Comments on: Beware! Manchester United set to go Brazilian

By: Neil Jones

Neil Jones — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:23:14 +0000

What will be fascinating from Anderson’s point of view will be whether he is pushed further up the field or left as a deeper lying playmaker. We all saw his attacking skills at Porto and for Brazil’s U17/19 sides, but as yet he has been fairly restricted in that respect as Ferguson turns him into a more complete midfield player. With a few holes to plug upfield it wouldn’t surprise me to see a central midfielder (a la Marcos Senna, though not necessarily him) brought in, and Anderson given license to play further forward, perhaps from a wide starting station.

By: BD Condell

BD Condell — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:41:21 +0000

@Jeremy: Relax buddy, it sounds like you wear-out a couple of sets of worry beads a week! There’s a long way to go in the transfer market and Fergie only clears out players who are not up to scratch.

I put Tevez in that category and Nani has not done it either. He’ll be 24 this year and that’s WAY beyond the age where wingers establish themselves. Campbell is a good player but with Welbeck and Macheda in the ramks is he really going to get a look in, even as a back-up player?

If anything Utd’s squad is too big and needs some pruning.
Just look at the midfield area: Nani, Park, Giggs, Scholes, Hargreaves, Carrick, Fletcher, Anderson….and that’s before we get to the emerging players: Tosic, Gibson, Possebon, Ljajic and, if rumours are correct, the very promising Costa soon to arrive from Brazil.

There’s a limit to how many players you can cope with or bring thru at any point in time so you have to do some pruning along the way.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:37:38 +0000

the thing I’m concern with is:
it will take time to rebuild…
remember when Beckham, Van Nistrelroy etc left…
Manchester United went into a period of darkness….
Losing to Arsenal in EPL and Chelsea after that…
I’m just really worried to be honest
if ManU doesn’t sign anyone but instead they keep selling…
Pique, Rossi were all sold, which I thought was bad dealings…
they were promising young stars and yet SAF sold them
Tevez leaving…with Alex to be reported to start selling off Nani and Campell…
and thus, the rumored signing like Valencia…he’s really not up to standard…and overated…
i’m really not satisfied with the squad…
yes manu may still win the EPL because of the strong defense…
but Champions League, FA Cup etc.
don’t count on ManU to win them
I’m a manchester United fan…but still I’m only convinced that next year at most they could only win 1 trophy and I’ve got a feeling it would be English League Cup…

By: bobmagee

bobmagee — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:04:37 +0000

Anderson is the only one who can pull off the samba beat dance…

By: m urpani

m urpani — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:54:21 +0000

M.Mifsud will be a good runner on the wing
but we need better players if we want to continue the prem.run
Like aguiero Benzema Ribery to mention some
we need to secure the midfield as owen H. won’t be back this year and a c.b.

By: Nippy

Nippy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:13:13 +0000

good point!

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:52:18 +0000

Tevez was a SQUAD player. Good he may be, but he is not a Rooney, not a Vidic or Rio, but a squad player, and at the price of Tevez, we will more than likely end up replacing him with a lot more quality and a better first touch.

Back to the article, and I have to say that it is spot on. I’ve read the Brazilian links for months now and this is on track. We more than likely will end up signing this guy Costa as he is going to be very good. Maybe as we did Ronaldo initially to build his confidence – not that Brazilian players are short of it!

We’ve lost one very good first team player in Ronaldo, but the time was right to move him on, and at 80 million pound, it really is good business from United.

Excellent article, no need to panic at Old Trafford. We’ve done it before and will always go on. I personally think Cantona was a bigger loss, but anyone who Fergie gives a shirt too is a player we should all back and trust. The same with anyone he let’s go, or stalls over.

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:17:43 +0000

there was another argie i think zarate or something playing for birmingham who seemed quite good at the time. wheres he now? could he do the job. and if its someone buzzing around the final third that u need what about michael mifsud?

By: BD Condell

BD Condell — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:06:53 +0000

@Colie: He has been refused to Utd for a trial. That is very different from ‘Utd pulling out of the deal’…unless I have missed something?

@Staines: The article was not about Tevez so I don’t get your point.

@Neil: Top article as usual.

By: Staines

Staines — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:21:24 +0000

We have heard more than enough about the Tevez story. It was badly handled by United, and not for the first time we have lost a good player by hesitating too much too long. But Tevez actually was not really of stellar quality, and should be easily replaced. He was strong, determined, and scored decisive goals. Eqaully he missed sitters,and his slowness was not an asset, since he was incapable of a Ronaldo/Rooney breakthough. He has gone now and it is pointless flogging the story ad infinitum.