Solskjaer’s retirement could be a blessing for Manchester United
Although Solskjaer was never going to be a main player for Manchester United this season, and we all knew he wasn’t going to last forever, but even looking at last season he still knows how to score goals, and could have been a great asset. Anyone who loves football can admire Ole’s unique ability to change a game, so he should be loved by many, and he will be a loss to football in general. Football will miss ya Ole 
But this could be exactly what needed to happen to show Sir Alex we don’t have enough strikers, 3 recognized strikers isn’t enough to challenge for the Premiership, or any other cups, for the whole season, and if Manchester United don’t buy another striker before Wednesday it’ll be a tough season. Sir Alex knows this, and the chance of getting Anelka shouldn’t be neglected.
Anelka has shown he can score, run in behind the defence, and I’m sure many defences would be scared of him at this time playing for Bolton, never mind Manchester United. I really doubted that we would buy anyone after we got Tevez, and Sir Alex could prove to be too stubborn and stick to his word, but two strikers and Saha won’t be enough. There’s very little reason not to get Anelka other than the fact that Berbatov would probably be the only better striker we could possibly get in the next year, but if we got Anelka(this year) and Berbatov(next year), and sold Saha, then Manchester United’s strike force would probably be the best in the league.
Obviously Saha’s a top class striker, but even with ignoring his injury problems, I still think Anelka is a slightly better player, both being strikers who like to play right up top, but Anelka being a better goalscorer and Saha being better at holding the ball without slowing down the play. Getting Berbatov before next summer seems highly unlikely, unless Martin Jol gets sacked either tomorrow, or sometime before the January transfer window. By the way although I think Martin Jol is a good enough manager to take Spurs into the champions league, I still think Juande Ramos is a better manager…
So what do you guys think? Will Ole’s impending retirement push Fergie to signing a new striker for Manchester United?
[Source: BBC]
Dont we have like….Dong and Frazier Campbell?
Or we could convert Ronaldo, Anderson and even Giggsy and Nani to play as second strikers…
Heh…Anelka to United? it really could happen, you know.
Actually, we have a lot of different options:
Anelka; ready to leave Bolton. Wage might be stumbling block.
Owen; £9M release-clause. Quick and proven.
Martins; £13m release-clause. Even quicker, and more skilled.
Adriano; Inter looking to offload. Crazy shot, and big physical presence.
Huntelaar; Scoring for fun in the dutch league. Expensive.
Take your pick, Fergie. I don’t care who. Just pick one. Now.
martins or huntlaar.
HUNTELAAR……HUNTELAAR……..HUNTELARRR
ok i guess i should stop that…but its so much fun….IMO huntelaar would be a good buy…not as strong as RVN from what i saw in two games…but can play the united way…ur opinions are welcome my fellow devils BTW scousers get lost…goodbye 2OLEGEND 
I would be tempted by Adriano. I reckon Fergie could get him into shape and sort out his alcohol problems. Plus Inter want rid of him and for £10 million you get a big strong guy with an awesome shot
we need one more target man (Adriano/Anelka/berbatov) and one poacher (huntelaar/umm…someone). the target man to make up for saha when injured and a poacher because we have/will lost/lose our poachers in van nistelrooy and solskjaer.
here are our options
ADRIANO: top quality, lacks discipline. powerful shot, big and strong. if we get him lets hope fergie can whip him into better shape.
ANELKA: absolutly on fire for bolton at the moment and is banging in goals left right and centre (i know it is early). won’t pay too much but we must consider his wages. an inform strker to finish our moves forward is what we need and he fits the bill. again, hopefully fergie and can fix him up mentally
BERBATOV: proved last season just how good he is. fantastic all round forward, can play as the target man, second forwrd due to his great link-up play and can create chances as well as finish them. unfortunantly he won’t come cheap
HUTELAAR: will fill the void ruud left when departing. young and one of the best finishers around. might have to pay a bit but it would be worth it. i would want a loan deal first- we need to know how he can adjust to english football
MARTINS: one of, if not THE, fastest players in the world. a nice chip/through ball from our fantastic midfield and just let him run and (hopefully) finish. a solid buy but i don’t think he fits the mould of striker we need at the moment (don’t get me wrong, he is a fantastic player, just not one that fits our REQUIRMENTS).
OWEN: in my opinion he is a smaller, slower and older version of martins.
two more strikers and the sales of some players who won’t get a real chance at united and we have the best forwrd line in the league.
Yeah but Ahmed if Fergie doesn’t use Dong or Campbell when we only have one other fit striker, it’s clear he still thinks that they’re still not ready yet. But i would like to see Campbell play with Tevez behind him, sounds like a good partnership to me:D
And eh, SAF will know Martins is too inconsistent, Adriano clearly isn’t anywhere near as good as he was 2 years ago, and I doubt he ever will be, Owen needs another season to prove he’s good enough. About Huntelaar, he’s probably better than any of the other available strikers, but if we’re going to spend 20m on him this season, then it makes me think that Chelsea or someone else could take Berbatov if we’re not willing to spend the money.
buy rossi back..never should of sold him!
thanks for everything Olé!! ur a true legend
What about Febian Brandy? Anyone know if he might be ready to step up to the plate?
Hmm.. How shld we solve the problem with two short strikers who don’t hv enough aerial ability? I know! Let’s add another 1! (in Martins)
c’mon guyz…if 2OLEGEND was going to retire the news would have reached fergie a week ago..yet only this week fergie said he was’nt going to buy anyone….and why in hell does’nt anyone consider Campbell and Dong to be strikers….dont u think fergie would have chucked them out if he saw no potenial in these guyz????….if fergie sayz he aint gona buy anyone im all for it…in fergie i trust
Dong cambell will never ever be united quality.brandy or whatever too.they not good enough
SO Mr.Taehr…..i guess u r a scout by profession and work for man utd?????…..if not then plz tell me why you think campbell and dong are’nt united quality and also tell me why fergie still has them..he can very well sell them to championship sides
Wait a year, Berbatov will be worth the wait…
We do not need a first-choice striker with the associated cost and upset at being left on the bench. We just need someone with a bit of experience, strength and height who can lead our line when Saha and Rooney are out, or to throw something into the mix from the bench.
I know everyone says we were stupid to let Rossi go. But I do not think we had a choice. He wanted first team football to develop as a player and Ferguson could not guarantee it.
Most young players would feel the same. Which is why I think we need an older player who is happy to play only around 15 games a season. None of the targets mentioned really fit into that mould.
vishnurajanb i have to side with taehr, dong is an asian bilboard to sell shirts and campbel to prove that our youth system is working. berbatov def overated double what we’d get for anelka but anelka can produce twice as much as him.think of the through balls to anelka from carrick/scholes/hargo,,the guy will be banging in goals like whoa! huntlaar not yet proven and i think we have already bought for the future nani/anderson,,if saf is to buy let him buy for now and thats what chelsea is doing if u guyz havent noticed..martins too short like rooney/tevez,,we need someone diff..so its obvious if fergie was to buy anyone and thats if he will..lets go for anelka,top quality and i’d luv seeing him put one behind lehman!lol!
United to bid for Sheringham?
i completly agree with you manutd jaluo
i think that anelka would be the perfect signing at the time being. if we play a front 3 then a force of rooney, tevez and saha/anelka would be unstopable.
chelski and loserpool would not stand a chance while the gunners aren’t near us now so we don’t have to woory about them… yet.
Haha.
so basically what u guyz are saying id that u know better than fergie??
so basically what u guyz are saying is that u know better than fergie??
Ferguson knows that the players are shite.he shows it when he doesnt play them.do u honestly think that we should depend on dong fangzou?honestly?in the premier league and champions league?hell no we are manutd not derby.we need top class strikers.and if u think dong and cambell are top class then thats your opinion.compared to anelka?
anelka was a 22 yr old when he came to the premier league and yes he did set the world alight…..im not saying they need to lead the line and its not as if this damn rotten luck is gonna stick on forever…ok ok im being optimistic to the tilt….but still i feel fergie is not the guy who just sticks on for no reason….BTW if ur example is going to be richardson…he was considered good by many…and he did do well at WBA..just his attitude..anyway i feel campbell has it in him to be a world class player and as always i fergie i trust…wow thats the longest i’ve ever written
fergie is an amazing manager no question, but he is also stubborn and hates to admit he is wrong. If he makes a plan he sticks to it regardless of circumstances.
His plan for this season was to go with a three pronged attack of Rooney, Ronaldo, Tevez with Rooney as the spearhead of the attack. Saha and Solskjaer (and perhaps Rossi/Smith) could have deputised for Rooney. And we have no shortage of players who can fill in on the wings.
The problem with this plan was both Smith and Rossi wanted to leave the club. Maybe Smith it was expected but Rossi came as a surprise. Saha then failed to get fit for the start of the season and because he got injured end of last season we could not flog him for cash, Rooney got injured which was bad luck, Solskjaer retired and now with less than a week to the transfer window closing we are left without a recognised striker and forced to play Tevez upfront.
If Ferguson bought a striker now it would be seen as a panic buy and his pride would not let him do that.
So we’ll just have to hope we can ride our luck until Saha and Rooney get fit and we are back in business.
Until saha ….get fit.i really hope he does get fit coz if he dont we fucked.simple as that.
i am really far away from manchester…so can anyone in manchester go to sir alex and make sure he reads this message board….please…or we could be in for a strikeforce which includes tevez and o’shea(NOOOOOoooOOOOooooOOOOoooo)
the day tevez and o’shea are our forwards is the day man city finish higher in the table.
(i wud hav said relegated but tevez wud keep us up on his own)
these are my preferances
anelka
berbatov
huntelaar
adriano
martins
owen
It’s interesting to see ManU fans discussing the same names under the topic “which striker to buy” at the end of the transfer window as they doing when the window opened. “Huntlaar is this, he is that, we should get Berbatov and rest are crap.”
Didn’t know that 3 matches and an injury have made such a deep dent in your aspirations. Luckily for you, your manager is not as fickle as the rest of you.
We are football fans not experts, so our opinion will never be as pragmatic as that of SAF’s, a man who has spent decades at the top doing this everyday. He has progressed coz in all the major issues he has made the right decisions. Also SAF has not got mad in a month; he still possesses the same acumen. So don’t talk of his being stubborn, he knows the stakes involved are more than just his ego. The fact is he is a great manager and we are shit. So let’s for a change try and figure out why he does not want to buy any more strikers.
ManUtd has arguably some of the best wingers who even outscore the top premiership strikers consistently. In ManUtd, Strikers alone don’t account for the bulk of the goals scored. Such is the level of freedom accorded to them in ManU thanks to SAF. The rest of the teams don’t let them run that loose.
With RVN no doubt who was a great success, the entire ManU attack was channelised to reach him. The rest of the team didn’t figure much in score sheet except scoring from distance. The game style ManU displayed last season was very attacking and opened up several options making them unplayable and that is what won them the league.
So SAF isn’t going to bring an out and out target man who is going to stifle the very style he has strived to inculcate. Besides he already has Saha to do that task. Its a concept that down the years would be attributed to SAF.
Also the way that ManU have played this season is awesome, its bad luck that it has not been translated into goals. It’s taking time but once you let it gel it will be unstoppable which is what scares me. So don’t start talking about out and out strikers for lack of goals instead analyze what good SAF is doing.
If you place a new piston in your Norton, you go easy for the first 1000 miles coz you want it to get smoothened. So be patient.
Berbatov is a great asset and would do well to any team he joins. But don’t buy him thinking you need him coz you don’t, instead buy him coz he is good and if you don’t someone else surely will.
Martins pace is his undoing as much as that is his asset. But he is nothing compared to Anelka. Anelka is awesome has pace, guile and the class touch but he is poison. Big Sam was able to contain him at Bolton by paying big time attention is a small time club something that is not possible at ManU.
I don’t care about your results until you don’t overshadow Chelsea but SAF is a man I respect and this are my thoughts in his defense.
Wow sense being drilled unto us Man Utd fan by a non utd fan…….i’ve been shouting this all day and night in this damn thread….yet no-one seems to understand that fergie is the greatest manager in EPL history…im saying EPL b’cauz scousers would be up my arse before notime if i say english football…but i am willing to take that chance…listen and listen good FERGIE IS THE BEST MANAGER IN ENGLISH FOOTBALL AFTER SIR MATT BUSBY…….he knows what he is doing and im sure will take us to the pinnacle of glory this year…either UCL or EPL would be ours…if not BOTH..FA cup im having my own doubts he he
avijerseyno9, what happens when saha is injured.
no target man. and don’t say we don’t need one coz we do, just look at how saha was performing at the start of the season.
how can SAF be the second best english manager when he sells all of our best players?
ah a glory hunter…..singing SAF’s praises last year and questioning his methods after 4 games…..i”ve seen the likes of you….can i ask where you were last year when united launched a full scale attack on all three fronts without,as you say, our best players? RVN was a great player for united…but he wanted to go and SAF did’nt like his attitude……if u cant trust fergie i suggest you run off to stanford bridge…all we need is luck and damn it belief from the supporters
@avijerseyno9 - THANK YOU!!! Agree with you wholeheartedly.
IN SAF WE TRUST!!! Don’t know why the guys are panicking.
According to Ole - during the interview on MUTV - he only informed SAF and Gill on Monday that he is calling it quits. This leaves the club with very little time to get a replacement. No manager could have prepared for our striker situation. No one could foresee that after selling Smith and Rossi (which, as much as I hated it, WAS the right decision for both players and club), Rooney will be out injured, Saha’s injury lenghtened, Ole retired, ‘Anderson’ still injured, and Ronaldo ‘booked’. This is some freaky shit that always seems to happen to United only. When our midfielders get injured, ALL of them do, when our defenders get injured, ALL of them do, and now when our strikers get injured, ALL of them do. Some teamwork hey
I believe SAF will do what’s right for the club. Should he decide not to get a replacement, then we should respect his wisdom.
Regading Dong and Cambell…
How can anyone say that they are not class if they have not been given a proper run to show their class yet? FFS, what makes Rossi class? The fact that he could score for fun for the reserves? Well, Cambell have done the exact same. If Dong was only a ’shirt-seller’, why the hell did SAF try to convince him to ’snub’ the Chinese national team to start playing with the first team sooner.
The fact that they have not featured during our ‘crisis’ time, shows what a good player manager SAF is.
Should we get a new striker, Good. Should we not get a new striker, also Good. What is bad is for United fans to criticise SAF for this.
Fergies too arogant to go and buy some1 in last minute he knows he made a blunder by letting rossi go or heck even smith go and now buying a new striker will prove that so he’ll stick to his word and probabaly use anderson /scholes/giggs/oshea in a strikers place till jan
And if we have a full squad like rooney tevez saha anderson by jan he’ll not bring any1 till next summer and then berbatov or any other big name
All we need is a tiny bit of luck, which would be that Saha doesn’t get injured this year.
Saha does the business that Rooney, Tevez, Nani and Ronaldo don’t do. He’s half goal-poacher, half goal-creator and can be 100% both. He can be our Henry.
Currently in Europe, there are at least three outstanding and experienced centre forwards. Drogba and Eto’o are two of them. Drogba is big, powerful and very effective. Eto’o is extremely quick and a fine finisher. But in my view, the most clinical finisher of them all is Nicolas Anelka. He is exceptionally cool in front of goal.
I have not forgotten one goal in particular that Anelka scored against United as a 19 year old; he left the entire United defence for dead and unerringly put the ball past the keeper. Anelka continues to put goals away with panache and an economy of effort (3 goals in 4 games this season for a struggling Bolton side, which is one more than the entire United team has managed in 4 games, and the same number as United have scored in their last 9 competitive games put together).
Anelka’s career stats at every club he has played for (and he has played for many!) is very impressive. What strikes you about him when you watch him play is that he does not seem to miss many chances; he seems to have a high chances to goals ratio. He has lost none of his blistering pace, but is now more experienced and seems settled in life (recently married and converted to Islam), and is at ease with himself.
United have also struggled to score goals against their big rivals, Arsenal and Chelsea in particular. Consider some recent statistics: in the premier league last season, United lost home and way to Arsenal, and drew both games against Chelsea. United have lost the last two FA cup finals they have played in - against Chelsea (2007) and Arsenal (2005). They failed to score in both games including extra time (i.e. 4 hours of football = no goals). The Arsenal game was particularly galling as United dominated the game and missed chance, after chance, after chance. What’s new? United have found Mourinho’s Chelsea a particularly tough nut to crack. They need different options up front; a central striker with explosive pace who can sit on the shoulder of the last defender and run onto the ball played over the top or through the middle, and then finish with precision.
United desperately need a clinical finisher with pace; Anelka desperately needs to be playing for a top club to finally do justice to his prodigious talent. Why not hook up? United can afford the transfer fee and the wages. SAF will know how to relate to Anelka and get the best out of him for United. Without doubt, Anelka represents the best value for money out there.
“kaza” my friend here are my answers to your questions:
1) Its true Saha was in nice form before he got injured but if he had not scored the goals that he did then I am supremely confident someone else definitely would have. That’s the greatness of SAF’s strategy. (Gigg’s tally would have been up by 2, Ronaldo’s tally up by 5 to compensate had Saha not scored those goals.) Besides ManU did well at that time despite Saha being injured.
Rooney and Tevez have been excellent buys in the sense they are not only good finishers but also don’t mind playing second fiddle to a winger or an attacking midfielder when they think that the other player is in a better position to score the goal. On such occasions they are more than happy to provide a through ball.
The other player after scoring the goal has that added confidence and the zeal to barge forward again and finish the job himself. It’s a cyclic process.—- This again is testimony to the freedom accorded to wingers/attacking midfielders by SAF.
A target man stifles this kind of game and tries to score by himself which is good too but as you can see a player like Rooney or Tevez is a greater resource than a Saha. Friends don’t compare a player by the number of goals he scores instead measure him by the impact on the game.
True SAF was too desperate to bring Saha back from injury can you guess why????
All the three teams Reading/Portsmouth/Man city whom you guys played understood this part of your SAF strategy and started to defend very deep thus denying any room for wingers and attacking midfielders to operate. So were they successful in containing ManU?
No they could not as ManU still created a good 30-35 odd chances in each game. Now don’t tell me that Dong and Cambell are so bad that they cant even convert 5 of them!!
As I said earlier this style of game makes ManU unplayable.
So this was the reason why SAF wanted Saha. To kill the game by taking those chances and if he doesn’t then Dong and the rest would. Now do you guys think you still need a striker.
2) Kaza, SAF sold the players who were surplus to ManU’s requirement or wanted gurantedd starts which was not assured.
—– “Indianpunk”, wise men prepare in advance for small accidents and not massive blows seeing the injuries/suspension your team had. So don’t blame SAF for not preparing like Christopher Walken in face of a nuclear explosion in “Blast from the Past”
A little anecdote, when I say ManU in their current style are unplayable then why did they loose to Milan 3-0???
Its coz Milan put a Gatusu to marginalize Ronaldo. So SAF this season bought the new Ronaldo–”Nani” and Anderson thus adding players which strentghen his style of game. Can any team play 2-3 Gatusos and still hope to be productive and score goals!!
Pay attention to the way your team is playing if not you are already missing its beauty. By the way Scholes is my favorite player and SAF my favorite manager—and its been like that for ages.
“1) Its true Saha was in nice form before he got injured but if he had not scored the goals that he did then I am supremely confident someone else definitely would have. That’s the greatness of SAF’s strategy. (Gigg’s tally would have been up by 2, Ronaldo’s tally up by 5 to compensate had Saha not scored those goals.) Besides ManU did well at that time despite Saha being injured.”
I really doubt that without Saha we would have scored as many goals as we did last season. The fact is we need someone to hold the ball up sometimes and then continue the play, if it just continually breaks down outside the box as is happening regularly this season, then we won’t be scoring as much. And im sure you agree that since Saha is so good, and Anelka is equally as good, so then it would help if we had some back-up for Saha. Saha was our most important player up until Christmas last year and I’m sure Berbatov or Anelka could do just as well. No-one was really doubting SAF’s managerial ability but he has been known to be too stubborn at times and it’s clear if he feels Dong and Campbell aren’t ready then we may need one more striker. If SAF was confident Campbell could do well coming off the bench then he would have played him by now, and I’d be happy with the strikers we have now, but that doesn’t seem like it will be happening any time soon.
By the way people, are people not worried by the fact that Berbatov goes missing for large parts of games, so if he came to us he might not be able to help us at times when we most need him. He didn’t score against any of the big four, and he only scored against a team in the bottom half in 10 of the 11 matches he scored in(the other being against Everton)…?
What I actually feel now is that united should not have let the young Giuseppe rossi go. Ole Gunnat solskjaer retirement has laid the stone for united’s next big signing.Here are some of the options in front of fergie -
1. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar - Proven, Young and very expensive
2. Adriano - Lacks consistency, prone to injuries like saha but is an explosive striker at times.
3. Dimitar Berbatov - I personally dont think he is the right man for united. But consistent, a 20-25 goal a season man
4. Nicolas Anelka - Former LIV and ARS man. That makes fans reluctant. Pace, consistency, Target man even though utd dont play that system.
5. Michael Owen - He’s just getting back to fitness and NEW already have many strikers so a good option
6. Torres - GONE!!!!!!!!!!
Huntelaar , Berbatov or anelka
Having Rooney, Tevez, Anelka and Berbatov in the same team will only happen if we are playing FIFA2007.
Face it guys, top strikers would not want to be on the bench. 1999 United’s 4 strikers are made up of first choices Yorke and Cole. Sheringham was in his twilight years and Ole was the only one who was willing to sit on the bench and come in when called upon.
If we are to fill the 2 substitute strikers’ slots, they will not be THE best. Probably has-beens with strong reading of the game a la Larsson or promising youngster like Rossi. Too bad we can’t always get what we wish for. I believe Gudijonsen may be a good bet. NObody really saw Tevez, the papers didn’t really picked it up until UNited made it clear they are pursuing him late in the transfer window.
conor i thank you.
you proved the exact point i was trying to make. the fact is wether we play with a fluid or stagmatic formation we need at least 2 targetmen. saha and som1 to fill in wen he is injured. this also helps them both keep fresh.
vishnurajanb don say i was singing SAF’s praises last season coz i was not. i never hav and never will like him. but as long as he gets the job done i don’t mind him. yu can’t seriously tell me that we would not of been stronger last season with RVN. no team in the world can say that, NO-ONE.
now anelka signed for bolton so i am not too pleased about that but SAF is too arrogant and (dare i say it) pig-headed about our striker situation. so i agree with indianpunk there.
ohh and avijerseyno9 no i don’t think that dong ot cambell wud finish those chnces because if our star forwards can’t, how the hell will our reserve players do the job.
this is a really good, heated discussion. we cud go on like this forever
ok Kaza….your opinions are your own…. I for one appreciate the greatness that SAF is…. A Target Man…coming back.. RVN was’nt boosting the squads morale…even fergie would’nt have known we’d play such beautiful football and also top the league’s goals for column… it is a simple decison really…. and i do believe that RVN turned off towards the end of the season before last… if he was’nt going boost the morale..which we desperately needed after keano left..then i see no reason in keeping him back…dont get me wrong..i do like RVN..infact…in every team that i play in fifa manager i get him first…. but still calling SAF a pig head aint gonna go well with say ahmed or red ranter…
ya i too am bored…i’d love this to continue
SAF is great because of what he’s achieved as a manager, but the moment you start thinking that he’s infallible, you’re not more evolved than an arsenal fan (I’m joking, ofcourse).
SAF has made mistakes, and sometimes it’s the players, not just the managers, who take the club forward. Everything has to be kept in perspective.
Rossi might not have wanted to stay, even if he thought Saha wasn’t going to recover.
And SAF is pig-headed, not a pig head. There’s a difference. It’s also what makes him so good (his determination and stubbornness).
im not saying SAF is infallible….but still questioning his abilities just be’cauz he has only 3 strikers in hand is stupidity…. he could have heardly known rooney was going to injured on the very first day,, and that ole was gonna retiere….. 3- tevez,dong and campbell
vishnurajanb - you need to read things properly,no-one was ‘questioning his abilities’ and anyone who was would just be being stupid, and it is well known that SAF is pig-headed/stubborn, so you’ve just been proved wrong. He’s a great manager, but everyone has their flaws and sometimes his stubbornness can end up being good or bad.
I agree SAF was unlucky. Having concluded his major business for the summer Rossi and Smith insist on leaving, Rooney gets injured, Saha’s recovery is delayed, Tevez arrives so late that he doesn’t have the time to get match fit, and Ronaldo one of our main sources of goals last season gets suspended.
But presumabely we weren’t forced to balance the books by selling Heinze, Rossi and Smith. So there should be some money available for one more signing. And it is not even as if we need a world class first team player. We just need a fourth striker with a bit of experience to provide cover for times like now.
Personally I think gudjonsen would be ideal. He’ll get more games here than he will at Barca, and he has experience in buckets. He is also a team player. Plus he is familiar with the English game.
manutd Boss need to pair Teves and Saha that is Saha shoud play upfront while Teves support and Ronaldo and Giggs play the two extreme then Nani can a best repacement for Giggs because Giggs gets tire after thirty minutes. while Scholes and Hargreaves starts the midfield. for the defend I have no problem Brown, Evra, Vidic and Ferdinard.
Thanks
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how can SAF be the second best english manager when he sells all of our best players? ” unquote
me against the whole world …im loving this thread
I was merely bashing up this fellow..somehow the world soccerlens “club” has turned against me…..I AM A TRUE RED DEVIL
well at least there is 1 good thing from this discussion, it proves just how passionate us manu fans are and just how much we try (at least we think we are trying) to improve our team. i hav never seen supporters of chelski or loserpool care so much about their clubs transfer bussines.
GLORY, GLORY UNITED!!!!!!!!GLORY, GLORY UNITED!!!!!!!!GLORY, GLORY UNITED!!!!!!!!
maybe we shud talk about ole and what a magnificent contribution he has made to our beautiful club. getting a bit off topic.
Just a couple of questions for the United faithfull…
IF we pair Tevez and Saha, and the partnership becomes an instant success like we hope it will, then…
What do we do when Rooney gets back? Do we leave the partnership as is and let Rooney come off the bench? Or do we break up the partneship and go back to Rooney and Saha, or do we try Rooney and Tevez? It’s a bit much hey… and now people want to add another ‘big-name’ to that problem?
As things stand at the moment, Dong and Cambell are our 4th/5th strikers. Should they be found lacking, then Anderson/Ronaldo/Giggs/Scholes can step in. That’s good enough for me. Our strike force (of 3 proven strikers) are still better than any other team’s strike-force out there. (Eg. Liverpool - Torres and Veronin are not proven yet, pretty sure Dong/Cambell can = Kuyt/Crouch)
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I admire and respect your analysis of our team-play. It’s just a bit sad that some of the United fans cannot appreciate that ‘poetry in motion’ (only words I can find at the moment to describe our team-play). Most cannot even see how the team has evolved…and it took a Chelsea fan to point it out?!?!? Thanks!
Well is our formation not meant to be made for inter-changing? So Ronaldo, Rooney and Tevez can all swap positions playing behind Saha, they can all get assists and can all score so, sounds good to me:D No but when you say “Should they be found lacking, then Anderson/ Ronaldo/ Giggs/ Scholes can step in”, but what if Saha’s injured, none of those players can do what he does, so if Campbell and Dong are found lacking then we have no alternative for Saha. I no very little about Campbell except he can score, and I think personally Dongs pretty similar to Saha, but I just think we need an alternative to Saha for now. But yeah your right, we do have the best strikeforce:D
i agree with everything conor said, at least almost everything. i just don’t think that dong will ever make the cut for manu (cambell MIGHT). he is already 23 so he only has a couple years to improve before he gets to old to improve and reaches his peak. but even then he will never be 1st, second or 3rd choice so he will probably pack his bags and go.
without saha we lack the depth in HIS department to have a quality forward step in and DO THE JOB just as well as he could and i don’t think we have any1 at the moment who can do that.
Yea but you can’t really judge a player without properly seeing him play, he’s fast and strong and good at heading, just like Saha, so that’s why I com-pared him to Saha, he still may never be as good as Saha but it’s unfair to just think we bought him just because he’s Asian.
i think our forward line if stay fit is good. yes i would like someone else but c’mon we dont know what happens behind the scenes.
fergie has sahas medical report and has watched him in trainin and he knows exactly how fit he is. i think if there were question marks over his fitness yes he would have made an emergency purchase.
i think the thing with dong is we need to see him play week in week out. i think he will be sent out on loan in january should we sign another striker in that window. giggs will play upfront and with saha, rooney and tevez there till january i think thats enough but yes we do need to stay injury and suspension free in that department
on the other end he has to keep the directors happy and after spending £60m the last thing you want to say to the glazers is ” i need more cash” LOL