Manchester United fans rejoice as Silvestre is out for 6 weeks
Ok, now we shouldn’t be cheering this news folks, but I just can’t help it…
Manchester United defender Mikael Silvestre will be out for six weeks with a broken foot.
Silvestre picked up the injury in the Manchester United v Arsenal game, and initially it was thought that it was just a minor knock and that he would be fit for Sunday’s match against Newcastle. However, he’s now reported as having a broken foot and as much as that must suck it’s enough to bring about a smile.
Now on a more serious note, here are two very good reasons that we should be happy about Silvestre’s injury:
1) It makes Wes Brown and John O’Shea the two backups for central defence and the right-back position. Brown is a better central defender than Silvestre and a half-decent right-back as well. O’Shea should be playing in defence, not midfield.
2) This will give Evra more games - especially in back-to-back matches such as Manchester United’s midweek European clashes and the League cup tie as well.
It’s not that Silvestre is … ahem … a bad player per se (he would walk in to the Newcastle United defence, for example) but his absence will give key players much-needed games (especially Evra and Brown).
It’s never good to have Manchester United players injured though - Silvestre joins Park and Giggs on the injury list, and hopefully Saha is fit and not hampered by that knock to his thigh that kept us worried against Reading and Benfica.
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Classy article. You must be very proud.
They should put him down. It would be kind
2-1 Manchester United (I really hate it when people say ‘united’ on the basis that there is only one team worthy of such a title. Ahmed - tomorrow’s opposition are Newcastle UNITED :-))
lol at plasticscouser
Mike, come on - he’s given us enough pain over the years to allow a couple of cracks like that at him . . haha, can’t stop laughing at plasticscouser’s comment.
I’d rather have Silvestre fit than injured. He plays better when he comes off the bench as a sub. And of the 3 left backs, he is most likely to score.
But I do agree with some of your comments. Prediction : MU 3 NU 1
This should be one of the best pieces I’ve ever read regarding our dear club.Silvestre isn’t that good,this is just a fact we can’t deny.My United defence line anyday would look like this: Brown Rio Vidic Heinze.Neville has been very good but he compromises a lot against quality opposition,Evra is good offensively,but what is the major role of a defender?-TO DEFEND,and O’Shea has always been better in the left back position.This is just personal opinion.
It is an evil you wrote such an article cheering at the serious injury of a player of your own supporting team.
Do your guys all forgotten that Mikael helped us winning a numuber of trophies at the times when he plays good?
Can’t believe I have heard such shits from some ’so-called’ United fans.
I don’t believe in rejoicing over someone else’s mis-fortune.
Its sad Silvestre is out. He was good for us espescially when Rio was not there. He kept the line.
His absence will now give the likes of Evra, Brown, O’Shea a real opportunity to stake a claim. Somehow I cannot see him coming back from this injury. We might have seen the last of Silvestre…
Is ‘Whn’ Borat in disguise?
“Can’t believe I have heard such shits from some ’so-called’ United fans. ”
quality analysis mate, you tell ‘em!
You Lot Make Me Sick, Although he hasent been performing to the right standerd recently he is still one of the best defenders manutd have ever had , his crossing and pace is world class and he is a vital player for manutd