Another Sunny Day

Quiet again today.  Luckily Peter Reid comes through for us, finally sharing with the world his views on the possible signing of van Persie courtesy of The Daily Star Sunday:

Arsenal can’t afford to keep him until even the next transfer window in ­January, because effectively you would then be looking at a free ­transfer as his contract runs down. So I can easily understand both City and ­United being interested in Van Persie.

But my honest opinion is that there would be no guarantees with buying him.

And I think there is certainly an element of a ­gamble about the deal.

That's interesting Peter, he also thinks Sir Alex does a good job, and apparently the pope's a catholic.

The same paper also "reports" that van Persie will be/wants to be paid lots of cash.  Quite the paper of exclusives.

The only other thing making the papers is some comments from Paul Scholes.  He bemoans our poor finish to the season, in The Sun:

“When City went to Arsenal and got beat, you do think it’s all over.

“But you know you still have a job to do.

“We failed at the end of last season, we should have won the league and didn’t.

“It was a major disappointment to lose the league from there.”

And on his comeback, in The Sunday Telegraph:

“I did feel nervous when I first came back,” Scholes said. “When I first went back on the pitch I thought ‘what the Hell am I doing here? I could just be at home watching it’.

“The game against City was strange. I just wanted to get through it unscathed and just about managed it.

“I felt quite fit, but the footballing part of it wasn’t quite there and it probably took three or four games to get used to it.

“But it went alright when I came back and the manager asked me to stay for another year and I said yes, simple as that.

“ “He didn’t have to twist my arm. He just said ‘you’re going to play next year aren’t you?’ and I just said ‘yeah.’”

Finally, The Sunday Mirror have the headline "Still Hurting: Paul Scholes opens up on how seeing Kompany lift the trophy pains him" which includes this quote from Paul Scholes:

“I haven’t even seen them lifting the trophy"