That’s it.
All hope is lost. Please go back to into your homes and don your widow’s weaves. It’s all over.
It’s been mumbled before, but to my mind today’s News Of The World back page is the first real warning shot that the indomitable Celt Sluralix is well and truly after Modders.
Our form guide here doesn’t make for a pleasing read. Michelle Carrick and Baldgarian were out the door like scalded cats the moment a move to Old Trafford was mooted. The impact of Carrick going was softened by what seemed good money at the time for a man on the verge of domestic and International greatness. It turned out sweeter still of course as all these seasons later …he’s still on the verge.
Montgomery Burns meets Dorian Gray’s departure was hard to take. It destroyed the goal-making end of a Carling Cup winning side and pretty possibly heralded the obscolescence of Pointy Shouty Bloke. Some slight cushioning to these bludgeoning blows came in form of leaked tales of Dimitar refusing to play, and a huge wodge of cash. The salt in the wound being Frasier Campbell.
So now it’s Modders turn.
It’s time that Arry or better still the player stood up and announced he wasn’t for sale. It’s suggested that there is a £35M buy out clause in the Croatian’s contract. But this isn’t a figure at which point the player loses free will. Is it? If it’s represented as such I’ll push what I leave of him there myself in a wheelbarrow.
For the first time in a long time we are trading punches with the big boys. We may not be wandering around like some 1990’s bond trader chucking carrier bags of used notes at people bellowing, ‘Don’t wrap it I’ll ride it!’ But that’s because we don’t have an abyss of debt and bonds lurking over our shoulder.
Our slow but but enviable achievements have put us in a position of strength and it’s vital we don’t drop a testicle in the final furlong.
So your basis of worry is another tabloid story? There have been 50 such stories about our players in the last year. Don’t you realise they sit around making stuff up, and try to make it plausible?
In the past we have lost players but circumstances were different. The brilliant Berba-Keane partnership were both at the last chance saloon of shots at big personal medals and at a club underperforming at the time. They were carrying us, particularly Keane in the second season of them.
Carrick was just good business. The fact that he wasn’t replaced adequately (and I suggest it wasn’t hugely difficult) until Harry came in is not the same argument.
As for calling Keane obsolete without Berba, it is another unnecessary and distasteful shot at a player that was fantastic for us long before Berbatov came along as well.
They were his best years with Berbatov, but that is logical, he finally had football brains as good around him. And Berbatov has proven this year when he got off his arse again (from his first year at spurs) that they can function apart. Keane will get his chance to play and do well again, has always scored goals and had good general play when given a proper run. They also have over 40 goals each for their country without each other.
Just excellent players and different gravy to the likes of JD and Crouch, who are very iffy at scoring in the premier league/strong teams and who’s general play is nowhere near good enough.
Crouch is weirdly sometimes okay in europe, but that’s an anomaly as opposed to the norm.
It’s a pity Berbatov decided not to play in the end, that was very poor and showed a lot of disrespect for the club. Leaving was not the crime, it was understandable at the time.
The current crop have no reason to leave. We are potentially in far better shape than United, squad and money wise for the future!
I’d like to see JD, Crouch leave and Conor Wickham and some big shot to come in this summer to complete the frontline.
Then we will be a major force to be reckoned with. United for the future really need a number of players, due to age and lack of quality in some areas. Everyone else is handing them the league and it is Ferguson’s nous that has them ahead.
The players will stay at spurs, and probably even if we don’t finish in the top four this year. They can see we are going places.
I think levy should allow modric to string bacon face along that he will arrive at the mancs But Levy himself should hide under the blanket and on being uncovered should photograph him and demand a nice big fat cheque for the spurs fund.
What a badly written story