Comments on: Berbatov’s last-day dilemma – Manchester City or Manchester United?

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:20:39 +0000

Apparently it’s almost done. Levy could cock it up, and that would be hilarious if he does, given how little time Berbatov has to go to City…

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:02:13 +0000

Rooney can’t beat the keeper either. If he could, he’d have scored more regardless of where he was on the pitch…

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:42:25 +0000

All we need is Rooney learning what role a striker takes. Let the midfield do their job and maybe fall back only a few times a game. I respect Rooney’s devotion to the club and the feeling the need to help out everywhere on the pitch to lead the team, but if he could just learn how to stay up front and score that would be great. Scholes flick over the defense to him last year was perfection from him. He can get the ball to Rooney if he stays up. If he can do that then we have a great striker back in the squad. Give him back number 8 and let him run up front.

By: sycho

sycho — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:16:33 +0000

tevez hav been very impressive 4rm supercop…but heaven knows we need a point man..rooney has turn blunt and cant even shoot anymore…we are about offloading another good stuff campbell for E7mill..god help us this season

By: ashwin

ashwin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:33:37 +0000

ahmed,

i agree that 30 million is too much for berb’s but this is the last day of the window….i dont know wat the hell gill was doing all these 3 months leaving the last day for his lone acquisition….if 30m was too much we shold have work’d on other possibilities all along….spurs seems to have got one on us….yes, i agree berb’s is’nt assured 100% starting role right away every game so 30mill seems absurd…if we would have worked more on our options we could have ended up with someone like pavulechenko ….who fits the bill as a target man….or someone like gomis..or even terzeguet as a short term solution atleast….for all our glorious campaigns i for one remain very critical of our transfers especially the astronimical sums we shell out for a player and the player’s we miss out on(aka essien, menez , djovetic, ronaldinho) and the craps we offload them ( becks , RVN , heinze)

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:12:02 +0000

Karl,

I’ve tried to stay away from other fans so as not to get caught up in everything.

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:10:40 +0000

ashwin,

you’ll find yourself disagreeing with me on a lot of things. Time will tell.

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:09:33 +0000

Brian,

As much as I appreciate the vote in confidence I dont speak for all United fans. I’ve been saying all summer that 30m+ is too much for Berbatov, so yea, that’s silly money to me.

But if City have it and can convince Berba to move to Eastlands, more power to them. Like I said, he should go if they’re offering that much money.

By: ashwin

ashwin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:42:51 +0000

ahmed, i am a fan of urs…but i disagree on ur views regards berb’s……i beleive we have overachieved for the last two season’s and i hate to admit we have become a 1 man team in attack…our attack’s have revolved around ronaldo long enough for god’s sake….anderson was brought in as a support striker….now he is a holding midfielder and has scored just once(penalty) in 30 odd appearences…scholes scored just 1 goal last season and carrick and hargo just a couple….this season is the real test for our team as inevitably there would be a slight dip in ronaldo’s form(i think he is human) and i find none to take up his mantle…..even if we employe him as a striker we should have bought someone in the mould of van der vaart(a great bargain for real) or a talented youngster like micheal johnson…..we have rested on our laurels too much….saha is gone so is atleat 10 goals this season…….i am preplexed with our transfer policy plz camment

By: ashwin

ashwin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:30:49 +0000

ahmed, we need berb’s for god’s sake look at the depth chelsea and clubs like barca and inter have…..our midfield trio of carrick, anderson, hargo and scholes scored less than 10 goals last year…none of them are good as lamp’s deco or stevie .g. in terms of goals…..if not for a striker we would be down in the dumps….b’cause we can’t rely on ronaldo alone while rooney and tevez are just support striker’s……i’ve lost sleep for past couple of days…..would david gill do a peter kenyon (aka ronaldinho)