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Manchester United 2012-13 player review: Patrice Evra

The Busby Babe — The Busby Babe continues with the third installment of our 2012-13 Manchester United player reviews. Next up is left-back Patrice Evra. * Manchester United 2012-13 season review I'm going to be dividing each of the player reviews into three categories: 'what was expected' will be a brief and general explanation of what the expectations were for the player prior to the season's start, 'what we got' will typically be the section with the most depth as this will be the heart of the review, and 'what's next?' will be an examination of the player's future at United. What was expected At one...

7 hours ago

Manchester United to cut interest costs by £10m a year by refinancing their debt

The Busby Babe — Manchester United have announced that they expect to cut £10 million a year in interest costs because they have refinanced £192 million of their debt. Here are some of the details: 'United have refinanced £177.78m of outstanding 8.75% interest sterling bonds and $22.09m (£14.6m) of 8.375% dollar bonds. United say the new loan would have an estimated starting interest rate of around 2.78% and that interest payments should come down from around £31m to £21m per year. The club have a total debt of £370m.' Source: Associated Press I'm definitely not an authority on the financial matters ...

7 hours ago

Rio Ferdinand signs a new one-year contract at Manchester United

The Busby Babe — As anticipated, Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has been awarded a new one-year contract extension at the club. His previous contract was set to expire this summer. The upcoming season will be the 34-year-old's 12th season at the club. Here's what he had to stay about his new deal: "I am delighted to have signed a new contract. Who wouldn’t want to play in this fantastic team in front of 76,000 fans each week? It has been an incredible journey and I am glad it will continue. I can now fully concentrate on my club career which has worked well for me over the past few years.Thi...

21 hours ago

Wayne Rooney Transfer Saga

The Busby Babe — This storystream will keep you updated over the summer for all the happenings of the Wayne Rooney transfer saga. According to a report by the Guardian, Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney put in a transfer request two weeks ago. Apparently, though, Sir Alex Ferguson -- you know, that guy who used to be manager for awhile -- told the former talisman that no summer move would occur. The validity of this speculation, of course, is open for debate. However, if the transfer request is true, it makes sense to an extent. United are no longer a team built around Rooney and his performances ...

21 hours ago

On the Thiago Alcantara to Manchester United speculation

The Busby Babe — FC Barcelona's Thiago Alcantara is a player that has continually been linked with Manchester United in recent seasons. Recent reports, once again, have suggested that the English champions may be lining up a move for the talented and 22-year-old versatile central-midfielder. Because of this, and before I began to gather my thoughts in writing this, I thought it would be prudent to reach out to Arron Duckling -- friend of TBB since I've been on board here and co-editor of the excellent Barca Blaugranes -- and see what sort of thoughts he might have on the matter. I've watched Thiago pla...

May 22, 2013

Manchester United 2012-13 season review

The Busby Babe — This storystream houses our entire 20|13 season review: player of the year, goal of the year, and extensive player analysis (which will continually be released over the next few weeks or so -- so be sure to keep checking in!) In any title-winning campaign, there will be numerous key players that were major contributors to the success. Manchester United were no exception from this -- this is perhaps evident in the likes of David de Gea, Rio Ferdinand, Michael Carrick, and Robin van Persie all being named in the PFA team of the year. One could also make the argument that Rafael should ha...

May 22, 2013

Manchester United Transfer Rumours: PSG are reportedly willing to match Wayne Rooney's current wages

The Busby Babe — According to a couple of reports (like this one from the Guardian and this one from ESPN Soccernet), newly crowned Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain are willing to match Wayne Rooney's current £250k/week wages if the Manchester United attacker were open to a move to the French capital. Recent speculation, though, has been that the 27-year-old -- who apparently put in a transfer request about a month ago according to Sir Alex Ferguson -- would prefer a domestic move rather than a continental one. Also, Rooney's second child was born earlier this week and perhaps that would make him ...

May 22, 2013

Manchester United 2012-13 player review: Rafael da Silva

The Busby Babe — The Busby Babe continues with the second installment of our 2012-13 Manchester United player reviews. Next up is right-back Rafael da Silva. *20|13 player review: David de Gea I'm going to be dividing each of the player reviews into three categories: 'what was expected' will be a brief and general explanation of what the expectations were for the player prior to the season's start, 'what we got' will typically be the section with the most depth as this will be the heart of the review, and 'what's next?' will be an examination of the player's future at United. What was expected Rafael d...

May 21, 2013

Jurgen Klopp: Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world...

The Busby Babe — Jurgen Klopp is always amusing. In this brilliant interview with the Guardian-- in which the Borussia Dortmund manager waxes lyrical on a wide range of topics from his time at the club -- he has this to say about his former playmaker Shinji Kagawa: "Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United - on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji's best role. He's an offensive midfielder with one of the best noses for goal I ever saw. But for most Japanese people it means more to play ...

May 21, 2013

Manchester United 2012-13 player review: David de Gea

The Busby Babe — Over the next month or so, The Busby Babe is going to be offering up player reviews for nearly every player that featured for Manchester United this season. The likes of Marnick Vermijl, Michael Keane, and Scott Wootton, though, will be excluded because there isn't much to evaluate them on. It should be easy to anticipate the order of the players being reviewed because I'm simply going to go down a list by their shirt numbers. Therefore, David de Gea is up first. I'm going to be dividing each of the player reviews into three categories: 'what was expected' will be a brief and general e...

May 20, 2013

David Moyes spent the day at Carrington

The Busby Babe — David Moyes doesn't officially become the manager at Manchester United until July 1. However, push that date out of your mind because his work at his new club has already started. According to numerous reports, the Scot spent the day at Carrington today getting acclimated to the training ground while his time was also spent meeting much of the backroom staff. The speclation is that he wants to clarify as much as he can to the staffs at both United and Everton before many of them go on holiday soon -- though it's not expected that massive changes will be made to the current United staff...

May 20, 2013

Vote for Manchester United's goal of the season

The Busby Babe — Across four competitions, in 54 games, Manchester United scored 116 goals this season. A few of them certainly stood out from the others. On February 23, at Loftus Road in a Premier League match against Queens Park Rangers, Rafael unleashed this rocket: In terms of absolute quality, Robin van Persie's sensational volley from a majestic Wayne Rooney 50-yard pass against Aston Villa -- on the night United clinched the title -- is the only goal from this season that rivals Rafael's. Our third candidate for goal of the season probably doesn't match the prior two in terms of quality. Ho...

May 19, 2013

Post Match Reaction: WBA 5 - 5 Manchester United - Bye Bye Fergie

The Busby Babe — And there goes the best Manager to have ever lived. And even he, despite the numerous trophies he have won, will be dissappointed with the shambolic defending. Shinji Kagawa opened the scoring today, when he nipped in front of the defender to head home a cross from Javier Hernandez that was a damm sight better than any of our wingers offerings this year. It was two nil when Antonio Valencia, playing right back, drove home a ball that was diverted goalward by Jonas Ollson for an own goal. And it was three soon after when Alex Buttner finished clinically. Tom Cleverley grabbed the assist...

May 19, 2013

Live Thread: WBA V Manchester United

The Busby Babe — Almost three decades at the best club in the world comes to an end this afternoon for Sir Alex Ferguson. Lets hope the boys send him off in style in his 1500th and last game And when I say style, I mean a Fergie time winner (It came five minutes too early last week)

May 19, 2013

West Bromwich Albion vs Manchester United: Preview & Team News -- Farewell Fergie!

The Busby Babe — Sunday's game at the Hawthorns is one that's supposed to mean nothing, and yet, it's one that's going to mean so much to every Red. As you're probably aware, it will be Sir Alex Ferguson's 1,500th -- and last -- game as manager of Manchester United. So much has been said about the legendary manager since he announced his retirement a week-and-a-half ago -- and so much emotion has poured in from Fergie himself, his family, his players, his staff, and his supporters in response. No one man is bigger than any football club but no football club has ever had a man as metaphorically as big a...

May 17, 2013