Gangster of Love

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It's a while since there's been a day this quiet. Having found a mere 2 stories, I was tempted to go through all my RSS feeds again just to make sure that I hadn't missed anything of importance. And of the 2 stories one of them reports that we didn't do anything on transfer deadline day. It does a good job of stretching this non-story to great length, but is still about nothing happening:

UNITED'S Megastore didn't have to stock up on extra letters for Ribery shirts.

There was no airbrushing out of major departures on the official team picture and no inset pictures needed as the transfer deadline passed at Old Trafford as Sir Alex Ferguson said it would with a whimper.

Twelve months ago the United manager and the Old Trafford hierarchy were mopping their brows after the touch and go last minute import of Dimitar Berbatov.

The TV cameras that had captured chief executive David Gill pacing up and down in his office before the curtains were drawn and the transfer target wandering through the corridors had all packed up and gone home. ...
There was no last minute drama this time. No new faces rushed in to add to the earlier subdued business that brought in Antonio Valencia, Michael Owen and Gabriel Obertan.

And the other story? Berbatov may (or may not) been flirting with the wrong guy's girlfriend:

The £30million Manchester United striker allegedly made a series of great passes to model Nikoleta Lozanova, who was Playmate of the Year in his Bulgarian homeland in 2006.

Her boyfriend, Georgi "The Head" Stoilov - a mobster with a reputation for extreme violence - was furious when told of suggestive messages.

The gangster replied to the texts warning Berbatov to keep clear for his own good, according to a Bulgarian magazine. ...

Friends of Berbatov dismissed Nikoleta, 31 - a former lover of Liverpool reserve goalkeeper Nikolai Mihailov - as "a fantasist".

They claim she invented the texts to wind up Stoilov, and that Berbatov was "surprised" to receive threats from the mobster.Berbatov was quoted as saying: "I've met her once, when she was with Nikolai, but nothing happened."

And that is all.