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Liamness

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Missed it. I was driving my mum about as she did the week's shopping. I'm learning to drive, I had to make the decision quickly, and I regret it wholeheartedly. Where's a torrent?

Giggs is saying 'this doesn't matter'. Well yeah it doesn't, feels great all the same though. Apparently Scholes was amazing? Standard.

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Liamness

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He did well to get anything on it, it came at him far too late to adjust really. Inelegant, but in the back of the net. What else matters? Vintage Scholes too. Couldn't tell from the highlights how Carrick was. Van Der Sar looks ready to have the best season of his career.

Pitch looked great too. Apparently they're using that Desso stuff, with the grass growing in with artificial fibers. It appeared to work; the grass didn't cut up at all, and the players seemed confident moving and passing on the surface. Perhaps we should get some of that stuff ourselves?

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What was the whole Carrick-Capello exchange about? I had the TV on mute.

Capello said "i thought you were injured" and then did that annoying "call me" gesture. I thought Carrick played well today but Scholes deserved his MOTM.

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Carrick did well in the first half although he tends to do alright against Chelsea anyway. Overall it was a decent enough performance I thought, especially considering half the team have played no more than 90 minutes so far. Was good to see Valencia pick up where he left off before his injury and Hernandez looked good when he came on. Nani didn't have a lot to do but his chipped pass for Berbatov's goal was lovely. O'Shea didn't have a particularly good game mind, i'm slightly concerned about RB if Rafael can't stay fit for an extended period of games. Fabio looked alright though, didn't get caused any major problems and got forward well a few times.

Really good news that Cleverly will be staying this season, can't wait to see him in some competitive matches.

Ferguson was very slightly vague when asked about Ozil after the match so prepare for full on media gossip carnage tomorrow.

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Carrick did well in the first half although he tends to do alright against Chelsea anyway. Overall it was a decent enough performance I thought, especially considering half the team have played no more than 90 minutes so far. Was good to see Valencia pick up where he left off before his injury and Hernandez looked good when he came on. Nani didn't have a lot to do but his chipped pass for Berbatov's goal was lovely. O'Shea didn't have a particularly good game mind, i'm slightly concerned about RB if Rafael can't stay fit for an extended period of games. Fabio looked alright though, didn't get caused any major problems and got forward well a few times.

Really good news that Cleverly will be staying this season, can't wait to see him in some competitive matches.

Ferguson was very slightly vague when asked about Ozil after the match so prepare for full on media gossip carnage tomorrow.

This interview online anywhere yet?

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Liamness

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Apparently he was like 'well he's a good player, obviously there are clubs that are interested'. The reporter then said 'Man Utd are one of those clubs, yes?' and then he was like 'wait, no, I didn't say that' and buggered off.

He wasn't watching the Fulham game for his own entertainment, that's for sure.

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Brown retires from international football.

Couldn't Capello, you know, just phone them up first? Fucking hell.

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We've signed ANOTHER striker!

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/aug/11/manchester-united-sign-striker-bebe

Manchester United have spent £7.4m to sign Bebe, a relatively unknown 20-year-old from the Portuguese club Vitória de Guimarães, the Guardian can reveal. The deal was finalised today, with the player becoming the eighth senior striker on the club's books.

United have paid the buyout clause to release Bebe – who was raised in an orphanage after spending part of his childhood on the streets and has represented Portugal in the homeless World Cup – from his five-year contract at Guimarães only five weeks after he joined the club from Estrala da Amadora in the Portuguese third division.

He has been recommended to Sir Alex Ferguson by his former assistant, Carlos Queiroz, the Portugal national coach, and a deal has been rushed through for Bebe to become the third signing of the summer at Old Trafford. It takes the club's spending to around £25m following the arrival of Chris Smalling from Fulham and Javier Hernández from Chivas de Guadalajara, with Ferguson retaining a strong interest in Mesut Ozil, the Germany international.

The United manager was at Craven Cottage to see Ozil play in a pre-season friendly for Werder Bremen on Saturday and, although he tried to pass it off as watching a Premier League opponents, the Guardian has established he stayed back at the end of the match to talk to officials of the Bundesliga club in the boardroom. There remain a number of obstacles to clear, not least the fact that Chelsea are interested, along with Real Madrid and, potentially, Barcelona.

The signing of Bebe has been far more straightforward, with Ferguson understood to have met the player for the first time on Tuesday when he flew to Portugal, principally to be a witness for Queiroz in a disciplinary case with the Portuguese football federation.

Bebe is described as a fast, technically gifted striker, right-footed and strong in the air, measuring 6ft 2ins. He has shown his potential with several goals in pre-season but his signing still represents a major surprise given Ferguson's recent insistence that he did not want to add to his squad and the player's low profile in Portuguese football.

Queiroz has convinced Ferguson that he may have unearthed a future gem and Bebe will provide competition for Wayne Rooney, Hernández, Dimitar Berbatov, Michael Owen and Federico Macheda, with Mame Biram Diouf having joined Blackburn Rovers on a season-long loan and Daniel Welbeck on his way to Sunderland.

Well that came out of nowhere!

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Sunderland just sold Jones. If they don't sign a replacement, and Welbeck does indeed go off there, then he stands a very good chance of getting plenty of games. Just piqued my interest, as I previously thought a move there would be bad for him.

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