The Sunday Life which is the Sunday version of the Belfast Telegraph have in one swoop won the transfer bullshit wars. Their backpage screams this today:
That's right, forget Thiago, laugh at Kevin Strootman and thumb your nose at Leighton Baines, Man United are ready to remortgage Old Trafford and sign Leo Messi. Any possible deal hinges on United's failure to sign Cristiano Ronaldo. Even the biggest ITK muppets on Twitter are deriding this story. The "journalist" who wrote it has clarified it for us tonight:
For clarity, I wrote United were on red alert in case Messi was forced out by Barca. Was not suggesting they were planning a bid right now.
— Jeremy Butler (@jezbutler) June 30, 2013
That's OK then. They are merely "on alert" in case Barcelona decide to "force out" possibly the greatest footballer in the history of time.
