POLL: Who Has Been Our Best Player?

The Manchester United awards take place tonight, with the fans and players deciding on who they think has been our best player this season.

Who do you think deserves it?

Berbatov
Pros: 1. Top scorer in the league. 2. Scored more winning goals than any striker in the league this season. 3. First United player to score a hattrick against Liverpool since 1946.
Cons: 1. Been dropped for the big games. 2. Missed great opportunities against City in FA Cup semi-final.

Chicharito
Pros: 1. First United player since Ruud van Nistelrooy to score 20 goals in his debut season. 2. Fucking adorable.
Cons: 1. Only got in to the starting team towards the end of the season.

Nani
Pros: 1. Has more assists than any player in the league. 2. For the first 2/3s of the season, probably our most important player, in terms of his creativity and threat he posed.
Cons: 1. Off form since the return of Park and Valencia. 2. Nightmare vs Liverpool.

Park
Pros: 1. Works his bollocks off every game. 2. Considered vital to us standing a chance of beating Barcelona.
Cons: 1. Missing so much of the season through Asia Cup and injury.

Rooney
Pros: 1. Has scored some hugely important goals against the likes of City and Blackburn.
2. Has hit form at the most important part of the season.
Cons: 1. Wanted to leave 2. Wasn’t scoring and played badly for first half of the season.

Van der Sar
Pros: 1. Consistently brilliant. 2. Deserves recognition in his last season.
Cons: 1. Dropping the ball vs West Brom. 100% record at home without that.

Vidic
Pros: 1. Has been consistently brilliant in defence and makes all the difference between us looking solid at the back or vulnerable. 2. Has scored very important goals against Villa and Chelsea.
Cons: 1. Injuries 2. Silly mistakes around the box against the likes Chelsea and West Ham.

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204 Comments

Buliwyf May 19, 2011

Giggs, full stop!

Drew May 19, 2011

Vidic probably most consistent all season, hernandez second for m, then VDS

john johnson May 19, 2011

I strongly disagree with the poll results. Vidic seems to be the big favourite simply because he's the captain and there hasn't been a single outstanding attacking player. He's been lucky to not be sent off a dozen times this season, I'm not even kidding. Ferdinand has also been excellent when he's played too that people seem to ignore, and it's no coincidence that 4 out of the 5 games United lost, it was Ferdinand who was missing. Vidic is fantastic in the air but Ferdinand is by far the superior passer and when he's absent United play a lot differently. He's still an excellent player though and he almost wins by default.

Hernandez has less goals per minute than Berbatov, he's just being rated higher because fans have forgotten how great berbatov was in the first half of the season and Hernandez has been better in the last couple of months (mostly because Berbatov has been dropped). If there was an objective measure of how much a player contributes to the team per minute, Berbatov would undoubtedly be ahead of Hernandez. He's excellent at holding the ball up and passing, has the best touch in the team and is a good finisher. Hernandez only has speed, positioning and finishing, his touch and hold up play are awful and he regularly plays games where he barely touches the ball except to score. That never happens with berbatov. If Hernandez didn't exist I would have expected Berbatov to be player of the year and have about 35 goals. It's unbelievable that the top scorer is consistently dropped to the bench and I feel really sorry for Berbatov. If only all 3 could play together, but there's no room when you have to fit in Nani, Valencia, Giggs and Park on the wings and Carrick, Fletcher, Scholes (anderson & gibson) in the middle.

Nani is the most succesful attacking player by stats, but he's not done much since the Liverpool game where he got injured. He'd still be my vote though because he's the most exciting attacking player in the team that you want everyone to pass to him so he can do something special. Rooney would be my 2nd vote even considering his poor start to the season, he's been an excellent playmaker with lots of assists and goals. I'd have Giggs third. I was one of those who strongly criticised him for years for being one footed and consistently giving the ball away, but now he is playing his best for a decade providing excellent assists and even looking quite fast for 90 minutes. I guess people feel since he got player of the year a couple of years ago (when he absolutely didn't deserve it), that he shouldn't get voted this year.

Van Der Sar gets voted because he's going to retire and deserves it for the work he's done over the past 6 years. He's been good this season, but he's not had that much to do compared to other keepers and people tend to over-rate saves that look quite good but 99% of top keepers would save. Ferdinand, Park, Valencia, Fletcher & Scholes have been great when they've played too, but it hasn't been enough.

Nasko 1 May 20, 2011

Van der Sar,Berbatov ,Vidic,Nani,Park ALL OF THEM

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