21 Jan 2014 14:13:23
Ive been having a bit of a remanis about past utd teams and come to the conclusion of what I believe to be our biggest problem on the field. When you look at the great utd teams gone by there was one thing that was always there. And that was players ready to bust a gut just to win a nothing ball. Players with edge and a times a bit of spite. i'm thinkin guys like kimg eric, roy keane. And I kno he always had that pretty boy image but even becks had that edge to his game and would go out there and leave everything on the field. Suppose what i'm getting at is, where is that now. Which players besides probably wazza do that now for us. Wheres the bite. It seems obvious to say the solution woud be to go buy it in the form of a vidal, but I really do think the guys there now should be asking themselves do I do that. Do I give everything.

1.) 21 Jan 2014
Rooney hasn't been interested for the last 2 - 3 years so I don't know where you get the impression that he's the only busting a gut for the team? I think if you look closely at welbeck you can see its proper hurting him that we aren't meeting the standard that we have set over the last 20 years, also if you can't see that rafeal, vidic, carrick and fletcher aren't trying their hardest to turn things around then you must be watching a different team to me.

2.) 21 Jan 2014
Agree with you on welbeck no doubt. And although I rate carrick very very highly and he is a consitant player when it comes to performing at what he does well in my opinion he's not that type of player I was speaking about that has an edge. I believe rafael could go on to be a top top player aswell although my point was players with an edge that serves the team well where as he tends to be more reckless at this point. Vidic and fletch again they have what I was speaking about but unfortunatley we don't have them in the team week in week out due to illness and injury. I jusy feel maybe this squad is a bit to nice if you no what I mean. Appreciate your feedback!

3.) 21 Jan 2014
To try and be more specific to my original post, what I mean is there's a certain type of player i.e cantona, keane, schmeichal etc. that bring that extra bit out of the rest of the players around them.

4.) 21 Jan 2014
Since moyes and the backroom team come in the players seem to have lost there cutting edge why is that somebody tell me? you can say it's not a good side but for me it was top 3 in Europe last season we got ripped of in the champions league and we strolled the epl by 11points is it really that the players are not good enough I don't think so?

5.) 21 Jan 2014
Bean

"but for me it was top 3 in Europe last season

This place is a trip, pass the d…ie LOL.

This is one of the most bizarre statements I have seen in 20 years. Are you taking the piss or being serious?

6.) 21 Jan 2014
@domi b I dig what you say about the team being a bit to nice and lacking that nasty side of the game that the 94 team had in abundance and it would help if fletcher in particular could play more often. I understand what your saying about rafeal but I think apart from sunday has learnt to be aggressive in controlled manner and I think he was just annoyed with Chelsea getting away with the dark arts of football. I see what your saying with carrick but he doesn't need to be nasty to get uder the opposition's skin he can frustrate teams by keeping possession and intercepting the ball at regular intervals. let's just hope that things improve enough for us to be playing in champions league next season hey. Keep the red flag flying!