Buying better than Bendy (Sarcasm) The Transfer Thread

The first choice central midfield last season was Carrick and Scholes. They were joined by Hargreaves or Anderson depending on the opposition.

XI Last Season:

---- Rooney - Tevez
------------------- Ronaldo
Giggs
--- Scholes - Carrick
Evra - Vidic - Ferdinand - Brown
------ Van der Sar

XI This Season:

------- Berbatov
------ Rooney --- Ronaldo
Park
-- Anderson - Fletcher
Evra - Vidic - Ferdinand - ?
------ Van der Sar

Ideally...

------- Berbatov
Rooney - Tevez - Ronaldo
--- Scholes - Carrick
Evra - Vidic - Ferdinand - Brown
------ Van der Sar

Against stronger opposition we would replace one of our central midfield with Hargreaves, Fletcher or Anderson or put one of our attacking options on the bench to create a midfield trio.

 

Purely basing on what Tevez has shown in Europe so far, Rooney has a higher peak but Tevez is more consistent.

The Boca Tevez could match peak Rooney though; unfortunately that hasn't been visible so far.

 

I am a little confused. When we beat you guys, you blamed it on not having your starting midfield, but Scholes was the only person missing. You were saying that your midfield was exposed or was too weak, which left your attack isolated. Scholes is not going to help you out there. If anything, this scenario is even more attacking minded.

Furthermore, your second suggestion of formation against stronger opposition is basically what you all played. You took out Teves and played Park instead. Of course, Anderson was not there instead of Scholes, but he is more defensive anyways. I don't really see what you are complaining about except your loss of Scholes. Honestly, I think your midfield in the ideal scenario is not strong enough.

 

I can honestly say, I do not give a flying fucc about ManU's formations and lineups in the Transfer Thread... can we take it to "The Other Team's Thread" please, thank you

 

Ha! Maybe you have missed something, but that has been the discussion here for the last three pages - one that you have posted on more than once. I guess you are only allowed to discuss it here?

 

Against stronger opposition, ideally we would be playing a midfield 3 of Scholes, Carrick and Fletcher/Hargeaves. Scholes, Fletcher and Hargreaves were all injured and Carrick was unfit (coming off a 3-month layoff). We are obviously though a midfielder short with Scholes winding down, Hargeaves with his bad knees and Anderson (like Gerrard) not suitable for a 2-man midfield.

 

Well that leaves you without playing one of your four forwards. Also, Scholes basically is done, and Hargreaves' chances of seeing the field are about the same as Rocisky's.

 

There are lots of teams against which all 4 can play together. It is only when we face good teams who are going to play a midfield 3 that one of them would need to sit out.

Scholes probably has another season left in him but you obviously cannot expect him to do all the running (like in the game at pool where he was completely overwhelmed). We are probably looking to groom Possebon as his successor.
Hargreaves either should make a sufficient enough recovery after his operation or should end up as a Rosicky. Either way, he is not contributing this season and should not be relied upon; which is why we are atleast a man short in cm.

 

Pardon my ignorance, but could someone direct me to a site that explains the positions of a "true #9", etc.? I've searched many different places and couldn't find enough to answer my questions.

Thanks in advance.

 

of course... me and me only


lol... nah, I actually think I started the convo in saying that Tevez wasnt going to come back to United, and it blew up from there...

so, I , ME, sorry

 

I understand where you were coming from. I was a little bored and decided to indulge. You are correct though that this probably isn't the best thread for these discussions.

To that point, back to talking about Elia, the guy that has only been linked to us by John the female and about the Belgian kid, Defour, that has also sparked interest from everyone else as well.

 

I don't think United has a first choice midfield.

 

You said SAF disagrees with me, implying I must be wrong. I believe I'm right, but if you're gonna play this game, then you're no longer allowed to criticize Wenger and when you do so, it means he disagree's with you, so therefore you're wrong.

 

#9 is a center forward/striker.

The position numbers come from the 2-3-5 formation (yes, I have that order correct -- 2 fullback, 5 attacking players!). By the 1890's it was the dominant formation in Britain and it was used by most top clubs into the 1940's.

Here's the entire list:

• 1 – Goalkeeper
• 2 – Right back
• 3 – Left back
• 4 – Centre back
• 5 – Centre back ('Libero')
• 6 – Defensive midfielder
• 7 – Right winger
• 8 – Centre midfielder
• 9 – Centre forward
• 10 – Offensive midfielder (playmaker) / Second striker
• 11 – Left winger

 

Interesting. I never knew that 7 & 11 were originally 'specific' wing players. Now I'm curious who some of the #11's are in the Premiership.

 

Ryan Giggs and Cristiano Ronaldo?

 

No objection to the discussion, but perhaps a mod could retitle the thread?

 

Elevens...

Drogba, Riera, Agbonlahor, Giggs, van Persie, Hughes, Duff...

A pretty wide range of player styles right there.

 

Why bother?

 

Sorry, back on topic:

when the hell are we going to sign Yaya Toure?

 

Forget that, sign Sergi Busquets.

 

I expect no real signings(impact) in January, and honestly no one should either, big time impact players rarely move during that transfer window, if we sign someone it's gonna be like a Adebayor type signing.

 

All you had to do is look at our number ten to realize that numbers do not mean shit anymore. However (and to totally contradict myself), I remember the last time I was in Africa all of the little kids told me their position by their squad number. One would say, "I play number six.", and I was supposed to know exactly what that meant. I guess it still does have meaning in some places around the world.