Proof that everybody needs a hobby could be found in the fact that I was up long past my bedtime last night checking to see if we had got our man. There have been moments of excitement down the years as a fan of the Reds, but I don’t think I can remember a transfer deadline day providing such drama in the past. Deep in the injury time of signings season we have scored an important victory over our rivals.
I think we all knew that getting this guy was important. With all the hullaballo surrounding those last few hours the question arises ‘is he actually that good?’ I think so, he is a good age for a player and managed to score 23 last year for Tottenham. This, while being derided by their fans for being a bit of a misery-guts. That is not bad at all. Over the last two seasons he has displayed the kind of talent that suggests he is a player who can do things which others can’t. I really am looking forward to this.
Key, and I think the clincher, is that he definitely wants to come to United. After all of Cristiano’s rubbish the injection of an enthusiastic new team member may be just what we need to lift the gloomy faces that we saw in Monaco.
Clearly, it would be insane to get too excited too soon, but as mentioned above, I don’t exactly have any hobbies. Bring on Liverpool.
I think Fergie basically kidnapped him at Manchester Airport just to make sure he didn’t meet Hughsie – which is what Tottenham were expecting, allegedly having granted only Citeh permission to speak to him at that stage. A good signing but I would have been equally happy with Benzema (he’s only 20, not 27). And at least Frazier Campbell only goes to Spurs on loan.
I stayed up last night until I crashed out over my keyboard around 11 p.m when the news was still that Berba could still go to Citeh and there was only a vague whiff that City had Robinho in their sights.
A conspiracy theory has been put about that Citeh (I prefer “Citeh” to “City”) only bid for Berba as a smokescreen for their Robinho powerplay. In any event it leaves a lot of egg on Kenyon’s face and a lot of unsellable blue Robinho shirts!