Who do you want United to sign?
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an experienced keeper (£8m)(maybes Tim Howard or Schwarzer), ozil (£15m), hamsik(£25m), dzeko(£20m))- not necessarily in that order, before the end of January, and Diouf(priceless).
Sell: Nani(£10m), Berbatov(as he is too good to play second fiddle to Dzeko) (£15m), Gibson (£5m), Tosic (£5m)
Loan: Macheda, Welbeck, Foster, Fabio
----------Keeper---------
---------Rio--Vidic-------
Rafael--------------Evra
-----Fletcher--Hamsik----
Valencia----Ozil<-->Rooney
-----------Dzeko--------
Bench: Keeper,Evans, Brown, Carrick, Anderson, Giggs, Diouf
Backup: Neville,O'Shea, De laet, Scholes, Park, Obertan, Hargreaves (could well leap into first team if he recovers fully), Owen.
Then the kids
CRACKING
Sell: Nani(£10m), Berbatov(as he is too good to play second fiddle to Dzeko) (£15m), Gibson (£5m), Tosic (£5m)
Loan: Macheda, Welbeck, Foster, Fabio
----------Keeper---------
---------Rio--Vidic-------
Rafael--------------Evra
-----Fletcher--Hamsik----
Valencia----Ozil<-->Rooney
-----------Dzeko--------
Bench: Keeper,Evans, Brown, Carrick, Anderson, Giggs, Diouf
Backup: Neville,O'Shea, De laet, Scholes, Park, Obertan, Hargreaves (could well leap into first team if he recovers fully), Owen.
Then the kids
CRACKING
Ronaldo
We've been through this before, he has played CM for Croatia. He can play both those roles, but obviously Harry prefers to have Palacios and Huddlestone in the centre.
Yet people want Modric at United now..
The Legend himself, Spurs be very very afraid, we are hungry again!
Wouldn't that just piss Vidic right off?
However wrong he is it doesn't make it acceptable for dick heads to answer every point he makes with 'Modric' or a reference to Modric, and ignore the rest of his post. You don't need to be right to have a basic level of respect granted to your posts, or at least you shouldn't need to.
I'd hope he'd be mature enough not to be bothered by another player's nationality.
We've been through this before, and you made the point just a couple of weeks ago it'll tell us a lot if Modric gets moved into the centre because of Krancjar.
He didn't.
Playing in the middle at International level's very different from playing it in this league. This league's quicker and more physical. A slower pace makes better use of his intelligent passing in the middle.
He's not Scholes' successor, he's nothing like him, that was the point and that was why he got the piss ripped out of him. That and being a spastic about a lot of other things, like thinking Modric is better than Fabregas.
To be honest, I reckon Kranjcar would've been a good buy for us especially for how cheap Spurs picked him up for.
Fair enough.
You need to make intelligent points to gain respect.
He didn't.
It's a forum, a bit of piss-taking should mean bollocks all on the internet. Someone just told me to go die, which is obviously worse, you don't see me crying about it.
I bet you are.. Inside.
Hamsik
Do you see what I'm seeing?
I have a dream....
He could play in a 3 man midfield. He could probably play in a 2 but only with a real defensive midfielder e.g. someone like Song rather than the likes of Huddlestone and Palacios and that's why he doesn't play in the middle for Spurs, in my opinion.
It depends on what system he plays in I guess, for example in a team which plays 442 and doesn't have a DM, it's logical to play him left wing or they could even put him off the striker but yeah. In a team that plays 433 he'd get a midfield slot.
I can see where he's coming from, I wouldn't say he's nothing like Scholes, they're similar with their passing. I suppose Modric is able to play on the wing because of his dribbling skills and slightly more pace. Plus what Scholes are we even talking about? The current one or the one who didn't use to play as deep?
Except Huddlestone's not actually rubbish.
Modric is simply more effective from a wide position than he'd be centrally in Redknapp's 4-4-2.
If we signed him I'd have no doubt he'd play on the left for us as well. Perhaps he would play centrally when we play in this 4-5-1 system that Fergie increasingly seems to use.
Hamsik or Gourcuff, Jovetic or Dzeko, Krasic or Pastore.
I did, and its obvious that Harry wants to continue with his two 2 DM's in the centre - its all speculation, because we haven't seen him play the centre to see how he would fare.
Yes your right its a different game, but my point was in seeing him play CM for Croatia IMO he could do it in the PL, with a solid DM next to him. Seeing as we haven't seen it yet, I won't comment on him playing CM no more - rather just hang on to my hypotheses.
I wouldn't say he is nothing like him. Technically brilliant footballer, with the ability to control games and make killer passes. Sounds like Scholes to me. In what ways is Scholes different in your opinion?
The Fabregas comment was a little spastic.
if krasic can't play left then forget about him - valencia looks good on the right and, given the lack of funds and giggs' age we need to target key positions
GK - Lloris/Akineev has looked good but i don't think this is a priority position right now seeing as VDS has at least another season ahead of him - I don't think we need a goalkeeper before summer 2011 as long as VDS can stay reasonably fit
Defence - If rio isn't going to regain fitness then we need to bring someone in - the worry is that we will try and get 'value' and bring in someone like upson who's contract is running out - i havent seen enough of simon kjaer and i can't think of anyone good enough to replace rio who, when fit, is one of the worlds best - i think the fullback position is fine with evra, o shea and the da silvas and de laet coming through - evans can play lb too
Centre Midfield - plenty of quantity - is there enough attacking quality though - carrick, fletcher, anderson all very good players with backup in gibson who in years to come could develop like fletcher did - no successor to scholes in the squad which means we are without a quality playmaker - anderson was thought to be the man to do the job but his form can vary wildly from game to game and his passing is erratic. Carrick is still our best passer but is unable to raise his game or perform consistently enough - one poster pointed out that we have relied on our defence and rooney/ronaldo in last three years and since keane moved on - a new roy keane would be incredible
feel envious of arsenal with song/fabregas and ramsey in midfield so players of this mould would be great - gourcuff would be an obvious target - other top players are unlikely to move so unless there is a young talent i'm not sure who we could bring in - alan dzagovic looked good for cska
Wide midfield - another area of mixed progress - giggs has been excellent but is 36, valencia gets better and better, obertan looks a progress, park works hard but doesn't offer enough in an attacking sense and nani has been a massive disappointment - definately an area we are looking to improve and we have apparently tried to move for the benfica winger angel di maria
krasic looked great on the right but this isn't a priority position - robben would have been excellent for the 20 million or so he went for
silva, overpriced in my opinion
arshavin would have been great
modric would be great but spurs won't sell for less than 30 million probably
if he found some fitness Vicente could be an option
cheeky bit for joe cole?
striker - are we going to get enough goals from berbatov/owen?? its too soon to expect anything from macheda/welbeck/diouf - rooney can't do it on his own
would love to see us sign dzeko who has looked excellent and would give us another dimension in attack with his heading ability
GK - Lloris/Akineev has looked good but i don't think this is a priority position right now seeing as VDS has at least another season ahead of him - I don't think we need a goalkeeper before summer 2011 as long as VDS can stay reasonably fit
Defence - If rio isn't going to regain fitness then we need to bring someone in - the worry is that we will try and get 'value' and bring in someone like upson who's contract is running out - i havent seen enough of simon kjaer and i can't think of anyone good enough to replace rio who, when fit, is one of the worlds best - i think the fullback position is fine with evra, o shea and the da silvas and de laet coming through - evans can play lb too
Centre Midfield - plenty of quantity - is there enough attacking quality though - carrick, fletcher, anderson all very good players with backup in gibson who in years to come could develop like fletcher did - no successor to scholes in the squad which means we are without a quality playmaker - anderson was thought to be the man to do the job but his form can vary wildly from game to game and his passing is erratic. Carrick is still our best passer but is unable to raise his game or perform consistently enough - one poster pointed out that we have relied on our defence and rooney/ronaldo in last three years and since keane moved on - a new roy keane would be incredible
feel envious of arsenal with song/fabregas and ramsey in midfield so players of this mould would be great - gourcuff would be an obvious target - other top players are unlikely to move so unless there is a young talent i'm not sure who we could bring in - alan dzagovic looked good for cska
Wide midfield - another area of mixed progress - giggs has been excellent but is 36, valencia gets better and better, obertan looks a progress, park works hard but doesn't offer enough in an attacking sense and nani has been a massive disappointment - definately an area we are looking to improve and we have apparently tried to move for the benfica winger angel di maria
krasic looked great on the right but this isn't a priority position - robben would have been excellent for the 20 million or so he went for
silva, overpriced in my opinion
arshavin would have been great
modric would be great but spurs won't sell for less than 30 million probably
if he found some fitness Vicente could be an option
cheeky bit for joe cole?
striker - are we going to get enough goals from berbatov/owen?? its too soon to expect anything from macheda/welbeck/diouf - rooney can't do it on his own
would love to see us sign dzeko who has looked excellent and would give us another dimension in attack with his heading ability
Lloris & Hamsik please.
Someone anyone with some creativity and pace in the final third please!!!
Who can cross.
Dont get this Modric lovin....kranjaer has comfortably outperformed him on the left for spurs this season...
I guess you missed his injury
Sounds like Krasic.
Nope...broken leg wasnt it....dosnt change the fact Kranjaer has outperformed him this season.
so would you play him ahead of valencia?
Cristiano Ronaldo and Gourcuff
Well yeah it can't be hard to outperform someone who got injured and broke their leg
Modric was very good before his injury and scored in the game he just returned.
Show pony.
No, my point quite clearly being when comparing Modrics performances to Kranjaers this season Kranjear has been the better player from what ive seen....and is keeping Modric out of the side since he returned quite rightly.
Your asking a biased Serb?
In truth I would, Krasic has more end-product than Valencia (something he has worked on in the last two seasons) and generally you get the feeling something will happen when he has the ball in the final third.
Valencia's advantage is he has PL experience and is used to the league.
Anyone!
Hard to play when you've broken your leg isn't it?
Guess you missed his first season at Spurs too.
A more understandable suggestion than Krasic to be honest. Why sign another predominantly right-sided player when Valencia is playing very well?
It's the left wing that needs work. And Modric's creativity and tendency to drift inside would in theory work perfectly with Evra, allowing Evra to overlap and do what he does best.
Modric would be a fantastic signing.
Vuc, I respect you.
Modric isn't really like todays Scholes, because one attacks, and the other sits due his physical condition/age, but certainly similar to a Scholes a few years ago. And what we definitely need right now, and have needed for some time. Scholes also played on the left for England at times. What you have tried to explain about he can play in the middle for Croatia because a slower pace makes use of his intelligent passing just doesn't make sense. Heres a quote from Redknapp:
"I think he could play for anyone, he's that good. He's a fantastic footballer, amazing player, great brain," "Not only is he a great footballer, he's strong, he works for the team, takes knocks and gets on with it." "I played him off the front, I've played him wide left and he plays central in a 4-4-2. Against Stoke he was fantastic in the middle of the park, against a physical team, and he was the best player on the pitch that night.
I'm sure a few people would disagree with you Brwned when you say Huddlestone is 'rubbish'. It will be interesting when Lennon returns, to see where Redknapp plays Modric and Kranjcar. He has said they can play in the same side.
And I do still think Modric is better than Fabregas. He simply doesn't get the media spotlight because he plays for Spurs and not one of the top 4.
Vuc, I respect you.
Modric isn't really like todays Scholes, because one attacks, and the other sits due his physical condition/age, but certainly similar to a Scholes a few years ago. And what we definitely need right now, and have needed for some time. Scholes also played on the left for England at times. What you have tried to explain about he can play in the middle for Croatia because a slower pace makes use of his intelligent passing just doesn't make sense. Heres a quote from Redknapp:
"I think he could play for anyone, he's that good. He's a fantastic footballer, amazing player, great brain," "Not only is he a great footballer, he's strong, he works for the team, takes knocks and gets on with it." "I played him off the front, I've played him wide left and he plays central in a 4-4-2. Against Stoke he was fantastic in the middle of the park, against a physical team, and he was the best player on the pitch that night.
I'm sure a few people would disagree with you Brwned when you say Huddlestone is 'rubbish'. It will be interesting when Lennon returns, to see where Redknapp plays Modric and Kranjcar. He has said they can play in the same side.
And I do still think Modric is better than Fabregas. He simply doesn't get the media spotlight because he plays for Spurs and not one of the top 4.