Louis Saha

Originally Posted by andyroo

Lenny Kravitz never looked the real deal

couldn't even fly, the lying bastard.

King Louis. Great player.

06/07 still the best i've ever seen United play for me Brian.

Originally Posted by atticusgrinch

King Louis. Great player.

06/07 still the best i've ever seen United play for me Brian.

Yep, loved that season. Unexpected too for me, what with Chelsea dominating the previous two seasons and us only signing one player in the summer (I think?)

Originally Posted by AK14

Yep, loved that season. Unexpected too for me, what with Chelsea dominating the previous two seasons and us only signing one player in the summer (I think?)

Carrick, who many were deeply underwhelmed by. Add to that the media hype over Ronaldo "getting Rooney sent off" at the WC and most United fans were in full Sparky mode

And then we kicked off against Fulham.......

Originally Posted by AK14

Yep, loved that season. Unexpected too for me, what with Chelsea dominating the previous two seasons and us only signing one player in the summer (I think?)

Albeit Evra and Vidic had arrived in January and Ronaldo was about to really kick on.

Getting Saha fit and firing was huge though. Fergie moved Van Nistelrooy to help make that happen of course.

Originally Posted by windy waffles

Before you posted that, the miss was the firs thing which popped into my head. He lost all his confidence and was the beginning of the end.

Think the Chelsea goal posted was a few days later, as alluded to during the commentary.

Larsson thing also mentioned but you got the impression with Saha it was always going to be something to throw him off. I remember Evra saying he always tried to tell him how good he could be. Henry raved about him too; those French lads knew how talented he was.

That was a big goal against Chelsea though. Didn't win the game but we'd gotten used to them beating us and there was a fear there.

Calendar year 2006 he was £#%&!ing awesome

Technically wise he was the most complete centre forward the club has ever had IMO

Shame he was made of glass. Career blighted with injuries..

You aren't stopping this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghdPS6zLoHI

The boos

This game

https://youtu.be/4q1KOM9O_IY

can't watch. too sad.

Both footed from what I remember.

Loved him.

I remember that segment on Soccer AM years ago, can't remember which Utd player it was but he instantly answered that Louis was the longest Utd player ever in the shower

Originally Posted by Pop

I remember that segment on Soccer AM years ago, can't remember which Utd player it was but he instantly answered that Louis was the longest Utd player ever in the shower

I think it was Rooney...

Originally Posted by Pop

I remember that segment on Soccer AM years ago, can't remember which Utd player it was but he instantly answered that Louis was the longest Utd player ever in the shower

I can't do more than 15 minutes - I'd expect a fit athlete to do up to 20-25.

Originally Posted by Mr_Ed

His injury record was shocking... great scorer of goals though

Agreed. Brilliant when not injured.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klUf2y4pXfU

Had one decent year.

Talented but doubt he would break the top 20 for United strikers.

Originally Posted by thatsfuctit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klUf2y4pXfU

Love the story from that game about Saha coming in at half time buzzing thinking he was the man with United 3-0 up and him with two goals, to find Fergie waiting to absolutely %@#$&! him for missing a chance for the hat-trick because he was too careless

Originally Posted by Coracao

Had one decent year.

Talented but doubt he would break the top 20 for United strikers.

Barely a year tbh. In time you forget how frustrating his injuries were, but no doubt he was fantastic on his day.

Originally Posted by Coracao

Had one decent year.

Talented but doubt he would break the top 20 for United strikers.

would walk into our team now. on crutches.

Originally Posted by jem

would walk into our team now. on crutches.

Really? Had he any more talent and application martial has? Saha benefitted hugely from the winning machine we were in those days. i suspect his results would be similar to martials currently.
Interesting in those clips to see how many long balls he latched on to and how high up the pitch teams were defending against us at times.

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

Love the story from that game about Saha coming in at half time buzzing thinking he was the man with United 3-0 up and him with two goals, to find Fergie waiting to absolutely %@#$&! him for missing a chance for the hat-trick because he was too careless



Barely a year tbh. In time you forget how frustrating his injuries were, but no doubt he was fantastic on his day.

That's why I said decent rather than gold tbf.

Originally Posted by jem

would walk into our team now. on crutches.

And people are giving Lukaku pelters cause he didn't score enough league goals...

Saha got double figures in the league twice in a decade.