In Ole's last season, he deployed Greenwood as a striker at the beginning matches (Before Ronaldo arrived) and it actually provided quite positive results. Rashford and Garnacho could swap positions on either wing to make our attacking plays more unpredictable.
Is Rooney, Ronaldo, Tevez the Premier League’s best ever front three
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Nothing stops Fergie from communicating it clearly to Tevez if that was what he planned.
Greenwood would likely have been the striker, meaning Garnacho could play on the right as he did for a lot of last season.
Probably, they were just awesome together, such a fluid attack all 3 would just go wherever and there was none of this he can only play on the left bullshit. Any forward player should be able to play across all 3 forward positions easily. Just a shame Tevez was a such a bellend and Ronaldo wanted Madrid.
If they had to stay together, Utd would have probably have won the couple of PL titles they missed out on and had a better chance of beating Barca in those CL finals.
If they had to stay together, Utd would have probably have won the couple of PL titles they missed out on and had a better chance of beating Barca in those CL finals.
Yorke and Cole for me.
In terms of number of goals scored, no.
Van Nistelrooy was a incredible. too bad his years at the club coincided with a period of rebuilding.
Agree.
Rooney, Ronaldo and Tevez worked well for the 08 campaign but the following season the fluidity and aggression was severely lacking. Sure, fans may point in the direction of Berbatovs introduction but I think there were signs late in 08 that the combinations weren't really gelling.
Sure the irony being that Berbatov himself also found it hard to strike a consistent partnership with any of them.
When I look back at the two seasons with Ronaldo, Rooney, Tevez and then Berbatov, even with the ridiculous season from Ronaldo in 08, there's still a feeling of 'what could have been'.
I think, to some extent, it looked better on paper than what we were actually witnessing.
Personally, I think Ronaldo, Saha and Rooney had a better, seamless flow to it.
Greenwood was a massive talent who fecked up.
Rashford showed promise at the start of his career and for about 2-3 seasons but has serious attitude problem and Garnacho is overrated as feck in here, his end product is atrocious compared to minutes played. Kinda like a rich man's Dan James
Ah yes the famous trio
I think so, yeah. The football we played that season was incredible.
It was a front four with Giggs. And it wasn't the best front four he played in.
Suárez was better.
Yes is the correct answer.
I agree with this. They would've been something else in the early 2010s but Rooney's decline would've disrupted it around 2012/2013.
Tevez really wasn't that great for Utd, think his time at utd is extremely overrated for his individual level at the time.
He was a grafter and had some great moments, but his general play was often extremely untidy. He was a poor mans Rooney in many ways and he was far better for City than he ever was for Utd.
He was a grafter and had some great moments, but his general play was often extremely untidy. He was a poor mans Rooney in many ways and he was far better for City than he ever was for Utd.
Ronaldo, Rooney, Saha or Ronaldo, Rooney, Tevez ?
Your club also has Sterling-Suárez-Sturridge. They were on fire in that 2013-14 season.
they were class obviously but I don’t think they worked as well as a three as mane, firmino and salah did
Some people don't seem to understand what best front three means. It doesn't mean best players playing together, it means best front 3 combined in terms of how they played together and complimented each other. Saying things like Firmino is the weak link in Liverpool's front three when he made the thing work because of his hold up play and work rate is such a dumb take.
Ronaldo - Rooney - Tevez for me is the best. Not just because all three were insanely good (ronaldo and rooney espeically) But the work rate of Tevez and Rooney in terms of pressing before gegen press was a thing was so great to watch. Salah - Mane - Firmino is a close second. Obviously i'm biased but the aforementioned had more creativity, flair and passing ability across the board for me. Some of their link up play as amazing and they were all three absolutely rapid on the counter.
Ronaldo - Rooney - Tevez for me is the best. Not just because all three were insanely good (ronaldo and rooney espeically) But the work rate of Tevez and Rooney in terms of pressing before gegen press was a thing was so great to watch. Salah - Mane - Firmino is a close second. Obviously i'm biased but the aforementioned had more creativity, flair and passing ability across the board for me. Some of their link up play as amazing and they were all three absolutely rapid on the counter.
He wasn’t.
100% this. Tevez wasn’t even that good when he was at United. Averaged a goal every three games and often looked poor and disinterested. Especially once we signed Berbatov and he had to deal with squad rotation. Five league goals in his final season. No way is a striker with that sort of productivity part of the best ever PL front three.
If him and Ronaldo hadn’t wormed their way out to play for rivals long before their prime then the three of them would have been sensational together. But in reality, no chance.
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Not even close. Agreed.
There was a lot of talk about Tevez not feeling valued but he also turned down the pre-agreed contract towards the end of his loan spell and went to City for a bigger wage.
Which is totally fair enough, if he hadn't have done the Fergie RIP thing then it would be a case of our mistake but it puts him in a different light.
He was a much different player in his second year and Fergie put that down to having his head turned by City.
Yes. They were joy to watch.
Biggest Fergie's mistake ever is to not doing everything to keep them together.
Biggest Fergie's mistake ever is to not doing everything to keep them together.
I would say he was by a margin.
What would City's be? Aguero Silva sane (did they all play at the say that time?)
Don't mean to be rude, but it doesn't.
They are, by quite a lot of distance, and I feel sorry, this hasn't worked out.
Berbatov
Ronaldo Tevez
Rooney
It would be magical.
Berbatov
Ronaldo Tevez
Rooney
It would be magical.
Id take Cantona over all 3 of them.
Scored less and assisted less. Won less trophies too.
Per minutes more though, and his overall game was a lot better than rvp.
Nah, Van Persie had better goals per minute too. Hard disagree on your assertion. Even more so when you claim he was considerably better.
I know he didn't though.
Suarez wasn’t better than Van Persie in 12/13, but 13/14 Suarez was superior to any season Van Persie ever had, he was an absolute menace.
He almost took a terrible Liverpool side with an aging Gerrard to a title, he made Daniel Sturridge look like one of the best players in the league.
I don’t know why we never were in for him when Liverpool got him, he was already well known from the WC and Ajax, he was like Carloz Tevez but a better version, the Aguero season never happens if we had Suarez.
You’re wrong though.
No.
They had one season together!
They had one season together!
Because he was already known as a diving, biting, stamping cnut at Ajax wasn't he and no other top club wanted to touch him