Not so busy day.

Not a lot has happened today except that Benitez started whining about how unfair his team is treated by the Premier League.

He Said "How can a player with a signed agreement be treated like this?He has a document which is clear, but the Premier League prefers to believe the word of someone else who made a mistake."
I'm sure that if Liverpool had a legal leg to stand on they would have taken it further. The Premier League would not have ignored a legally binding letter, Obviously the letter wasn't.

"Then I would like to ask the Premier League why is it that Liverpool always plays the most fixtures away from home in an early kick-off, following an international break? We had more than the top clubs last season and we have four already to prepare for this season."
Its all about ratings Rafa, more people want to watch United so they give us the better time slot. Accept it Liverpool isn't as important and United.

Benitez added: "Then I want to ask the Premier League why it was so difficult for Liverpool to sign Javier Mascherano, when we had to wait a long time for the paperwork, but it was so easy for Carlos Tevez to join Manchester United?"
The Tevez Saga was going on for weeks, obviously United's team of experts were preparing for the deal. Also the Premier League had dealt with a matter like this before as you clearly put it and it was easier the second time around.

And my favorite thing he said "It's going to be very difficult for us to win the Premier League because the other teams are so strong, but I want our supporters to know that despite the disadvantages we have, we will fight all the way. We will fight to cope with our more difficult kick-off times and all the other decisions which are going against us."
This sounds like an excuse to me and so early in the season mate.

Heinze
The traitor has finally left us, good. He destroyed a good name he had with the United fans. Did he really think he could prove something? Did he think he was going to create a "Heinze" rule like Bosman? I think he thought the deal was as good as done and wanted to get United back for not having him in the starting line up. Can you just imaging the boo's at OT when real come to visit.

GGMU

Since Ive started this blog I have been doing in depth reading about the club I love and have learnt some interesting things. Like to day for example I learned that SAF played for tonight's friendly opponents Dunfermline and he is still their fifth top goal scorer (you go Alex) scoring 91(Wikipedia says 66) including 6 in Europe for the team before he was transferred to Rangers for £60,000 a then record fee between two Scottish clubs(thanks TEAMtalk).

Dunfermline chairman is grateful to SAF for taking a strong team with him tonight and that includes Paul Scholes which means he could play part of Sundays opener, at least he will be on the bench.
United play two friendly tonight but Ronaldo, Tevez or Heinze will not play in either tonight.

Heinze the traitor.

Heinze (or "the flying elbow" as a friend mine named Harry calls him) has come out and said he wants to leave the club. This is a clear indication that he doesn't think he has what it takes to fight Evra for a first team place. If a Player wants to leave the Premiership Champions it must mean that something has obviously gone stale somewhere. What has caused him to want to go to our rivals? He said that they are the only ones that have tabled an offer! Did his agent approach them? I don't think they would have put in an offer for him out the blue, they must have gotten word that he was for sale from his agent and that means that the agent did approach Liverpool knowing that Gill told him that Heinze would not be sold to a rival. I think the panel will vote in Uniteds Favour. That cult following that Heinze got while he was at our club has now dissolved, he is a traitor.

Man United 1 - 2 Inter Milan

Scorers for Man United Rooney. Scorers for Inter David Suazo(2), Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
I didn't get to watch the game because the broadcasters didn't show it because of live local football(South Africa). What I have read though is that our defense needs to tighten up. Rooney showed that he is in fine form and Evra needs to stop attacking so often. Ferdinand missed a sitter at the end apparently but what more can you expect from a defender.

Hargreaves and Anderson to get some game time this weekend.
"Owen Hargreaves and Anderson will be involved over the next couple of games." said SAF.
Now this kid I wanna see play, I'll post the clip of him from Youtube. He looks very promising but lets just see, he is young and needs to show that he can make it in the EPL.
Hargreaves was England's best player of last years World Cup so there is not much to say about him except that we have a world class defensive midfielder.

Heinze recons that the he will know which club he will be playing for by the end of the week. This could be a bad thing not because he might be going to Liverpool because that will never happen, but because after Evras performance last night ( Again what I've read as I didn't watch the game) we might need Heinze to fight for position and lift Evra's game.

Big Sam says that Newcastle have agreed a fee for Smith. I hope this is not true. I want to be assured that we WILL have Tevez in the squad before any commitments to other clubs are made. Its going to be hard to see him go after all he had a great attitude when he returned from injury and played like a legend against Roma. Passionate players like Smith are a real commodity to a squad.

What happened today in the history of Manchester United 1954
Sammy McIlroy is born. Sammy’s 418 appearances included three FA Cup final appearances. He also won a Second Division winners’ medal in 1975.