agreed ... creative mid or playmaker is more crucial now ... & defender too, since a long list of injury crisis & that will be happen again & again this season

agreed ... creative mid or playmaker is more crucial now ... & defender too, since a long list of injury crisis & that will be happen again & again this season

i wanna see another centre-back
midfield is ok for me..as long as fletcher and carrick play there, not defense..
left-back? no need..evra de laet o shea fabio can do job there..
same goes to right back..neville brown o shea rafael...

I've had enough of the Berba discussion but how do you know that? We got lucky with Chelsea losing points against Everton and West Ham. We could have been 8 points adrift now. We will be having a different discussion should that have happened.

Rooney works best with another striker with a good finishing, coz he doesn't have one. Berba should stick upfront, messing with defenders and wait for Rooney's and the other midfielder's deliveries. Unless he starts doing that and stop trying to be fancy with that supporting striker role, I see no hope with that partnership.

I am still okay with defense ...

Only attack mid I am a bit concern we lack a bit of creativity.

Something like what David Silva could add to us.. but his adaption to the league is also another concern.

Who knows he could be a hit like Torres in EPL as well.

Come on, we have berbatov, owen, rooney, macheda, welbeck and now Diouf. You want another striker, duh? 

I'd say we need someone who feeds them the ball. I don't expect a striker to get the ball in front of a defender while being heavy-guarded and dribble into the box the score.

SAF knows the best for them.

oh yeah by the way, merry christmas guys!

here's to wishing a great come back and an amazing year!

sir alex ferguson is married, and looks strong lol

Pfff...Sir Alex Ferguson is my "Sifu"...I know he wouldnt do that.

True. Silva to play on the flanks. And as for Torres, who knows that he might join us in the summer. 

But I do have that feeling that SAF would make a sneaky move for Pato.
I'm guessing that most fans are frustrated with our recent losses. I don't think that we're having problems with our attacking force. Berbatov, Rooney, Owen, Macheda, Welbeck and Diouf are good enough. It's just that on certain games, our midifielders are nowhere to be seen.

When there's no link between the defenders and attackers, everything just died in the middle. I am hoping for our defenders to recover from their injuries so that Fletcher and Carrick can be restored at the middle. I wouldn't mind Hargreaves to be listed in the lineup as well ..

Lets have our fingers crossed that everything will be in order from now on.

And I do think that 4-3-3 would be suited for both Berbatov and Anderson. No more of 3-5-2 please.

u are denying it coz your "sifu" didnt bring u along eh  

Fletcher's job is to stop opponents from playing. And he is doing that very well. 
I thought Carrick can replace Scholes. But he is not creative and consistent enough. We still need Giggs in that department. Was hoping Ljajic can be our creative playmaker but it wasn't to be. Anderson is our best bet for now. He has all the ingredients to be a good playmaker and he is still young. May be, in the near future, we can see Petruci as well. For midfield, short term wise, we need Giggs to be fit and Scholes to find his form. Long term wise, I hope Anderson and Petruci can fulfill their potential.

My concern now is the defense. I think our defenders, Gary, Rio, Brown and Evans are too injury prone. 

We actually bought Carrick because of his passing abilities. He used to provide good long passes from midfield. But now he doesn't do much of it anymore, mostly just normal short passes. Giggs is our playmaker since CR left us and yes, Anderson is our best bet with his offensive part, long passes, moving forward with the ball and aggresiveness.

walao..good to see you back here calvin..i thought you left lyn for good??

Come on, we have berbatov, owen, rooney, macheda, welbeck and now Diouf. You want another striker, duh? 

First, why do you think he'll not get much chances after this? After rooney, he's the best striker around. Even if he plays as a supporting striker, he still score goals. He can choose not to pass and perform his flicks but opt to bring the ball forward then shoot. Then he'll probably not described as a supporting type-striker. Infact, he chose to play with his style. Owen was chosen ahead of berbatov was probably due to his recent form(his hattrick against wolfsburg).

Even if we sign david villa, if our midfield fails to feed him with great balls, he'll just end up being a striker who doesn't score much. I'm very happy with berbatov and rooney's partnership.

Even Owen has done quite good so far, since pre-season. We'll just deal with the defensive woes first.

I'd say we need someone who feeds them the ball. I don't expect a striker to get the ball in front of the defenders while being heavy-guarded and dribble into the box and score all the time.

SAF knows the best for them.

Berba has got his chances alright, and he's choking with the pressure.

I think at some point (which I'm guessing at the end of the season), we have to admit Berba isn't the player that was intended to be. I'm still hoping that he'll prove me wrong. People said that that is his style, etc but the fact is he doesn't gel with Rooney! Like I said before, Rooney is a Gascoigne-like material. Works hard, strong, fast but lacks that magic in front of the goal. He used to have them with his flicks and finishing but ultimately he's not a finisher. Our only finisher materials are Berba and Owen but I've already laid out my points before.

Our midfielders are not producing the balls because they're playing as centrebacks! Granted that they play in their usual positions, we'll be in a much better shape as shown from early season.

It never hurts to have another striker, an experienced one especially. And as a club like Manchester United, we need great quality strikers. Diouf, Macheda, Welbeck are still in the learning process. For pete's sake, they're only under-20, how much do we expect from them? In the mean time, we only have 3 experienced strikers and one of them is Owen? Not to say that he's no good but he's not exactly as sharp as before, only a 3rd striker material.

I don't exactly care who we get the next round. Either way, it'll be beneficial for our squad. But let's not disregard the fact that we do need the goals. The 2 games we lost vs Villa and Fulham, we scored zilch. Is that only defensive problem or offensive?

Anyway, Merry Christmas all!

Rafael and Fabio will be back to boost United's depleted defence against Hull on Sunday, Sir Alex Ferguson confirmed at Thursday's press conference.

Rafael has been sidelined since the home defeat to Besiktas last month with a foot injury, while Fabio returned from the bench at Fulham last week. Both Da Silva twins are set to be thrust into action at the KC Stadium to bolster a threadbare backline.

"We rushed Fabio back a little bit, but given the situation we find ourselves in sometimes you have to do that," admitted the boss. "Rafa's only trained for a few days but he will be involved on Sunday."

Sir Alex also confirmed Wes Brown and Nemanja Vidic should both be available for the home game against Wigan on 30 December, and that the Reds' medical team are working to get one of the centre-backs fit for this weekend.

"We're trying to get one of them fit for Sunday, but we'll have to see," added Sir Alex. "The young boy [Ritchie] De Laet did okay in the last game at Fulham until we lost the first goal.

"The power and the strength of [Bobby] Zamora made things difficult for us and we looked fragile from then on. It's understandable in a way - you can get away with playing midfielders at centre-back once or twice, but it proved to be very difficult for us at Fulham."

The United boss is expecting an equally tough game against an improving Tigers side, saying: "Hull will be encouraged by our injury problems, and I'm sure they'll have a go at us.

"We have to make sure we are better attacking-wise than we were at Fulham. We had quite a bit of possession, but didn't make a lot of chances. We have to improve the imagination of our play on Sunday."

Rio Ferdinand joined the Reds in July 2002 as the world’s most expensive defender and, over the course of the decade, he has developed into one of the finest on the planet.

After helping United reclaim the Premier League crown from Arsenal in his first season, the talented and cultured centre-half has gone on to become one of the Reds' most influential and consistent performers. His leadership qualities have seen him made skipper for club and country on numerous occasions; indeed he captained United to Champions League, Club World Cup and Carling Cup glory. He has also chipped in with valuable goals, perhaps most dramatically with an injury-time winner against Liverpool in January 2006.

Rio has consistently justified his world-class defender tag with a string of calm and collected displays and, over the last few years, has formed an imposing partnership with Nemanja Vidic. Both played a crucial role in the team's record-breaking clean-sheet run last season on the way to a third successive title.