Money in Manchester

Wow. It's been quite a week down in Manchester. The Team has a new boss and he's got a bit of cash to spend. This week saw the world record amount payed for a footballman, when several MILLION pounds was spent on a new man.

It might seem like a lot but it small potatoes compared with his spending within the club. On his very first morning at the club he wrote out a cheque for an undisclosed figure to have the entire football ground moved 3 meters closer to his parking spot. When asked why he didn't just move the parking spot closer to the ground. He simply took an uncut diamond out of his pocket estimated to be worth over eighty thousand pounds and swallowed it.

His new practice ground for the team has caused it's fair share of controversy too. It's an exact copy of the current stadium except the foundations are built out of silver. It sits exactly next door to the existing ground and it would take a serious fan to spot the difference.

I was lucky enough to ask him a question at his recent press-conference. I asked why he'd picked Manchester United over every other team in the world. Moments later he was swallowing a diamond.

So is this exactly what the premiership needs in order to take it to the same levels as some of the Asian or Atlantic leagues or is this an example of a megalomaniac with too much money playing the Footsie instead of the FTSE. One things for sure it'll be interesting to see whose wearing ear-rings at Saturday's game.