Dans
Correctly predicted Portugal to win Euro 2016
Matter of opinion, fine. You didn't state it as if it were, and again, you lambasted me for being off topic when I said that it wasn't as apparent as you felt it was, for me.
How do we measure effort? Like someone said, it was pointed out by Ferguson before the game that he is to sit deeper than you want him to, and towards the end of last season he was the one who ran the most according to stats. He deliberately upped his running because people get on his back, but throwing himself around like Rooney is NOT his game. You could slate Zidane for effort, but he was glorious when it mattered. Sadly, Berba's not as consistent or confident, but I'm talking about styles of play.
My opinion is that he's too lazy, uncommitted, moody, petulant at times, lethargic, etc etc etc etc too much of the time I see him play. He makes far too few runs into the box offering his midfielders a target and he spends too much time slamming his hand against the floor when he doesn't get a decision without having the impact that the other moaner in our team in recent years had. He's never made himself one to be on the teamsheet no question (which he could have done in my opinion). He's never convinced he is more than a bit part.
A nice flick here and there, a piroutte past a defender and the odd nice drag back are not why he was brought here. He was brought to play his part, to give his all to the United cause, to score goals, to improve our team in the way you'd hope a 30m pound player not named Veron would. But he has never done that and doesn't belong at our club. This is all opinon, much as everything written on a forum is, unless you want to quote a fractional goal per game return differential of 0.02 between Berbatov and another player who used to give his all for us, which frankly means feck all when I can see, plain as day that the guy isn't putting in the effort.