Fish111 wrote:Write the Munichs off at your peril. While that red-nosed, whiskey-induced, pissed-up Jock is in charge they will be a force to reckon with let me tall ya. Do not get too arrogant just yet, we have proved fuck-all at the moment. As soon as we win a trophy we can spout as much shit as we want but personally i am keeping shtum with regards the scum. I'll bide my time because personally i have been waiting for 34 years up to now so a few months longer won't hurt me and the more they deteriorate in the meantime the better.
This is how I see things.
United fans current no1 issue is that their team keeps conceding goals, which effectively means they are something like we were last season under Hughes, needing to score 3, or sometimes 4 to win. Attacking wise, they have Giggs, Scholes, Berbatov, Rooney, Nani, along with the supporting cast, so there is always an argument for them that they will score goals.
However, when you add into that mix that the only midfielder near the 1st team capable of putting a foot in and capable of a decent performance is Darren Felcher. Anderson, Carrick, Hargreaves for one reason or another just don't feature, and therefore defensively, any team that gets at them pretty much has a free run at their defence.
Now whilst there are questionmarks over Ferdinand's fitness, he and Vidic are one of the best CB pairings in the league, but both have their off days and concentration issues, as seemingly has VDS recently.
The fact is, Fergie has dropped the ball massively with regards the setup and personnel available, and the results this season are showing already that whilst United can still score and have creativity in midfield, it is pretty easy to score against them. Any United fan who accepts the "There is no value in the market" suggestion from Ferguson is a fucking idiot. A blind man on a galloping horse can see that the midfield is not good enough to protect the defence, and for Ferguson to not have been in the market to buy a top quality DM is a dereliction of duty, or an admission that they are skint.
I mean ffs, when did Ferguson ever bother about finding value in the market? Veron? Berbatov? Nani? Anderson? When a club at the peak of the food chain needs a player, you identify the player and go and buy him - if you desperately need him, it doesn't really matter what he costs so long as he will do the job you need. For example Stephen Defour, the bloke Fergie wrote a love letter to when injured looks a great player by all accounts, and is nailed on to come to the PL, yet Fergie has held off signing him. His transfer fee wouldn't be exorbitant, but even so United have given it a miss.
No matter what way you look at it, Ferguson has let the quality in the United squad decline to such an extent, that to challenge, I honestly believe they will have to do something like we have done, and spend £100m in one go to shore up the midfield and defence, otherwise they are going to keep on declining, particularly when Scholes/Giggs/Neville's legs finally give up.
Arguably, their legs have already given up, as despite the attacking quality they still have, they are not really even of nuisance value defensively any more.
