Media Control

Wise words from Berba's agent today on Berba:

"he is not paying attention to the British media."

That from a story in The Mirror that the club haven't spoken to him about a new contract.  Which seems to be one of those stories that serves no purpose, other than to keep the papers' anti-Berba agenda to the fore.
Elsewhere, we're in the tricky territory of when do I stop mention Modric in these paper round-ups?  Is it still relevant to Man Utd?  I'll do today's Modric news, which is Daniel Levy saying the Spurs ain't for selling:

"I wish to make it absolutely clear, as I have said previously, that none of our key players will be sold this summer," Levy said. "We are building a team for the future to consistently play at the highest level and retaining quality players is crucial to that.
"In respect of Luka Modric, we are not prepared to sell, at any price, to Chelsea or any other club. We made our stance on this issue abundantly clear in writing to Chelsea. They chose to ignore it and then subsequently made the offer public."

The Guardian also point out that Modric still has 5 years left on his contract, and he's promised not to force a transfer, so that would seem to be the end of that - unless Chelsea put in some sort of super-bid. 

The Telegraph have a profile of our alleged transfer target Alexis Sanchez:

Sanchez is one of those players that greatness comes easily to. Little wonder Acosta, Cortes, Spicto, those who watched him come from the dust, believe fervently that he will be the best in the world. In Calama, they know that what the ground bestows is precious. They know when the glittering is gold.

 Another day another club "interested" in Wes Brown, today The Mail tip Everton to get him.
In the oddest linking of the day, The Mirror say Sevilla and Atletico Madrid are interested in Park Ji-Sung.  I'm not sure why or where the story came from, because the Mirror article says to read more about it in The People, but I couldn't find it on the website.  So who knows who invented that piece of bullshit.
Some quotes from Paul Scholes on England in the Manchester Evening News.  Brilliantly self-effacing as always - on why he stopped playing for England:

“I’d say it was my fault for not playing as well as I should have done,” Scholes told M.E.N. Sport.
“Maybe for half the games I might have been all right. My career started quite well with England. In the first 20, 25 games I scored quite a few goals. I think I scored the majority of the 14 goals I ended up with early on."

The same paper also have a bit of a discussion on our fixture list, concluding that if we can start off better than we usually do, the fixtures aren't too bad, home games after Champions League ties, "easy" run in - 

“For the first time in a while I have to say the fixture list is weighted in United’s favour.”