Ronaldo finally fucks off and I renew.

Well the circus has thankfully drawn to a welcome close. It's been three years coming and the continual onslaught of press speculation every summer had run its course and tried my patience for the final time. Unlike many idiots who follow United I'm not going to criticize Ronny, he has been a great servant to the club and certainly one our greatest ever players; which is no mean feat when you look at the calibre of our teams down the years. What is clear from the whole affair is that money has probably ruined football forever, Ronaldo is still very young and very immature, Madrid are a despicable outfit bankrolled by the Spanish establishment who can't face Barca running away with the title next year and United are now effectively a selling club. Not that I feel pissed off or embittered by the whole situation!

Anyway most people expect United to sign one of three from Benzema, Ribery and David Villa, I on the other hand expect at most two forays into the transfer market for a cut price Valencia from Wigan and perhaps a new central midfielder. The rest of the 80 million will be 'deemed' unnecessary by Ferguson and will instead go to financing the £63 million debt the Glaziers ran up last year. Whilst I hope that in some part I'm wrong I would rather this awful scenario happened than for United to jump headfirst into an inflated transfer market and deny the promising youngsters we have coming through our ranks a place in the first team next year. Of course I want to retain the title, especially with Chelsea improving their squad and the Vermin remaining dangerous but if it required United copying Madrid and paying stupid money for bellow par players, the sense of victory would feel hollower than it did this season!

On an even more depressing note I have given into my pathetic addiction to United and renewed my season ticket, without even knowing if the club will move me as I have requested! I seriously think that this season will be my last under the Glazier regime, with continual price hikes and a rejection of loyal fans for new, moneyed day trippers I'm not holding out much hope for the atmosphere this season. Fuck it, at the moment football has lost any allure it once had for me personally, I can't help but hope that the whole system crashes and clubs are forced to rebuild from the bottom up. If this would get rid of the clueless twats who follow my club I would gladly sacrifice United's success for a couple of seasons (so long as the Vermin were also fucked!)

Anyway I'm focusing as much time as possible on my writing now so trying to forget about football is definitely a good thing to do. Stay tuned to the next blog to hear how an upcoming job interview goes. I have a feeling it will be amusing! And I promise not to talk about football! Maybe.