Dimitar Berbatov Could Stay

Dim­itar Berbatov

Sir Alex Fer­guson has informed trig­ger happy marks­man Dim­itar Ber­batov that he will be stay­ing with Manchester United for at least one more cam­paign. Fol­low­ing a fine treble against Wigan Ath­letic on Box­ing Day, the massive striker scored another two goals in the pain­ful 3–2 defeat at home to Black­burn Rovers last Saturday.

Born and brought up in the city of Bla­go­ev­grad, Dim­itar Ber­batov star­ted his goal scor­ing career with local team Pirin before the lav­ishly gif­ted youth joined forces with CSKA Sofia in 1998. After a com­par­at­ively suc­cess­ful spell at Bundes­liga out­fit Bayer Leverkusen, the trig­ger happy marks­man decided to join Eng­lish Premier League Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur at the begin­ning of the 2006-07 sea­son. As things even­tu­ally turned out, the sought after goal machine was brought to Manchester United by Sir Alex Fer­guson for an estim­ated trans­fer fee of £30.75 mil­lion partly into the 2008-09 cam­paign. A con­fid­ent and con­sist­ent centre for­ward, Dim­itar Ber­batov made his senior debut for his nat­ive Bul­garia when he entred the field as sub­sti­tute in a 1–0 loss away to Greece in Novem­ber 1999.

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