Bad Berba's Back
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Exactly right. There were actually a few of us who never wanted him. We were not well received on the boards.
Do share with us your insight for what constitutes a 'true' United supporter Alex
A true United supporter loves it when a player not performing well screams at other United players.
He scored 1 goal every 2.2 games for Tottenham, he has currently scored exactly 1 every 3 games for us. This is a near 30% reduction in goals scored per game. When you take into account the fact that Spurs were (and still are) a much poorer team than United the stats become far more apparent.
His assists are also of a similar % lower in a better team. Not to mention that his overall play is much worse, illustrated by how gutted Spurs fans were when he left vs how happy they are that they sold him at the right time.
Well his Tottenham record was boosted by 12 goals in the UEFA Cup. It's only fair to judge him on his EPL record which is pretty much the same as it was at Tottenham.
People go on about whether such a player is a Manchester United player -the thing is what does that even mean. In the end if a player is basically doing what he did before then what can you say?
Blame the player for not developing himself further or blame yourselves for rating him too much in the first place.
My toys are finally out of the pram for Berba, he is negative energy to the team from my point of view. He may be missing Giggs, Rooney, Valencia. I think together the helped him start the season well.
Why does him piss me off so much? No United player has generated this feeling in me before.
Why does him piss me off so much? No United player has generated this feeling in me before.
Take a chill pill, it's only half time. You can have a proper rant after the game
This movement, energy, effort in this game just put the icing on top, I have been boiling inside, had to let something out.
Barely any service, our midfield has been woeful as it usually is without Scholes.
He is pretty useless atm isnt he?
Bad Berba appears way more often than Good Berba.
feck him.
feck him.
His demeanor drags other players down. He has Manchester United quality feet but his heart is lacking.
It was bound to happen.It's a shame that even when he's having a bad day we can't expect him to perform some magic unless Nani who had a horrible match but did some great stuff towards the end
He was bad in the first half but at least he was trying to make things happen in the 2nd. I was disappointed he was taken off.
great post.
He is fecking shit
Apart from one good little run and ball to Nani (who failed to contrl it) I dont remember any other time he attempted to make things happen.
He was gash from min 1 until he was rightfully dragged off. Horrible performance again
He looked better dropping deep in the second half (in the first half we were trying to play Hernandez as the link man and Berba off the shoulder of Collins/Dunne.
I thought he shouldn't have been subbed at the time but then I'm an idiot really so you know.
I thought he shouldn't have been subbed at the time but then I'm an idiot really so you know.
TBF to him he still has that lingering virus.
he was really bad today.
Does he? I didn't know that.
Awful today and he looks like he's slipped into bad ways. I'd back dropping him from the team now.
I've never had a problem with his goal record - I reckon 1 in 3 is about right for the type of player he is. But he's done nothing creatively today.
So disappointed because I really thought he'd turned the corner.
I've never had a problem with his goal record - I reckon 1 in 3 is about right for the type of player he is. But he's done nothing creatively today.
So disappointed because I really thought he'd turned the corner.
A costly mistake by SAF. SAF knows it, he just does not want to give up on some hope that one day, in a dog fight like the match against Villa, Berba will rise up and lift the team with some control. Will never happen, Berba rather depends on others to lift him up. He has too much negative energy and this drags most of the players around him down the same direction he is going. Play the kids SAF, let them learn from this campaign.
I don't understand how a footballer as talented as he, can have no bottle what so ever. You see cocky bastard and you see lazy bastards but you rarely see players like Berbatov. For christs sake if you don't score its not the end of the world but if you mope and act like a twat every time you don't, you're going to go on these 10 game goaless streaks.
He started looking better in the second half. But always when you want to change something, you start from the forwards. Too little, too late
It's a possible explanation but if the virus was really affecting him would SAF have played him ? I know it's impossible for us to know
Just saw his goal against Arsenal 3 years ago, the one where he scored from a near impossible angle. We've seen very little of play like that from him in his time here.
What has happened him? Since the Liverpool game he has disappeared he looked today like he didn't give a toss
I don't know whether it's just him, or it's our midfield. I would like to give him the benefit of the doubt though as our midfield creates next to nothing for our strikers without scholes, or if nani is having an off-day.
Well it will be 2 months since his last goal when he plays again.
The biggest disappointment is that he has enough ability to be one of the best if not the best in the world.It's a real shame that mentally he's so weak
I just watched one of my under 16's run his ass into the ground for a full match with really nasty cold and he's been off school all week. Berbatov was absolutely useless today, no excuses. He's making it really easy for Rooney to walk back in when he returns.
you can tell his confidence is gone, early season Berba seemed like a predator and now seems clueless around goal.
Poor game but got better as it progress and was alittle disappointed to see him come off although proven the correct choice.
Poor game but got better as it progress and was alittle disappointed to see him come off although proven the correct choice.
No he didn't disappear right away. played well for a few games, but but didn't score...then he had a couple of bad ones. Vs City, I think he did well again and today in the sec half too. But he's not been in the goalscoring form shown from the beginning of the season...but so did everyone else
Took 2 years to build himself a platform and once he achieved it he's fecked it up
He did have that one good chance and blew it along with whatever confidence he had
The Sad thing about Berbatov is his attitude. I really don't care if he doesn't scores, but he throws fits when he doesn't get any service, or when he is fustrated. That effects other player in the team too.
We are talking about Berbatov right?
It's not like we are dripping with options upfront right now tbf. So it's possible some players are playing while sick. After all Scholes did vs City. Because today in the first 70 minutes, apart from the players in our back 4 and Van De sar, the rest were true garbage.
You can't expect a striker to finish every chance he has. The fact that we have only 1 good chance until the 80 minute is just not good enough. Although it was a bad miss from him.
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