Hull Impressed With Manucho Progress

Frazier Campbell is on loan at Tottenham Hotspur, Manucho is on loan at Hull, whilst Federico Macheda and Danny Welbeck are being given opportunities with the first team.

Manucho scored Hull’s winning goal away to Fulham and last weekend he scored their equalising goal against Middlesbrough, before going on to lose 3-1.

Hull boss, Phil Brown, has today denied that a permanent deal has been put in place although is pleased with the progress he is making.

“There is nothing in that from our point of view,” Brown said. “He is on loan and we will see how it goes at the end of the season. There are a plethora of great strikers playing in Manchester United’s reserves at the moment and Manucho was struggling to get in there.”

Brown reckons Manucho is starting to show he is Premiership quality.

“As far as we are concerned he is just starting to show signs he can play at this level and, more importantly, score goals,” he added. “The more games he plays, hopefully the more goals he will score. He has got a big part to play in the game on Saturday, that is for sure.”

8 Comments

gotta hate tiny tears April 17, 2009

i would really hate to see him go
he is really getting to grips with the english game
and he has bags of quality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfoDYbFzmxI&

wazza April 17, 2009

gotta hate tiny tears: i disagree with u there.he is not united class striker

Kash April 17, 2009

He's at the right club now.

Don't think he's good enough to come back to United.

Don Pablo April 17, 2009

With the England system bringing out the best of Rooney, how do you think he'd manage with Manucho playing as the battering ram infront of him? Just a point to ponder. And anyone who watched Hull vs Boro would attest to his aeriel threat. Not bad to have him as a squad player i'd say.

if everything fell apart id love

manucho
kiko rooney

denton davey April 17, 2009

"With the England system bringing out the best of Rooney, how do you think he’d manage with Manucho playing as the battering ram infront of him?"

This is a useful idea which echoes something I've been banging on about for a while - the need for an "alternative" when the box is packed and the opposition "parks the bus" in their penalty area.

I'm not sure if Manucho is big enough to be a "battering ram" because he looks to be lithe and rather skinny and at his age he won't be growing much but he does have the height and aerial ability to provide that needed alternative.

I suppose that another way that he might be useful would be as a lead-man in a 4-2-3-1 since the value of Ronaldo/Rooney/Berbatov and Tevez (whose stay looks increasingly unlikely) is better served by playing deeper and running into space.

However, as was stated earlier, I'm not sure that Manucho could get in front of Danny Welbeck, Fraizer Campbell, or Federico Macheda in the pecking order. I guess that the key factor would be whether he really does provide a different skill-set - an "alternative".

Kings April 17, 2009

Just hope he can bag a couple against the dippers.

micheal April 17, 2009

wazza
no is o shea park berbetov and at times even carrick and fletcher are not united class, I think unuted can do far better then berbetov and tevez, we have one world class forward in rooney, tevez is a good player and berbetov is average and useless.

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