Crouch/Heskey to replace him. Sure they're not better in theory on paper, but Crouch certainly has done better than Rooney in the last 2 years for England.
It’s a cliché but if you pass the ball backwards and only five yards then of course your passing is going to look 'good'. I like a lot of Man U players but in all honesty, Carrick's ****.
I put the "I think" because I couldn't think of anyone better at that time. When I wrote a response to you and was about to press submit I remembered Alonso. Besides it's subjective who's better so it would be silly to declare that Alonso is definitely ahead of him.
This is how the muppets on Utd forums I've been on talk about Carrick. Kinda similar to Ferdinand. Man Utd are a better team with him than without him. Take from that what you will.
Haha, yeah I agree, goals need to be scored. Surprised you missed the tongue-in-cheek elements of my post
I see, a player who is generally renowned for having dubious passing ability?
I take from that, that you are one of these "muppets" on the United forums.
Well Heskey contributed more off the ball to be fair. He contributes a lot in balance - ie you've got power and pace that worry defenders so you can pretty much play anyone with him as long as they're a goalscorer.
Bollocks.
Would love to see the percentage of forward passes he's made. Good defender or not, he must be one of the most boring and frustrating players to watch.
With tackling, I'm not trying to claim he's an out-and-out ballwinner, I'm saying that the idea that he can't put his foot in is a myth. It's obviously not a strength, but not a weakness either. There were some Opta stats posted on here, for last season or the season before (can't remember which) which showed this, he's, IIRC, the man with most tackles per game for United.
Nah this is the Carrick of Tottenham you are talking about son, Carrick of United is by no means boring. Kindly lets end this foolish Carrick bashing..
Carrick better going forward & better much better passing game. But just solid defensively so Carrick > Butt for me.Oh, and Butt > Carrick, clearly.
Along with Phil Nev, form started to dip during the years when Arsenal where a bit dominated. So was rightly dropped but United have replaced him so no worries. But no doubt has been doing well for Newcastle of late, wouldn't have been that bad of choice for these current qualifiers but i dunno maybe Fabio hasn't really noticed him.Matteh said:
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Much prefer Ashton these days over his lanky compatriot since at least he seems to have decent goal-scoring potential as a target man.
Versatily, when he was first signed as RVN's partner things where looking good. But ferguson has noticed this versatily & he has played alone up front, on the left (CL vs Roma) on the right (CL semi vs Barca). Fergie/Capello needs to give him a set role to sit in the hole & stop running around the place & being too involved in defense as he did in Russia last year & i'm 100% confident he'll be scoring for fun again he's wayyyy to talented not to.
Statistically in the last 4 years his 5 goals in that period looks short. But for me only since after the Ronaldo incident in 06 have i sensed a different Rooney at the international level. But he's not the only world class forward who has this problem Henry & Ibrahamovic from memory are others too..
Don't think his super eagles team mates will agree..
Haha, i'm sure they wouldn't either, but then again, that doesn't matter.
