Frazier Campbell has an impressive scoring record for all the teams he’s played in, whether that’s our Under-18s, Royal Antwerp or Hull. He has bag-loads of pace and a natural eye to goal.
It was his goalscoring ability which helped elevate Hull City to the top flight for the first time in the club’s history, netting 15 times in 34 games for the tigers.
A fortnight ago, in preparation for the pre-season getting under way, I asked which of our youth team products had the best chance of making it in our first team. Chris Eagles, who had just 5% of the vote, has since left for Burnley, with Lee Martin the only player thought less of, collecting 4% of the vote.
Danny Simpson was the favourite to succeed, picking up 35% of the vote, after featuring several times for the first team last season, in both the league and Champions League. Frazier Campbell received 25% of the vote though, showing he has a lot of backing from our fans.
With players missing at the start of the season and no new striker yet bought, is this going to be Campbell’s opportunity to break in to the team?
Hull boss Phil Brown has rates Campbell highly, although has conceded there isn’t much chance of regaining the player’s services next season.
“Sir Alex has his business to do and until he conducts that I’m presuming Fraizer will be a United player this season,” Brown said today. “We’ll have to wait and see.”
Campbell scored his first goal of the pre-season in the Vodacom Challenge final against the Kazier Chiefs. He was just inside the box as he kicked the ball across the path of the keeper, with it finishing in the corner of the goal.
With Tottenham Hotspur determined in keeping us away from Dimitar Berbatov, United may be forced to go yet another summer without buying a replacement for Ruud van Nistelrooy. If this is the case, Campbell will fancy his chances of getting a few starts and bench appearances to pad out our attack, particularly when Wayne Rooney picks up his seasonal injury!
Also, we are set to start the season without Cristiano Ronaldo, through injury, Nani, because of suspension, and Anderson who will be at the Olympics. This again should provide space in the team for Campbell to get an appearance or two.
Would you like to see Campbell getting first team action this season?
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Why do you always keep asking questions? LOL
Your recent articles are mostly in form of questions.
Based on his crap ferformance for the reserves yesterday, I do not think this is his season…
eagles left, he culd never cut it at utd, this hw its gonna be from nw, u ‘ll all see wellback, possebion, brandy, campbell all leavin sometime or the other time, gone are those days when a reserve player culd be budded in to the system gradually, so unless these plyrs dont cut it right away , ‘theyre nevr gonna get a chance.Eagles was the next giggs n beckham combined, unless these guys make an impact rightawy there doesnt seem to be any chance, blooding them into the first team is a liberty saf had durin the times of giggs n scholes, but times have changed , so have the money involved.. unless these kids turn out be wonderkids, they’ll play their trade elsewhere..
sir ali just give your opinion or keep quiet. the tiem u used in blabbing that rubbish is enough to say ”yes” or ”no”. i think campbell should be given a chance. he is a guy from the academy that we cannot afford to sell out. i think himself and wellbeck will come good very soon but all teh same we have to get an established point man. since we know rooney will likely get that injury somewhere somehow(i sincerely pray not), we have to get someone that we can at least rely on and not someone that we will gamble with.
N667: I think that it will be easier for SAF to blood the youngsters this season since he will be able to have two more players on the bench in the premiership as well.
I would not be to surprised if we get a few youngsters through in the next couple of years. My favourite to make the cut is Possebon who looked a class act when I watched him in the Manchester Senior Cup final.
Y does SAF always sell off his oyung player what is the point of grooming a player for another club? give them chance.
If Eagles was not “good enough” then you know that the bar is set incredibly high.
Campbell has blazing speed and a fine goal-scoring record wherever he has played; perhaps he can do well with better players or maybe he is another “nearly man”.
SAF sees these guys in training all the time so it’s not as if game-experience is required to come to a decision about being “good enough” – or not. And, as was written earlier, the days of slowly “blooding” a youngster are over – this is a new world order in which superstars like Tevez, Ronaldo, Rooney, Anderson, and Nani are brought in because they have already shown themselves to be “good enough”. For Campbell (or Welbeck or Evans) to be “good enough” they have to excel on the practise pitch in order to get a chance to be on the bench. It’s tough but it’s also the reality of the new world order of high stakes footie.
Sir Ali, what is the problem with asking questions?. That is what football blogs are all about. The articles are put in questions, so that people can give an OPINION if they have one lol!.
Campbell will never make it on the big stage. Sorry, but that’s my judgement after watching him for a long time now. I’ll hold my hands up if I am proved wrong, but don’t think I will be.
I am happy about this kid getting more of a chance this season. If he does get to stay and get more of a role, it will only be in a situation where United don’t sign a forward. If we do sign a new striker, he will be surplus and be sent if not this summer, then the next. He is a good player but I am not convinced he can become a United great. He has great speed and can find the back of the net that is proven, but can he do it on the big stage?
While I am not sure, I think at this moment it would be better to give him a chance, than pay an astronomical fee for another striker. We have quality upfront already with Tevez, Rooney, and yes, Saha. Add Manucho and Campbell to those names and you have a nice striking core. Tevez scored 19 goals with somewhat limited minutes in the beginning and I believe should be where we invest our money. Lets wait another summer and see who else is available at that time, I am not convinced that Berba and Huntelaar can force there way into our starting 11. I would rather have Tevez and Rooney upfront, with the quality midfield we have.
The young players I was impressed with were Cleverley and Possebon who have both played well. Possebon has some real quality and will get some good time this year and is the player to watch for United. Fergie has said Possebon will stay with the first team and I believe he can give us a lift similar (but on smaller scale) to what Anderson did last year.
United are having some growth in there youth development, with the singing of the Roma youngster, plus Possebon, Evans, Simpson, and Campbell who all have quality futures in the game. I hope we can continue to find players, help them develop, and wrep all the benefits we did last year, with Rooney and Ronaldo’s development paying off.
Campbell will have a prem lge career just not with man untd , good luck to the lad but we need better players in our 1st team,
whats happening with manucho?
Denton Davis: Allow me to disagree, from you post about Eagles not cutting it, which equals the standards being set very high, i’d say this is not true, Eagles was never good to begin with, he was too lightweight and usually got himself into tight spot which led to him wasting chance, the only thing he has going for him was that he seemed to be at the right place at the right time, he really isn’t that good. Anyway from the youth system, i see :
Possebon, Campbell, Wellbeck, Evans all coming true and maybe that young keeper, Ron Robert Zeiler.