Comments on: Do United or Rio and Vidic Need To Worry?

By: cantona7

cantona7 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:10:07 +0000

well i have to agree with Giles Oakley. Rio is in a bigger trouble than Vidic is. And thanks Tufty for telling us about Rio not attending his own movie premiere. Hope that’s the end of the bullshits from Rio.

I am not a big fan of Wesley Brown, although i simpathize him for all the injuries. But I see Evans is a lot more capable than him at CB. If both Rio and Vidic are unavailable, I would rather have Brown at RB and O’Shea at CB instead.

By: MUFCOKMANC

MUFCOKMANC — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:09:39 +0000

Rio is a top class defender, him and Vidic were a class apart a couple of seasons ago and set the expectations so high but it was obvious you cant retain such standards forever.

For me though im not keen on Rio, why the hell is a footballer thats playing for Manchester United FC producing his own magazine and making films with cashly cole (what a douche) when he’s still in a team searching for their 4th title in a row he should be concentrating purely on football.

Modern day footballers are a joke.

By: Dave Mack

Dave Mack — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:48:38 +0000

Too much has been made of Rio’s part in Torres’s goal last week. The fact is Torres received a great pass that gave him a yard on Rio before he received the ball. If Rio had of got a tackle in to prevent one of the best strikers in the world scoring in that situation it would truly have been “world class”. Both he and Vidic undoubtedly fit that label but not every moment in every game. There’s no question for me that Rio will play his way back into top form.

By: Doghouse

Doghouse — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:58:16 +0000

What I’ve been seeing in Rio’s game lately is a little lack of the hunger. Hunger is what makes United great, it is what makes players like Giggs so sharp for so long, and you can see it in the younger players from Rooney to Evra to Fletcher and Evans. Rio, to me, seems to lack that and it’s why he’s lost some of his edge in my view. As GHTT said above though, it’s nothing a bit of a kick won’t fix.

By: ashhotjet90

ashhotjet90 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:48:19 +0000

I think our defence was woeful against Barnsley . Wes got beaten by the Barnsley substitute easily and yeah , a better team would probably have scored 4 . At Old trafford the problem might not occur , play Vidic , he had Ladyboy in his pocket and his confidence seems to be on the rise .

By: Giles Oakley

Giles Oakley — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:17:32 +0000

I do think there are real concerns about Rio, and to a lesser extent Vidic, and it’s not good to hear they may be out injured, again. I’m very happy to have Wes and Jonny Evans in the centre of defence however, although I’d prefer to have Wes at right back, but what we really need is a period when we get the same defensive formation week-in, week-out. I know in our record-breaking run last year it wasn’t the same back-four every time, but there was much more stability overall. Fergie is chopping and changing all the time and that really showed defensively against Barnsley, who created about as many chances as bloody Barca! Having said that, I’m all for giving the kids a chance, not least to put pressure on ‘established’ players (and in Rio’s case to get him to sort out his priorities) .I’ve said before, we have several players coming to the end of their careers at the same time so we must let younger players have a real chance.Those kids need a decent run, just as much as older players coming back from injury. When Wes first emerged in 1998 he got a lot of games and has never been out of the frontline first team squad ever since (except when he’s been injured, which has sadly been all-too-often). I’d like us to have the same back four against Blackburn, then in the Champs Lge, and then against Chelsea.

By: utdforever

utdforever — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:37:28 +0000

Vidic to me looks like he’s playing his way back into form as is Rio (how could he not, he’s been quite shocking recently) so I don’t think there’s cause for all this panic about our defensive options! Had to laugh at the rumour that Harry wants Rio at Spurs next year.. all of a sudden Rio has gone from one of the world’s classiest defenders to the worst on the planet. Because of what? Injury and a couple of blunders, albeit potentially costly ones.. but come on now. People are havin a laugh in saying he may be past it. Anyway, as we know we’ve got great support in the form of Wes and Evans so for me it’s Evans to partner the fitter out of Rio and Vidic with Wes playing right back (his best position) and Patrice on the left. Berbs and Owen up front so we can give Wayne his rest for the chavs of chelsea. Think it will be a closer game than many expect but if we do go a couple of goals in front I’d like to see Obertan on the pitch to exploit their backline. Valencia and Obertan on the wings, just think about that for a second.. yes please!

By: WHO

WHO — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:14:05 +0000

give them more time guys, they have not turned bad all of a sudden, it was their fourth game together last sunday, some of which had no vds, give them 2 or 3 more games and they will be set, torres touch on sunday put it away from rio and he couldnt get the ball unless he went through him, apart that neither of them was bad, rio has made mistakes but he is a class act

@tufty,

is their genuine talk of vidic leaving?

By: theboogeyman

theboogeyman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:02:59 +0000

bigphil2003-I am easily confused and I did notice after posting my comment that you were talking about both games.

By: bigphil2003

bigphil2003 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:50:33 +0000

boogeyman I was actually talking about both games! lol. But I can see how that would be confusing. Fair point Scott about Burnley’s goal being a cracker, but I don’t remember the defence having the best of nights anyway. Still, Wes and Jonny are both very good defenders and they should be able to do a job – I’m just unconvinced that Wes is truly back to his proper form, otherwise he would probably be playing at RB most weeks.