The season kicks off on Monday for us, but let’s use this as an overall preview of the rest of the season as such.
Public perception has been that this summer is quiet on the transfer front. In reality it’s not been quite at all. If you add up signings made during last season and during this summer we’ll realize that the club has in fact spent about £25m on players. True they’ve been spent with the future in mind, but they are signings nonetheless, and what we cannot ignore is that hard cash has been put into players. This is not something that we can write off as pure PR, because money has been spent.
Continue reading “Looking Back and Looking Ahead…”
I think it’s best to stick my head out and say it—with the barely lingering hope of jinxing it and being proved wrong—that we aren’t going to sign anyone. [Fergie, prove me wrong.]
We can only go by evidence. And save for the signings we made in the close season, it’s unlikely we are going to sign any.
Continue reading “Pre-season and summer roundup”
So yesterday some journalist — for the 43406th time — asked Lionel Messi who his favourite footballers were. And Messi listed out familiar names — among them, to our interest, was Wayne Rooney.
Continue reading “Familiar guff from Messi, and a word on England fans/Rooney”
You said a few things today. Let me quote them for you, and then respond.
“The fans are obviously passionate about the club but sometimes they need to focus on supporting the club a bit more than getting carried away with the technicalities of who’s in charge.
On the green and gold campaign: “Yes, it’s a bit of a distraction when the fans are doing the chants at every game and things like that,”
Continue reading “Dear Ben Foster”
It’s certain now that Ben Foster will move on to Birmingham. The fee is mooted to be about £6m. The official site has also confirmed this.
Continue reading “Ben Foster to Sign for Birmingham | Fergie Parsed”
“If we hit a bad spell, it would not be the right time to go. I would not want to put the new manager into a situation where he was taking over a bad team. I want to leave United in a good, healthy position. In 2002, I made the decision on a whim.”
Those were Ferguson’s words in a recent interview.
Continue reading “A New Dawn, Or Same Old?”
As Manchester United’s hopes for a record beating 19th league title fizzled out at Old Trafford on Sunday, smoke from the dying embers of the season could be seen around the ground by many fans. At least that is how the romanticised version of events may be interpreted.
Instead what we saw was the smoke from a smoke-bomb, dropped outside the megastore, the latest in a long line of protests by Manchester United fans over the Glazer ownership of the club.
Continue reading “No Smoke Without Fire at Old Trafford?”
… which, of course, is blindingly obvious. But more significant is their flagrant disregard for a certain word called reality.
By now this is old news, but to refresh those of you not aware, there are reports that say the Glazers are likely to further increase ticket prices.
Continue reading “The Glazers Really Don’t Care…”
The audio, where a United fan questioned David Gill for his contrarian remarks, has been heard, I’m sure, by all and sundry. Well done by that fan to go that far in the first place, however, I do have a gripe with said fan for not being, um, a little more prepared.
Let me explain.
Continue reading “David Gill’s “Out of Context” Cop-Out”
One more phrase I wanted to add to the title [but thought it would make it too long and unwieldy] was ’some perspective’. The Times reports that Manchester United’s bonds are among the worst performing in a ‘benign’ market.
But more distressing was David Gill’s comments, earlier this week, calling United fans’ protests ‘ridiculous’.
Continue reading “Glazers, Gill, Some Red Knights and Lots of Lies”
