His goal actually against Basle got us a point actually, but I pretty much dismissed that as we would have still qualified in 3rd without it so it was essentially meaningless.
In the League/Cups his goals have been meaningless in terms of the final result, which I think has always been the problem with Berbatov. When everyone's playing well and the team are flowing he looks majestic, but these are the games you win irrespective. He certainly isn't someone who performs when you are in the trenches and need to find a result a goal or two down.
Well, 3 of his goals - vs Benfica and Blackburn - were scored when we were trailing the game. It wasn't his fault that we failed to win those games. And wins in them would have been quite important, especialy the game vs Benfica. We didn't get good results in those two games but Berbatov was one of our top performers in them.
The only game in which he started and was poor was the game vs Newcastle away. The service he got in that game was dire though. The other forwards didn't perform much better, the whole team was poor.
A main reason for his situation is that he's 31 whereas Chicharito and Welbeck are young, the future is theirs. Fergie has the intention to build another great team before retiring. Berbatov doesn't feature in his plans not only because of his style of play but due to his age as well.
We cannot beat the likes of Barcelona and Real by techically outperforming them. That's quite obvious. What we are supposed to do better than them is playing with more power and pace. Fergie seems to think that's the only possible way to win another CL and his signings sort of prove it. We are signing players who can run a lot, play with great intensity and pace. The likes of Welbeck, Chicharito, Cleverly, Jones etc. fit that picture pretty well. By contrast, Berbatov doesn't fit in well. He is at his best when the team enjoys a lot of possession, both at home and away. However, our tactics seems to be based mainly on fast movement of the ball and lightning attacks, not on possession of the ball.
The fact that Swansea have had more possession than United speaks volumes of the kind of football Fergie wants United to play. Naturally, it's not the type of football Berbatov is great at. Still, when we play at home we can play in a way that can make Berbatov quite useful for us. He has scored 23 goals from 21 starts at Old Trafford since the start of the previous season. So, it's not true that he doesn't suit our style per se. Rather, he doesn't suit our style in games in which we struggle to dominate possession, i.e. mostly in games vs good teams or away games.