SILLY SEASON BEGINS

Silly season has officially started. I shouldn’t be commenting on any of the silly season acquisition or departures because it is just a waste of my time but some will just be too good to ignore like the ones already circulating.

Arsene Wenger to Real Madrid is a perennial one so we can ignore it. Wenger will not be leaving Arsenal where he has total control to a team where he will be sacked if he wins just La liga without Champions league or wins both of them but not playing the Real Madrid way. This will rumble on till 2011 and then he will sign a new contract.

Carlos Tevez is leaving for Liverpool or Manchester City or Arsenal or …
Why should we bother where he goes, when a team that understands the convoluted ownership of this player and still buys and then we can comment on it? He might still stay at Manchester United if we can believe anything the hierarchy say at Man Utd.

Nemanja Vidic was voted best player for Manchester United; so who voted his team mate Ryan Giggs best player in the premiership.

Rafa Benitez, Liverpool’s manager has congratulated Manchester United for winning the premiership but he still believes that fergie is a wanker and has allegedly refused to congratulate him personally. This is one battle I look forward to next season. But does Rafa Benitez need to congratulate Fergie, what exactly did Fergie achieve this season that he deserves congratulations from Benitez? It’s not like he scored any goals or kept a clean sheet. He’s just the most successful manager in football today and arguably ever. Benitez doesn’t like him and he doesn’t need to.
The rivalry has been around for decades and long may it continue.

Fergie and Wenger also had a very frosty relationship which has dissipated since Wenger lost the urge to compete for silverware. If this is what Benitez thinks is mind games he should rethink his approach before Jamie Carragher teaches him a thing or two.

Carlo Ancelloti will be joining Chelsea? Yes, No or maybe. The only reason I believe Chelsea is interested in this man is his previous experience managing old players like Cafu, Maldini, Inzaghi, Nesta and co. After the transformation of Guus Hiddink why would they want Ancelloti who is definitely not that good a manager, the Champions league title he won 2 years notwithstanding?


The market place that is Manchester City opens up soon but expect further purchases of players like Craig Bellamy and Wayne Bridge; the chairman just announced that Mark Hughes will remain as manager.