[Tattooed Crusader]

If he really wanted to move away from United, a simple conversation in private with Gill and SAF would have been the way to go. Act like a professional, not a spoiled brat. "Listen boss, it's always been my dream to play for Real Madrid. I honestly feel as though I've done all I can do here at OT now that we've won the Champions League, and I'd like to explore a move to the Bernabeu. What do you think? I know I'm under contract for a few more years, but if there's any way we can get this done now, I'd really appreciate it." I can pretty much guarantee if he'd done it that way, he'd already be out the door because he would have been respectful and humble.

Twinkletoes' problem is that he believes in his own media hype. He would do well to learn from the likes of Scholes and Giggs in that respect. All he's done now is piss everyone off and create a ton of bad feelings.

Don't take this post to mean that I think Real Madrid are blameless. I still think Calderon and Schuster are arrogant, spoiled fuckwits who have also manipulated the situation. Their attitude (along with their lapdog, Blatter) is a cancer in world soccer - one that should be excised as rapidly as possible ...

/rant off