Comments on: Serbian Terms Agreed At Long Last… And Squad Numbers Given

By: denton davey

denton davey — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:16:23 +0000

One thing that has to be said in favour of Nani is that he hasn’t told us that he’s always had a dream about playing for Madrid like Ronaldo, he hasn’t told us he wants to play for InterMilan as Anderson did, he hasn’t said publicly that he wants to return to Argentina when he is 28 as Tevez did, and I’ve never heard him complain about the weather like Vidic and Evra.

Cut the guy some slack – look at the competition he is facing within UTD: he has to be better than Ronaldo, Giggs, Park, and Tevez to even get a sniff of game action. That’s a tall, tall order since a player who could do that would be a bona fide superstar.

About his shooting – remember that he scored two blazers last year; and we all cheered. Long shots from outside the area are almost always “speculative”; but when they go in we all cheer like crazy.

Nani’s crossing is good – not great; his tracking back is very good; and he don’t take shit from no one !

By: Red-Manc

Red-Manc — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:13:48 +0000

EastStandManc, i didnt actually know that mate so that shuts me up with that point

like i said he just comes across in the wrong way to me,but he hasnt done anything out of order so im not against the lad.

By: Zalee

Zalee — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:31:13 +0000

From my point of view, I believe should gave them our support to succeed at Man Utd.Maybe it is frustrating when we heard that some of the star player want to move to others so called great club but let they choose their path & regret about their choice when they look back at their time at Man Utd was the greatest time.For Davide Petrucci progress we have to watch the academy schedule to find out

Glory Glory Man Utd!

By: EastStandManc

EastStandManc — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:15:56 +0000

Red-Manc: Carlito did the same thing in the league celebrations.

Nani’s not up himself, IMO; if anything he just wants to be the next Ronaldo, from what I’ve seen. He’s also the team joker and pranksters generally tend to be a bit forward/outgoing

By: klauq

klauq — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:03:33 +0000

erm… sorry i think many wont agree with this but comparing how Nani and Ronaldo started with us, I think I disliked Ronaldo quite a bit more.. Maybe he was cockier than Nani hehe but if you make a formula than

the cockier you start with = the greater you’ll become

haha so Nani wont be as good as Ronaldo?

Anyway it’s just my opinion..

But I half agreed with Eujen, SAF is preparing for Ronaldo leaving..
In two years time I think we’ll lose both Scholes and Giggs too..

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:35:25 +0000

There’s another Jake in this forum…oh well, I’m the one that disagrees with Suhayl all the time…might start my posts with that detail to clarify. I’m glad they’ve signed but this clearly wouldn’t have been done if Fergie wasn’t worrying about Nani, he was awesome against Portsmouth in charity shield but I agree that there is something not quite right about his attitude. The confidence is fine but some of the wild shots seem to irk the other players a bit. Saying that, I saw him working back against Aalborg like a madman so I don’t think he’s simply copying Ronaldo, he seems to understand he needs all the facets to his game and I’ve seen interviews with him where he seems pretty grounded. Yet, Fergie clearly doesn’t think he’s doing enough to gain a first-team place and he did cost £5million more than Ronaldo a couple of years ago so he needs to get going. Fergie is always quite clever with his signings, there’s any number of class 21yr old players in Europe but clearly having Serbian hero Vidic at United will allow these two to progress much quicker and probably go some way to giving Vidic another reason not to leave United in the distant future as I think he’s hinted at before.

By: Red-Manc

Red-Manc — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:57:47 +0000

Denton davey, its not just that mate i mean i can see where your coming from cos these days players need ALOT of confidence and i dont mind people being cocky in a showboating type of way (like he was against arsenal) because thats entertainment but he just seems to be cocky in a up is own arse way aswell, although its only something small when we won the champions league he turned his shirt the other way round so it was his name you could see, and that to me made it seem as if he was like he was more arsed about people seeing his name than the fact United as a team had just won the Champions league. he just seems abit selfish

He’s only young and i dont actually know him so im probably wrong about him, but he comes across in the wrong way to me.

By: denton davey

denton davey — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:48:03 +0000

I like Nani’s cockiness. Without “mental toughness”, he’s lost in the sea of mediocrity. The actual skill difference between most EPL players isn’t that large; what is huge however is their commitment and their self-belief. And, instilling this in his players has been SAF’s greatest managerial ability.

By: King Eric

King Eric — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:27:16 +0000

Red Manc: no its not just you mate I think that also particularly concerning his cockyness.

By: EastStandManc

EastStandManc — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:49:28 +0000

IMO Nani tries a little too hard to emulate his compatriot and mate Ronaldo. If he just concentrated on being his own player, I think we’d see better results.

I’d like to see him and Tosic playing in the CC and FA Cup to give us some indication as to how we’d survive without Ronaldo. It would, as already noted, mean much better delivery from corners (Nani inswingers from the right, Tosic likewise from the left) and allow Rooney to take up his normal role on the edge of the box (Newcastle away last season, anyone?)

Ljajic is a longer-term proposition, but I think we have a continuation of the Carrick-Scholes mould (that has brought us so much success) in Possebon-Ljajic.