2008-9 pre season and Levy's comments on fergy unsettling berba :
"Today's public comments by Manchester United's manager, announcing that he has made an offer for Dimitar and is confident that the deal will go through with time working in their favour, is a blatant example of sheer arrogance and interference with one of our players. It is also probably one of the worst offences by any manager in the Premier League to date and is unbelievably hypocritical given his recent comments in respect of Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid.
I have absolutely no wish to sell either player and to date we have not accepted any offer for either. However, when a player's head is turned and their commitment is absent, particularly when they occupy key positions such as that of striker, they become a negative influence in a team dressing room in which they were once a positive addition and influence. This is the situation we now have on our hands, with both Dimitar and Robbie having made it clear that they wish to leave for Manchester United and Liverpool respectively."
From wikipedia which goes on to comments from levy on the robbie keane transfer.
We only lost pre-season in 2009-10 (first in 5 years of pre-seasons) to celtic 2-0 in that wembley cup, after drawing with barcelona through a jake livermore header. When did we last play valenica pre season ? Besides, I firmly believe you make history, you don't just keep looking back; however, it's painfully obvious to one and all, WE NEED STRIKERS ! Ade would be great - ha can hold up the ball and take the focus off the midfield by oppo who are pressing them, and allow our attacking midfielders to move forward more to break into the box. Did we do that last night ? I missed most of the game. Their strikes were something else though, fab.