Isn't his contract up in 2012? Shouldn't the club be sorting out an extension right now?
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As a side note, is "penetration" SAF's favorite word? The dirty old fart.
Theres no question about that.
Glad he is doing well, would have thought 3 years ago when he came to United that last night's performance would be the norm by now
Did anyone else realise Rooney slapping Anderson during his celebration?
For a second when I saw that yesterday, I thought Anderson was going to take a slight swing at Rooney but I guess he was too busy celebrating his goal to notice anything.
Anderson drives me mad more often than not. He insists on trying killer passes while struggling to get simple ones right.
That said, and alright he did fade in the last 20, I actually saw his potential the other night. He was at the heart of everything, didnt lose the ball, and make some great passes. Add to this his two assists v Blackburn, and maybe..... just maybe.... he's starting to deliver
That said, and alright he did fade in the last 20, I actually saw his potential the other night. He was at the heart of everything, didnt lose the ball, and make some great passes. Add to this his two assists v Blackburn, and maybe..... just maybe.... he's starting to deliver
Not the first time either. Berba has been battered after some of his goals. No wonder he misses so many
Maybe they've had to wait a while until Anderson got it out of his system.
Hopefully it'll happen soon.....the contract renewal I mean.
One thing I have little doubt of if Anderson becomes a top player at United, I see him and Nani popping off to Real to have orgies with Ronaldo et al. in the Bernabeau
And if that does happen Alex, I'm sure we will probably sign a new prodigy and won't miss them too much.
We will all miss a little "feck feck feck"
Ah piss off Mr. Misery.
Didn't they used to do that all the time at Porto
Just hope against Le Arse he does well otherwise figure people will use the old "well he does it against smaller teams'
I don't think his work ethic is a problem. Say it for the umpteenth time - of the 4 seasons he has started with us - 2 pre-seasons were spent with Brasil team and the other was this season coming off of a very long lay off.
Last season he was able to complete quite a few games on the trot at a very high energy level. Sure he could do better but, his inability to finish games is more to do with not getting good breaks or pre-seasons to train and fully get fit.
I don't think his work ethic is a problem. Say it for the umpteenth time - of the 4 seasons he has started with us - 2 pre-seasons were spent with Brasil team and the other was this season coming off of a very long lay off.
Last season he was able to complete quite a few games on the trot at a very high energy level. Sure he could do better but, his inability to finish games is more to do with not getting good breaks or pre-seasons to train and fully get fit.
Orgies in the Bernabeau?? Wow that'll sell tickets
His pace through the middle will be essential against wengers mob
What I was thinking watching the arse yesterday. They don't enjoy a midfielder running at them; at home this could be a better tactic
They don't like it up 'em Mr Mainwaring.
We battered them in the midfield in the Champions League : Fletcher - Carrick - Anderson
That's a good in for something I wanted to talk about Hellboy. Reading a lot of stuff in the press about Anderson, and indeed on here, you get the impression that he had a great first season and then a crap second one followed by a disastrous third. However I'm pretty sure everyone was largely content with his second year, not least because of a string of excellent performances in big games, especially alongside Fletcher and Carrick. He was poor in Rome, but then so was everybody, and few had the excuse of being injured early in the game. In addition he had a good first few months of last season, didn't he? I seem to remember he was pretty damned good and kept his place more often that not. Up until winter and his disastrous performance at Eastlands and subsequent tantrum I wasn't aware of many United fans having concerns about him, especially compared to the abuse Nani got for being inconsistent.
Is he suffering from the revisionism that has so plagued Carrick's recent career, or has my memory turned to shit?
Is he suffering from the revisionism that has so plagued Carrick's recent career, or has my memory turned to shit?
That's a good point.
I think Berbatov's last season is another good example.
People have short memories and a few poor displays at the end of any season - especially in high-profile fixtures - is often enough for a whole season to be written off as below-par, even though the player concerned may have been amongst our best performers before Christmas.
Similar revisionism has recently been applied to Rooney actually. Although that was complicated by bad feelings over the contract fiasco. Even so, it was amazing how many people on here have been trying to downplay his overall level of performance season, presumably because he didn't finish the season strongly and had a poor WC.
I think this is the beginning of Anderson's run of games. Hopefully he can match Nani's efforts of a year ago.
Couldn't see this posted so thought i'd add it.
Keep him in the first team. He has the attributes to be a beast of a player.
Lacks confidence and maturity yet...but that will come with time.
It's such a shame he didn't have right foot again in that 1v1...
Anderson's left and Valencia's right... that would be quite good.
Anderson's left and Valencia's right... that would be quite good.
I think that video has every single touch he made, and on that basis, his last 20 minutes weren't quite as filled with misplaced passes as I think it's been made out on here.
He lost the ball twice, where he was under heavy pressure and received the ball in a difficult position, but other than that he also had 3 good moves/passes in the last 20 minutes.
I'm not disputing that he ran out of steam at the end and I know it influences more than just his passing, like for example off the ball movement, but if that video did indeed feature all his moments, then I think people remember the last 20 minutes as being worse than they actually were.
On another note, the video above is quite similar to the early youtube videos of him which created all the hype in the first place when we signed him. It's the running with the ball and getting past players with great strength and balance that made him stand out when he was younger, and his resurrection in the last 3 games is mainly down to how he's made these runs at a much higher frequency than we have become used to in the last couple of years.
Very exciting times.
He lost the ball twice, where he was under heavy pressure and received the ball in a difficult position, but other than that he also had 3 good moves/passes in the last 20 minutes.
I'm not disputing that he ran out of steam at the end and I know it influences more than just his passing, like for example off the ball movement, but if that video did indeed feature all his moments, then I think people remember the last 20 minutes as being worse than they actually were.
On another note, the video above is quite similar to the early youtube videos of him which created all the hype in the first place when we signed him. It's the running with the ball and getting past players with great strength and balance that made him stand out when he was younger, and his resurrection in the last 3 games is mainly down to how he's made these runs at a much higher frequency than we have become used to in the last couple of years.
Very exciting times.
Brilliant. What a performance.
For me it's the accuracy of passing which has stood out most of all. Some perfectly weighted through balls and hardly any of the misplaced bazookas that he tends to produce when he's not on his game.
I think it's how he seems to tick all the boxes a midfielder can apart from finishing, which is something one can add with time. He is quick, he's strong, he has good control, he is capable of passing it very well, he has a good football brain, he can get stuck in, this completeness is what struck me as special in his early months as a United player. Once he perfects his end product in terms of goalscoring/final ball and consistently puts in general play of this level he could potentially be unstoppable.
I don't know, he's always been capable of making those passes. The difference to me, is that he's now only tried to pull them off a couple times in each match - when he's had time. Where as previously he would usually try those passes 5-6 times per match no matter how much pressure he or his intended target was under.
He's always been one of the best players in the squad when it comes to through balls - it was the other passes he had trouble with, and as he's now limited those passes to a decent amount and replaced them with some brilliant runs with the ball through the middle, we have a "new" and very exciting player on our hands.
His game is very much based on 50/50 moments though, and thus he'll undoubtedly have games where nothing seems to come off, but at least now we've seen him perform at a very high level consistently over 3 games. I can't recall if that was even the case in his first, impressive season.
Great performance. There's really not many central midfielders that can carry the ball like he does. He's always had an eye for a pass too, but the consistency of his passing has improved so much. Its a pleasure to see him involving himself so much as well. He's been at the centre of things these past few games, whereas the game seemed to pass him by alot of the time before.
Very good pointg on his passing. Technically the ability has always been in evidence, but it was his decision-making that frequently let him down.
With Fergie saying Scholes will be fit for Monday I wonder if that means Anderson will be back on the bench, it's a shame if he is given his current form.
From MEN
Hope that's true, although MEN is hardly reliable. I can see him offering a new contract though.
If a midfielder has to drop to the bench, it is Fletch. Much as I love Fletch, his form lately has been crap and maybe a brief rest won't do him any harm. If we're going 3 in midfield, it'll be Scholes, Carrick and Anderson.
I don't know, Fletcher usually plays well against Arsenal and if we're talking about form I don't think Carrick deserves to walk into the team. We might even stick with the 442 that's been creating so many chances, although that would obviously be a risk against one of the best teams in the league.
The last few times we've played Arse, we've adapted a 4-3-3 formation but I don't know if we'll do that this time around. All I know is that Anderson should not be dropped, while he's in this form he needs to be kept playing.
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