Here you will find how many goals, assists and combined goals and assists our players have contributed since we first won the title against in 2007 up until the season just gone.
To give some perspective, the percentage of the total goals scored in that season has also been given.
Louis Saha has been included because he was our third highest scorer in 2007, accumulating his highest ever league goal tally, although it should be noted that the conclusions drawn obviously don’t take in to consideration his entire United career, rather just one season.
2006/2007
Goals
Total: 83
1st: Cristiano Ronaldo (17) 20%
2nd: Wayne Rooney (14) 17%
3rd: Louis Saha (8) 10%
Assists
1st: Cristiano Ronaldo (13)
2nd: Wayne Rooney (11)
3rd: Ryan Giggs (9)
Goals + assists
1st: Cristiano Ronaldo (30) 36%
2nd: Wayne Rooney (25) 30%
3rd: Louis Saha (13), Ryan Giggs (13) 16%
2007/2008
Goals
Total: 80
1st: Cristiano Ronaldo (31) 39%
2nd: Carlos Tevez (14) 18%
3rd: Wayne Rooney (12) 15%
Assists
1st: Wayne Rooney (13)
2nd: Cristiano Ronaldo (7), Carlos Tevez (7)
Goals + assists
1st: Cristiano Ronaldo (38) 48%
2nd: Wayne Rooney (25) 31%
3rd: Carlos Tevez (21) 26%
2008/2009
Goals
Total: 68
1st: Cristiano Ronaldo (18) 26%
2nd: Wayne Rooney (12) 18%
3rd: Dimitar Berbatov (9) 13%
Assists
1st: Dimitar Berbatov (10)
2nd: Ryan Giggs (8)
3rd: Michael Carrick (7), Wayne Rooney (7)
Goals + assists
1st: Cristiano Ronaldo (24) 35%
2nd: Dimitar Berbatov (19), Wayne Rooney (19) 28%
2009/2010
Goals
Total: 86
1st: Wayne Rooney (26) 30%
2nd: Dimitar Berbatov (12) 14%
3rd: Ryan Giggs (5), Antonio Valencia (5) 6%
Assists
1st: Ryan Giggs (11)
2nd: Luis Nani (10)
3rd: Antonio Valencia (9)
Goals + assists
1st: Wayne Rooney (31) 36%
2nd: Dimitar Berbatov (19) 22%
3rd: Ryan Giggs (16) 19%
Conclusions
- The average contribution of goals from our top scorer has been 29%.
- The average contribution of goals from our second highest scorer has been 17%.
- The average contribution of goals from our third highest scorer has been 11%.
- The average contribution of goals and assists from our most effective player has been 39%.
- The average contribution of goals and assists from our second most effective player has been 25%.
- The average contribution of goals and assists from our third most effective player has been 22%.
- The most reliant we have been on one player was Cristiano Ronaldo in 07/08 when he scored 39% of our goals and had involvement (scoring or assisting) in 48% of our goals.
- Cristiano Ronaldo’s average involvement in our goals was 40%.
- Wayne Rooney’s average involvement in our goals has been 31%.
- Dimitar Berbatov’s average involvement in our goals has been 25%.
- Carlos Tevez’s average involvement in our goals was 19%.
- Louis Saha’s average involvement in our goals was 16%.
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8 goals was the best Saha ever managed for us? That’s surprising.
I like this analysis. “Involvement in goals’ is a more complete measure of a forward. I often think the “golden boot” in the various leagues and tournaments should be worked out in this way.
Ronnie took the league by storm from 06-09.some stats he has.quality player.rooney did well too
Excellent, interesting stats…top marks
giggs deserves a lot of credit for what he did last season…. he should be outright 3rd…. lets just hope he takes on sir stanley mathews’ record.
“Dimitar Berbatov’s average involvement in our goals has been 25%”
I think thats good enough.
What a player Ryan Giggs is.
I know, I didn’t discover that the earth is round. I just can’t stop marvelling at this player.
what about their contribution in the fa cup, league cup, champions league ? ur only talking about the premier league
when u factor in the champions league its a whole different story
Ive been coming to this blog longer than I can remember but one of the greatest things i can say about it is Busby Bless Scotts Calculator
In Berbatov we BELIEVE!
Rick – If only that was true.
You missed out own goal, he was our 2nd highest scorer last season!
Giggsys chest wig
that is such an used joke.. not funny anymore.. by the way Berba got 12 goals and “Own Goal” got 10..
thanx for your contribution Ronaldo,wish you the best with Mourinho.
stats never tell the entire story..its also abt how versatile the player is.. how much te opposition have to device their tactics to negate our players..the sheer fear that our player put into opposition defenders..n lets not confuse emotions with what our players do on the pitch..
Any chance we can factor in the number of games played too?
I see my comment has been deleted, because I didnt think Berbatov was much of a goal threat. Nice.
woops wrong thread. SORRY
Sheer fear into the opposition? Making them change THEIR tactics. Cristiano Ronaldo, nobody else comes remotely close. The guy was different class
Dunder head Durham has the title race between City, Liverpoo and Chelsea, when will these clowns ever learn, never write United off.
@willierednut
Don’t pay attention to TalkSport in general.
Durham’s sole purpose is to generate calls by choosing a particular supporter group to wind-up. Today it’s United by predicting better seasons for our two most hated rivals, tomorrow it’ll be someone else.
For TalkSport, Calls = Money…
The people that call up are those that are generally stupid enough to rise to it, spend a fortune waiting for their call to be answered, to get ultimately 1 minute (if their lucky) of airtime…
source; a source has told me man united will meet bermen in london over the weakned. when bremen play fulhanm in london. while man united will be in london getting ready for sundays ganme against chelsea. he aslo clianms they will meet after the friendly in london. fergie hope to agree the deal. and ozil will go straight to machester for his medical.
It is a crying shame how things turned out for Saha while he was at United. For me, when fit, he is the most complete centre forward in the Premiership – he has all the atttributes – injury-free, he has 30 goals in him per season, no question. I for one was well pleased when we signed him back in January 2004.
@willierednut
I think we’ll run away with the league this season due to many factors but especially the 25 player rule. Liverpool and Chelsea will struggle to have 25 quality players, but we will on the other hand have 32 quality players due to the strength of our under 21s
Chelsea problem is there captain is Terry
City problem is they dont have a team
Liverpool problem is that they are a 1 man team
Arsenal problem is their crappy defence
Spurs wont be able to cope if they qualify for the CL
Villa are on the way down
Everton not good enough to challenge
UTD: Wont have an injury freak season again, Hernandez and Macheda are there, so many players in every position and a hungry squad
Chelsea, City, Arsenal and Scousers will fight for second place
@GTull
Spot on
95% of the presenters are ignorant bigots: Collymore, Durham, Parry, Brazil
Shame they no longer have Marcotti on
Only Alvin Martin talks some sense
I repeat what i said a few weeks back united will be lucky to escape relegation.
Torres talkin shit today “best club in england” but i have to say cant see much difference between Torres and Saha- Berbatov is Magic and if all works out for Chicharito – himself and berbatov could be unreal together to releave the burden
off topic but the future is bright http://bit.ly/dqH9QM
how in the fuck can anyone say chelsea arenenal and even shitty be considered better off than united. All united were missing was a 20 goal a season striker. add the fire power of rooney hernandes the wide boys in valencia nani and now obertan seems too look class, add youth players united are using the under 21 loop hole to their full advantage.
damnn i miss Saha. hopefully macheda turns out like saha
@Kelvin
I hear you man. I loved Saha too, but but of the current players, I think we really miss VanTHEMan Nistelrooy. I think both of them went way to early. Thing is, players like Saha and RvNR are very very rare. Possibly getting rarer. Saha and VNR are comfortable to receive a ball with back to the net, 20 yards out, and still make the defense crap themselves. Current forwards tend to run at the defense, like CR7 and WRooney, easier for the defenses to channel, easier to make them miss hit because they work at such speed. This is why people tend to love the Berb, he looks like he could be that type of player. Maybe, maybe…
Berbatov is magic,then what is ngog??
ngog is better than berbatov and lucas better than fletcher.torres also will be fit for the whole season.thats why this is liverpools year.torres is right.
So according to internet reports, Rooney was supposed to be rested for the Chelsea game, but now as punishment he will start it. Lol, he really must hate that!
hi guys, with all the love l had (still have for saha-goals against rentboiz), l think he is the worst striker we ever had in one-on-one situations. l remember defending him a lot amongst my mates. to be fair though most of his goals are classy unreal goals….l love him!
NB l tot CR7 scored 18 goals and not 17 in 2006/2007, not that it changes much anyway but still……
and diouf should go on loan and l think we need anoda striker to go out on loan and we will manage with the five remaining strikers……but cleverley loaned out? HECK NO
@costas
i think he did all this because he wanted to get that punishment.lol
Sorry, but way off topic:
I tell you what, this maybe the strategy to change owners fast and eliminate the dept!
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=811527&sec=england&cc=5901
Rooney rested? he’d be like a bear with a soar head on the bench lol.
I still cannot believe united are being written off by idiots yet again the wrong horse is being written off, if uniteds squad of 06/07 season can beat chelsea of 2006 then this years champions it should be a cake walk for united esp if hernandes steps up with the rooney very well still in his prime,
@rooney the new king
i agree.
manchester united’s youths are surprising with their skill and talent., the only reason they get written off is because of their age and the fact that people think they are not experienced enough to be lifting a title. but they forget that out of all the clubs in the premier league we have the men that have been there done that and done it again! their knowledge is passed down and their feelings of when they lift the title can be felt when they speak about it; our young players not only have pace, skill, desire and passion – they have knowledge. as for Chicarito he is young yet he scored more in the world cup than even most of our own players never mind the rest!
as for these stats, they just go to prove that Berbatov – come on ain’t half as bad as you think! i’ve always supported him because he is a red and shows loyalty and i for one, is glad that we have this guy! no-one else can say they have a Berbatov, it actually quite exciting to have him.
come on reds, prove them wrong yet again next season!
i love United being written off… makes winning much much more worth while
Written off, hmmm. Written off by the pundits and networks, but the betting odds still show a bit of proper respect. The pundits, especially in the UK are heavily influenced by the London media environment. Not surprising we have few friends there. United have never seemed much interested in courting close friendships there. But then, it is great to be United, great to prove them all wrong. Chelsea deserve respect as they’ve earned some, Spurs?City??? yeah, not so much.
manchester – arsenals youth is so overhyped that they were young in 2005 and look where we are now. I said this before I do expect united too storm the league if uniteds other strikers step up, dont forget this is the same durham who thinks england are a top team and PPL want too take him serious
They write United off, but it just fuels the fire in Sir Alex and the players.
willierednut – lessons will never be learned, if the media think england can win world cups how in the fuck can anyone say united not win anything. does 96 99 2003 2007 2008 and 2009 and even almost and should have 2010, and this squad is better than 2007
@ United
Ronaldo and rooney do that to oppositon..
Neither berba or tevez do that watever their stats..
also the deciding factor is? well 2 things
1 – 25 man squad rule
2 – united signing hernandes and getting vidic and rooney’s future’s settled
these 2 reasons will be the reasons why united are best equiped too win the league, because they now have someone else upfront in hernandes who can do what tevez does and this time not moan, come off the bench and get a goal which we never had last year, also we keep cleverly he also can be a game changing player who can up the anti and tempo, all the pieces are there they all are put into place its a win win situation.
@Abhishek … when I read your first comment, I thought “now there’s a guy who’s desperately seeking a way to undermine Berbatov, despite the evidence that’s staring him in the face”. Now, from your second comment, I see I was right.
In your first comment, you said “stats never tell the entire story”. You then say it’s also about versatility, and about how much fear the player puts into the opposition players. Having thus implored us to ignore cold, hard stats, and consider intangibles like “ability to scare opposition”, you then wrap up by asking us “not to confuse emotions with what our players do on the pitch”.
How can statistical measures be “emotional”, and intangible, subjective measures, like scaring the fuck out of the opposition, be not emotional? It doesn’t make sense.
If I was an opposition player, I would be scared (or at least wary) of any player who consistently contributes to 25% of our goals. I would more scared of someone who contributes to 40% (CR), or 31% (Rooney). But when, as a defender, I see Berbatov involved in a play, I’m not gonna say to myself and my mates, “Don’t worry about him, lads. Sure he gets involved in a quarter of everything they score, but he doesn’t scare me!”
Huh?
That’s all well and good but let’s face it, they show little on what happens on the field, look at Tevez last season for shitty City, he played games, was barely ever a sub, ended up as one of the top goal scorers in the league despite the quality of players around him not being half as good as ours and the competition for a place up front alot bigger. Then look at Berbatov… I love the bloke but and I love how he wants to play for us and shit but fuck sake, Tevez did a hell of alot more last season and the season before he couldn’t make the same impact simply because he was a sub most of the time…
Mic – God I’m bored of saying this. Can’t believe this argument is still going on. Tevez scored that many goals because he was THEIR man, like Rooney is OUR man. Tevez scored 19 goals in 2 season for us, he scored 23 goals in 1 season for them. Doesn’t that tell you something? How he does for City has no relevance to United, because he didn’t do that at United, because he was never our main man, because he was and never will be good as Rooney.
Tevez plays for whoever pays him the most money. Berbatov turned down more money to play for United. That should tell you everything you need to know about what kind of players and people they are.
Scott the Red … exactly. People seem to think that if you buy (or grow, or whatever) three 30-goal-a-season strikers, and play them all together all the time, you will obviously get 90 goals just from those three, plus whatever contributions the others chip in. Doesn’t work like that. Sad that it needs to be pointed out, really.
United need an attacking midfielder, like Anderson only good every Game, what annoys me is that Anderson has the quality to be a sneijder or someone but he just fucks about far too much
Nani 2nd with assists!
I sometimes dont get United supporters and needs ,and quick fix.
Thats from a wee Prat, Idiot,Twat,non sensical Moron, unlearned Idiot , ranging to Hood, like I ever wear onything cotten to hide my kisser.
A few of the things i have been called on this Blog and enjoyed them all.
Its imaterial. I will repeat and continue , its the best Manchester United Blog on the net bye a Fucking Mile.
You just mind something if you read the post the lads put up!
“come on my bonny boys” lol
Just fucking win!
I don’t know why Scott the Red brings this stat again..here we go again debating two completely incomparable players for me atleast. Tevez by faaarrrrrr the better player than berbatov no question about that. However, right now tevez is playing for city so there is no need to bring him to the debat he is not our player and i don’t care about him.
Ronaldo stats is amazing and i hope he does well at madrid this season.
Nani had 1 assist last season? That was awesome too given that he plays around half the season only.
where are you going with this Scott?
messi said ferguson and united regret letting Tevez go. with that statistic, we never regret anything, Messi. fuck off both of you argentinians.
@ Scott the red. can you factor in the number of games they all played during those seasons?..