People are getting really excited at the prospect of us signing Falcao and/or Lewandowski, I really don't understand this at all. Out of any of our strikers they are most like RVP in my opnion, and RVP is better than Lewandowski, albeit older. (Not sure about Falcao, but why buy in an area we DONT need?)
IF we are going to spend in the summer, he MUST buy at least two players for the midfield. I would be happy with a wide player and a central midfielder, I really do believe a couple of world class additions to this squad could make it an absolutely brilliant one. (Making us a powerhouse)
The reason I say the above is because we have a Goalkeeper who I believe will become one of the best in the world if not the best, We have a young defence coming through (Rafael brilliant, Jones looks like a star in the making, even Jonny Evans is relatively young and he reminds me of Rio 5-10 years ago) and of course we have 4 strikers who are all brilliant in their own way.
I'm not forgetting Carrick in this argument, he is an amazingly gifted player and is very important to us, but the harsh reality is that our midfield as a whole just isn't good enough.
Let's look at contrasting midfields:
United's: Nani, Young, Valencia, Anderson, Cleverley, Carrick, Giggs, (as well as people like Scholes, Powell etc who haven't been playing much or at all this season)
City's: Toure, Silva, Nasri, Milner, Barry, Garcia and others
Chelsea's: Ramires, Hazard, Mata, Oscar, Mikel, Lampard.
Bayern's: Ribery, Robben, Javi Martinez, Kroos, Schweinsteiger
I could go on, we all know how good Madrid's and Barcelona's midfield are.
We won the title with that midfield, It is credit to the team, but realistically we were lucky that our rivals had also lacking quality and depth in their squads, e.g Chelsea in the striker position, City in defence/strikers
Sorry for the long article, but I'm just trying to justify my opinion that if we were to get a few extra QUALITY players in our midfield, we will be challenging on a BIG scale and not just challenging for the title.
We are close to being great
posted on 27/4/13
And a change of tactics, no more of this scoring a goal and sitting back soaking up pressure for 45 minutes garbage, what top team does that apart from us???!
posted on 27/4/13
no messing around this summer a cm is a must
posted on 27/4/13
Ones that didn't win the league?
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posted on 27/4/13
When you look at the list of midfielders..... None of the English clubs have anything that great in terms of CM strength and depth.
City have Toure, but the quality drops pretty quickly in depth.
Chelsea have great AMs but nothing special in CM.
Arsenal have Wilshire, but again, the quality drops off in terms of depth.
Spurs have some solid CMs, but not world beaters.
It is quite an unusual situations really.
We moan about the midfield, but we have the best CM, this season, in Carrick.... and they rest are all of an equal standing to the other teams in the league.
That's not to say i don't think we should strengthen there, just that we are not in any worse shame than the rest, in our league.
posted on 27/4/13
worse shape*
posted on 27/4/13
I think we need a new winger, and for fergie and nani to sort their relationship out. Also I think a cm, but I think the cms we have are underrated.
posted on 27/4/13
I like Carrick and Cleverley, they do well together and can be/are successful on a domestic level. But to achieve in Europe you really need some top players all over the pitch, remember we had VDS, Ronaldo, Evra, Vidic, Rio, Rooney etc all peaking at the time we won it, and had Carrick and Scholes working very well in the centre.
After Carrick and Clevs we don't really have anyone for CM, don't want Giggs there and certainly don't want Rooney to be moved into midfield, Anderson does a decent job when he's fit.
posted on 27/4/13
Strange things happen when least expected....maybe another EC will appear... but from where?
...too many guesses for the obvious.... and then out of the blue comes the answer....Wait! Anticipation is half the fun!
posted on 27/4/13
comment by Rooneysmiles (U1347)
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I agree with that. I'm not a huge fan of 'big name signings' because I believe there's loads and loads of talent out there, just most of it hasn't been realised yet. There's the ones like Naymar and Falcao etc who get hyped up but I bet there's plenty of young players in reserve teams and such who are just as talented, just waiting for their break through.