QUOTE(mhyug @ Dec 27 2010, 02:01 AM)
fair point but stating blatantly that one player is back up is what doesnt feel right imo.i mean every one goes trough rough patches, injuries suspension etc.thats when we need the number 1 to replace the number.my take is those whom are still here is all on the same shelf.were never the club to go stagnant and filed the same bodies every single game, thats what were really good at.
as for tom, ben and lindergard, the competition is still open.lindergarrd maybe was brought in to be back up as weve let ben go if so to speak on your terms.and as for tom improving, now not even you know it man.who are we kidding here.vds wasnt the sharpest tool when he was at fulham either.yes he was doing great at juve and before that but he himself was onec deposed by some one beater.and with his age and defying that number itself he become successful again with us.so who are we to say that at 29 or even further tom would be a world beater.
Kuszczak was brought in as a backup. GKs unlike outfield players, can't be rotated too much. One mistake, and it can cost you games. With outfield players, their mistakes can be cover up by other players. With GKs, you don't take that chance. 4 years, and he never once got a look in, except in the Cups and when VDS was out injured. He's a backup. He was a backup at WBA as well, before he got his chance(main GK injured or something) for that one season before we got him on loan.
Unlike Kuszczak, VDS always had the ability. He always had the ability with his kicking, controlling the ball with his feet his confidence was good as well. He played for one of the best team at the time. And was replaced by the one of the best GKs around. That's no shame. Although he makes mistakes there, but even Schmeichel make mistakes. Fulham at that time was loaded, that's why he ended up there. At that time he sign for Fulham, we already got Barthez who had a very good first season with us. And it was likely that other top teams don't need GKs at the time. GKs at top teams don't generally move around a lot.
He had 4 seasons with us myhug. And whenever he plays, those stuff he's weak at stick out like a sore thumb. He will never have the confidence, the kicking ability, the aura of calmness that great GK brings to teams. Not many are, and that's why we're looking at other up and coming GKs and trying to sign them.
Added on December 27, 2010, 2:20 amQUOTE(mhyug @ Dec 27 2010, 02:07 AM)
key word would be stop and go

.he has to be back here training with the united set up(not to say he is alien to it but would be diffrent then what he was preping up week in week out at his current home club)
but if he does return in jan, i doubt he will go anywhere after that.that way he is set for better progress.you know what he would be staying or returning for that matter if
one of our old friend still doesnt make a comeback.
He just need a little adjusting to do, but it's no big deal. He already know first hand how we train. It's not like signing a new player who never had the experience of training with our first team before. We are getting back one of our own who was with our setup for years before joining up with Wigan on loan.
It depends a lot on Valencia. If we feel confident that he's gonna be fine, like with earlier in the season, it's better for Cleverley's development that he go out on loan and play regularly somewhere in EPL.
This post has been edited by Wan: Dec 27 2010, 02:20 AM