http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/4918946.stm So that's Fortune Bellion From our fringe out thus far. I think there's 4more who'll get sold... I wonder how many we plan to bring in.
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. Good bye the new errrrnnnneeeeeee , I will always remember you for your goal vs the arse and that goal vs bolton and that’s all I have ..ta ta ta
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. Damn, I thought he would turn into the new Henry. Always liked this guy, although he was ********ing expensive.
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. I wonder how much did we get for him? Not surprised at 23. Plus it seems Rossi and some others where higher in the pecking order. I doubt that the lost of Bellion and Fortune will signal a spending spree. Just clearing room for some of the youth players to step in.
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. Well he was extremely fast and could dribble decent (don't quote me on that one) and had a good shot... I don't see why he couldn't have become something better with luck.. apparently he didn't have the right luck.
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. I heard quite a few people say exactly the same thing so you're not alone. *shrug* Just never saw anything quite that remarkable ahead of him myself. I did think he could have been better than he became in his time here, perhaps becoming an impact player off the bench and using his pace to stretch the weary legs of defenders late in the game and maybe being the 4th choice striker in some kind of rotation system. On the face of it, 8 goals in 40 apperances isn't that bad either especially when many of those appearances were off the bench and not all were up front. Oh well, farewell Super-Bellion man.
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. Thats what I want to know. Whats Fergie going to do with Oshea and or Fletcher.
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. I am going to go out on the limb and say both Oshea and fletcher are going to be around next year in matter of fact i am about 99% sure of it
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. I think these additional players from the 1st team periphery are gone in the summer. Howard Silvestre Fletcher or O'Shea Miller possibly Richardson as well
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. I think Eagles may stay with Watford on a permanent. Just have that feeling.
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. If they get promoted (they can't do so automatically anymore, but are in definitely the playoffs), the smartest thing for us to do would be to loan them Foster & Eagles for one more year and see how they do. If they both perform very well, then we have our backup and potential successor to VDS (if Howard leaves), as well as a good young winger to try out - for free.
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. I think that O'Shea has played himself back into the periphery of the team over the past couple of months. He's certainly not great, but he's proven to SAF that he can be useful.
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. I think he played himself out of the periphery. Hestarted well, but kind of went mediocre, then got rested, then wasnt the same. Now he has a small knock, and hasnt gotten a game since Bolton.
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. Howard Yes Silvestre Yes Flectcher/Oshea NO Miller Yes Richardson - no Howard - i can see him leaving with foster and steele starting to groom into decent keepers i can see one of them being the back up and howard going to everton or a club like that . Silvestre - when we got Vidic and Evra it was the sign to me that Silvestre was out of the door. right now we have solid back four and a quality back up in each spot and kinda leaves silvestre as the odd man out Flecther and oshea ...like i said in my last replay they are both going to be in the team next year; the only thing i could maybe see is fletcher go out on loan - maybe Miller Yes but i still say give him one last chance and if he doesn’t now work out then sell him in Jan Richardson I cant stand his attitude but with him being young and he does have some talent i can see him around for at least one more year
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. I hate the fact that we might keep himbecause of this. He did the exact same thing last year after being very poor earlier in the season, and then went on to be unthinkably horrible for the first 6-7 months of this season. He doesn't seem to put in any effort until he realises his job is on the line.
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. He's Scottish. Duh. But in all seriousness, I don't think there will be a large scale clearout this season. Fortune is leaving and Silvestre hopefully is, but as we've seen with the sale of Phil Neville, its often a bad idea to sell players just because you think they're expendible. Within less than a year, we dumped him, Dj2, and Kleberson from the CM position. It'd be a bad idea to make the same mistake this year, or to do so with any other position (for the "sell Saha while his stock is high" folks).
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. Fletcher may be kept on now that I read that post. For depth especially.
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. I worry about the Fletch. His time may have passed. To his benefit, he's homegrown so it doesn't cost much to keep him around. Using 22 as the desired squad size next season, here's how it looks to me: VDS Howard (or some other back-up) Neville Brown Ferdinand Vidic Heinze Evra Ronaldo Giggs Park Scholes O'Shea Jones Mr. Pink Van Nistelrooy Rooney Saha Smith Solskjaer Rossi On the bubble: Silvestre - may depend on if Bardsley or Pique is ready Fletcher - depends on purchases this summer Richardson - same as Fletcher Likely gone: Miller Gone: Fortune Bellion More reserves: Pique
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. Intresting. Dark, have you heard on where Howard may go? I would love to see him back in the States
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. Yeah, I mean not to get this too far off topic (then again, how much can be said about Bellion to begin with?) but next year I expect that CM depth chart to look something like: CM1 Fletcher CM2 Smith (once he returns) O'Shea Scholes is a wildcard in all of this because we genuinely have no idea what his situation is. I recall a few months ago someone in the profession posted here that his case may be similar to what originally forced Kirby Puckett to retire, and that would be a big problem for his future if true.
Re: Bellion is the second one out the door. Alright, this has strayed a little off the subject of Bellion, so I made a thread about ins, outs & whatnot (no it's not the transfer thread ).