Your only fielding 10 players there mate
also as per thread title kagawa will replace rooney
done. Glad SAF sorted that before he left
You're right. In my zeal to type the names "Fabregas" and "Bale" (preferring Ronaldo, of course, but I can't see Real letting him go at any price) I forgot about Kagawa, who I really do see doing great things next season.
I still can't get my hear around Rooney being such a petulant moron. He's got it great, the money pours in every week from a firehose and the adoring United fanbase overlooks all his transgressions, the most bizarre of which was to bone a granny hooker. What could be so fukking horrible about playing for a club which is always in the hunt for a prem title and you get paid gobs of cash no matter how shitty your play is?
But if Rooney leaves, my only point is that with a tweak here and there, we can still run riot over the prem. Let's forget Fabregas. If somehow we could pry Mata from the chavs and somehow get Levy to accept 60m for Bale, my XI (assuming I can count to XI) is still ridiculous:
De Gea
Rafael/Rio/Vidic/Evra
Valencia/Carrick/Kagawa/Bale
Mata/RvP
Forget whether we're talking 442, 4231, 433 or whatever and exactly where everyone would play (I'm more a function guy than a strict formation guy, although my math leaves something to be desired). With the bench that we have behind that presumed starting XI, however Moyes has them deployed, the addition of Bale and Mata leaves us much better off than Rooney and no new other additions. I see no festering headcases to deal with, no threat of new ransom demands and a squad that has two potential all-worlders -- RvP and Bale -- which will bring in buckets of goals against English squads that for the most part have iffy back lines.
The problem remains our top competitors in the CL, but we already know that. I doubt any us have good answers for dealing with Bayern and Barcelona. But at least this would be a squad that would put in a decent show against them.
