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?
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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