Will Manchester United lack Arsenal's cutting edge next season?
In Da Silva, Wenger has signed the fox-in-the-box, goal-scoring machine that Arsenal lacked last season. On the other hand, United are still a clinical finisher short. In Rossi they have a lot of potential, but no proven track record.
United can't afford to go into another season without replacing RVN, can they?
For the record, I think that Rossi and Anderson, combined with Rooney and Saha, can do the job for United. But it's a risk, and with Smith ineffective, Ole too old and Saha injury-prone, we don't have an experienced striker to bank on. Then again, neither do Pool or Arsenal.
Maybe that's why they don't win? 
And you think that Chelsea do? I find it hard to believe Drogba will score 20 goals next season, it just seams like he had a good season, and if they go back to a 4-3-3 when Mourinho gets annoyed at Shevchenko being average, he'll go back to how he was, a team player and not a goalscorer. And sure we don't even know if Dudu will start the season, and if Arsenal have as much trouble scoring as they did last season, they could end up putting too much pressure on him. Anelka isn't someone we canrelie on to score goals, really. He can score goals on his own and he can finish, but he's different to RVN or Eduardo. So other than him who do you suggest?
Castillo 
It is a tough one. For me, a lot depends on Saha. If he can remain fit for most of the campaign, I think we will be fine. Really, I do. The difference between us and the rest is that we are capable of scoring from all positions. Vidic contributed last season a lot. Terry, i think, only got 1 league goal. Our midfield will perhaps score even more this season with the additions of Nani and Anderson. Rooney scored 23...only. He will score more this time. I dont think we should worry
I think Utd proved last season that having a goal machine is not the be all and end all of successful football. Utd became too reliant on Van Nistelrooy and if you kept him quiet United usually struggled. if you have a team of goalscorers it is harder to stop the goals coming. Remember that goals from defenders count the same as strikers.
That said, if Saha continues to be injuried, United will struggle as they don't have a proven replacement that can score a sufficient number of goals (unless Rossi does the business).
Uniteds front line is the same as last season. they scored their fair share of goals i would say.
United can't afford to go into another season without replacing RVN, can they?
Why? Getting rid of RVN was the best thing to MU. When RVN played, MU attack was more strict, meaning more easily defended. Now with an attack more mobile more flexible is a lot more harder to defend. Thats why in the last season they created a lot more goals chances than in the other years.
If i am not mistaken, both cole and yorke were not out and out hitmen like RVN was.. so why do we need to replace RVN anyway.. did we not win the CL with that deadly partnership..
However, the major difference between then and now is that both of them were relatively good in the air even though they did not act as out and out target man and man utd are missin that at the moment.. an aerially poweful striker.. ronney is not there but the season gone by suggests that the man utd training staff are working at it... look at the amount of times rooney has wanted to head and score last season... the most probably in his entire short career....
The problem of not having a finisher is that there are games when we will create only one chance and we will need to take it.... this season, they mostly went in... O'shea at pool, ron at fulham...... But who's to say fortune will help us the same way next time around....
But the fact is that we wont suffer as much next season coz rossi will be here and SAF will hope that he can do what larsson did for us last season... link up with the entire team and create a flow in our football from the front.. if he can do that... i dont think we have a problem coz rossi is definately good enough....
This season might just be one more time where we win loads of stuff with kids....
KiDS??? yes Kids.. the team has equal young ones to the time when saf got scholes becks and co. into the 1st team
rossi, rooney, anderson, nani, ronaldo, pique (i think evans will go out on loan)
and the others are more or less at the beginning of their peak years.. ferdinand, hargreaves, carrick, evra, brown, vida
saha is probably peakin
We have atleast 3 players from whom we can expect 15 goals a season: Saha (fit), Rooney and Ronaldo.
Giggs, Scholes and hopefully Rossi would be good for 8-10.
Carrick, O'Shea&Fletcher, Nani&Anderson, Vidic/Ferdinand would get another 5.
That straight away gets us 90-100 goals atleast.
Isn't this better than having one striker scoring 30 and others not contributing as much?
no, because when the whole team arses up, there's no one to call on to rescue them.
We won't be like Arsenal at all. We will have a set of strikers that can all get at least 15 league goals each. Which should be enough for our strike force to contribute towards league goals in a season.
15 goals each? think again..
to be a title challenger u need a player averaging 20 goals per season.
last season, chelsea had drogba and united with ronaldo.. arsenal had no one to count on cause titi was out injured.. but now hes gone. so who's gonna get the big goals?
Rooney. Just watch him fly this season.
united lack arsenal's cutting edge?
think its the other way round mate (:
What cutting edge are you referring to? The one that finished 20 goals behind United or the one that finished 21 points behind. The last thing Arsenal had last year was cutting edge. The only thing they cut last year was the cheese.
well said sandbagger1 
Fuck off you Manchester Utd glory hunting pricks fuck off...
Cutting edge we have, Eduardo, Robin Van Perise, Adabayor, Theo and co..
Cutting Edge = Arsenal
Adebayor couldn't cut bread with a chainsaw.
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