Manchester United Rumours Archive April 15 2012

15 Apr 2012 22:37:56
Does anyone think we should get hazard and a world class striker to help rooney!! I'm worried if he gets injured were in trouble welbeck not good enough Berbertov to slow Hernandez inconsistent and as for Owen never fit

Hazard or a class striker for me. My ideal striker would be Benzema, but Hazard would be the dream signing. Imagine a 3-3-4 formation.

______De Gea
Smalling_Vidic_Evans
______Carrick
__Anderson_Clverley
_Nani_Hazard_Young
______Rooney

Or the same formation with Benzema in for Hazard and switch Rooney and Benzema. Imagine the attacking football that could be played. Just imagine. It would be something else, something possibly surpassing the days of Ronaldo-Rooney-Tevez.

The down side would be defensive frailties. Although Nani and Young both have good work ethics, as does Cleverley.

Percy

Team would be alot stronger with valencia surely? and we would get hammered down the wings. Not liking that formation,although i agree Hazard would be immense

I know I'm going to get criticism for this but I really think we should go for Huntelaar to partner Rooney up front. His record this season is sensational. And before those of you jump on the "he hasn't done well everywhere else he's been" bandwagon, just remember that the last Durchman we signed went on to score 150 goals for us.

And for those who want to say the Bundesliga is a weaker league than the Premier League, just remember Berbatov came from Bayer Leverkusen.

The bundesliga made dzecko look like van basten and huntelaars a lot older, he's not for me. And 3-3-4? You've been playing to much FIFA son.


Anon

Percy mate, if you are playing with three CB's you must have two wing-backs. That formation with those players couldn't work against a half decent side, it would be destroyed by a top team.

Sydney!

Sorry - that should read "Dutchman" ! Doh!

Any team with a half decent passing game would find it way to easy to break us down out wide. Drag one of the central defenders out and leave space in behind. Defensively we would be destroyed without wing backs. The only way this would work in my opinion is if we played with 2 defensive midfielders, who covered wide.

Sign a top holding midfielder to protect the back 4, then either add a creating midfielder or striker to our collection and watch us destroy teams!
ALL top teams have a def mid

melwing28

Welbeck has the talent but he is too young and inexperienced you can see against aston villa he wasted soo many chances he does it every game. thats why he needs to be loaned next term. and we need hazard and players through the spine

I'm sorry, but I thought the last Dutchman we signed kept a load of clean sheets.

15 Apr 2012 22:26:33
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G.A.G.U.S

15 Apr 2012 20:22:51
15 Apr 2012 16:47:55
"Another game where Rooney is playing awful! It has got to be approx. Ten games in the trot where I've been very unimpressed. With the amount of money were paying him I'd expect him to place a pass properly."

FredtheRed

I'm shocked at this mate u can't be serious! He is worth every penny pure class. A quality player stays in the goals when he's playing badly that's what he did today. Ten games on the trot? How many goals has he scored in these games when he's been so bad? He has stayed off the front pages kept his head down and focused on playing well. For me he has been our best player scored 30 goals and countless assists he is our star player he would walk in to any team on this planet and a few on mars. Lay off the guy get behind him imagine a united wvout him!


Ddd

Have to agree he hasn't played well for ages now. His passing has been terrible. If he wasn't English I woner if he would be so highly though of by many. {Ed007's Note - It is not just English people or fans that rate Rooney highly. I'm with 3-D here but not as bro-mancey sounding. I think he has matured on and off the park, When we are talking about signing targets we talk about who could play with Rooney or who's style compliments his. He is probably the one real constant in the team (well maybe Vidic) that doesn't split supporters opinions. Look at Evra, the Twins, Carrick, Nani, Berbatov etc, some supporters rate them and some don't, 99% of supporters all agree that Rooney is a Utd class of player.}

Id put valencia on that list too with vidic and rooney

mitch

He was the worst player on the park today. He has been weak at times recently. I think we'd look a lot more dangerous if Rooney's form improved because on form he can rip teams appart, I think he looks tired.

Scored 2 goals and played badly? Just goes to show how spoilt some united fans are imagine if we had players like Torres and carroll at £85 million they've scored about 10 goals between them.

Anon

Can't believe people are questioning Rooney!

11 in his last 11 league games if 'm not mistaken, including match winning goals and goals against the likes of chelsea & liverpool.

People need to stop being so fickle, he's got 30 goals in all competitions and is still hitting the back of the net when he has an off day.

I just hope he proves you lot wrong and scores the winner against city, then no doubt you'll all love him again...sigh

I think the original text has a real point that isnt often aired when discusing United. All of us agree if we are honest the side lacks creativity in the last third. I dont think any serious United fan would advocate dropping Rooney, as all of us know that he brings many qualities to the side and that on his day he really is one of our very few world class players. But he really does show that form too rarely and of course as our number ten it is quite right to expect that he should create a lot more goals than he does. Far too often he misplaces a pass to a teammate or does a "flick" to noone when we are in a promising position. Clearly Rooney would benefit enormously if he was playing with better players but if ever hes going to be consistently world class there is room for him to improve this part of his game at least 20%

John the Red

Sign of true quality is still scoring when he isn't on top form... still makes him 100% better than any other striker / forward that we have

Pardoe

Agree with all the comments defending Rooney - he is one of only a couple world class talents we have, clearly.

The only thing I will say to the contrary is I do think he looks a bit tired atm (no surprise there he's played loads). That's why he is misplacing passes IMO and just looking less 'sharp'. But when your scoring in almost every game how could we drop him lol! In an ideal world he would be rested next week for the City game the week after - just a shame we dont have 2 strikers we can trust to get us a win v Everton if he was rested

Gav

15 Apr 2012 17:56:04
Dominated that match. A whole different team when Scholes plays and another clean sheet!

15 Apr 2012 16:51:34
Thank god Wellbeck got that goal he hadnt looked clinical again before it. Let's hope that gives him the confidence to go on a nice run from here. He's linked up well again today tbf

Gav

It won't stop United fans slating him.
The weight if criticism he's had from fans is way over the top.

Why do so many people want to throw away talented academy graduates just because they aren't quite there yet?

Get with the programme peope.

Pritpal

Hi Pritpal

Tbf I wouldnt say many want rid of Wellbeck from United (not sensible ppl anyway). I would say though having seen him struggle to finish chances that I wish we had someone more deadly in our starting XI each week. I am a fan of Wellbeck but think he should be a young, squad player trying to force his way into our team with cameo appearances and cup games - rather than being guaranteed a first XI place.

Gav

15 Apr 2012 15:30:32
It's annoying not seeing Pogba on the bench, but as long as we get the 3 points I'll be fairly happy. Be nice to see Cleverley and Nani get on.

Percy

Percy, why is it annoying. Yes hope he will be an important part of our future, but don't think the next few weeks.

Like it or not this is the group of players he will stick with in the run in.

Maybe SAF realises he's slinging his hook if so I wouldn't give him 1 minute on the park

Pardoe

Percy
why is it annoying not seeing a player who will not commit his future to the club on the bench
jred

15 Apr 2012 14:32:34
Sunday times reporting that the floatation will take place this year
Jred

Hope so then we can pay the debt off and be debt free once again

15 Apr 2012 13:55:59
I think that SAFs comments about Fabio signify two things, firstly Evra is staying, Evra's presence in the side is the reason why Fabio can't get games. It will also mean that Fryers is odds on to sign a new deal as he, for the next year, will be Evra's under study. The hope will be that after the loan move, Fabio will come back and take over from Evra who will be sold. Fryers and Fabio will fight it out for the next few years.

Unfortunatly this means that a new left back is very doubtful, but it does mean that we have a few lads who have a very bright future at the club.

Alternatively, contradicting everything I haave said, could this mean the Cissolkho on loan rumour, that we all poopooed could be true?

RedDevil19

15 Apr 2012 12:38:25
Fabio will be heading on loan next season.
So this will mean that we will be signing another left back because that would only leave us with Evra, so I am not sure whether to be happy about this because he will be getting experiences but I don't want us to sign someone who will block his route to the first team because I believe that the Silva twins are the future of our full back positions.

Walrus

15 Apr 2012 04:26:48
According to Caughtoffside, we are interested in a cut price deal to sign Sneijder. ;)
Thought i'd get this rumour out of the way before the summer.

Fair enough, the problem with Sneijder was always his wages though! I think he's been poor this season, don't think he's mentally in the right place after messing up a deal that he clearly wanted at the end of last season!

Ozwald

Id much rather Eriksen now.

Gar

You are totally right Ozwald. I think he genuinely thought he had 1 foot in Old trafford and just assumed the club wanted him band enough to pay £200,000 a week.......clearly we werent and he screwed up big time.

I think its stupid to say "well Sneijder has been poor for Inter this year so Im glad we didnt get him" as clearly this is Irrelevant and he could of been outstanding or terrible for us had he signed. He could of retired here and he blew It. Knowing all this has effected his head........

I have no sympathy