@AlphaRS: Anderson takes scholes’ place positionally, as the team’s attacking central midfielder. We will still need to replace his qualities as a playmaker.

Carrick anderson combo will be a little wasteful in possession, and scholes is still our stand-out midfielder for now.

@flu3: I didn’t base my argument on fergie’s feelings at all. I’m don’t ignore carrick’s abilities. My initial arguments made complete sense.

Wasn’t that why we added Anderson to the squad to replace Scholes?

I think Fergie will go for a Carrick Anderson combination this season.

One thing has to be said though the goals return from the central midfield is extremely poor.

Really though when Scholes retires I think we will need a playmaker to replace him and Carrick probably will not be up to the task. But then again neither will Hargreaves or Anderson. So it will be interesting to see what our midfield will be post-Scholes.

People, stop panicing (or was that just me). Vidic has said that he made those comments a while back and that they’ve been taken out of context. It’s on the skysports website. But honestly, I think it’s natural for foreign players to find things difficult when they first join an english team. Even Evra came forward and criticised english weather and food. I think that after a while, players settle down. Papers like the telegraph and all those rags bring things like this up to coincide with things like the Ronaldo fiasco! They’re just trying to sell more papers!

when you “rate” Veloso (who is nothing more than potential @ best right now) above Carrick in the current term whilst i myself think Veloso is sub-Carrick it’s best we agree to dis-agree. you ask, “Is it unreasonable to feel the manager would not be happy with a sub-standard player as his best option?” yes when you haven’t got a clue if sir Alex feels he’s “sub-standard” or not, you simply can’t vouch for sir Alex in regards to his feelings on Carrick, simple as. you value your opinion far higher than you should. we all have a right to one but you can’t base an argument on sir Alex’s.

i like fans that can look @ their own teams with a sense of cynicism but when taken to the extreme, they prove to be fools. you argument against Carrick may be a good one but the fact you’re so ignorant in regards to him nullifies your points.

you continued to bring new arguments to the table in an attempt to avoid the fact your initial comments were pure nonsense. you can have it out with Stephen ’cause i’m done.

Having world-class players at each position doesnt mean a world-class team always. So you may rate Alonso higher than Carrick but still Carrick does the job perfectly for United.