly, how anybody could pick Carroll ahead of him is totally beyond me, but i just have a feeling that Carroll will start against France.
Will Hutton on form in the Observer, the facts are clear, this cruel austerity experiment has failed, world leaders are paralysed by their dogma. Meanwhile G7 wrold finace leaders are to meet in a sign of heigthened global alarm at the crisis. Ambrose Evans- Pritchard reports of worries of a global slump as growth of the world money supply drops. Ha-Joon Chang goes back in time and argues that history shows that austerity has never worked, slashing budgets has always led to recession. The time has come to choose what sort of society we really want.
Paul Krugman who has been touring Britain promoting his latest book, tells Decca Aitkenhead, he is tired of being Cassandra, he'd like to win for once.
George Soros argues that Europe's future is not up to the Bundesbank.
Sorry for being so predictable
As to the player himself, time will tell, but the signs are good, he may not be a central midfield dynamo, but he brings a little more creativity and hopefully will bring more goals to take a little more of the goal scoring burden away from Rooney's shoulder's. I don't really see him fitting into a 4-4-2 as i have said before, so it will be interesting to watch how our tactics evolve next season. I hope Cleverley can get over his injury problems next term as i can see him and Kagawa combinging well. I hope that our transfer dealings don't stop at Kagawa and the hoped for signing of Powell, but i wouldn't be too downcast if that is it for the summer.
As much as i, along with almost every red with a pair of eyes has beomoaned the lack of recruitment in central idfield over the last 3 years, if you pushed me for where a further priority signing, it would have to be a new left back. It isn't looking likely at the moment though, if Everton are really asking £20 million for Baines, it won't be happening. As for United's supposed interest in Valencia's left back Alba, if Barca are in for him, forget it, he won't be choosing us over the Catalans.
Maybe we will find we have got one over Chelsea if Hazard turns out not the be the new Ronaldo, some have made him out to be. He was pretty underwhelming on Saturday in that mind numbing friendly on Saturday for Belguim. To be fair to the guy, he was played totally out of position up front on his own, so it's far too easily to say. In today's papers he has claimed that it was Abramovitch that persuaded him to opt for Stamford bridge, what does that say about him. A Russian oligarch famous throughout football for knowing the first thing about the sport impressed him more than Alex Ferguson, one of the greatest managers ever.
The only other talking point of that game for me was i was hoping Danny Welbeck would get some time with Rooney behind him, but it wasn't to be. Welbeck took his goal superbly, how anybody could pick Carroll ahead of him is totally beyond me, but i just have a feeling that Carroll will start against France.
Will Hutton on form in the Observer, the facts are clear, this cruel austerity experiment has failed, world leaders are paralysed by their dogma. Meanwhile G7 wrold finace leaders are to meet in a sign of heigthened global alarm at the crisis. Ambrose Evans- Pritchard reports of worries of a global slump as growth of the world money supply drops. Ha-Joon Chang goes back in time and argues that history shows that austerity has never worked, slashing budgets has always led to recession. The time has come to choose what sort of society we really want.
Paul Krugman who has been touring Britain promoting his latest book, tells Decca Aitkenhead, he is tired of being Cassandra, he'd like to win for once.
George Soros argues that Europe's future is not up to the Bundesbank.
Sorry for being so predictable
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