Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
Ever since the beginning of the premier league I've compared our individual players to Man UTD. The reason being that they have been the top side and always played with flair and had players who were extremely exciting.
The one time when I thought that we were beginning to have an exciting team was when we had Kanchelskis and Limpar on the flanks (although rarely seemed to play together) Ferguson up top + and Unsworth and Parkinson as some of the young talent in the side + Michael Ball, Richard Dunne and Franny Jeffers about to come through...and Speed about to be signed of course.
Now, I'm not having a knee jerk positive reaction to UTD's recent defeat to CITY and I don't think we have as good a team or squad as UTD by some distance.
However we do look pretty damn strong in the following positions;
LB -- Baines (1 position)
CB -- Jagielka/Distin (1 position)
CM -- Fellaini/Rodwell/Barkley (2 positions)
RM -- Drenthe/Coleman (1 position)
RB -- Coleman (When he eventually moves there 1 position)
Obviously, UTD have a world class player in Rooney and other quality such as Ferdinand,Vidic,Nani,Berbatov,Hernandez and Evra.
But in the positions above, Ferdinand seems on the way down but Vidic would still walk into our team.....UTD fans are saying Evra is going the same way as Ferdinand. In midfield they only have Nani as an outstanding player who would be on the left (if i'm not wrong).....Rafael and Coleman seem similar
Looking at our team I would suggest that possibly we have 5 or 6 positions where we are as good as if not better than Man UTD....
I would suggest that if we had a quality playmaker in the Cahill role + a Rooney standard centre forward we would really be able to give them a game....
The one time when I thought that we were beginning to have an exciting team was when we had Kanchelskis and Limpar on the flanks (although rarely seemed to play together) Ferguson up top + and Unsworth and Parkinson as some of the young talent in the side + Michael Ball, Richard Dunne and Franny Jeffers about to come through...and Speed about to be signed of course.
Now, I'm not having a knee jerk positive reaction to UTD's recent defeat to CITY and I don't think we have as good a team or squad as UTD by some distance.
However we do look pretty damn strong in the following positions;
LB -- Baines (1 position)
CB -- Jagielka/Distin (1 position)
CM -- Fellaini/Rodwell/Barkley (2 positions)
RM -- Drenthe/Coleman (1 position)
RB -- Coleman (When he eventually moves there 1 position)
Obviously, UTD have a world class player in Rooney and other quality such as Ferdinand,Vidic,Nani,Berbatov,Hernandez and Evra.
But in the positions above, Ferdinand seems on the way down but Vidic would still walk into our team.....UTD fans are saying Evra is going the same way as Ferdinand. In midfield they only have Nani as an outstanding player who would be on the left (if i'm not wrong).....Rafael and Coleman seem similar
Looking at our team I would suggest that possibly we have 5 or 6 positions where we are as good as if not better than Man UTD....
I would suggest that if we had a quality playmaker in the Cahill role + a Rooney standard centre forward we would really be able to give them a game....