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When Ronaldo said we would like to leave Manutd for Real Madrid.. I said…yes..you can go because Manutd don’t need any player like him!! A betrayer that nearly cost European title for Manutd last season. I can’t forgive how he failed to convert the penalty against Barcelona & Chelsea!..We are a reighning European Champion & English Premier League Champion 2 years in a row!! He should needs Manutd more than Manutd need him!!

But..when Manutd failed to convert all their easy chances in Community Shield against Portmouth & then against Newcastle…. I must admit…. Sir Alex was right to keep him at Old Trafford.

He is still our sole hope for goal this season except Sir Alex managed to sign Berbatov!! Yeah…!! Wayne Rooney is still the same player. Get a chance..and waste it with a wild shoot. Hope for luck in most of his strike may hit the net. Teves is also a good bet but most of the he played too deep.

What I hate most watching the match against Newcastle is to see how easy Newcastle left wing break into Manutd right wall because Wes Brown most of the time….lost in Newcastle area looking for a goal!!!

Next time.. Sir Alex better change his position with Wayne Rooney because in that match, Rooney defends a lot better than him and be at right wall more frequent than Wes Brown!! Sigghhhh…

Some of English Premier League facts that you should know…

TOP PREMIER LEAGUE WAGE BILLS 2006/7
Chelsea - £132.8m (£114m)
Manchester Utd - £92.3m (£85.4m)
Arsenal - £89.7m (£82.9m)
Liverpool - £77.6m (£68.9m)
Newcastle Utd - £62.4m (£52.2m)
(2005/6 wages in brackets)

PREMIER LEAGUE CLUBS WITH LOWEST STADIUM UTILISATION
Bolton Wanderers - 75%
Middlesbrough - 76.3%
Blackburn Rovers - 76.8%
Wigan Athletic - 76.9%
Sunderland - 89%
Figure relates to average % of stadium filled for home games

PREMIER LEAGUE TEAMS WITH MOST DEBT 2006/7
Chelsea - (£620m)
Manchester Utd (£605m)
Arsenal - (£268m)
Fulham - (£182m)
West Ham Utd (£142m)
Figures are total debt at end of 2006/7 season

Source: Deloitte

Premier League clubs are spending a greater proportion of their cash on wages than ever before, a report into football finances has found. The revenues of top-flight English sides topped £1.5bn for the first time in the 2006/7 season, Deloitte said.

But the ratio of footballers’ wages to turnover hit its highest level since the league began in 1992. Pursuing on-pitch success meant clubs spent on players to the detriment of their finances, the report said.

Only eight of the 20 Premier League clubs recorded an operating profit in 2006/7 - half the number which did so a year earlier. However, strong English representation in the Champions League - with three semi-finalists in successive years - suggested that quality in the Premier League was continuing to improve, it added.

Wages paid by top-flight English sides grew by 13% from the previous season to £969m. One club, Reading, saw its wage bill more than double, while Portsmouth and West Ham United spent 49% and 41% more respectively on paying their players. Chelsea had the highest wage bill, totalling £132.8m

Spending was partly driven by the arrival of a new three-year broadcasting deal - worth £1.7bn - which began in August last year. This will propel Premier League revenues for the 2007/8 season to about £1.9bn, the report estimated. The wages-to-turnover ratio hit 63%, up from 62% in 2005/6 and 48% in 1996/7.

The “key strategy” to making money for the club was in selling it on by building up a brand value, he added, “rather than a more tangible ongoing measure such as profitability”.

Elsewhere in Europe, the top flight of the French, Italian and Spanish leagues saw about the same proportion of turnover being spent on wages as in the Premier league.

However in Germany, only 45% of income went on salaries. The Bundesliga had the highest operating profit margin in Europe, the report said, at 18%. This was helped by Germany having Europe’s highest average attendances - with fans drawn by the continent’s lowest ticket prices.

However the report noted that “the price of Bundesliga’s clubs’ very good financial performance seems to be a struggle to reach the latter stages of European club competition in recent years”.