Suedesi:
This is going to be good
promises, promises...
If Scholes loses the ball, he tries to win it back, Veron most likely will scratch his head. Furthermore, Scholes plays more upfront, whereas anytime Veron loses the ball our defence gets exposed badly.
Boro at OT anyone?
i'll change that "please be serious, mate" to "please, don't be idiotic, mate" <img src="graemlins/keano.gif" border="0" alt="[Keano]" />
whether Scholes TRIES or not to win the ball back is not the issue (and i've ALREADY said that he does, why bother repeating that?),
the FACT is he can't tackle
and if you watch last season's games again, you will find that Seba is not averse to making those dangerous lunges either. he even picked up a couple of cautions that way. unfortunately, the results aren't that impressive, but that's because he is a CREATIVE player...
if you're bent on looking at the bloopers videos and laughing your brains out, that's fine by me, but please don't use that as an alternative to making a rational argument,
even Keano who plays deeper than Seba gave the ball away. our defenders did that as well - Larry, Gary and Mika, not to mention Fab, were all guilty of this, AF's response was not to drop them, he referred to these as 'individual errors' which had to be eliminated (and he wasn't talking about the players!)
if every player (and that's every player there is) who drops a few clangers is dropped, we might as well not bother sending a team in there...
What? Veron's passing has been abyssmal. He lost the ball way too many times that way. And he was disposed off the ball way more frequently than at Serie A.
i just said he's been in poor form - seems to me, your idea of making an argument is to repeat what i said and claim that as a victory for yourself....
anyway, let's just clear that up for good - if you're suggesting that Veron IS an abysmal passer, we can stop right here and you can claim whatever you want...
if all you're saying is that he was in bad form, NO ONE has doubted that, i've already said so myself...
The fact that we paid what we paid for him means little. It's a stupid argument if you ask me. Fact remains that he didn't fit in at all with United's playing style... he slows the game down considerably. He's used succesfully his playing skills to create a numerical advantage in midfield very rarely, due to poor form, an aptitude of giving the ball away/being dispossesed too easily, and a tendency of holding the ball/slowing the play down. Take Zidane for example: the man is never dispossesed, and with his quick dribbling or 1-2 he always creates a superiority in Juve's/Real's midfield... Veron just doesn't do that at United.
if you think it's a stupid argument, that maybe down to your whole idea of what making an argument is all about....
it's not WHAT we paid, but WHY, and this is boiling down to a formation/strategy discussion again...
watch the successful games he had last season again, if you need to see that yes, he can fit in and indeed, take charge of the game...
'due to poor form' again - so you agree that was the real trouble or not? make up your mind.
Zidane had a poor start to the last season, as opposed to Veron, and he isn't immune to having bad games either, he had quite a few for Real too...
secondly, Zidane plays behind the front two, Veron is a deep-lying plymaker, obviously he doesn't venture in for 1-2s as much, but it's not as if he can't, he prefers to control the MF from deep - he doesn't have to be another Zidane to be a great player, he already is, being Seba Veron...
the adjustment from Italy to Spain are, i would imagine, easier to make than Italy to England
anyway, check out the first couple of months he spent at OT, even winning Player of the Month, before you pronounce that he can't play in a Utd. shirt...
I wasn't aware of that. Didn't we win feckall last year, despite Ruud's tremendous impact???
what are you, a football fan or a fecking PLC board member?
I REPEAT: "no formation is FORM-PROOF"
ever tried looking at our defending last season? or how about Giggs's disappearance in the big games? no, wait a minute, i forgot - you want to blame Veron for that, too...
anyway, you NEED to check out the other thread on formations where Amir and Red Indian have posted enough on the matter...
See, but you're taking for granted that Veron will play very well this year. Just how do you know that? Why is he, all of a sudden, going to fit in with United's play? Did you get a good glimpse of him at the World Cup?
you can't take for granted that Giggs or Becks or Scholes (who had a pretty poor season as well) or whoever will not have a bad season either, that's the nature of the game - if Wenger had sold Pires on after his first season, we would of course still be PL champions...
incidentally, did you get a look at Becks in the WC? i hope you're not about to suggest that he be dropped as well...
i'm assuming, agreed, that Seba's class will not a take a back-seat to his form two seasons in a row - for a player of his pedigree, that's a not an unreasonable asumption to make...
We're still not a complete outfit though. We need a decent fourth striker, and a cover for Giggs due to him being injured a lot. If this Lazio deal went through, we'd have Crespo-RVN an excellent strike partnership, with Ole and Forlan ready to come in, and Sorin or Lopez ready to cover for Giggs/Silvestre. And we wouldn't have Veron
we're still capable of winning the PL without backup for Giggs
it would, of course, be wonderful, but the only ones we can count in that category are Pires, Recoba, Kily, Vicente, Gustavo Lopez, Denilson, Overmars and Duff - but it is highly unlikely that we are about to fork out the necessary millions for any of them
meanwhile, QF does a decent enough job
do we really have back-up for Becks, either? maybe we oughtta go and exchange Veron for Figo then...
we need a 4th striker, agreed, but Crespo with Ruud doesn't strike me as one that will work, Crespo loves to lead the line, and would not be ready to warm the bench
i also think Ole's earned his right to be at least second in the pecking order, and he works well with Ruud.
we need a FOURTH striker or someone like Teddy, not a first-choice goal-scorer...
if you're so ready to lose Veron because he had a poor season, i don't understand how you can then turn around and champion Lopez, who's had a miserable TWO years at Lazio and scored something like 9 goals in 38 games -
but then maybe THAT's your understanding of making an argument...