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not the diaby > fletcherpark thread
let's be honest... our midfield is barely adequate. ronaldo is... sorry was.... world player of the year (even if he technically is, it is based on history, not current form). carrick is underrated, but essential. giggs can play in the centre against weak opposition.
we have no credible left wing and, in the absence of hargreaves, no credible partner for carrick. if we play against a strong midfield, we'll be overrun. we've been lucky that everyone else in the world is shit at the moment. scholes - rash tackles, incredible range of passing if given space, wayward shooting. fletch - runs around a lot. no thanks. park - runs around a lot. no thanks. gibson - still looks a bit overawed if you ask me. anderson - no positional sense. no sense. may never score for united. nani - slap him from monday to friday and he might put in a mature, controlled performance on saturday. under the circumstances, I'd be happy if we had diaby in the squad instead of either fletcher or park. or both of them. fergie can say this squad is better than 99 if he likes - but our current first choice midfield (excluding hargreaves) simply isn't. beckham - keane - scholes - giggs, all at the peak of their careers and with a beautiful balance. we don't even come close now. butt as a stand-in wasn't too shabby either, not to mention that ronnie j could step forward and we had plenty of adequate defenders to fill in for him. and we had four credible strikers instead of two (I'm being generous to berbatov). our weakness in midfield will be exposed over the next 3 months. let's hope essien doesn't get fit any time soon. |
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Jem,
you've been absent from these shores, or so it seems to me for some time, so I thought I'd pop into your 'football thread' to catch up. How are you? Are you still a banker? Are you personally responsible for getting us into this economic mess? Do you still stand by your predictions of circa 2007 that we'd win £#%&! all that year and that the squad was shambolic. Were you right to suggest that Fergie had to leave circa 2005/6? Is Fergie still the wrong man for the job? Do you still rate Veron? Did you know that Veron is considered the most expensive player on the planet (in transfer fee terms) notwithstanding the fact that he was singularly shite from the moment United bought him through to the present day? And lastly, do you believe that hindsight is a wonderful thing? Kisses, Keith |
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