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Believe me, when I was younger I’d never heard of any players being valued like 35mil Euro - well there’s no Euro at that time anyway. No teams were labelled ‘Galaticos’ last time but there are still great teams. There’s not much concern about the player’s weekly salary but now, with Russion Oil Billionaire - Abramovic splashing 90mil for Chel$ki jez to bring in quality players, it seems like the game is being ‘SOLD’ out. Oh NO. I am not jealous of them at all. Last time, I have been labelling Real Madrid the same thing. Why? Because they ‘bought’ the players not ‘build’ them.

There’s a different between building & winning and buying & winning. I think nowadays, the game has taken a shortcut. Buy, win, sell, money, glory. Well, who doesn’t want them but where are all those gud ol’ days when soccer is just a beautiful game? There’s no Galaticos last time, but people still come and watched their fav teams. There’s no gud-lookin-freekick-taker last time, but ppl still worship the players ability, their skills, their conribution but most of all the fans’ satisfaction to watch their homegrown boy become hero.

Yes, I know - we still have few of them in EPL, La Liga, Italian League, etc. But how many of them left? How many of them given chances to even sit on the substitute bench? How many of them have to give way to those quality players bought to their team? How many of them become succesfull? Even MU nowadays are facing their most torrid period in years. Some even marked it as the beginning of the end. I somehow, kind of agreed with them. MU have been succumbed into these political stuffs bringing loads of quality players to play for MU. Fletcher, O’Shea are the lucky home-grown-survivors. Where’s Chadwick? He was once nicked to replace Beck’s boot but where is he now? Whatever happened to him?

MU spent millions just to get quality players. Some become succesfull some are wasted. To me Chel$ki’s and Real Madrid’s success is a shortcut. I know their fans dun mind about winning thropies with 1 or 2 or no homegrown players in the squad - why bother when u can buy success? And why bother if the manager’s meet other team’s player just to discuss  about how much their current employers gave? To them these are all money matters. And to the players, who doesn’t want to get that ‘Galaticos’ tag? Who doesn’t want to get 100K wages per week? All these desires shifted the soccer paradigm almost around the world with the 3 europe’s league - EPL, La Liga and Italian League leading the spending spree.

The FIFA last time ruled all the Europe soccerteam to have at least 2 homegrown players on their bench and by end of year 2006 at least 5 of them. The reason why the body bought the matter was becoz of 1 thing - Arsenal fielded non-English player during their UCL match with Wenger defended his tactics informing that all his English players weren’t fit enuff for the game. Doesn’t that ther the Englishmen? Doesn’t that bother the FA? The buying and the selling of players has limited the Englishmen place in the EPL itself. And with people like Wenger whose probably more into Frenchmen the squad can become the French International squad 1 day. Who knows?

Viera the Arsenal captain asked FIFA to consider their rule as that limits the African players from coming to the Europe country and developed their skills. Well, yes I do agreed, but how many African players are there in your team? Let alone the EPL. Perhaps you can even count them with you fingers. Somehow, I knew the preassure put by the board and the fans increasing day by day and they demand their team to perform and win. Of course, when you started to flood your team with quality players - people wanted the impact there and then. Nothing but win to approve a gud buy.

Chel$ki for instance had managed to get couple of gud buys thanks to Russion bankrolled. And yes, they make instance impact and now become 1 of the powerful teams in Europe. Just like that! With money they can buy anything. All the great players both on the field and the bench and here you go - a title coming under their belt. But do they care for their homegrown players? Do the Russion billianiore care? Even Mourinho seems to flood his team with non English players and he even eye for an already build up player - Ashley Cole. Well, more players are on his list I supposed. He’s job is mainly to draft the tactics and ensure the players can play as a team and here u go. He doesn’t have to sweat it on building a younger player and transform them into a great player. Nope. Money can buy them.

United this season managed a couple of gud buy - the likes of young Rooney and the no-nonsense-defender Heinze. These 2 guys are performing well even showing greater passion  for the team. But when they are not performing that’s when MU are hit with the problem. We have Rio came back from suspension but shockingly our keeper been inconsistent which triggered the fans and the managers hunting for a replacement keeper for next season. We have 4 gud strikers but merely none of them are consistent rite infront of the goal. We have many gud midfielders but the age factors on most of the regulars means MU will be without midfielders in coming season.

Yes, I can say that MU has found Giggsy’s replacement in Ronaldo but whose going to do the other wing? When both of them are playing the team looks really moving fwd but when only 1 of them are playing, the team has to rely more on the ctr midfield in Keano and Scholesy. They are gud when they are on top of their game but things ain’t consistent for them as well. The game become boring with short and back passes. The fans doesn’t want that. They want to see their team scoring not just gud passing.