I hope Manchester United win it. I hope Liverpool get wasted by Real Madrid. I don't like Liverpool. Also when that rule about 6 english players comes in United are already there. Arsenal and to a lesser extent Chelski and Liverpool are screwed.
Manchester United's English Players: Owen Hargreaves, Michael Carrick, Paul Scholes, Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Gary Neville, Johnny Evans, Ben Foster, Richard Eckersly, Wes Brown, Danny Welbeck (total of 11) plus around another dozen or so out on loan. I left Lee Martins & ben Amos out because they have yet to play a first team game. So Manchester United are pretty much the only team with a very high number of current and future English players that are successful. Aston Villa have a near english-only squad but aren't winning trophies (that should chnage soon but they still won't be lifting CL or PL). If you open it up to include british players then United do ever better as we have a Northern Irishmen (Darren Gibson), a Welsh man (Ryan Giggs) and a scots man (Darren Fletcher). Compare this to Chelsea who have four (J Cole, A Cole, J Terry, F Lampard), Liverpool who have two (Gerrard and Carrahger) and Arsenal who have one (T Walcott, who doesn't even play much when he's fit). Manchester United are (along with Aston Villa) the only decent English sides. Arsenal can't even be considered an English club due to the number of foreign players they field.
So, Manchester United to win Champions League. Liverpool to get knocked out simply because I dislike them. Boo hiss to the Liverpool!
Manchester United 2008-09 Season - Trophies & Records
