Well I am sure the Glazers are behind it, but again that doesn’t matter in the context of integrity and ethics. As long as they put the ‘kibosh’ on it in a proper and correct manner. As far as we, the supporters were informed, the only way the ‘kibosh’ could have been put on it was by a termination of his contract because we were informed United had bought him and he was a United player,

I was banging on about the ‘Youngsters getting a chance’ – the statement made to justify the lack of big signings this season, and rolled out whenever Sir Alex has been questioned about lack of signings – not so long ago, and that was connected in it’s way to the feelings I am having about this episode. I am suddenly getting a real cold chill because I have got the unshakeable feeling that we are being taken for a ride.

I don’t mind Fergie standing up tomorrow and saying to all the players that their time is up and he believes he can find better players elsewhere. Getting rid of players is not the problem I am seeing. It is the way the club is going about it’s business that is a huge worry, because when you start seeing this type of behaviour from any organisation it spells just one thing…trouble.

I am still greatly supprised at the people who seem to want to simply avoid the main concerns this incident raises and still want to talk purely in terms of whether the boy was good enough or not. That is simply not the issue of concern. If that is all there was to this then there would be no use discussing anything because none of us know what the truth is in that respect. All I know is that the reports in the press have been glowing and Fergie has given his own backing to the player and his progress as recently as September and October.

The main issues of concern are to do with the way the club has misrepresented this transfer in every detail you look at, from the way the signings were announced, the way he was paraded as a United player, the statement that he was indeed a United player and he was being loaned back to Partizan, the way the boy has been absolutely shafted by the club, the way the organisation that is Manchester United has introduced the boy to the fans, through it’s own media as a United player, the way that the gutter press where allowed to break the news without Partizan or the boy having been informed by our club and the fiasco that has followed with contradicting statements coming from Gill and then Phelan.

We as United fans must not accept everything with totally blinkered and unquestioned loyalty, just for the sake of being United fans. That is not good for any organisation, club, or it’s members and supporters. It is a responsibility of all who care for this club not to do a Nero and just fiddle as Rome burns. We have a duty to hold our club responsible for it’s actions and the way it engages with it’s players, supporters and the environment it functions in. We have a duty to address the difficult questions and not carry on as if nothing has happened. Questions of whether a player is good enough or not to play for United are fine but that is simply not the question I and many others are concerned with in this matter.

It is just not relevant to this serious question of how the club has acted in it’s dealings with both the player and the fans, not to mention that Phelan has then gone on to contradict this statement by blaming work permit problems – an even more ludicrous situation than the previous excuse in my opinion because he is suggesting that the club are so inept that we go a full year without sorting this out ( the boy is probably going to play in the World Cup for Serbia which will more or less give him the permit anyway by the way). We are asked to believe that we allow our manager to inform us again in October that we will be seing Ljajic in January… and then Phelan offers that we haven’t bothered to get the Work Permit sorted out actually – we made a ‘tentative’ approach…what a load of bollocks!

I am still greatly supprised at the people who seem to want to simply avoid the main concerns this incident raises and still want to talk purely in terms of whether the boy was good enough or not. That is simply not the issue of concern. If that is all there was to this then there would be no use discussing anything because none of us know what the truth is in that respect. All I know is that the reports in the press have been glowing and Fergie has given his own backing to the player and his progress as recently as September and October.

The main issues of concern are to do with the way the club has misrepresented this transfer in every detail you look at, from the way the signings were announced, the way he was paraded as a United player, the statement that he was indeed a United player and he was being loaned back to Partizan, the way the boy has been absolutely shafted by the club, the way the organisation that is Manchester United has introduced the boy to the fans, through it’s own media as a United player, the way that the gutter press where allowed to break the news without Partizan or the boy having been informed by our club and the fiasco that has followed with contradicting statements coming from Gill and then Phelan.

WE as United fans must not accept everything with totally blinkered viewpoints, just for the sake of being United fans. That is not good for any organisation or it’s members and supporters. It is a responsibility of all who care for this club not to do a Nero and just fiddle as Rome burns. We have a duty to hold our club responsible for it’s actions and the way it engages with it’s players, supporters and the environment it functions in. We have a duty to address the difficult questions and not carry on as if nothing has happened. Questions of whether a player is good enough or not to play for United are fine but they are just not relevant to the question of how the club has acted in it’s dealings with both the pl