Originally posted by Davo:
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Exactly..
Its not a case of "sacrifice" a season so that OG and O'Shea can develop into a decent CB partnership...
You're looking to challange for honours home and in Europe so you need excellent players..will O'Shea become one? Who knows...
Will OG? I doubt it..</strong><hr></blockquote>
Right. If scarfice one season can "gurantee" future success, everyone will agree to scrafice now. But in this world there is nothing as "gurantee success". That's why we must continue to strengthen our squad every season.
And this is the same for the scousers. I'm happy you don't sign a world class playmaker, whom you should need most if you want to go up a level to challenge for the title. Bowyer is just another version of Gerrard or Murphy. He won't give anything new to you.
Originally posted by blythy:
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You're just as bad as Kemo for transfer-loving, you know that? I nominate you next week
Blythy, don't know about Kemo, but I just see the need we have of signing 1 or 2 new defenders.
It doesn't take Einstein to work out that the defence was the problem last season when we dropped from winning the league in record time to 3rd place behind the boring Scousers.
We have to sign a couple of defenders and I simply want to see the best playing for United.
I'd be equally happy seeing Nesta as our centre back when we win the CL as seeing Brown, and I honestly think that with Nesta (or Ferdinand) on board, it's a lot more likely to happen.
Also, we CAN afford it, so spend big and make the rest of Europe take notice.
Rio is only starting to become a very very very good player because he plays week in week out for years. If Brown and O'Shea had that opportuinty, they would both end up better than Rio Ferdinand IMO. But, they have never had that chance.
It's the same as Beckham, Giggs, Scholes, Butt, Nevs, etc. If you don't play you can't improve.
Give them a go I say, and lets see.
Many people complain about our youth system not producing new players. Well it does, but they never get the chance to play and get sold off. Look a Chadwick for example. He'll never improve unless he plays week in week out. But at his current level he will never play instead of Beckham will he? And he can't improve unless he plays instead of Beckham.
When Beckham first played it was because there was nobody else at the time.
Now, we have no CBs - same situation. Give them a go an lets see what happens. I'm 100% sure that they will not disappiont.
It's the same as Beckham, Giggs, Scholes, Butt, Nevs, etc. If you don't play you can't improve.
Give them a go I say, and lets see.
Many people complain about our youth system not producing new players. Well it does, but they never get the chance to play and get sold off. Look a Chadwick for example. He'll never improve unless he plays week in week out. But at his current level he will never play instead of Beckham will he? And he can't improve unless he plays instead of Beckham.
When Beckham first played it was because there was nobody else at the time.
Now, we have no CBs - same situation. Give them a go an lets see what happens. I'm 100% sure that they will not disappiont.
Give them a go, and IF they don't make the grade, we'd have messed up our season, now that's not exactly very clever, is it?