Comments on: Wednesday Portrait: On Girly Men

By: Traverse

Traverse — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:47:31 +0000

@Grognard: Yeah I figured out of all of our reserve midfielders, Gibson was the one that was likely to get near our first team regularly. He's got one hell of a shot on him, and the positional awareness and passing vision only really come from regular football.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:28:58 +0000

@Craig Mc: Why sell him?? Ok put him out on loan would be a sensible option but to sell him would be stupid, unless he has to.

By: Grognard

Grognard — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:03:06 +0000

@Craig Mc: I am with you on that mate. It makes no sense at all. Fergie needs to be fair and do what’s best for the club long term. Not just until he retires.

By: Craig Mc

Craig Mc — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:12:20 +0000

SAF selling Gibson, but persuading Scholesy and Nev to stick around and keep drawing their millions – WHY? I mean fucking why? Surely United will save 4 times the amount they hope to get for Gibson, if they retire these two veterans. I am losing faith in this kind of Fergie thinking .

By: ROOOOONEY

ROOOOONEY — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:15:34 +0000

looks like we got a 50m to buy players its not that bad
http://www.imscouting.com/global_news_item.aspx?id=2198

By: Grognard

Grognard — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:46:39 +0000

@Redrich: The two best CB’s in world football are Rio and Vidic. I’d rate Puyol, Mertesacker, and a few others below them in the second tier. Who else can come close to those two? WHO?

By: Grognard

Grognard — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:44:25 +0000

@Fred The Red: More like grasping for a needle in a haystack that is the size of Old Trafford.

By: Grognard

Grognard — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:43:01 +0000

@Redrich: He had a lot of extra work to do all year covering up for that inept little French skinned sausage Evra. Quite often he had to race to the side to cover for that useless bag of crap. And yes, he never got support on that side and quite often he saved Rio’s ass too when Rio made a blunder. I can’t count the number of times he bailed somebody else out but when he made a mistake, rarely was there anyone to bail him out. Why? Because he was always the last dependable line of defense. Christ this argument about Vidic sounds as ridiculous as saying Pele was an average forward.

By: Grognard

Grognard — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:38:49 +0000

@Fred The Red: Just remember how difficult it was to find a good CB to partner Stam. Also, when Stam left it took a while to find a replacement in Rio and Rio never had a good partner until Vidic showed up. Players of the quality of Vidic do not grow on trees and this crap about pace is so ridiculous because no CB can keep up with world class forwards with pace. It’s their positioning that makes it possible to defeat those players. But every once in a while a great forward will have his way. God knows Rio has had his few gaffs too. They are only human and the measurement stick for these kinds of players is how often they do get the job done over the few times they don’t. Anyone who couldn’t see just how massive a year Vidic had is just blind and to pick on a few moments of poor play over the thousands of minutes of stellar world class defending is unfair and a complete injustice to a player who finished in the top four for voting for PFA player of the year. He didn’t get acknowledged for that because Torres and Etoo skinned him once. Come on mate. Your argument has absolutely no basis. Like I said earlier, give me two names of world class CB’s who are faster? Certainly Chelsea doesn’t have them, nor does Barca, how about Real, Milan, Inter, Roma, Bayern or Arsenal. They don’t exist. If there are two players I would never sell it is the twin towers. NEVER EVER EVER. To Hell with the money. It’s bad business if it causes us to lose more.

By: Grognard

Grognard — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:31:08 +0000

@Fred The Red: Name me one center back in football that can keep up with Torres? There aren't any mate.