David Gill, the Manchester United chief executive, says the club would be

Manchester United chief executive David Gill has insisted he is treating suggestions of a & 163;135million bid for Cristiano Ronaldo with a pinch of salt but revealed the club would discuss an offer of that magnitude.

The club are still licking their wounds after their first-choice strike force was ripped apart in the summer with Keane snapped up by Liverpool and Be rba to vat Manchester United.

The Wigan midfielder needed three injections in an ankle injury to even get on the pitch for the 1-0 win over Azerbaijan in Cardiff& 8217;s Millennium Stadium.

Team Wales was feted in an open topped bus decked in their national flag, this took place in Cardiff, the capital of Wales.

It's going to be a tough game, especially as it's away from home, said Chelsea midfielder Cole. I don't think they have lost there in a long, long time. They are a great side.

Next up for the Under-18s is a home game against Newcastle United on Saturday (September 13, kick-off 12 noon).

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Everywhere you turned in surely the maddest few days in the history of English football there was a sorry spectacle on view and nowhere more so than at Newcastle United.

It happened when Manchester City were transformed at a stroke from mid-table makeweights into potential champions by the arrival of trillionaire owners from Abu Dhabi, who funded a British record transfer fee within hours of agreeing to buy the fam....

They know that better than anywhere in Liverpool. And the backtracking by the club s two American owners on plans to build a new Anfield only confirmed the widespread disaffection for Tom Hicks and George Gillett Junior, jointly worth 1.39billio....

It wasn't like that in the old days, a Man City fan said to me in the pub the other night. Managers were allowed to manage, players showed loyalty to the club, you could see Bobby Charlton on the touchline in the local park on a Sunday watching the p....

Their owner Mike Ashley is a downmarket billionaire, who responded to watching the club lose at Arsenal last weekend by guzzling a pint of beer in one go as he sat in the away stand among the genuine supporters while wearing a Newcastle shirt with ....

Across London at Spurs there was another pitiful sight that of the posturing chairman Daniel Levy saying loud and long how disgracefully Manchester United had behaved in pursuit of Dimitar Berbatov, and how their rival club would be the subject....

Chelsea, the club that has announced vast operating losses for each of the last few years and yet whose chief executive Peter Kenyon tells well-run outfits like Aston Villa and Everton to get their houses in order if they want to compete for troph....

A respected figure in the international art market Mollie, 38, has been appointed by Russian billionaire and Chelsea football club owner Abramovich and his girlfriend Dasha Zhukova to head their gallery in Moscow, with a multi-million budget to buy ....

ONE day it had to happen. One day the vulgar fountain of money sprayed over Chelsea by Roman Abramovich would be made to look more like a dripping kitchen tap.

Goals from Finnish striker Lauri Dalla Valle and Astrit Adjarevic gave McAuley's side a deserved win as the Under-18s bounced back after last weekend's 2-0 defeat by Coventry City.

Amy was referred to the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, where doctors diagnosed her condition.