Selling on players from the academy is one of the reasons why Manchester United have so much money to spend in the transfer market, with Frazier Campbell one of the most recent to move on. He had a choice between Hull, a club where he had already made a name for himself in helping them gain promotion to the Premiership, or Sunderland with former United captain Steve Bruce. The choice was obvious for him though as he sees Sunderland as ‘massive’.
He will travel back down to Manchester this weekend for our match against Sunderland but is content that he made the right decision in leaving for first team football.
“It will be a strange one going back and not being a United player, but you know after a while that the time is right for a change of scene,” said Campbell. “I’m a Sunderland player now and will be giving my best for the team. It’s obviously going to be very hard for us – United are still the team to beat in England and Europe. But we have been scoring quite a few goals of late and hopefully we can continue that and cause an upset.”
Campbell was at United since being a kid so recognises it will be weird to return to Old Trafford as a Sunderland player.
“I was with United since I was 10 – more than half my life, which is a lot when you think of it like that,” he continued. “It was a great education. I learned such a lot from being around top players, coaches and obviously Sir Alex Ferguson, who was always around the training ground with advice for younger players. Being at United was great, but I asked myself if I was going to play enough games to be the professional that I want to be. The answer was ‘no’ so I had to move on.”
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still a bit shocked that he’s gone
but seen the 2 lads from norway yesterday im happy with the reserves we have
@ghtt, I’ve read rave reviews of the reserves and particularly Eikrem and King. What did you make of the game yesterday? Eikrem’s goals were delightful
seen bits of Eikrem last season and he was good to very good but what happened to this guy during the summer ill never know but he seems to have grown 2/3 years, really doing fanastic
King ,I think, is good enough for united games this year were the might be easier(!) games or lighter games. like if united get 6 point out of there next 2 champions league games id put him in the away game against wolsberg as a sub.
Im not trying to over sell him but i think he’s doing amazing.
Ole is doing everything you’d want someone on the inside to do if he was gonna take over from Sir Alex
there are alot of players in the reserves that are manchester united future players , welbeck brandy evans brown Eikrem king and the italians are excellent
I agree, Frazier was a great prospect but good luck to him, as with a couple of our other recent departures. Its good to see players like him and Chris Eagles competing at the top flight. GHTT I agree, King looked great again last night. Very exciting.
there isnt any links to the reserve game last night, would love to see it
the goals from last nite are on the manutd.com website on the reserve game report.. some proper amazing goals..
SO is Campbell actually getting games (with Bent and Jones around)?
I had high hopes for campbell, when he started the community shield i thought he was going to get some serious game time but then they brought berbatov… its a shame we lost him. but in all honesty he hasnt done much at sunderland or tottenham, so sir alex must of seen something. Hopefully, he does well tho.
Always liked Frazier, i still remember his goal against Espanyol which was really Ole-esque. Thought he was United quality but age wasn’t on his side
which is kinda strange considering hes only 22.
Nice to see hes gettin first team football now. Bright Future, if u ask me.
Tony Starks, good point I’m not sure he is getting that many games under his belt at Sunderland.
He has started twice or thrice in the league and came on a sub several times, recently opened his account too.
Off Topic but I just wanted to write this
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What has .Van der Sar , Owen, Neville, Evra, Hargreaves, Ferdinand, Brown,Anderson, Rooney, Giggs, Berbatov Foster, Park, Vidic, Carrick, Valencia ,Nani Scholes, Welbeck, Fabio and Rafael, O’Shea, Evan Fletcher, Gibson ,Kuszczakand Sir Alex Ferguson got in common with Emily
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was talked about in the red cafe the republik of mancunia and MANUTD.COM yesterday
its just amazing how deep our squad goes,so many move on and have good careers,to break into the 1st team is such a hard thing to do,our depth is what makes us the best in the world