Our starting 11 just isn't all that.
It says he's the wrong man.
Unfortunately your diety Sir Fergie personally chose him so he's around for a while yet.
A squad is nothing without a strong midfield group and our collection of midfielders is not top 5 in the country.
City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs are fsr better off in the midfield department.
Spurs have a better squad than United.
I think Arsenal fans would argue with that. Evans is awful lately. Rio past it. Vidic on the wane.
Infact I will gladly admit now that Arsenal's back four and midfield are better than ours. We have better strikers and keeper though.
Spurs,Lpool have strong first team's too.
Kind of a simplified view.... Surely City should be 10 points clear and not drawing with championship teams?
Best Premier League Squads...
1.City
2.Chelsea
3.Arsenal
4.Tottenham
5.United
IMO
Everton \ Newcastle \ Liverpool all fairly equal.
The rest are garbage.
If your squad was the third best, you would not be 7th, simple as. You can moan about injuries all you want, but a third best squad in the league would have sufficient depth in it to combat your injury list. Arsenal, City and Chelsea have the three best squads in the league, like it or lump it. Just look at Arsenals injury list as proof.
I wouldn't nessecarily agree with that Jose, were Chelsea only the 6th best squad when they finished. 6th?
Yes Jose it's far from simple as that. The whole point of the article was about the squad underachieving. Squads do underachieve and your comment suggests otherwise. Right now, I don't think our squad is better than Arsenals tbh but it's not really the point the op is making anyway.
The OP's point of Man Utds squad under achieving is a valid point, but when he suggest that Uniteds squad is superior to Arsenal when its blatantly obvious its not, then the article loses its authenticity.
Its strange that a lof Unted fans just refuse to accept that Arsenals defence is superior, Last season with SAF in charge Arsenal conceded less goals and thus far this season, have the best defence.
Its like an Arsenal fan claiming we have a better strike force than City, its just wrong
Hunting
Agree. Arsenal do have a better squad. But the op akso has a valid point, as you stated.
i think you vastly overrate your squad.
I think some of our fans need to see that their is a difference between having a big squad, and having a good/great squad. If we bought another 8 midfielders of the same quality we have now, it wouldn't improve the squad.
take the likes of nani and anderson. expensive squad fillers, but nowhere near good enough
Another valid example might be Tottenham just before Arry took over...
Yeah, but honestly, you can't be buying what this guy is selling, that your squads the third best in the league?
I'm not saying that position teams are in is comparative to the strength of their squad. I'm just saying the stronger your squad is, the more likely you are to finish higher. Sounds like I'm double speaking there but I'm sure there's a point here somewhere.
You certainly have a good first XI (good, not great) but you have an awful lot of deadwood that needs shifting before the OP can claim you have the third best squad in the league.
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posted on 5/1/14
Our starting 11 just isn't all that.
posted on 5/1/14
It says he's the wrong man.
Unfortunately your diety Sir Fergie personally chose him so he's around for a while yet.
posted on 5/1/14
A squad is nothing without a strong midfield group and our collection of midfielders is not top 5 in the country.
City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs are fsr better off in the midfield department.
posted on 5/1/14
Spurs have a better squad than United.
posted on 5/1/14
I think Arsenal fans would argue with that. Evans is awful lately. Rio past it. Vidic on the wane.
Infact I will gladly admit now that Arsenal's back four and midfield are better than ours. We have better strikers and keeper though.
Spurs,Lpool have strong first team's too.
posted on 5/1/14
Kind of a simplified view.... Surely City should be 10 points clear and not drawing with championship teams?
posted on 5/1/14
Best Premier League Squads...
1.City
2.Chelsea
3.Arsenal
4.Tottenham
5.United
IMO
Everton \ Newcastle \ Liverpool all fairly equal.
The rest are garbage.
posted on 5/1/14
If your squad was the third best, you would not be 7th, simple as. You can moan about injuries all you want, but a third best squad in the league would have sufficient depth in it to combat your injury list. Arsenal, City and Chelsea have the three best squads in the league, like it or lump it. Just look at Arsenals injury list as proof.
posted on 5/1/14
I wouldn't nessecarily agree with that Jose, were Chelsea only the 6th best squad when they finished. 6th?
posted on 5/1/14
Yes Jose it's far from simple as that. The whole point of the article was about the squad underachieving. Squads do underachieve and your comment suggests otherwise. Right now, I don't think our squad is better than Arsenals tbh but it's not really the point the op is making anyway.
posted on 5/1/14
The OP's point of Man Utds squad under achieving is a valid point, but when he suggest that Uniteds squad is superior to Arsenal when its blatantly obvious its not, then the article loses its authenticity.
Its strange that a lof Unted fans just refuse to accept that Arsenals defence is superior, Last season with SAF in charge Arsenal conceded less goals and thus far this season, have the best defence.
Its like an Arsenal fan claiming we have a better strike force than City, its just wrong
posted on 5/1/14
Hunting
Agree. Arsenal do have a better squad. But the op akso has a valid point, as you stated.
posted on 5/1/14
i think you vastly overrate your squad.
posted on 5/1/14
I think some of our fans need to see that their is a difference between having a big squad, and having a good/great squad. If we bought another 8 midfielders of the same quality we have now, it wouldn't improve the squad.
posted on 5/1/14
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posted on 5/1/14
take the likes of nani and anderson. expensive squad fillers, but nowhere near good enough
posted on 5/1/14
Another valid example might be Tottenham just before Arry took over...
posted on 5/1/14
Yeah, but honestly, you can't be buying what this guy is selling, that your squads the third best in the league?
I'm not saying that position teams are in is comparative to the strength of their squad. I'm just saying the stronger your squad is, the more likely you are to finish higher. Sounds like I'm double speaking there but I'm sure there's a point here somewhere.
You certainly have a good first XI (good, not great) but you have an awful lot of deadwood that needs shifting before the OP can claim you have the third best squad in the league.
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