Manchester United’S pre-season injury crisis let manager Sir Alex Ferguson forced to splash cash to Tottenham and agree to pay £28m, the asking price for Bulgarian Star Dimitar Berbatov.
Ferguson has revealed Wayne Rooney is unlikely to play the start of the Premier League as he struggles to shake off a virus picked up in Nigeria. Micheal Carrick picked up the same virus but Fergie believes Carrick will be ready to take part in the community shield against Portsmouth.

Rooney joins Cristiano Ronaldo, Nani, Anderson and Owen Hargreaves on the list of players who look set to miss the start of United’s defence of their Premier League crown.
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In today Manchester Evening News, Peter Spencer thought that United is going to have another fight with Real Madrid. This time it is not about Cristiano Ronaldo. It is about Tottenham’s Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov and it’s reported that United could also be up against Barcelona. Spain’s big two have emerged as Sir Alex Ferguson’s biggest rivals in the race for Dimitar Berbatov. Tottenham’s Bulgarian strike ace is top of the United boss’s summer wish list, but the Londoners are unwilling to sell to a Premier League opponent.

That stance has left the way open for Real , already at loggerheads with the Reds over their pursuit of Cristiano Ronaldo, and Barcelona, with Spurs willing to let their prize asset go abroad for less than the estimated £30m he could cost United which is known as a revenge if letting Micheal Carrick left easily to Manchester United last summer.
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