Tuesday, 15 March 2011

You ain't saying nothing.

Nani wants to move to Italy apparently:
The 24-year-old is intrigued by the prospect of moving to Italy and has spoken at length with his family and his agent, Jorge Mendes, about whether a move to Serie A would be possible and if it is the right point of his career to try to make it happen.
Why you may ask:
a Premier League or European Cup winners' medal at the end of this season would leave him with little more to achieve at United.
Which is about as silly a sentence as one would hope to read - it's the "or" that's the problem: "a Premier League AND European Cup winners' medal" would be understandable, the "or" self-evidently leaves the other one to be achieved. Even without being a pedant, continued success would be something to achieve, as the story pretty much tells us anyway -
Nani has won the European Cup, the Club World Club, two Premier League titles and two Carling Cups at United
- he already seems to have little to achieve at United in terms of medals...
The story then turns into a Daily Mail story - trumpeting an insane "exclusive" -
The Guardian broke the story of United signing the then 20-year-old Nani in 2007
Which is nice for them... before telling us he probably won't leave anyway:
he is deliberating over several scenarios depending on what happens before the end of the season. Importantly, he is willing to wait to see what pans out, in contrast to the way Ronaldo made it a personal mission to leave for Real Madrid.In that regard similarities can be made with the cases of Patrice Evra and Nemanja Vidic, who were both tempted by moves to Spain before concluding that they would be better off staying in Manchester and signing new contracts.
The whole story might as well have been on the back-page of the Daily Mail with the headline being one of those questions to which the answer is "no" that The Mail is so fond of: "Nani to move to Italy?"
Move along, nothing to see here.

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