Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, is confident of getting Bulgarian goal-machine Dimitar Berbatov to play at Old Trafford in sometime, positively completing the transfer before this transfer window closes. The main cause of all this speculation about mere formalities, however, seems to be the motive to put an end on the widely media-covered C. Ronaldo saga.
The Scot, former manager of Scottish team Aberdeen, believes that the Bulgarian will be a great addition to their squad. He adds that ‘time is working for them rather against them’, and in pretext to this transfer bid from Tottenham, this somewhat indicates that the deal is not fully done yet!
United are having a pre-season tour of South Africa to be followed by Nigeria, the club’s fourth largest fan base.
They will play South African team Kaizer Chiefs tomorrow, to be followed by two more matches later and a friendly in Nigeria City Abuja with Portsmouth, a rehearsal for the Community Shield match to be held on August 10.
The club will start its title defense against Newcastle United, in what seems to be a ‘homecoming’ for injury affected players like Owen Hargreaves, Saha, Gary Neville and the post surgery recovering winger Christiano Ronaldo.
This pre-season tour will also be the test for new players like Jonny Evans and Frazer Campbell, along with Gary Neville, who has been out of play for the last sixteen months.
On their return to Old Trafford, they will have a five day spell of matches against Espanyol, Peterborough and Juventus.
