Gabriel Obertan

So we have another signing…

Don’t feel like saying anything about it though…

Am a little lost for words right now !!! Come on for god’s sake… i really doubt i am really excited about any of United’s signings….

BUT, in Fergie I trust….

 

Micheal Owen!!!

Even as the dossier was made on one of the world’s most past-it players, there was a nagging feeling that this may have been a possibility however bleak. The fact that it is a reality is absolutely outrageous.

When I first heard the rumour, I was thinking whether the Press have done it again. But as the day progressed, there was so much more that kept happening.. it was no surprise that he was finally signed but only SHOCK!!!

Can you imagine Micheal Owen, the Liverpool prodigy, Legend etc. playing for UNITED. Its like Beckham playing for Liverpool or more recently Ronaldo playing for Liverpool. I compare the Owen-Ronaldo situations coz both are World Class talents, both Ballon D’Or winners and both had/have moved on to Real Madrid for developing their “Galacticos” image, albeit at different times.

 

Poll: Who should wear the talismanic No. 7?

With the exit of Ronaldo, one of the most important decisions that SAF will make is to crown the next Manchester United Talisman!!!!

So who do you think it should be.. Vote here:

 

Analyzing the United Transfer Policy

There has been a lot of fuss on the quality of players that we should be buying with the 80 million transfer kitty that we have got. As I have mentioned before, the press have taken to our bank balance to the extent that any possible transfer has to be linked with Manchester United and Sir Alex Ferguson.

We are apparently in the market for all top starts (whatever is left anyway) as well as unknown quantities. The Media has created a greater hype of the United transfer strategy than Sir alex would have wanted. This is not helped by the fact that Madrid are spending without a care in the World and English press want at least one of their clubs to do the same. Manchester City would have been the more likely candidates, but with Huges at the helm I am not surprised that they are moving slowly but surely towards devloping a quality team capable of challenging Chelsea and Liverpool for second spot next season.

 

SO Valencia is Here.. Finally!!!

Predictably, there has been a lot of transfer speculation after Ronaldo’s departure was announced on June 11. However, it does feel like a relief that we finally have someone that has come to our club rather than the other way around.

With the departure of Tevez and Ronaldo, the team is definately weaker than it was last season and we really need to purchase some quality if we want to challenge Barca in Europe next season. [I shall discuss this in detail in the next post] 

So is Valencia the answer to our woes???

Here is a video of Valencia in his Wigan days……

After looking at this video, it feels like we have another Ronaldo at our hands, but videos can be deceiving. Cant wait to see what this lad can do with World Class Players around him rather than the mediocre ones he had at Wigan!!!

Welcome LUIS ANTONIO VALENCIA!!! Hope you are a success!!!

 

Why has Ronaldo not gone yet!!!!

UPDATE: I had written this post before Ronaldo’s move was confirmed, but thought the best time to publish it would be only after hez gone.

June 25, 2009:

The next peice of news is absolutely fictitious and the theory of a drunken United fan desparately fighting with a Madrid fan over which club is more prestigious. Even fort a United fan like me it was unthinkable and extremely hillarious. Here goes an excerpt of the conversation:

Real Madrid Fan: “What the F*** is GLORY GLORY MAN UTD!!! We are ******* bigger and outrageously better”

United Fan: Ya so can you explain why you have not reached the champions league semis in the last 5 years???

RM F: All ur ******* BEST players come to US like its the best thing to happen in their lives!!! Ronaldo.. if u know dreams of playing for Real not United cunts even after spending his devloping years there… nd so did Beckham btw… The people who play know better than you single minded fools

MU F: Ha!!! but Ronaldo has not gone yet!! Sir Alex and United are just taking the mickey out of your stupid club and all this transfer is going to fail at the last minute…. Its just to get back for all the disgusting and absolute nonsense that your last president did.. btw how many presidents have you had???

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For me thats where the discussion ended folks!!! Stupid drunken supporters!!! but a good laugh none-the-less…

P.S. To the Madrid fans: Get real… Ronaldo is probably the only united player going to Real in/before his prime…The others were well past their best

 

LONG and HARD SUMMER!!!

Unlike what Sir Alex has always wanted of his transfer dealings, this summer is really going to be a long drawn and public affair. Not because the club want it so but because the media wont let us go.

We have not even sold Ronaldo yet and there are already a host of signings on their way to United. Ribery, Benzema, Aguero, Costa, Nilmar, Valencia, Mariga, Silva, Villa and so on.The summer is just going to get worse with the papers either running a new story every day on the same players or comming up with more pathetic ones like this one. If you click on the link, you will see that the press have not even bothered to get their Facts right. FYI Mr. Vince Masiello, the striker is nicknamed “Kiko” and not “Chicco”. Anyway, back to the point I was making, at Manchester United, we should actually revolt against the quality of journalism. They will link us to players that meet their personal fantasies, add inflated price tags and publish an article. Lately, they are saying that we will offer Nani for Valencia (I dont think so, coz Nani is the only orthodox first team winger we have in the team right now anyway).

 

Ronaldo: cant get Enough of Him!!!!

The seasons gone by were all about Ronaldo. The summers thereafter were even worse. The UNITED Fans stuck by him and he did more than enough to repay us season after season. This trend was broken in the last season when his summer antics could not have been undone and it was definately time for Ronaldo to look for pastures new. Most United fans were in awe of his ability but were no more messmerized by his presence. For us, he became a means to an end but not the end itself. I remember supporting UNITED in the times of real legends like Cantonna when we fans would give up anything to watch him play, he was the end, he was the MAN and whatever united achieved was just a heart warming BONUS.

In his interview that was published today on his decision to leave united, he HOPES that he is a legend. Unfortunately, he will never be  a legend, he will just be ONE of the greats. We will learn to love him again when time passes and respect the things he did for United in his past three seasons, but we will never put him on the pedestal that Cantonna still enjoys. So best of luck Ronaldo, thanks for the memories, the trophies and the 80 million.

 

I am Officially back and Off the Tevez Bandwagon

Sorry to all readers of the blog. But I am surely back now. I love writing when United are in controversy and the exodus of Tevez and Ronaldo gives me that opportunity.

I was definitely one of the most ardent of Tevez supporters but his treatment of the club in the last six months has been absolutely pathetic. I was under the assumption that he wants to play for the club he loves and his lack of contract is frustrating him. But seriously, rejecting an offer making him our highest earning player, for a club that is either our title rivals or our city rivals is absolutely unforgivable. So maybe our ARGENTINA! ARGENTINA! chant has been a bad omen for us and we shall not give the same to any other supposedly United Loving player. Good bye HEINZE was a great time good bye TEVEZ will be even better for the team, specially if we beat him to the title at Chelsea or Man City in the derby coz honestly thats the only trophy that they are hoping to WIN every season. GOOD BYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE.

Some are even saying we will buy Benzema, Ribery, Valencia, Villa, Silva and replace these two.

 

United IN Japan

I was postponing this post to the absolute opportune moment and in the eve of United’s first competetive match in this edition of the Club World Cup, it is the best time to publish it.

The Club World Cup calls for various different reactions in the sections of the Footballing World (mainly Europe) but it is one of the things that Blatter is bound to get right. The manner of the European footballing calendar no doubt puts some additional pressure on the Champions League winners but it gives a great opportunity for the development of the sport in Asia and Africa. One of the biggest advantages of winning the Asian Champions League is to get a chance to play competitively against the best European Opposition. I would be lying if I said that last year I was not hoping for the Asian Champions to beat AC Milan in the semis, would have been a shocker, wouldn’t it. This year though, it is very different, I want United to win but I am divided on the impact that its going to have on our title challenge. In a way, I am happy that we will be two games behind the others and with our recent form, it might just be a blessing in disguise that we are playing these games after Christmas when we are traditionally a stronger side.