I was speaking to a fellow Man Utd supporter yesterday, post-Birmingham, and his scathing words still echo in my ears... "Fergie is f*cking insane, why the f*ck is he playing 4 strikers on the pitch at the same time?! What the f*ck is wrong with him?!"
It seems that many of my fellow United supporters are growing increasingly concerned at the plight of the team. We have made our worst start ever to a premiership season and our central midfield looks weak. This is further exacerbated by our strikers unwillingness to put the ball in the back of the net in the Premiership, with our top scorer, Smith, starting to be played out of position or left on the bench.
At first I was of the opinion that it's not our team getting worse, but teams in the Premiership getting better. However, a friend of mine, yesterday re-iterated a point that he has been saying to me for a few months now, regarding teams like Charlton, Boro, Birmingham et al... the so-called 'solid' teams. I quote:
"No longer satisfied with trying to win, they try not to lose"
Never was that more appropriate than yesterday. I'm sorry to say that if Birmingham play for a point at home, then they will get relegated, and from me there will be no sympathy. You have to play to win at home. The match could have gone on for another hour and Birmingham would not have scored. I can understand it if they came to Old Trafford, but at home it is not acceptable. People pay good money to watch premiership games.
Next rant, our team. Why oh why does Fergie insist on swapping the team every game? Henry, Reyes, Pires, Cole, Campbell and many more of their team were on international duty and still they made Arsenal's starting lineup. The fact that the line-up is changing so frequently will eventually be our downfall as the team does not get time to gel. Furthermore, playing 4 strikers up front is not going to return goals when there are no creative midfield players to lay on the chances... Ronaldo should have stayed on and shifted over to the left side where he could have had more success than he had against Julian Gray. Regarding our midfield situation, I'd like to know why P. Neville has been so harshly omitted from the central midfield position following his superb performances there last season. I'm certain he would do a better job than some of weak performances we've seen so far from Keane, Djemba-Djemba etc.
5 comments:
Central midfield is THE most important position for every team, and theoretically, it is essential to have a star player there. Keane is still a class act, with good distribution and passing ability but this is all undone with his lack of mobility. A central midfield needs to have every attribute required in the modern game, good tackling, passing, stamina, work rate, shooting, heading etc. and Keane does not fit this criteria anymore. It is time to offload the dead wood in midfield and START FROM SCRATCH because this is simply not good enough for a club like Manchester United.
In response to Wolfy, the reason why SAF and CQ are blind to the fact we need a new engine in midfield is because of his loyalty for Keane. I'm sorry, but loyalty is not good enough reason to keep a player well past his play by date.
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