The Devil In Me

Again it’s important for us not to get too excited. We seem to have spent the national debt on recruiting the world’s finest young players this summer, we’ve done it out of the blue and left all of our enemies in our wake. Or at the least that’s the way the Sun are reporting it.
Much as I like what I see of Nani and Anderson on Youtube I will probably reserve my judgements on them until I see how they handle John Terry bearing down on them with a battleaxe as he is bound to do in September at Stamford Bridge.

They are basically unproven at the highest level but the words Kleberson and Forlorn ping around my head every time I hear how great they are ging to be. Fifty million quid is a lot of money.
I’ll talk about the Tevez thing if and when he arrives but it does seem like Fergie is intent on having a go this year.

Hargreaves should be good, proven in the Champions league, performed as well as any of our other players at last year’s world cup and he’s dug his heels in to move here. Sounds like my kind of guy. He also seems like the kind of dude who, once given his job, will get on with it no complaints. United need this kind of attitude, for once I have high hopes.

I’m sorry to say that a few of us Reds have been feeling a little cocky recently. Last season on paper looks great, semi-finals of the European Cup, Cup Final and league champions all with a young team that can only improve.I’m not so sure.

I have had a nagging feeling over the last twelve months that we’ve been getting our fair share of luck and I am not, in all honesty, completely convinced yet that we are the best team in the country.Let me tell you why.

First and foremost we haven’t done Chelsea over since Mourinho arrived. Not properly, not looking like we were outclassing them. I am afraid that Fletcher’s deflection at Old Trafford doesn’t count for me and last season again we seemed to be showing them a bit too much respect, even a hint of fear. Fair enough they are an awesome opponent but I was bitterly, bitterly disappointed by the way we approached the cup final and in all honesty we didn’t come close (with the exception of Rooney) to looking like we deserved to win it. Neither did they but they’re happy to win playing boreball, we are United.

Why, then, did we come out of last year smelling of roses?Quite simply because Mr C.Ronaldo was playing some of the best football Old Trafford has seen in the last 30 years. He really has everything, two feet, a strong header he’s built like a JCB now and he could probably leave Lewis Hamilton for dead over a decent sized straight. What’s more, and what’s even more important, is that every time you go to watch him he will do something that makes the cost of the ticket worth it, even at the new Glazer prices.  Now that’s saying something.