QUOTE (kurtsimonw @ Aug 30 2008, 02:51 PM)
Do you know why he says Robinho and Arshavin aren't slaves? I wonder if it has anything to do with 2 'big names' coming to the EPL? He doesn't like this league and never has. That's why it's fine for teams to treat players like slaves to keep them away from the EPL, but when it's keeping a top player in the EPL, he opens his mouth.
Like Nicky Butt, like Phil Neville, these type of players are always questioned as to why they play for Man U. For Man U they may not be great, but look at Butt and Phil now. They both captain fairly decent Premier League sides. If Fletcher went to a decent team, I think you'd see how god he is. He's not top quality or good enough for United, but he's the type of player United have always had. Think of him as Uniteds Ambro. Under-rated, usually plays consistantly well with nothing extra special to his game. Gets a goal every now and then, and it's usually important.
On the one man team thing, I agree. In fact, other than Real Madrid I can't think of many teams in the World that aren't a one man team. But I think that's the first game in 14 months or so that United have lost when Rooney is playing.
Agreed. I think Chelsea can also not call themselves a 1 man team, they have a great squad, you might even say too over crowded, in defence and mifield that is because the attacking department is lacking especially when one of the strikers is injury prone and the other is Anelka
As for Man U, so far they've been terrible, and until Ronaldo comes back I can't see it changing, Rooney has been all over the place and Tevez who I think is great hasn't really kicked into gear, plus him and Rooney playing next to eachother doesn't really work, they make the same runs and get in eachother's way
QUOTE (misha @ Aug 30 2008, 05:14 PM)
Don't know about that, but he was awful in this game.
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He's been awful in all 3 United games so far. Personally I never really rated him, I think he's talented and all that and has that odd moment of genius in him here and there, but as far as consistancy goes, it's just plain bad. It's the same thing as always with the English a talented player comes onto the scene and they start comparing him to Maradona and Pele