I just wanted to rile you up a little. Couple of times I have read you refer O'Shea as a legend as a swipe at others and Fergie, which peeved me a little as I thought it was unfair to one of the better squad players we have had. Every team needs a player like him; a selfless player who is ready to perform in whichever position, whenever the manager wants. Those qualities need to be appreciated a little more. A squad cannot contain 25 superstars, who all want to play every week.
No hard feelings, please.
And come on, O'Shea didn't make Falcao look good. Falcao pulled an absolute piece of magic from a locker which he has rarely opened at United. O'Shea made Falcao look like United Falcao for most of the game.
I can understand the frustration with Anderson and with Smalling/Jones, though I do not agree that the reason for the current mess is keeping the squad players for too long. The problem has been throwing money around like lottery winners combined with terrible planning. We have spend close to 250m pounds since Fergie retired and when I go read the "Summer spending" threads there is a clamour to sign 5 or 6 top quality players, and with in good reason too. Despite of our massive spend and wage bill, we still need first choice RB, CB's, a Carrick replacement, a striker and a winger. That is a bigger issue, imo.
Why do we need to reinforce so many positions despite buying 7 players at an average of 35m each in the last three transfer windows? Did anyone stop Moyes and Van Gaal from buying a top quality CB or CM? Were any of our squad players such as Valencia, Young, Smalling or Jones reasons for us not to upgrade? I don't believe the answer to any of those questions is a yes. It's Woodard and his two managers ineptness that has got us to this position, imo.
You can only compare him with players in the same position so that has to rule out Stones. Only Ings and Austin along with Kane bear comparison. He's better than the former 2 but not on the same level yet as Kane. However this is Kanes first season being so prolific. Berahino has been scoring at all the levels he's played at for 2 seasons now. He has the potential to be as good as Andy Cole given the right team and coaching
I agree with much of what you said but not this second sentence. Milner and Young aren't limited footballers and they also haven't stolen a few caps, unless a few now means over 50. Milner was a great midfielder for Villa and has been great wherever he has been asked to play for City. You don't make 40+ appearances and be an important player for the league champions if you are limited. Don't let his hardworking style fool you, he is a good footballer. Young players like Berahino will be lucky to have careers like Milner.
Them having that many caps just drives my point home. Milner is a limited player and was never a great midfielder. Increase the standard and he looks mediocre because of how limited he is. Berahino should be greatly disappointed if all he can achieve in his career is being a squad player.
Exactly my point, you saying sterling is the only real talent is telling me that you're stuck in that zone where England was producing mediocre players.
Berahino will be disappointed if all he does is regularly play for a team who wins the league twice in three years? Yeah, ok. You clearly know nothing about Milner's game either.
If his name was Manuel Michel Rodriguez or something along those lines you wouldn't be saying that. I get fed up with the constant belittling of English players. Berahino has been very impressive at West Brom, no disrespect to them but if we went to a bigger club I think he will become even better simply because he's playing with better players.
If he becomes a squaddie who's always brought in to do a 'job' at any team he should be disappointed, he's got a much higher ceiling than that.
Was to lazy to list all the great talents around in english football hence no mention of wilshere, barkley or morrison. The level of english talent was low for ages, so in a way I understand the where it comes from, its just really disappointing.
What makes the guy less suited to United than other untried foreign kids?
