And before anyone throws the Real Madrid card at me, he was unfairly treated at Madrid.

Basically, I agree with everything Frankie said about him. Top comment Frankie!

But, talking about right-backs and strikers, no to Alves and no to Henry. Crazy. Alves can’t defend to save himself, and Henry coming would be crazy. I would go for someone like Lahm who can play both full-back roles and is good defensively and attackingly from what I’ve seen.

For the strikers, I would love David Villa, he would fit in to our already great team as hes a great finisher and is also very quick and mobile but he is probably going to be over-priced. So I would go for Santa Cruz. 20 goals and 6 assists in 40 games for Blackburn, great goalscorer, good target man, good holding up, positioning, and he had a fantastic game on the right wing against us. Their both different to the players we already have, albeit they are both VERY different to each other.

Apart from 2 of those 3, we don’t really need anymore than that.

But Ahmed, you’ve given us only half the picture. What about the transfers out? United did some really good business last summer: Heinze (£8m); Rossi (£6.7m); Smith (£6m); Richardson (£5.5m) and don’t forget that Tim Howard was also sold at the end of a loan period for £3m. That little lot amounted to almost £30m. Richardson, Smith and Heinze have not exactly pulled up any trees at their new clubs, and United retain an option on Rossi.

Hargreaves’ purchase was from the 2006 summer kitty. So basically United got Anderson and Nani (about £30m) for Smith, Richardson, Heinze, Rossi and Howard. In my view, that was pretty good business. Anderson and Nani have already made important contributions to United’s cause this season, and in time will become world stars.

The blend of English, European and South American styles looks on course to producing one of the great United sides.

When Ferguson retires, I don’t see any reason why United should look any further than Queiroz. Bear in mind that many of the players are there because of Queiroz. He has a special bond with a good number of them: Ronaldo, Nani, Anderson, Tevez readily come to mind. Queiroz deserves to be given a season or two after Ferguson, to see whether he can continue the magic.

Getting rid Queiroz would be undeserved. It would rock the club, undermine team spirit, lead to some top players leaving the club and cause the sort of ructions that Mourinho’s departure caused at Chelsea. No, let’s stick with what we’ve got. Queiroz is a fine coach.

Alves would only be worth going for if he’s going cheapish AND Chelsea want him. No RB is worth 25 million. I’d rather we go for someone who can play both sides as an understudy to Evra/Brown/Neville. Another good young winger would be handy, ditto central midfield.