Rammyblues
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Seems it has been noticed suspect he will be barred from any OT press conferences.
Paul Doyle (Guardian) tells it like it is in the Fiver
Sanctimony – the last refuge of the loser. So it comes as no surprise to hear the head of yesterday's club, Manchester United, pontificating about the lunacy of an ambitious football team splurging a fortune on a football player that United also wanted. "I find it quite amazing that a club can pay €45m for a 19-year-old boy," denounced Reverend Ferguson after PSG beat United to the signing of Sao Paolo sizzler Lucas Moura. "When somebody's paying €45m for a 19-year-old boy, you have to say the game's gone mad," blathered Rev Ferguson, who presided over the purchase of 18-year-old Wayne Rooney for an equivalent sum eight years ago.
Hypocrisy – another refuge of the loser. It is hard to escape the feeling that Rev Ferguson would have been delighted to sanction such expenditure again, if only United had such sums left over after funding the construction of golden palaces for the extended Glazer family. But what's this? Moura's agent, Wagner Ribeiro, claims United do have enough transfer funds to buy the likes of Moura and, indeed, were about to prove it, only for the 19-year-old boy to show that 19-year-old boys are not as underdeveloped as Ferguson intimated and decide that flying high in Paris would be far more agreeable than skulking in the fading half of Manchester.
"Everything was agreed between Sao Paolo and Manchester United," blabbed Ribeiro. "The contract had been written and just needed to be signed but then [PSG bigwig] Leonardo called me and asked to talk to Lucas. They talked. The possibility of living in Paris – a much more pleasant city than Manchester – also influenced his decision. But it was PSG's project that impressed Lucas."
Project – the collective noun for massive bags of cash.
Paul Doyle (Guardian) tells it like it is in the Fiver
Sanctimony – the last refuge of the loser. So it comes as no surprise to hear the head of yesterday's club, Manchester United, pontificating about the lunacy of an ambitious football team splurging a fortune on a football player that United also wanted. "I find it quite amazing that a club can pay €45m for a 19-year-old boy," denounced Reverend Ferguson after PSG beat United to the signing of Sao Paolo sizzler Lucas Moura. "When somebody's paying €45m for a 19-year-old boy, you have to say the game's gone mad," blathered Rev Ferguson, who presided over the purchase of 18-year-old Wayne Rooney for an equivalent sum eight years ago.
Hypocrisy – another refuge of the loser. It is hard to escape the feeling that Rev Ferguson would have been delighted to sanction such expenditure again, if only United had such sums left over after funding the construction of golden palaces for the extended Glazer family. But what's this? Moura's agent, Wagner Ribeiro, claims United do have enough transfer funds to buy the likes of Moura and, indeed, were about to prove it, only for the 19-year-old boy to show that 19-year-old boys are not as underdeveloped as Ferguson intimated and decide that flying high in Paris would be far more agreeable than skulking in the fading half of Manchester.
"Everything was agreed between Sao Paolo and Manchester United," blabbed Ribeiro. "The contract had been written and just needed to be signed but then [PSG bigwig] Leonardo called me and asked to talk to Lucas. They talked. The possibility of living in Paris – a much more pleasant city than Manchester – also influenced his decision. But it was PSG's project that impressed Lucas."
Project – the collective noun for massive bags of cash.