MAN UNITED SHOW CLASS IN THE TRANSFER MARKET!


Remember those times as a teenager when your parent or guardian told you not to be taken up by peer pressure? How about these days when your conscience tells you not to 'bandwagon' in everything that your friends do?

In football terms, we can safely assert that Manchester United along with a host of other big clubs in Europe are peers of Real Madrid. Both clubs have just about the same expectations each season and the pressure from the fans is equally demanding for success.
Real Madrid and Manchester City have taken advantage of the numerous resources at their disposal to sign what the public see as 'big-name players' for obscene prices whilst paying them wages that have re-defined the current economic-crisis.

You see there is nothing wrong with signing players for 30 million when you have the money but beyond that and you must start questioning yourself. United did have a lot of money from the sale of Ronaldo but that never at all meant that we had to splash 60 million on one so called 'big-name player' to show that we have actually spent t money with the aim of replacing Cristiano.
What Fergie has done is simply what he has always done at United--getting value for money. There will be the odd cases of Juan Sebastian Veron or Kleberson, but which club has no flops.
When United lost Ruud to Real, the media went on about signing a 'god' to replace him but Fergie signed little admired Carrick and we went on to win the league the following season-=-without buying a replacement.
Benzema was never going to be worth the money if we had out-bid Real to 40million pounds because in two years he would have started talking about how Madrid were his dream club and secondly, he was a striker scoring goals in the 4th best league in Europe! That tells me the Fergie had a valuation for him beyond which he was never going to sign him anyway so he looked at the feasible option of Michael Owen who was for free anyway and has a proven goal scoring record in the very league that United compete in. I must say that at first, this deal put Fergie down in my estimation but now I'm getting to see the very reasons as to why the Gaffer went in for Owen.
The club has not taken the bait of throwing its money around just because City and Real have a thing to prove to us next season. Look at Barcelona who won the treble last year. After watching Real round-up all the best players in the world on offer, you'd think they'd be panicking because they stand a serous chance of winning nothing next season but that has not led them into the transfer frenzy--even though they nearly lost one of their main strikers. It all comes down to class. It's a case of 'we shall not be moved'.

Today's news is basically about Tevez' transfer to Citeh! He called Fergie a liar but I think he's the liar here because he claims Fergie talked to him after the Roma game and yet we have many quotes from him dated 2008 and 2009 that suggest that the two talked more often than we know! Does he think there are no records?
Anyhow he played 52 games for us last season, he'll not get past that total given that City are not in Europe next term and what are the odds that he'll play every game given that I'm just reading breaking news that Mark Hughes is talking to Adebayor! Now that we have known how big his ego is, I'm glad that we saw the back of him. The clubs that will progress in the future are those with players who think they are lucky to be playing for their club, not those that think they are more important than the club!


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