May 05
Slow Monday Roundup
Well, not really a round up. I have my hands full, so I’ll be off the blog today. I’ll pop in once in a while just to ensure you behave nice.
However feel free to discuss whatever pops in your mind. Today Chelsea visit Newcastle and they haven’t won at St James’ Park since 2001, which is a strange statistic to be honest. A loss would virtually guarantee us the title on goal difference. Let’s hope Keegan does us a favour.
Meanwhile the Sun reported that Nani could be fined two-weeks wages for the incident. It was clear from Fergie’s post match comments that he wasn’t impressed by Nani’s antics the least bit. An old-fashioned bollocking would have surely been in order, but one would hope that only good can come of this. It’s a good opportunity for the young Portuguese star to have a good look at himself and work on improving his attitude. And at this juncture it’s come at a much better time than, perhaps, a few games ago.
Anyway, I’m done with this for the day. Will get back tomorrow with more worthwhile stuff to talk about, I assure you.
Over to you…
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- Giggs and Brown to Remain Reds | Ex-Reds Clash | Wenger Threat | Takeovers And Other Such Nonsense
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I have to agree with Grogs here. Ballack is far superior to Carrick in almost all respects and he would have provided our team with what it needed. I can’t think of any aspect of his game that’s inferior to Carrick.
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Jos; I don’t think are more than a handful of midfielders on the planet that measure up to Essien and Ballack. Like I’ve said before, add either one of them to our midfield and watch us go from fantastic to unbeatable. But, it’s really pointless because that will never happen.
For all our great signings, we always will look at a few that got away and wonder what might have been?
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RR/Grognard: I’m not arguing that Carrick is a superior player to Ballack. However as we can see with the England team, great players do not necessarily make great partnerships. I would have been happy with a Ballack/Carrick, Ballack/Carrick/Scholes and a Carrick/Scholes combo last season. But a Scholes/Ballack partnership, I’m not convinced it would have worked. I could write some reasoning for my argument but Colver identified the main jist of it.
At any rate, we are trying to judge his use to us last season on this year’s form, not a particulary good or fair way to judge it. I still would take him in heartbeat though, but I agree with the earlier sentiment that Essien was the one that got away.
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Well…theres no doubt that ballack is a better player than carrick. However..carrick aint shite either. He was a crucial link in our team that regained the prem last season and is an important player in our side. He isnt world class…but hes good enough to be in a top class club.
Consider the current way united play.We like to keep their midfield a little cautious…giving the fullbacks and the wingers full license to bomb forward. That’s one of the main reasons for the record-breaking season ronaldo has had.I think this combo with rooney and tevez upfront is the best we had. Ballack would have upset the rooney and tevez combo…there’s no doubt that ballack is world class but we needed carrick and hes good…sure he can improve but he complemenents the way we play
Essien is the one who got away…but is essien really better than hargreaves? I asked my brother this too and i think i would rather have hargreaves in my time. Reason:-Hargreaves is a good crosser..and his engine has a better mileage. Essien may have been the much-hyped car from the reputed manufacturer which did live up to the hype..but hargo’s the less-fancied one that’s done even better.
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Essien is really beter than Hargreaves. I can’t say I’ve seen anything to suggest Hargreaves has a better engine than Essien and while he may be the better crosser, Essien has the better shot. Bottom line for me is that Essien dominates more games than Hargreaves. I would gladly gift wrap and deliver anyone of our CM’s in the morning if it meant getting Essien in exchange.
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