Ryan Shawcross to Man Utd?
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Paul Scholes and Ryan Shawcross: future team-mates? Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA
Manchester United want to re-sign Stoke City defensive wardrobe Ryan Shawcross, who left Old Trafford three years ago. A clause in his contract says United can have first dibs on him if they match whatever anyone else is willing to pay, particularly if it's a knock-your-baseball-cap-off £45m-plus-Kolo-Toure-and-35-other-fringe-South-Americans offer from Manchester City. Liverpool are also interested.
Oddly peripheral never-quite-was Wes Brown says he might be on his way out of Manchester United, but he's not getting depressed about it. "I'm not getting any younger now and every game I do play, I just try to enjoy and do my best for the team," he said in a droney Leonard Cohen voice, picking listlessly at a detuned acoustic guitar.
Roy Keane's house is for sale for £9m. "Life's too short and you shouldn't be tied to a house," he said yesterday, managing to find even houses, and people who own them, weak and despicable.