Good lord chief. Carrick really ain't close to busquets
Shinji Kagawa | Signs for Manchester United
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Good lord chief. Carrick really ain't close to busquets
Wtf?! I had to scroll down to see the Kagawa thread! Has he signed for City?
Kagawa.
Why can't he tease us a bit? Claiming there are more clubs involved in a race for his signature, for example? Saying that Liverpool winning the COC has to be taken into account when choosing his club? Claiming that he'll announce which club he's signed for live on worldwide tv after the next Japan-match?
Please Shinji give us something to feed off. We need you, now more than ever.
Please Shinji give us something to feed off. We need you, now more than ever.
I'm not. Carrick at his best is every bit as effective. It's his 2.5 years of bad form that made people think him more limited than he actually is.
About the topic, Kagawa is so old schools. He doesn't even tweet to tell us his new club.
Oh, I knew it. It was too good to be true.
Cheap, technically brilliant, quick, creative, doesn't care about money, flogs shirts like frog legs in Asia..
Then it turns out he's got a fecking Tom Cleverley-esque website.
On to the next one then. Now where did I put the thread about us signing Shaun Derry?
It isn't employing the same strategy. Its rather a case of giving our attacking players a platform to attack and defend in packs. Without ceding midfield control to anyone.
I have not proposed a formation that is wingless nor width-less. That should be pretty obvious to anyone paying attention.
Check out "Shinji's voice" !
I unfortunately already did.
He needs to get himself on Twitter instead. That's just horrible. Inexcusable.
I haven't really checked this thread as I have thought it is only a matter of time since day one.
1) Our only competition appears to be Arsenal who happen to be the only club who are half decent that we can beat to transfers
2) He's Japanese, young and one- year contract. Very Glazernomical.
1) Our only competition appears to be Arsenal who happen to be the only club who are half decent that we can beat to transfers
2) He's Japanese, young and one- year contract. Very Glazernomical.
Deal's off.
Guy's got a website dwarfing Cleverley's. One section is called "Shinji's voice".
I'm half expecting there to exist a trading card game in his honour.
Glad we're pulling out TBH.
Let's send him messages of love, maybe that will quicken up this deal
The idea of The Caf sending him messages of love is a scary one.. might put him off!
Kagawa never stays in one position for the whole game. He drops deep and pushes forward throughout the 90 minutes.
Oh great, just what we need, another positionally undisciplined youngster
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Eh? His role will be to create things from 'hole' position, and to do that he'll need to come deep sometimes to find space to collect the ball.
you got served
I just want us to wrap this up now so us muppets can get onto the next one.
It's wrapped up I'm sure.
Problem we have here is, there seem to be no sniffs of rumor about the next 1million view redcafe thread.
Is there a next one? SAF has already said we are not going for a holding player as he doesn't use them. So where else do we need to sign anyone?
A proper CM.
what thats it? Kagawa and no other signings?
Michael Carrick has played 273 games for Manchester United.
Sometimes Fergie's just taking the piss, thinking everyone's stupid.
He's not really a holding player, he just is the more defensive player, if he had someone else who could cover for him he could offer a lot going forward. I think Fergie meant more in terms of we're not looking for a specialised holding midfielder such as De Jong.
It's just Fergie's definition of a holding player. Both Carrick and Scholes could be classified as a sort of holding player.
What he means is the club haven't used a proper "destroyer", a Makelele-type of player. Which is obviously wrong, because he signed Hargreaves.
He won't hesitate to bring in a Carrick-type of CM if the right one's avilable, I hope. But he wants them to be able to contribute offensively as well I think.
Carrick could contribute offensively if he had someone who could cover effectively for him.
Yup, which is my and Fergie's point.
Although Hargreaves is arguably the one time he's brought a midfielder in for the sole purpose of shielding the defence - didn't excactly work out though.
Carrick is not a proper holding midfielder. He can play the role of one if need be, but he's more of a proper centre mid and is used as one as well pretty much all of the time.
I don't think Hargreaves was bought for that at all, when he played CM he didn't just sit a la Makelele. And a good portion of his games were on the right.
SAF is right, he doesn't play a holding player in the Makelele ilk.
Carrick just needs to perfect the art of horizontal rolling in agony dramatics and he'll be on a par.
Hargreaves was quite poor as I remember it in CM. He did a better job at RM and RB actually. Never quite "got" Hargreaves as a midfielder.
Who do you think he'll bring in? he'll surely have to sign another proper midfielder..
Yeah, though I think he got him more for his box to box play then as a defensive midfielder.
I didn't think he was poor in CM, he had some cracking games in there with Anderson. He had some very average ones too, we never really had him fit long enough to see how that would've worked out.
I hope like hell that he signs another midfielder but it'll depend on his formation. If he does go.
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[CENTER]Carrick [I][B]CM2[/B][/I]
Kagawa
Valencia Nani
Rooney[/CENTER]Then CM2 can be any of Cleverley, Anderson, Scholes.
If he really is going for that formation, I wouldn't be surprised if he ignored midfield again. I'd be gutted, but not surprised.
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