Bad Berba's Back

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Just one goal off top scorer now, and one goal off equalling his league goal record for the entire season in 08/09.

Improved every year he's been here.

Any chance these two goals will get people to lay off his back a bit?
 
Brwned said:
Just one goal off top scorer now, and one goal off equalling his league goal record for the entire season in 08/09.

Improved every year he's been here.

Any chance these two goals will get people to lay off his back a bit?
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Quite possibly. Until his next poor match at least. When such an expensive and talented player is so inconsistant surely criticism is to be expected?

It's not like poor form is unusual for him.
 
cw1984 said:
Quite possibly. Until his next poor match at least. When such an expensive and talented player is so inconsistant surely criticism is to be expected?

It's not like poor form is unusual for him.
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I think the fact that he is so talented and valued by Sir Alex that a bit of patience goes a long way. For what he can give us, and what he's already shown he can give us this season...it is worth waiting for.

Complaining about it all the time doesn't help anyone, and he is one of the easier figures to blame regardless of his performance.
 
Allforone said:
Hes 1 goal shy of being the top scorer in the league, i mean hes scored more than the likes of Drogba/Torres and co i think he deserves a little slack tbh.
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When he was brilliant at the start of the season he was rightly priased for it. When he's been shit for his last 6 games or so why doesn't he deserve the criticism for that?

Like I said above, it's not like an out of form Berbatov has been a rare thing.
 
Brwned said:
Just one goal off top scorer now, and one goal off equalling his league goal record for the entire season in 08/09.

Improved every year he's been here.

Any chance these two goals will get people to lay off his back a bit?
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Sod the goals, it's his link-up play with Rooney today which will hopefully make people wait a bit before slacking him off.
 
Even Ferguson said that he fecked up his form by overly rotating after his hat trick vs Liverpool.

He looked like he was getting some form back against Rangers and he's well and truly back in the groove now.
 
Aye I've not seen the match but I was going to mention that, his gradual drop in form did coincide with Rooney's absence. Even when Rooney was in poor form there were a few occasions (against both Newcastle and West Ham) that they linked up superbly.

And to think people were complaining when Sir Alex said they're his first two, no questions asked.

I think it's 8 goals in 7 starts alongside Rooney for Berbatov this season.

Is Berbatov playing slightly further ahead of Rooney (like he was at the start of this season) or is Rooney playing slightly futher ahead (like last season)?

If it's the former it might explain why Berbatov's been less of a direct goal threat - playing deeper alongside Chicharito does mean he has to focus more on creating and utilising space than scoring.
 
Brwned said:
I think the fact that he is so talented and valued by Sir Alex that a bit of patience goes a long way. For what he can give us, and what he's already shown he can give us this season...it is worth waiting for.

Complaining about it all the time doesn't help anyone, and he is one of the easier figures to blame regardless of his performance.
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There are people that complain about him all the time but then there are people that complain when he is bad.

What's wrong with justified criticism?
 
Brwned said:
Aye I've not seen the match but I was going to mention that, his gradual drop in form did coincide with Rooney's absence. Even when Rooney was in poor form there were a few occasions (against both Newcastle and West Ham) that they linked up superbly.

And to think people were complaining when Sir Alex said they're his first two, no questions asked.

I think it's 8 goals in 7 starts alongside Rooney for Berbatov this season.

Is Berbatov playing slightly further ahead of Rooney (like he was at the start of this season) or is Rooney playing slightly futher ahead (like last season)?

If it's the former it might explain why Berbatov's been less of a direct goal threat - playing deeper alongside Chicharito does mean he has to focus more on creating and utilising space than scoring.
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From what i've seen (on a shit stream on my iphone) they have been swapping quite a lot.

Some of their link up play has been truly wonderful.
 
Unbelievable. When he plays like this what can you say to do it justice.
 
It's not really the post-match criticism - even though the people who do complain about him regardless of his performance are annoying - but it's the people who draw conclusions from those performances about his career with us. 'His style of play just doesn't suit us', 'he's too slow', 'we can't counter-attack with him in the side (despite him being our best player at instigating counter attacks this season, see Stoke game for ex.)', 'his movement's just not good enough'...criticisms from one game get exaggerated and become reasons for why 'he's just not a United player'.

On the basis of this season there's every reason to be positive, there's plenty of signs he is a United player.

Justified criticism's fine, he's deserved it for quite a few games this season, it's just where it goes from there. I'm sure your criticisms are more than justified.
 
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It's not really the post-match criticism - even though the people who do complain about him regardless of his performance are annoying - but it's the people who draw conclusions from those performances about his career with us. 'His style of play just doesn't suit us', 'he's too slow', 'we can't counter-attack with him in the side (despite him being our best player at instigating counter attacks this season, see Stoke game for ex.)', 'his movement's just not good enough'...criticisms from one game get exaggerated and become reasons for why 'he's just not a United player'.

On the basis of this season there's every reason to be positive, there's plenty of signs he is a United player.
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Yeh I don't disagree with any of that. It's just my biggest annoyance in this thread has been that you appear to get slated for criticising Berbatov full stop. He has a team of defenders that will just not have a bad word against him.

It really is quite mental.
 
I put berb in my fantasy team after his liverpool hattrick and i took him out for rooney this week. Go me.
 
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