Have to say I'm disappointed. I expected better of United. Someone needed to stand up to Real Madrid and show them that they can't just expect to fucking steamroller over everyone just because they're content throwing wads of cash around. In the past week they've effectively spent £136m on two players, and such reckless spending should be unthinkable in the current economic climate. Even successful clubs like United and Liverpool are dangling over a financial precipice, reduced to quibbling over a couple of million in order to sign the likes of Carlos Tevez.

So you Madrid fans shouldn't be celebrating. You should be ashamed that your club will behave in such a contemptuous manner. They show no respect for anyone: not the clubs, not even the footballers that they so relentlessly pursue. They're little more than expensive commodities bought to appease the impatience of their fans, ones who'll only be discarded should they fail to bring you the success that you seem to think yourselves entitled to.

I sincerely hope it all goes very, very wrong.