Clever Girls like Clever Boys

After a few days of enforced absence the paper round up is back, just in time for the weekend's game.  Not that there's much about.

Ahead of Saturday's game Roberto Martinez praises Cleverley:

"He can play in many positions and he is happy to be in one-v-one situations offensively and defensively, that's where he's got real variation," Martínez said. "Sometimes it can be a negative to be able to play in a number of positions. Some players are a jack of all trades but not special in any of them. Tom is special in what he does, while understanding other roles within the team just as well. But if you were to ask him what is his best position, I would say central midfield. And I think Manchester United always saw him as that – even while he was here." ...

"I have said it before, when he was with us, that his tactical ability is not normal for a player of his age in this country. He is someone who could easily fit into the Dutch or Spanish way of playing quite easily, such is his technical ability and awareness."

Michael Owen quotes which are, in places, taken as him saying he had a year too long with us, but aren't quite that simple, it's more regret that the last year wasn't better, because of injuries:

"The thing is, when the manager said to me [before the 2011-12 season] that I would have a big role to play and he wanted me to stay, it was great to hear that from Sir Alex Ferguson. But in hindsight that extra year, it might have been better if I had moved – though the problem last season was I was injured, so it might not have mattered anyway."

The Mail looks at Scholes, who's 700th game could be tomorrow.  It's a bit of a look back at his career and hysterically includes his worst tackles, which could be seen as glorifying foul play, but the Mail would never do that would they...