To the person who mentioned that price tag should not be played up. I couldn't agree any more!
Price tag should be irrelevent, unless, it is a signing that is meant to make an instant impact. It just puts too much pressure on players to perform and more often than not defeats them on a psychological level.
This is vitally important when we look at young players like Nani and Anderson who cost a fortune, and Hargreaves, who needs a run in the side consistenly as well as time to adapt to the United side properly. If you remember, Hargreaves played for a slow playing Bayern side so the change in tempo and pace is a huge thing for him.
There are a few places that I would like to see him improve his game. He does play a lot of square balls and sometimes he can be quite negative in terms of his midfield distribution, however, Hargreaves does know his limits in terms of what he can do on the ball and I would much rather than "Hargo" kept it simple, rather than being a player like Nicky Butt who often seemed to think he was capable of Scholes-esque balls when he wasn't.
Hargreaves has been assigned to provide us something that none of the other midfielders can do at United. Last night was a case in point, in terms of nullifying players with raw pace and power. He did a splendid job on Benzema whenever he would drop back into the midfield to link up the play. He did a good job tracking and attempting to make the very dangerous Govou, ineffectual. The fact that we had two other central midfielders playing just goes to show that the majority of the forward distribution and creativity was the job of both Anderson and Scholes, and any lack of should be pointed at those two instead of Hargreaves.
What Hargreaves did well in that game, also went unnoticed. He won the ball on many occasions when, both Scholes and Anderson struggled to win balls, and he linked the play up to them two very well. I think that people can jump to conclusions on a player when quite clearly, they don't have much of an understanding for the tactical elements of a players game.
Price tag should be irrelevent, unless, it is a signing that is meant to make an instant impact. It just puts too much pressure on players to perform and more often than not defeats them on a psychological level.
This is vitally important when we look at young players like Nani and Anderson who cost a fortune, and Hargreaves, who needs a run in the side consistenly as well as time to adapt to the United side properly. If you remember, Hargreaves played for a slow playing Bayern side so the change in tempo and pace is a huge thing for him.
There are a few places that I would like to see him improve his game. He does play a lot of square balls and sometimes he can be quite negative in terms of his midfield distribution, however, Hargreaves does know his limits in terms of what he can do on the ball and I would much rather than "Hargo" kept it simple, rather than being a player like Nicky Butt who often seemed to think he was capable of Scholes-esque balls when he wasn't.
Hargreaves has been assigned to provide us something that none of the other midfielders can do at United. Last night was a case in point, in terms of nullifying players with raw pace and power. He did a splendid job on Benzema whenever he would drop back into the midfield to link up the play. He did a good job tracking and attempting to make the very dangerous Govou, ineffectual. The fact that we had two other central midfielders playing just goes to show that the majority of the forward distribution and creativity was the job of both Anderson and Scholes, and any lack of should be pointed at those two instead of Hargreaves.
What Hargreaves did well in that game, also went unnoticed. He won the ball on many occasions when, both Scholes and Anderson struggled to win balls, and he linked the play up to them two very well. I think that people can jump to conclusions on a player when quite clearly, they don't have much of an understanding for the tactical elements of a players game.
