Anderson has gone off the boil since his storming first season with Manchester United, which he ended with scoring one of the sudden death penalties in the European Cup final against Chelsea.
Still, in the pre-season he scored a blinding freekick against Boca Juniors and this week he scored for the Reserves.
We have been left to question his attitude, particularly after his falling out with Kiko at the very start of the season, but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer reckons Anderson has what it takes to become an important player for us. What is encouraging is the revelation that Anderson asked to play for the Reserves this week!
“Ando has shown his qualities and attitude,” said Solskjaer. “Now it is a case of him taking his chance when he gets it and putting down a marker to stay in the team. He is going to be a big player for Manchester United. It was all glory for him in his first season, but then you sometimes get a bit of a reaction to that. It happens to a lot of players. But with Cristiano Ronaldo gone, we need players like Anderson to step up and say `here is what all the talk was about when you signed me.’ It is always going to be a big challenge at United to get a place in the first team. No player at United is going to step aside and say `here you take my place.’ You have to fight for it and he is more than capable of doing that as he is proving. He volunteered to play for the reserves. Asking to play just shows his professionalism and determination to succeed.”
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If Ole says it,I believe it.He is only 21 and he has tremendous potential.
falling out with Kiko?
he had a fall out with kiko?
wonder what that was about, anmyone care to shed some light on that?
and to echo the words of theboogeyman
“If Ole says it, I believe it”
Scott,when did the rest of it come?When I commented,it was only 2 lines of what Ole said.When I came back 9 minutes later,there was loads more.What’s that about? lol
ive always seen immense potential in this guy…he’ll be a dynamic midfielder for united..he’s got so much pace and skill..all he needs is a bit of temperament nd he’ll legen-waitforit-dary!!!…and i must echo boogeyman’s words, “if ole says, i believe it”…
scott, do you have any info on the nature of the fall out with kiko…
also top marks on the scouse article today.. one of your best
I had heard about the falling out in training with Kiko, think it was just a slagging match between them, nothing more.
Really pleased to hear he asked to play in the reserves, keep that attitude up Ando!
I have been arguing with a couple of readers over on RedRants about Ando for a while now! I think he has bags of potential, he needs to settle down into his role. Has the pace and the technique to play here.
l;ets hope this shows hes maturing and willing to swallow his pride to play for the team
lets just hope this is the last we hear of his attitude
if you consistently perform ando
youll have some leeway with the fans for bad performances
And he shits on Fabregas
paul scholes 97-98
the way he was played by the that season is how anderson should be played
Anderson and Kiko had a major falling out something got to do with anderson trying it on with Kiko’s girlfriend little rat..on the footballing side he’s want to get the finger out he is 3 yrs at the club so its time to start showing his potiental outside the bedroom!!!!!!!
I think Anderson is getting his head right and is ready to go. Asking to play in the reserves does show maturity and we can only hope that maturity begins to show on the pitch. With a long season in front of us he will get his chances, it is up to him to take them and I think he will.
Kiko should please his gf if he doesn’t want someone to take her away!
wtf rooney
Testosterone Tantrums – Teenage lads and tits = training ground tussles.
If these two lads were arguing over the same bird then will someone please take them to one side and explain the concept of spit-roasting.
No need to fight over her boys – God gave her two tits and every hole is a goal.
Play nicely.
If my mate shagged my GF (not that that’s necessarily what happened) then I might be pissed with my mate, but definitely giving that slag ten seconds to get her shit out of my flat.
Can’t blame a mate for offering; can blame a snapper for accepting.
off topic:
berbo scores one and asissts two for bulgaria
@READ CAREFULLY AT WHAT I SAID
Fukin classic ….LOL TOO DAMN RIGHT THOUGH
In Ole we will trust.
off topic.denmark 1 portugal 0 half time.looks like ronaldo and co may nt be at the world cup next year
Macedonia_United
listening to the irish game from the radio here in ireland they reported on that game and the guy said “the berbatov show”
@ aig alex is god,
my god, did you watch that match. portugal were all on attack, only a goal went in, they had about 30 shots on target, the denmark keeper saved pretty much all of them. he is just so bloody good, i think he’s called Stephan Andersen.
denmark played shit, but are definitely going to the finals. don’t know about portugal though.
I wouldnt call 3 games a “Storming first season”.
the berbatov show consisted of 4 goals 3 setup by berbatov and the other was a peno won and scored by berbatov
what a lazy bastard
@READ CAREFULLY AT WHAT I SAID
awesome kid, awesome!
Berba is class
he is classs…
I saw the Bulgaria match, berba was enormous!! the other team had one hell of a goal though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f552T63ebMs
Read Carefully I hope you are a teacher cause these are the kinds of lessons kids need to be taught in school!
does any one have a link of the bulgaria match highlights…?
@Gotta hate tiny tears
I’m going to assume you made a mistype when you typed Berba took a penalty let alone scored it. Next you will be telling me that Defoe has suddenly become a half decent striker who can actually score for club and country with some regularity
http://www.novsport.com/news54202_1.html
at the bottom of the page
Tufty – did you only go to three games that season then? To argue Anderson only had 3 good games is pathetic.
Wakey
berba scored a peno
and defoe scored from outside the box
what a strange day of football
Yeah, and kakha kaladze scored TWO own goals against ITALY! Weird ha?
Ando will be a class player, no doubt about it. He’s still a kid, Fergie’s doing his usual and changing his position to improve his all round game and his awareness of other players and positions, I don’t doubt he’ll end up as an attacking left sided midfielder ala Ronaldinho.
Having an OPINION that Anderson had 3 good games for us in his debut single is far less pathetic than insulting said person for said opinion by labelling them pathetic.
suck my balls SteRDLK
scott can say what he likes, its his blog
plus, hes right
Anderson had a cracking first season, as best could be expected
@steRDLK its also far less insulting than coming on a blog merely to insult someone…take your own medicine
IF OLE SAYS HE’LL BE GREAT HE’LL BE GREAT! I think everybody knows hes gonna be great, he just needs the Scoring mentality
anyways I just posted a content ABOUT berba where he said he’d sweat blood for Manchester United
http://onemanunited.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/im-ready-to-sweat-blood-for-united-berba/
SteRDLK – I didn’t label him pathetic. I said it was pathetic to say he only had 3 good games. If any of our squad played for a whole season and only had 3 good games, they wouldn’t be a United player any more. He had 38 appearances that season. Even last season, when he was fairly useless for the majority of the time, he will have played well in more than 3 games. If he didn’t, he wouldn’t be here any more.
Off topic but –
Rooney wins a penalty for United, when there was blatant contact : “He dived”
Rooney wins a penalty for England, the ref said there was a foul but no-one saw any contact & it should’ve been a foul the other way : Nothing is said. Funny that.
Embarrasing Rooney dive after all this shitstorm has given the ABU army enough ammunition to slaughter him. It was stupid of him to do so.
Some people have severe anger management issues, either that or they are very immature
“suck my balls” said Red Dave
I never said Scott couldnt say what he wanted, Im not thick, I do know its his blog, but to say somebodys opinion is pathetic is a bit low.
Wayne Rooneys hair
I dont come on a blog to insult anybody. That clearly isnt what I did. But insulting somebodys OPINION and labelling it pathetic is quite pathetic in itself, instead of slating the guy, ask why he thinks he only had 3 crap games, you will look far more mature.
SteRDLK – You think what I said was “a bit low” and “quite pathetic”. I think what Tufty said was “pathetic”. Pot? Kettle?
I don’t need to know why he thinks Anderson only had three good games, I’m not arsed. What I do know is our manager wouldn’t let a player start their third season at the club if in their first season they played well on just three occasions. That’s nothing to do with opinion, that’s just how top flight football works, particularly under a manager as successful as Fergie.
Somebody having an opinion is not pathetic, no matter how much you disagree.
Insulting somebodys opinion without any knowledge of why they have this opinion is pathetic. If you “arent arsed” why he has this opinion, then surely you would just ignore it rather than insult him.
No, personally I dont think Anderson had 3 good game in his first season or last season, but thats Tuftys right to an opinion.
And seeing as the quote was something like this “3 games doesnt mean a storming season”, then he is right. If its Tuftys opinion than Anderson had 3 great games, then he is right. You dont think this, but that doesnt give you the right to use insults, even if it is your blog.
He had a decent game against Arsenal away, a decent game against Liverpool away and a decent game against Chelsea at home.
At best his performances in a utd shirt have been poor with no consisteny.
If he wasnt Brazillian and didnt have dreadlocks, then a lot of people would have written him off ages ago.
I go every United game home and away and have a knowledge of football.
Im not slating Anderson, but he needs to put in the workload and up his workrate. The talent is there and the energy is there but he needs to be doing a lot more.
Ive seen Kleberson do just as much in a UItd shirt if niot more, yet people are quick to slate him.
The thing about Anderson is he can have a crap game, but do some brilliant passes, then the next game it can be almost the opposite, a brilliant game where he doesnt do any good passes. But I think, like Nani, we will only see the best when he is playing regularly, which will only happen once Giggs and Scholes hang their boots up. Even then he will have to contend with Fletcher, Carrick, Hargreaves, Gibson and possibly even Possebon. He will have to raise his game a lot more if he is to be a regular, not just talent wise but consistency wise.
SteRDLK – so I can argue Ferguson is a shit manager, Rooney is a talentless thug, Giggs hasn’t been good enough to wear the shirt for the past 5 years and you can go “I respect your opinion”. Bollocks. I think it’s pathetic to think any United player would be given three years at the club if they had 3 good games a season. That is my opinion. It’s nothing to do with whether it’s my blog or not, if someone said that to me in the pub I’d reply in the same way.
Tufty – when did Kleberson play inch perfect 30-40 yard balls? Anderson definitely needs to raise his game. This is his last year really because you can only be a “potentially” great player for so long. He’s not a kid anymore. But he has had moments of brilliance in a United shirt. I don’t remember brilliant things from Kleberson.
You probably didnt support Utd when Kleberson played.
Kleberson actually played decent passes, it was one of the key parts of his game, he had good vision and passing. Where Kleberson suffered was one through an early injury which limited his chances and two he was part of a team that was struggling and was carrying Keane.
He came back into the team at one point with a bad away defeat at Norwich and took a lot of the criticism, yet on that day the whole team was poor and that started with the formation and selection.
Kleberson also scored more goals in his limited appearances than Anderson has managed.
As I said earlier, Im not writing Anderson off. I was hailing his signing when he signed and Id have him in the middle ahead of several other players who seem to gain favour.
People will argue that Veron was a bad signing, but he wasnt. He was just in a team that already had two similar ball demanding players. In Verons last season, he actually set up more goals than Beckham.
If Keane want in the team, then Veron would have shined.
In truth he was a signing that wasnt needed, but at the time was a signing who made other clubs sit up and take note.
We also probably sold Veron at the wrong time, but given the fee Chelsea offered we couldnt really say no to it.
Anderson is still a kid!
Tufty – I probably didn’t support United when Kleberson played? Go fuck yourself you arrogant tosser. It really is no surprise you’ve got such a reputation as a wanker. Kleberson didn’t spray inch perfect 40 yard passes here, there and everywhere, something Anderson has done on plenty of occasions – his problem is his inconsistency at doing this, not his ability. Kleberson wasn’t the dreadful signing he is remembered as, in the same category as Djemba x 2, but he wasn’t as good as Anderson, not in this league anyway.
Anyway, go and think of another embarrassing banner. Or better still, go and pinch another one from Anfield like you did with that dreadful “Can’t buy class” effort. You had the whole Stretford End cringing with that one, well played!
Those opinions can easily be disspelled with facts.The facts are there that Fergie isnt shit, the facts are there that Rooney isnt a talentless thug, the facts are there that Giggs hasnt been useless for 5 years.
Fergie – Won the last 3 league titles
Rooney – Average of 20 goals a season, already scored almost half the goals Sir Bobby did for England
Giggs – Won PFA Player of the Season just last season
His opinion than Anderson didnt have a storming first season cannot be so easily disspelled, but obviously now he has made the comparison to Klebersen his argument looks a lot weaker, but you cant just insult somebodys opinon if you think he is wrong. Only once he has tried to back it up can you say “yes, hes wrong” or “no, i was wrong”.
“You cant just insult somebodys opinon if you think he is wrong.”
Yes I can. I just did. I think it’s pathetic to say Anderson had three good games in his first season. That’s my opinion.
Kleberson was far from shit, the fact he got back into the Brazil squad this year is testament to the players abilities. Similar situation to Veron and Forlan. They never really adjusted to things at United for one reason or another.
The next 2 seasons are make or break for Andersons United career, (stating the obvious), he has all the tools required to be a United star, just if he utilises them.
Youre not very mature then if you insult somebodys opinion just because you disagree with it, without even listening to the reasons behind it.
Ando will make it.it’s difficult to dispossess him of the ball when he goes on his runs.want to see more of those runs.he’s got to be confident and work on reducing his weight.fantastic as an attacking midfielder. We are looking at a potential left-footed ronaldinho.
SteRDLK and Tufty should not be able to call them self football fans because anyone that gives a shit about people calling each other pethetic is one dozy cunt and anyone that thinks ando only had 3 decent games is not only pethetic but a complete and utter gobshite and as the great roy keane said he was probably too busy eating his prawn sandwiches
Irishred, so me stating that Scott insulting Tufty for an OPINION means Im not a football fan? Great logic, so Im assuming you insulting me for this means you arent a football fan either? No wait, you insulting me means you are a GREAT football fan, right?