Ugh, what to do...

So, I am sure you are like me, who like the millions of premier league fans are sitting around doing nothing with no matches being played aside from the lower leagues due to the two week international break.

Our last game was the Bolton match on the 19th of March, and we all will have to wait till April 2nd for the West Ham match before we can see our boys back on the pitch. With this downtime, I am sure a lot of the players who have opted or not been picked to play internationally will be taking time to do stuff for their regular normal lives, while some other players such as Rooney, will be playing for their international teams.

This presents us with a boring ending to the month of March, making people like myself for antsy and bored. I would like to see the matches played, every weekend waking up to the glory of English football!

With the end of the season looming right around the corner, I would like to get all of my fill of EPL before it's all over and we are back to the summer months of slow and boring news around the league, minus some transfer rumors.

I don't know why, but the summer months are always boring to me. In most sports, obviously aside from baseball but personally I find it quite boring, players are always off during the summer months and leaves us fans wanting more. I know after I see the end of the season matches, teams winning cups I would like to see more as soon as possible! I know that players need a rest, but honestly if I was in the EPL playing, I would be wanting to play during the whole summer! Sure, it's a good time to practice and train, preparing yourself for the next season, but what is better training than just flat out playing?

Over here in America, we don't have very much to look forward to sports wise for the summer, NFL has been off since February and won't start up till October, and it's boring anyways! NHL ends at the end of may or early June depending on how long the playoffs last, and the NBA ends around the same time too, depending again on the playoffs. All we really have is MLB, baseball which like I said earlier just seems dreadfully boring to me, and MLS, America's proud soccer league.

Now don't get me wrong, the MLS has been improving every year, more and more fans watching especially after the 2010 World Cup. The MLS has also benefited with a few ex-EPL players coming over to play, such as Thierry Henry and Beckham, to make the league more interesting and even unknown players showing their faces on how good they are, such as Landon Donovan who made his name known around the world in the 2010 World Cup.

I guess in the end, I am just rambling. I like to hear, see, and watch anything and everything about EPL and it sucks to think that only a couple of months till the end of this season, which is ramping up to be a very heated battle for top positions and even to stay out of the regulation area.

More Glazer Owner Problems

So if you are a new fan of Manchester United, I am sure you have heard few stories about the Glazer family and seen fans in the stand wearing gold and green. The Glazers are the proud American owners of Manchester United who have battled debt within the club for years, yet not giving up and selling the team.

Well, today it was found out that last year the Glazer's posted a loss of £108.9 million for the year of 09/10. Here is the news article from ESPN;

The parent company that owns Manchester United has announced a loss of £108.9 million for last year.

Red Football Joint Venture - owned by the Glazer family - revealed the figure for the year ending June 30, 2010 in their accounts, which also include a number of one-off payments, according to files submitted to Companies House. One of those was the cost of setting up a £526 million bond scheme to provide the American owners with cash in the short-term to service a number of outstanding debts.

While the previous year's results revealed a profit of £21 million, payment in kind (PIK) loans that have since been paid off were also a contributing cause for the downturn in fortunes. A lack of notable player sales has also been blamed - in 2010 the club could include the £80 million departure of Cristiano Ronaldo as part of their trading.

United's own club accounts were published in October and revealed losses of £83.6 million. At the time chief executive David Gill remained upbeat about financial matters at Old Trafford.

"We have money in the bank so there is zero pressure on that, no pressure at all to sell any star player," Gill said at the time. "We have £165 million in the bank but in some ways we would prefer to have £80 million in the bank and Ronaldo on the pitch."

Sir Alex Ferguson could be set to rebuild his side in the summer, with Manuel Neuer, David de Gea, Javier Pastore and Jack Rodwell all linked with the club in recent weeks. And, even in light of the financial news, Ferguson has been assured he will have money to spend.

A source told ESPNsoccernet: "There have been suggestions that the club are financially handicapped in some way with the latest accounts of the club's parent company showing more than a £100 million loss for the year, but they are exceptional circumstances.

"There is £165 million cash in the bank, and even as we stand the club would pass UEFA's fair financial play rules. No one is saying Sir Alex is going to spend all the cash in the bank, but he is going to replace a number of star players, and that is not going to come cheap. If he wishes to spend £100 million the funds are in place for him to do so.

"As for the club's finances, Manchester United are on course to break the £100 million commercial profits barrier for the year. The club is best judged financially from the last quarterly accounts of the club, which showed the debt in the region of £500 million, interest repayments of £45 million but £100 million profits in a year."

Final Notes

Well I'll go ahead and end this with a question as I have been doing with most of my opinionated posts. Post a comment and tell me what you are going to do during this international break, and then tell me what you are going to do with the summer, if you are not worried about being bored tell me why!