Manchester United Banter Archive February 14 2012

14 Feb 2012 23:17:36
Am I the only who is sick of us buying young promising players that sometime work like ronaldo nani jones but most of the times don't like obertan bebe diof etc I remember when we brought marquee players the rooneys ,ferdinands, keanes now we get linked with them but never get any of them David silva, agguerro, Sanchez the list is endless and now even spurs are linked with world class players like hazard whilst we're linked with Rodwell and James McCarthy !! Do people think its about time we got a truly world class player cos the gap between us and Madrid and barca is getting bigger every year

14 Feb 2012 22:24:19
I challenge anyone to name me a better player than Lionel Messi. He is an absolute genius and will, even at his young age, go down as one of the greats of the game. {Ed007's Note - Paddy McCourt, The Derry Pele :-)

14 Feb 2012 20:17:50
I think if we have a decent amout on money to spend then i hope to see us line up like this next season:

_________ De Gea

_Walker _ Smalling _ Vidic _ Evra

________ Cleverly _ Eriksen

Nani _______ Rooney ______ Gaitan

___________ Hernandez_________

UnitedForever

14 Feb 2012 18:45:34
T-K I was comparing Lucas with Carrick as Gav done so in the post I was replying to. Would you really take Carrick over Lucas? I'm suprised by that but we all have opinions.
JFT96
Smithy

14 Feb 2012 15:09:51
fergy
“Barcelona are the best team in Europe, although Real Madrid are closing the gap on them. The lead they’ve got in the league shows that. For the moment Barca have still got that magical ability to play a game that’s beyond everyone else. When Messi, Xavi and Iniesta are on song, they’re just unstoppable.
“We had the ability to go all the way to the final. Luck wasn’t on our side, but we’ve got the ambition to compete with Barcelona and Real Madrid, and I don’t feel we’re that far away from them. I’m sure we’ll show that soon.”
Ferguson defended United’s decision not to spend heavily on ready-made stars, like Wesley Sneijder, in recent years. “We decided to create a structure with young players, like Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo, Nani and Anderson, and we also knew we had some talented youngsters coming through the academy, like Danny Welbeck and Tom Cleverley,” he said.
“All we’ve had to do since then is build things around a few young players. With that as our strategy we’ve not had to spend huge amounts of money to stay competitive because we’ve already got the talent at home.”
jred

14 Feb 2012 12:40:12
I think probably for summer our shortlist would include:

Eriksen
Martinez
Subotic
Alba

That would probably be ideal. But i think if we are looking more realistically, which we need too, then i think this could be the way we go:

Kovacic
Fellaini
Benatia

I'd be very happy with that for summer, however i would love to add someone like Muniain to the squad. He's a player that i really really like and i think he'd do fantastic at out club.

RedDevil19

14 Feb 2012 10:07:18
In the last few days it has been interesting to read the comments on Evans, it made me wonder how many of the posters actually watch games live and see the bigger picture rather than just what is shown on tv. At Chelski, their world famous hard man Torres bullied Evans all afternoon. Every kick out from Cech was won by Torres who simply backed into Evans and controlled the ball, no doubt the tv did not show this, but only showed Torres controlling the ball, not how easily he had out muscled Evans. Time and time again Torres started moves for Chelski by his winning the ball in this manner. Interestingly Torres tried the same thing against Toni when he was at RB and Torres ended on the floor having bounced off of Toni who came away with the ball. Maybe it doesn't sound much but it was the difference between us or Chelski having possession.
Anybody who wasn't at the Chelski game wouldn't have noticed this, so beware on making judgements solely on tv footage, it doesn't tell the whole story.
I think Evans is a decent CB and if he could re-discover his form of 2-3 seasons ago he would be a real asset to us, sadly at the moment he is seen as a stop gap, when he stepped in for Rio and Vida during the VDS 'clean sheet run' he was fantastic.

Keanooh

13 Feb 2012 23:43:50
This isn't entirely United related, but which academy do you all think produced the best players from youth teams? Obviously us and Barca but I think Ajax: Cruyff, Van der Sar, Bergkamp, Kluivert, van Basten, Sneijder, van der Vaart, Seedorf

13 Feb 2012 22:59:43
BEST skill EVER! Christian Eriksen Ajax Amsterdam
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YjLOrrgqyk&feature=related

^ ERIKSEN:O

MaccaRed