To Sir With LoveMediawatch enjoyed Bobby Charlton's glorious re-writing of history in the Daily Mirror, in which he pretty much claims that Manchester United are above all that 'spending money' lark. It's just so vulgar.
"If a club spends a lot of money quickly, it takes time for the team to settle down," he said. "You might criticise City, Chelsea or Liverpool for the money they've spent, but they're only interested in winning the big prize, which is the Premier League.
"Yet it can be won by a club [United] that produces their own young players and brings them through.
"You get a bit of an affiliation with a football club when this sort of thing is taking place, and not just piling loads and loads of money in.
"That's our philosophy at United, but we don't know what happens with City and Chelsea - they have their own way."
So we must have misunderstood what was happening when United spent £30m on Dimitar Berbatov, £30m on Rio Ferdinand, £25m on Wayne Rooney, £17m on Owen Hargreaves, £30m on the combined services of Nani and Anderson, £18m on Michael Carrick, £16m on Luis Antonio Valencia, £10m on Chris Smalling and various smaller figures on Ji-Sung Park, Nemanja Vidic, Edwin Van der Sar, Patrice Evra, Javier Hernandez, the Da Silva brothers and Anders Lindegaard.
And that's only the current first-team squad. You can also add over £7m on Bebe and £3m on Gabriel Obertan purely to play in the Carling Cup.
Basically, barring Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs, of the current 'young players brought through' in and around the first team we have 'young' Jonny Evans (23), 'young' Darron Gibson (23), John O'Shea (30 in two months), Wes Brown (30) and Darren Fletcher (27), who are all setting the football world on fire and without whom Man United could not win any trophy. Obviously.
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