Although feeling some sympathy, Dimitar Berbatov has been getting on my nerves recently. My frustration probably lies with the fact we have yet another ‘transfer saga’ on our hands in trying to secure this deal and I’m fed up of hearing without him we’re going to win fuck all.
Berbatov had the chance to join United in 2006 but wasn’t prepared to wait for us. Whilst I think it is certainly admirable in some sense that he stuck with the club that followed him for longer, it evidently was the wrong decision. Now he’s sulking on the sidelines and signing Manchester United shirts and I can’t really be arsed with him.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure I’ll warm to him if we sign him and he starts bagging in the goals, but I suppose Cristiano Ronaldo’s behaviour this summer has left me wary to these types.
Regardless, it seems as though we’ve got Berbatov mark II on our hands, but this time, it’s a 17-year-old kid!
United have obviously shown interest in Jeremy Halan, who is a highly rated youngster currently under contract at Rennes. However, general manager Pierre Dreossi has told the lad he won’t be allowed to leave, which has caused him to withdraw himself from training.
“He has still not joined in training sessions,” Dreossi said. “He is under contract, but he wants to join Manchester United. The problem is we don’t want to sell. I can’t see how it could be possible for him to leave. He has signed a contract with his parents.”
Halan has now been banned from the France U-17 team until the situation is resolved, with Rennes asking the French League to take action.
What the fuck is happening to football?
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Another young kid, from another youth system in another foreign country? Don’t get me wrong but don’t we have enough young, promising players? I cannot get over the way players, even players like this little sh*t can really behave in the way they do.
Players like Giggs, Scholes and Neville would never act like that in a million years. This is becoming a farce and a sport which many of our lives revolve around is being ruined by those who are the future of it.
“What the fuck is happening to football?” – answers on a postcard because I really, really do not know the answer to that.
The reality is that just as the Ingerland national team is second-rate so, too, is the younger generation of wannabe players. The only real, world-class talent to emerge in England in the last decade has been Wayne Rooney. The others are OK but most of them would never get a look for Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Italy and France which are the BigFive of international footie. The kids who do get recruited for UTD (and L’pool, the Arse, and the RentBoyz) are on the radar of scouts from the time they are ten so it’s hardly surprising that these teenagers have big heads. What’s more surprising is that ALL of them don’t have big heads because they are constantly told they are “the next big thing” and, more likely than not, given generous back-handers for themselves and their family members. Didn’t Barca recruit Lionel Messi when he was 12 and arrange for specialized medical care and jobs for his whole family ? Didn’t UTD – just this summer – recruit Petrucci and give his dad a “job” with perks that were unavailable in Rome ? So, wondering about the “next” Scholes, Giggs, Neville is kinda pointless – it will be a wonder if Danny Welbeck can break into the first team at UTD and he is the only Mancs who seems to have much of a chance since the paucity of local talent has meant that it has been necessary to recruit talent from much, much further afield.
We should end this Berbatov saga by going out and signing Huntelaar. I don’t want us to pay more than £20M for the Berbmeister and Cheeky cnut Levy wants a kings ransom for him. Spurs keep saying that they are happy to keep Berbatov so let them f*****g keep him. If they don’t get rid of him before the end of August they will be lucky to get more than £15M anyway. As for him sulking though, that is surely because rather than say they don’t want to sell him, Spurs have effectively said they do, but at a price that nobody will pay, and I think that is why he is spitting out his dummy, but him signing United shirts is a bit presumptious and a bit premature.
The issue with signing these foreign kids is down to the FA with their youth policy – that Clubs may only take juniors into their acadamies from like a 90 minute radius of the ground, meaning that the cream of English talent can easily end up at all the little clubs, training with a load of duck-eggs on lumpy pitches, instead of being properly nurtured at the academies of the top clubs with other gifted youngsters. As usual the FA couldn’t organise a p**s-up in a brewery and it’s ruining the development of the next generation of english football.
United should get in touch with this kid from France and tell him to forget it, because his refusal to train is making us look bad and exploitative. Refusing to train and all that mardy stuff is not a good trait in a player. We need players who are loyal and who graft
Moan, Moan, fecking Moan, that’s all we hear from some of the fans these days. So Berbatov made a mistake in not WAITING to see if United would sell Ruud on time for Berba to sign with United first time round. I mean, before last season, and Anderson, Nani coming in quickly, United are fecking notorious worldwide for drawn out, phemoninally lengthy transfer sagas!. While United were huffing and puffing, Spurs stepped in and made a definate offer. So don’t blame it all on Berba, who has done all he can clearly to get the move to UNited, he was promised by Spurs when they wouldn’t let him move to us last year. Mard my arse, he will be a great player for us if we can get him. Besides, why pick on Berba, all footballers are big Cissie’s, wet and soft centered.
Young lads are just learning the rules of the transfer game from the senior pro’s. They all have agents working for the parents, and agents definately know how to bend the rules. They are going to get the best deals they can for the lad and his family. It is up to the clubs in France, Holland, Portugal etc, to get with the times and state of the game. They should open up to foreign investment in their clubs too, if they want to keep up. Is that me being too unsympathetic?. Well tough, because we all have to get used to the facts of the money making merchants who have infected the modern game, and they are here to stay. As for giving or finding work for the parents, well of course I can understand that kids from abroad will have parents moving with them, and they do need job security.
Tom F..enough promising young players? Can you be more complacent? When you’re signing players like Petrucci, Macheda, the DS twins and this Halan guy for £200k each the idea is to get as many as possible so that A. you have backup, B. you raise the bar in training and C. if you finally sell them you gain a tidy profit. The more the merrier I say, I’d like Stephen Sunday, Macauley Chrisantus and many more great young players. As it is we can’t be spending £29.1mil on players so we will have to do what Arséne Wenger has been doing, which is buying promising young players and developing them. We need to get as many promising young players as we can and keep them, create a friendly, multicultural environment and produce the new generation of fantastic youngsters. As it is, with the Da Silva twins, Johnny Evans, Possebon, Anderson, King, Petrucci, Macheda, Nani, Ronaldo and Rooney we have the possibility of producing a great team for years to come, pity for Rossi and Piqué. We can only keep our players happy and add to this group while slowly releasing the less needed players like Lee, Eagles, Welbeck and so on.
Er, PeeJay – you list Welbeck as a ‘less needed player’ and one to be released whilst proclaiming the likes of Petrucci and King, who you can’t possibly have seen play much more than 2/3 times each, as members of a great team of the future? What’s that about?
How many young French stars can there be in the world? How do they keep producing these young 17yr old ‘stars’?