Dimitar Berbatov has been widely praised for his performance in our 2-0 victory over Blackburn yesterday. It was his goal that put United ahead in the second half after receiving the ball with his back to goal but expertly turning and slotting it in to the corner.
He is pleased that our patient play paid off and confesses of the relief he feels whenever we score.
“In the first half I had a couple of chances to score, and you need to be patient and when another chance comes along you have to score it, and I was very glad to score my chance,” said Berbatov. “Then Wayne Rooney scored another and that was it finished for Blackburn. We were relieved because they are a difficult team to play against. Every time when you score a goal you are relieved because you feel you’ve done something special and that was the case for me.”
With Chelsea thrashing all their opponents of late, Berbatov reckons the three points are more important than the number of goals you score.
“One-nil is a good result, as long as you finish it that way,” he added. “If it’s three-nil or four-nil, it doesn’t matter. As long as we keep winning I think everybody will be happy.”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UCXpT9SWt0
I knew martin jol should be replaced at spurs when berbatov tore chelsea apart jol took him off and chesea knock spurs out of the fa cup.
wouldnt mind another chelsea rapeing berbatov performance on sunday
berbatov is magic!
Keep ‘em coming berba.
but that dosen’t mean we’ve seen your all
http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2009/11/01/1597281/manchester-united-boss-alex-ferguson-rules-out-ben-foster
let him go fergi!!
pure genius
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1224391/Liverpool-boss-Rafa-Benitez-claims-dont-win-trophies-success.html
and thats a fact !!!
F-fiorentina/fulham
A-aston villa/arsenal
C-chelsea
T-tottenham
S-sunderland/beach ball
a very good by berba.would want a repeat of this performance next weekend.up man utd
Berbatov- a man who does something special to make up for adding nothing during the whole game, half the time he doesn’t even make up for his poor performances.
Red Army: You say that now but if he picks up better consistency between goals and the vast unsung number of assists that he offers to others you just might change your tune.
@Sam the kenyan red. plz change your name to, sam obartan the red. Am around kaps. Plz call.
Berbatov once again getting lavish praise after a dreadful game all told. He has had enough chances, time to get rid.
Not only can he score… boy can he act!
WAY TO GO BERBZ!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpbd0D81C9I
I cant believe some of the so called man utd fans who do nothing but moan about berbatov,its like they always need to have a scapegoat,yes it took him a while to settle,but the blokes class,the most skillful player at utd.So what if he does`nt run around like a headless chicken,his job is to create and score goals,leave all the running and tackling and stuff to the players who are good at that like fletcher.I cant understand why some fans think fergie should have kept tevez instead just because he looks like he puts more effort in,give me berbatov any time.
Berba the class player!
Berbatov is brilliant, un-questionable talent but he is so in-consistent and is non-existent in the crunch games.
I said yesterday that he can rip teams apart but he doesn’t do it enough. He is dreadful in the air, shown yesterday with a piss poor header. Then he lashes a clear chance from the edge of the box high and wide.
If he was consistent and was a difference in the big games, he’d be an icon.
brilliant first touch, control, and accuracy! this goal has it all!
still, wish he was a more clinical goal poacher like ruud used to be. can’t believe he missed that header earlier on.
Rooney could still learn one thing from Berba. His first touch has all the grace of a rapist of late.
brett1985 – Are you serious pal? Aren’t you the same person who said they would love to join the fascists yesterday with “that team”? Berbatov is class mate. Tell me what other striker would have buried that yesterday and the one against Sunderland? He was unlucky not to get three yesterday.
Berba is one of the those players who looks good when it comes off and really pathetic when it does not. But whats for sure is that he understand that he needs to score on a regular basis…
We will need all he and Rooney have when, we go to the stam bridge…is it correct that Rio cancelled going to his movie premier…may be he is getting the message now…he needs to focus on his football again…
Can anyone tell me why is everyone wearing a red rose pinup these days…
Not from the UK, hence would like to know…
King Eric
His goal was class it was the rubbish misses and flicks that I did not enjoy. He has been very inconsistent so far. Most united strikers in the last 10 years are considerably better than him and so too is Drogba, Anelka, Van Persie and Torres.
DebRed, you must mean poppies. They’re a part of Remembrance Day, commemorating those who fought in World War I and others wars.
good thing we have a manager that understands that berba is class period. not like you guys whining because you don’t understand his playing style. he stands around doing nothing has been proven wrong time and time again…he tracks back into that hole as often as wayne to try to setup play. pay attention or just admit you dont like him and never give him a fair shake so we can throw your commentary out where it belongs.
He is a great player no doubt about that. But the problem with him is his price tag. The price tag he is carrying increases the expectations from him (not all fans but still a large number of fans).
mdubya
A trite and boring line of argument if ever there was one. If every action fergie does is beyond question then why would anyone bother with this blog? The rest of your post is a complete strawman.
Berbatov is King and he needs to prove it to no one but Sir Alex Ferguson. Hope he gets 20 goals at the end of the season to silence the naysayers.
Though I wouldn’t mind us buying Torres off the dippers who are in the crisis of their lives. Rooney, Torres, Berbatov, Owen sounds good.
Dimitar Berbatov is King
we already had torres at united but we sold him to merseyside remember that world class striker when he was on point score all different types of goals who linked up with ruud and Rooney, torres was super but he had to be sold because he was light on his feet and was forever injuried and we just couldnt rely on him, he’d be injuried then come back bang in a few goals for fun then get injuried again till he became a liability but when he was on point torres was super for united……….wait?…… that was saha
I don’t understand why people are still slating Berba even after he scored such a phenomenal goal and truthfully played a lot better than Rooney, whose first touch in the first half was just off. Berba didnt play as well as he could but he still played better than probably Carrick, Oshea and Rooney yet no one seems to talk about how shit they were. Why?
Some of the united fans just seem to hate on Berba for no reason, even when he is playing well. :S Give the guy a break!
Anyway .. Is Hargreaves fully fit yet? I would like to see him start against Chelsea.
brett1985, you’re original argument wasn’t based on any merit except your own eyes which i don’t trust. do you realize last season he had as many assists as fabregas, gerrard, and lampard? the most in our entire squad?
he’s learned to run back into that hole, alternating with wayne and trying to dictate a play. he’s covered much more distance this year and even that probably wouldn’t appease you. if you don’t like how he plays fine, but acting like he doesn’t belong out there simply because you can’t get a read on his game doesn’t mean he’s terrible. you’ll always grumble about him no matter what he does so just fess up with that so we can be done with it.
@ Bebeto…
Thanks…got ya…
mdubya
My opinion is as valid as yours and insofar as what I see on the pitch
In fact, all the more valid when compared to yours as you concoct various arguments which I never even made and go on to strike them down.
You don’t seem to need my input at all!
You should go and read SAFs personal blog and agree with everything.
FOUR straight draws! Where are all the massiiive bitter blue nose cunts now? Thought it was as easy as spending 2oo million plus on distinctly average players (who the media keep referring to as “world class” players) and winning titles. Well it’s not, it is about history, class and having the best manager in the World. All of a sudden Citeh look very average. Equivalent to say a Sunderland or Fulham.
king eric
rocket santa claus was invisible and tevez did nothing barry would of scored about 6 if the goal was in the car park
bad weekend for city
and a poor one for the dippers
old video that has relevance again thanks to liverpool been crap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1LtemBLqdQ
Rocket Santa Claus, hahahahahaha….
I’m back after 2 days guys,didja miss me?
I missed the match and I just saw Berba’s goal and it was a fucking class act.
is anybody else extremely worried ahead of next weeks game?
theboogeyman
i was lookin for ya brother
hope you watched the match somewhere sunny yesterday
Rocket Santa Clause
brought to you by emily jane while watchin the city game with me
hurdy gurdy man
I’m slightly worried cuz it’s away. If we were at OT I’d say we’d nick it. Away though isn’t great is it.
Fletch and Ando in the centre will be too quick for their pension funded midfield. They ain’t exactly got the fastest defence have they so I would think Evra will be bombing down the left.
I think they’ll score first, then they’ll sit on it and we’ll eventually equalize, Vidic header. I’d take a draw right now definetely. A draw away to Chelsea won’t seem great, but it is.
1-1 although I think Fletch could get fouled a lot whilst were on the counter, leading to a Ballack or Essien sending off.
I’m looking forward to seeing starts for Owen, Obertan?, Fabio and De Laet I hope, maybe giving Fletch 45 minutes.
City shit City shit.
brett1985
also those useless flicks aren’t useless if you lead the team in assists. whatever dude.
@ Red Army.
I cant see united losing to Chelsea. They do seem to be scoring for fun but how fucking crap are Bolton? Didnt they learn their lesson the first time?
If Fergie plays the right squad then i can see us winning by a margin. But if a CM pairing of Scholes/Carrick-Or-Giggs start then we are going to get thrashed.
I know this would be risky but i would like to see
VDS
Brown-Evans-Vidic-Evra
OH-Fletcher-Anderson
Berba-Rooney-Giggs
^^ This only works If Hargreaves is fit.
Sketch
I cant see hargreaves been in the first team till december
maybe the end of november
The problem is nobody ever puts away Berba’s assists. If Rooney puts the ball through they score. The guy is class!
If the City fans are worried about how average and pedestrian their quickly and Very expensive squad are looking, I have something to make them feel worse.
The bickering and back biting hasn’t even started yet. Tevez and Hughes’ love child Santa Cruz look like a match made in hell, yet both will demand a starting place even before Adebayor returns. Robinho wants to leave.This is even before Bellamy starts swinging his golf club.Hughes will have to make serious decisions about his front line given that his midfield are toothless and his defence resembles a packet of broken biscuits.
Well done Berbatov. Pure class. Anderson keep it up, great game.Obertan looks very promising given Nani’s issues but would like to see more of Tosic.Hope Fletch back for Chelsea and agree with Red Army that he would possibly be singled out for treatment and give the current stand by referees on heavy tackles I would put money on Ballack getting a red card in the first half.
smokebreaksteve
1 word
precisely
mdubya At least you’ve attempted to link one of your many statements to something I actually said- though whether his half way line flicks are every intended as assists are debatable. They seem to break down attacks at an earlier stage.
Berbatov had most assists in the league last year with 9, 2 mishit shots, 3 10 yard passes before individual goals, 1 rebound from keeper, 1 flick
All competitions:
Giggs had 14 assists in 31 starts.
Rooney 12 assists in 25 starts.
Carrick 8, Tevez 6.
Berbatov also had a fabulous run of 3 goals in 23 appearances (approximately) towards the end of last season and into the beginning of this. His career record is goals between 1 every 3 and 1 every 4 matches.
This season Berbatov has 2 assists in total so far.
It would appear that you started this by saying that you are more observant than me when it comes to Berbatov’s contibution. Yet you have produced a statistic which had you known the actual content of Berbatov’s assists, surely would not have been an argument you would have used? Mishit shots, square passes, rebounds and a couple of decent assists thrown in. It is good to know that Berbagod makes such a valuable contribution.
Brett,are you one of those morons who would have kept tevez over berbatov?
rooneyisclass
Random, but no. I was actually a vocal critic of those who sang ‘fergie sign him up’.
brett1985
your right
berbatovs flick are as pointless as erics flicks
as useless as ronaldos stepovers
as useless as beckhams crosses
as useless as keanes passion
as useless as sir alexs subtitions opinions
ghtt so true
Dec the red
bunch of one trick fuckin ponys wrecking a club i love
Look, 4 the record, Berba IS class..not only SAF thinks so, but other managers..each one will ignore him at their peril if they were to play United! So keep believing, and i know he’ll prove the doubters wrong?
Saw berba for the first time since his united move shoot with such venom. wow! That’s all i need more from berba. And rooney??? No longer shoots. Even when he tries, looks like placing the ball, often gets blocked too. Oh roo, remember your everton days. Shoot guys. Thumbs up to valencia. For now he’s my ‘shooter’.
Brett my simple question to you is can you actually back up your so called statistics on him? Let me be arrogant and answer that for you. You can’t. Probably the most biased and flawed opinion. Abundant in falsehoods. Let’s see his record in reality before he came to United and after. What does it actually talk about? 1 goal every 4 games? Really? 2003-04 he played 32 games and scored 16 giving us a record of exactly one goal every two games. 04-05 he played 53 and scored 29 and that’s a goal every 1.82 games. 05-06 he played 38 games and scored 26. (do the math for the rest of them).06-07 50 games yielded 23 goals and 15 assists. The following year 46 games, 22 goals and 13 assists. That’s a direct involvement in 35 goals.08-09 with no pre-season to talk about and arriving on deadline day and being confirmed hours after deadline he arrived at OT. With the heavy burden of a price tag that he did not put on himself and making his debut at Anfield. Marking it with a great assist in the process. In this season he scored 14 goals for United in 43 games and made 9 other. And to further compound his situation it was revealed in an interview by Ferguson himself early this season that they didn’t know how or where to play him throughout last season which explains why he was able to do well in inferior teams but not do so well with the European champs. So it’s fundamentally untrue that he doesn’t score often for a striker because he does. Then comes the thoughtless “well we don’t expect his stats for a 30 million pound striker”. Well why do we still entertain Rooney in our squad if that should apply in general considering that Berbatov is statistically and historically a better goal getter? This season he has “only” acquired 4 goals and a “miserly” two goals. People amaze me sometimes.
Special players score special goals…
Berbatov = class
Great post, Jaywire, and earlier Smokebreaksteve (always enjoy your contributions). Me, I’m a longtime Berba loyalist and I just loved his goal yesterday, flick, swivel, ping! I also like Valencia, and I’m glad Fergie is giving him a decent run of games to learn the United way. Carrick had a better game, tackling with real conviction for the first time this season, which is the best barometer of his form, even more than the more obvious factor of his silky passing.Anderson is getting back on track , which is very good to see after a disappointing second season. He’s looking eager and energetic , showing much more sense of collective responsibility, as if he realises he’s becoming almost an ‘older ‘ player in the team now after all this time. It was good to see Wes get some more ‘flying hours’ as we need him fully match-fit, and he’s such a likeable character, physically unflinching despite his terrible luck with injuries over the last 10 years. Fully fit, he’d have got so many more medals – and so would United. Obertan is clearly a raw talent, exciting, but raw, and his development will need very careful handling. Sometimes his trickery won’t come off and he’ll look all coltish and clumsy, so how United fans react will make a huge difference to how his career develops. Patience, mon braves, patience. I still think Nani has got it in him to be a real star, but he’s got such a worried look on his face, with that strange tongue-stuck-in-cheek expression, which is the look of a man contorted with tension. Here’s where United fans haave a role to play again. Getting on his back plainly doesn’t work, unless you actually want him to fail. Is that what United fans want?
People get on Nanis back not because he fails but because he fails 99% of the time. Good player but zero end product.
Anyone who seriously contends Berbatov is no good, needs to actually start watching the game.
Admittedly on Saturday he WAS a lazy fucker for the first 45 minutes. However, so was everyone else on the pitch with the possible exception of Valencia. However, Berbatov’s undoubted value lies in his ability to pop up and score goals of the kind he did.
The man is a genius – yes he may appear a bit slovenly at times but that doesn’t explain United’s woes of late. You can put those down to the absence of Fletcher and another creative force in midfield – Carrick needs to up his game and needs some more competition.
king eric
I have said this about berbatov he does not do enough bread and butter goals the predator goals, yes it was a great strike but when the heat is on thats where he is judged. until berbatov has a top class season many people like brett will never be satisfyed, my problem with berbatov is that rooney and berbatov are just too simuler and the patnership has never worked, partly 2 fergie sticking to this one man upfront. I have said this time and time again the only way rooney and berbatov will work is getting a stronger CM thats why we have never seen the best of rooney and berbatov, add the fact both players dont have huge amount of pace they both come deep and they can be marked out of the game quiet easily. to sort that out united need to buy a strong CM player.
Hurdy Gurdy Man
yep, dont mean to scare you all but chelsea aint lost all season at home and have only conceded 1 and we havnt beat them there since 2002
Fantastic goal – am a big fan of the man.
That said though I think people have the right to have the opinion a player isn’t class/worth it if he can’t produce on the big stage. That was the argument that a lot of people even leveled against Ronaldo, he didn’t come up on the big stages.
So far Berbatov hasn’t come up big for the big games yet that’s for sure. It doesn’t matter that last season he scored the nail in coffin goal the Chelshit game. That he came on when we were 2-1 down for dipper game only to be undone by Vida’s sending off. He’s not proved himself on the big stage yet for United – so those that don’t think he is worth it, have a valid point to hang their hat on.
Still, you look at the big games, when your midfield is busy getting mauled, your forwards rarely can turn the game and come up for the big game. The might Torres was a non-factor against Chelshit as he could hardly get a sniff. As far as inconsistency in his involvment – it is down as much to the team as him. If they are not getting the ball to him, they can’t string a pass together or get a reasonable cross in, then duh he is going to obviously be “invisible”. Even as a deep-lying striker, he doesn’t see the ball enough as we try those long balls from front to back or spray them out to the wings. Don’t matter how much you hate him and think he is not worth it but, compare him to Rooney and he hardly ever loses the ball even with several defenders on him, yet we won’t get on Rooney for being anonymous because the team can’t the ball to him.
Berba could do with scoring some of the “easier” goals but, people think even the easiest are easy. The header on Sat could have been better but, it was a bullet cross (very good cross) and maybe could have done better or could have taken the flick from Rooney and buried it but, all players miss even these chances, even the best ones. Wish he would be more clinical but, for not being as lethal as we’d want in a striker, he does other things that other strikers only dream off.
Overall whole team needs to finish more. If our midfield would be bit more of a threat at scoring goals, perhaps more space would open up for Rooney and Berbatov. Even with Ando’s wayward shots, a few shots when it opens up or Carrick who certainly can shoot, chooses not to shoot – it makes it easier for defenders to sit back and crowd out our forwards.
it does make me laugh when people say ronaldo aint a big game player lol must be why his scored in a champs lge final and v every top 4 club..
Nani is a born loser
i would be happy even if he manage a draw at the bridge next weekend.
as far as berba haters are concerned guys go and learn about football if u want to know about berba.
lol that must be a really big relief for him.. He is being compared to the King though, that’s why…
I hope after this he will do those magic more freely. Don’t have to try that hard to emulate the King.
It’s all in your heart, Berbatov.
Everything about that Berba goal is awesome, very, very few players could have scored that goal. The control was sublime, his turn was perfect, and the shot itself, how he got that much power into it I’ll never know. Seen him do that before though, must be some sort of football version of the Bruce Lee one inch punch or something.
I think the way to win against Chelsea is to treat them with the respect they deserve and play cagey with an eye on the fast counter. I think Chelsea will wilt by the end of the season, aging players, very little in the squad to replace losses and they rely heavily on a few key men- but they are not wilted yet and they are the form team going into this. Form is temporary of course, but unless it changes soon there’s every chance that we’re going to be second best at Stamford Bridge. That doesn’t mean I think we will lose, but I think we’re going to need to produce something really special or get lucky to win. Fuck I feel dirty just saying that.
I think Berba’s a great finisher with his feet when a chance comes by. His aerial ability isnt particulary impressive since his build is decent compared to the likes of drogba and torres. If we were to play as beautifully as barca berba might probably 15 goals already this season.
IMHO, we used to rely heavily on the movement of ronaldo and rooney. Since the departure of ronnie, our cultured counter attacking prowess is depleted by at least half it was. The wings are not that much of a threat any longer since it takes quite a few passes to build up an attack nowadays. By then, the opponent would have 10 men behind the ball already. Our central midfielders lacks thrusts with their passes hence I don’t see much link up play with the forwards. Thats probably why rooney and berba has been quite ineffective. Our forwards must trace backan extra mile to receive passes and often find themselves surrounded by multiple defenders and hence they pass it back again. We’re back to square 1. I often find myself yawning away in our games, unlike last season in contrast. Perharps we missed Ronnie more than we thought.
IMHO Sir Alex should snap up 1-2 playmakers when January comes. I hope we survive stamford bridge this week as our performances have been Gear 1 as Scott said. We are playing well only against average teams. An inspired performance would be needed if we want a win against chelski.
Sorry for the essay mates. =p
brett1985 im selling an anorak if you are interested?
This post doesnt belong in here but I still decided to post this here.. wonder how Chelsea got this easy schedule during African nations cup 2010..
Hull City v Chelsea
Chelsea v Sunderland
Chelsea v Birmingham City
Burnley v Chelsea
Those are the games they’ll play without the likes of Drogba,Essien,Kalou,Obi Mikel..
Let’s hope they atleast draw 1 or 2 of those without their ‘stars’
and whats comes to berba, a magnificent player with silky touch. best first touch in premierleague, fact.
his goal vs. rovers was just pure class.
Its funny how it becomes Berba’s fault if the whole team doesn’t perform.. this doesn’t seem to happen with Rooney, even when he plays crap
maybe its because people think rooney was so much cheaper @ only 27mil !
GHTT,sadly I missed the match.But I saw Berba’s goal and that’s more than enough for me.
And Berba,good to see you class all goals you score as special.
Berba is somewhere in my top 10 favourite United players.
O’Shea is still and always will be my favourite though.
Berbatov works just as hard as anyone else in the team so I cant understand anyone slating him.You can see he wants to be a success at old trafford so badly.
He’s quality and we should be glad we’ve got him.End of story!
The good thing for me about Saturday was the way he celebrated his goal. I’ve wanted to see that outburst of emotion for some time now as I think it’s a sign that someone feels at home in the team. His general play this season has been excellent and here’s hoping this is a sign of more good stuff to come.
What’s more worrying is Wazza’s form. He has looked completely out of sorts lately and I just pray the goal will just settle him down again.
My MOTM though was Wesley. Awesome display by the best natural defender at the club IMHO.
“He’s big he’s bad he’s Wesley Brown…..”
i still keep wondering how come brown doesnt play week-in week-out, he should start on the right ahead of rafael/nev/o’shea every time.
Styy – agreed mate. I’m not knocking O’Shea as he’s been such a valuable player this last 12 months but Brown is clearly the better defender – and he has a crackin’ new song
@exiledred
sorry mate.ill give it to anderson.he was trying to drive the team forward at every chace and injecting much needed energy we lacked at Anfield.Wesley was good but hardly had anything to do the whole game.
aig – fair point mate. After recent weeks though it was just good to see someone defending like a proper defender should. Bburn spent most of the match just hoofing the ball into the box and Brown was there every time. Ando did have a decent game and hopefully will get a run in the team as I think he needs it. There’s too much chopping and changing in midfield this season….
@exiledred
absolutely.IMO we should play ando and fletcher because they bring some much needed energy to midfield.Carrick is out of form and Scholesy disappears in the big games.So its gotta be Ando and Fletch.When Hargo comes back we will have lot more options.
i really dont see why we shouldnt try following formation after hargo makes his comeback..
vds
brown-vidic-rio/evans-evra
hargreaves
valencia-fletcher-anderson/giggs
rooney-berbatov
or
vds
brown-vidic-rio/evans-evra
fletcher-hargreaves-anderson/giggs
berbatov-rooney
owen
works on paper atleast
styy
the 2nd one seems a bit overadventorous playing all 3 strikers.the first one looks great though.will help us control the midfield and will give good protection to the back 4
aig, yup that was the whole point behind it, and since valencia has also played in the RCM position in ecuadorian national team, he could still exploit the flanks from there and whilst attacking hargreaves could also support attacks from the midfield and allow valencia to make his runs from the right flank.
im still wondering why ando gets so few chances this year.. he shouldnt shoot tho.
Berbatov was fcuking shite never done a thing, that was my impression of real madrid champion’s 2029. All joking a side berba did miss a few chances but he got the all important first goal for us and wat a goal it was typical berba class finish. I thought obertan was lively wen he came on, he cud ave scored 2 but it’ll take em time to settle in at the club. ps the press are saying david villa prefer’s a move to us rather than the rentboys
aig – Alright mate? Agree that Carrick HAS been off form but (and denton davy) disagrees he had a bloody good game on Saturday. He was winning tackles, playing simple but effective passes and kept it very neat and tidy. His best display of the season. However it has got to be Fletch and Ando at the Bridge.
I wonder if Fergie will play his European formation at chelsea – Rooney upfront with Giggs and Valencia alongside, Fletch (if fit), Ando and Carrick in midfield. I think Fergie will be worried about the midfield getting overrun if he goes in with 2 against the diamond formation.
I think Berbatov is class no doubt. But to be honest i really hope Owen and Rooney start against Chelsea. We saw at Anfield when Owen came on he was the only one capable of getting in behind a tough defence and I think him doing that on Sunday could be invaluable.
To the guy way up there suggesting starts for Obertan, Fabio and De Laet… were you actually being serious?
Id go 433 against the rentboys vds oshea evans vida evra, ando fletch carrick, valencia berba wazza.
king Eric
That is my whole point.Carrick had a good game but played in a different role.The role fletch plays when he is fit.So thats why if fletch is fit we have to go with him because he is one of the few players who does turn up for us in big games.Carrick has the tendency to disappear in the big games.ando will provide us with the energy we will need because it ill be a high tempo game amd playing scholes will be a mistake.
@Jack
ye exactly what i was thinkin. Havent looked forward to a match less in a long time. Just another point. Browsing around in my boredom. It seems the Sky have jumped on this bitters bandwagon. three more live city games so far this season than united. And i truely hate espn as much as i hated setanta. Not that listening to Jamie redknapp does anybody any worth while.
willierednut
do you think david villa even wants to come here and if he came how will the likes of welbeck and macheda ever break through when there would be rooney berbatov owen villa wont that send the message macheda and welbeck are never up 2 it. villa would be awesome and 320 goals in 4 seasons is a devestating return, but like I said it would ruin the work of macheda and welbeck even though welbeck is more flexable like ashley young you can play him on the wings and through the middle. macheda is a front man.
I for one don’t believe the papers. There is no way Villa is coming to United. My prediction for the chelski game is a goal by……………..John Oshea. ESPN should stick to basketball, american football, and car races.
John Ferry
I have not watched espn when they have shown the prem what are they like
is there any other player in the world who could have scored that goal? with everything said about berba, he is still the only player who can make a goal out of that, you could see the shock on blackburn when they saw the ball in the net and said what the fuck??
theres only one Keano – 320 goals in FOUR seasons. Are you sure mate? 80 goals per season! Think your numbers may be a bit out.
any word on mr hargreaves???
missed him lots
@red rossa: Of course there are other players who could have scored that goal! I really hate it when people say “Oh, only he could have scored that” absolute rubbish.
King Eric
well in a magizene I read thats the stats villa has in 4 seasons 320 goals thats the goals he has or it could be more than 4 seasons.
to be honnest I thought who in the hell did this magizene because one record they had torres playing for liverpool in the 06/07 season LOL, and I was so tired from traveling I must have read it wrong he would still be a hit for united but like I said it would ruin the progress of welbeck and macheda if villa came with rooney berbatov owen and villa. they would say how can we break through now.
Berba set up four clear cut chances again Wolfsburg, three against Bolton and that delightful flick to Valencia and Blackburn and none of them wee put away. He makes the game look easy where Rooney make the game look hard work. Just wish everybody would score from the chances he creates.
Lets get behind him as our season relies on him weather you love or hate him, the guy is class.
@ Jay Wire
Having provided a detailed summary of the exact content of Berbatov’s assists last season- rather than just a number- I would have expected more credit than you are giving me for supporting statistics. I am the first to admit, that I might not recall every assist, goal or game but I
The mainstay of my post was about the assists and having largely expressed my disdain for them as a useful statistic in general, I don’t know why you felt it would be a good idea to try to prove you point based on goals and assists (the bit when you start to talk about his involvement in goals).
Anyway
As for your exact query I am willing to concede some ground with regarding my accuracy but only just. Had I been more precise about my language I would have said between 1 in 3 and 1 in 4 in English Premier League football rather than his career.
My fault for using the word career.
The statistics I have in the premier league for Berbatov are 12 in 33, 15 in 36, 9 in 32 and 4 in 11. Slightly better than 1 in 3 but during his time at united between 1 in 3 and for last season 1 in 4.
I would have thought that with 13 goals in 43 games for united (league) that most people would not be impressed. He also had a barren run towards the end of last season when I felt we needed him most. Is it any surprise that I am not delighted? He didn’t even start the CL Final or against Arsenal in the semis.