Read Wan's post back. Read carefully.

With kids, it is like a lottery. You'll never know. Can anyone tell me that Ronaldo will win BPITW award back then? Or even being an integral part of Man Utd? None! All I know that, most of us were criticizing him for being one trick pony. With kids, you'll need patience and time in order to groom them.

Same can be said with Class of 92. No one knows that they will turn up great. FYI, this is the policy of the club. To spot and groom talents.

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Added on January 25, 2011, 5:58 pmHe has been with the academy since young. We signed him before we even signed Hargreaves, Anderson or Carrick for that matter.

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Are you talking about Eikrem? He went to Molde with Ole.

Or do you mean for Ravel Morrison? 17years old. Still young. The way we do it is to assimilate youngsters alongside experienced first XI. Otherwise, you could start to follow Arsenal.

Okay, which established player would cost us 10mil pounds? Are you talking about a certain dutchman? Are you guys still bitter about that?

Let me put in a simpler words. We are Man Utd. Manchester fecking United. That is a BIG name.

Let me put some perspective into your thoughts. Remember a certain Michael Carrick? Or Owen Hargreaves for that matter.

Why did we bought them for? To partner Scholes. Right? Do you know that Carrick only cost Spurs a measly 3m pounds from West Ham? How much did we pay for him? Almost 18m pounds? Isn't that right? Do you know why? First, he is English. And we ARE Manchester United. Same can be said about Owen Hargreaves. Around 17m pounds. Why? Bayern Munich got him when he was a teen.

English? That's why Carrick was costly? Okay. Let me put a certain Dimitar Berbatov whom was bought by Spurs around 10-12m pounds. And how much did we ended up paying for him? Almost triple of that initial fee that cost Spurs. Now, can you see clearly?

That would be the cause and that debt issue. No matter how clever of SAF trying to shush the media about it but 700m is no small amount. Is not that I am saying that we don't have the money at all, WE DO HAVE MONEY. The fact that we could afford to pay 10m pounds for Smalling is an evidence of it. It is just, we need to be sure that those purchases will really benefit us in terms of value for money.

If SAF went on make an another 30m odd purchases, I can see most of us complaint like we did with Berba.

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If you noticed, SAF did mention that he would love to bring some one in but due to that person being cup tied, he didn't. Who could that be?

And it is believed that SAF is monitoring Henderson's situation in Sunderland.

I don't think Carrick has been THAT bad. He is brilliant in defensive matter. After all, he is not a direct replacement of Keano. I dunno about his passing boots, but to belittle his contribution in being the third CB is somewhat foolish.

On Fletcher, yes. He has been poor but the form is getting back little by little. Furthermore, you can't totally blame the midfield if we aren't winning matches convincingly. If you could recall, we won a lot of matches by 1-nil scorelines back then. No one was complaining.

If you would like someone to be scrutinize, pick Rooney. He has been shite most of the season. But, he was out with injury earlier. And only recently we can see his coming to form. The way I see it, it is like this, we always rely on our wingers and strikers to produce those scoring chances. While our CMs will pop up with some goals, but they aren't our direct source of goals. It has been like that since back then.

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Added on January 25, 2011, 10:11 pmThis reminds me of what Berba mentioned earlier of the season. The defenders need to buck up in order to win matches. Strikers could score goals but they would count for nothing if goals are conceded easily at the other end.

Thank god, defenders are turning up now.

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Meh, Rooney missed an easy one against Brums last Saturday. Was a fine cross by Nani.

Tell that to John Terry.

I was so sure that the Korean GK will save a couple of shots. But, he didn't.

On the brightside, we could have Ji back.

See the importance of Michael Carrick now? Scholes being the man in front of CBs is not helping. Both Fletch and Gibbo strolling around the park and not helping the cause. This could be very our first defeat of the season.

LOL. No need for knee-jerk reactions. We had this coming. It is just a matter of time.

Rafael was at the post. He couldn't head out the ball.

Looks like the defenders didn't turn up. And our third CB is not playing. Maybe out because of a knock last Saturday. And we're playing 4-3-3?

This.

I watched the replay. The ball was just over his head. Besides it was a free header for DJ Campbell. Why is he the one to be blamed? If that's the case, blame VDS for not challenging for the ball?

Holloway's time? Not Fergie's time anymore.

Haters be hating with us pulling a win out of nothing. Champions material there.

We played very very well after the introduction of Giggsy. Finally, someone truly hugged the line and pumped the ball in. Thank god for Berba and Chicharito.

5 points of the top with one game to spare. This has been a very very good match.

BTW, I hate that guy Charlie Adam. Why wasn't he got carded with that elbow on Evra?

That was what I'm thinking of too. LOL.

He did put on a show in the first half.

Clearly we needed him after no one leads the line. Rooney was supposed to do that when SAF instructed him so in the first half.

In this case, Hernandez should start ahead of Rooney. With Scholesy playing, I can only imagine both of them trying to beat the offside traps.

Oh well, team selection, initially could be questioned. Baffled with SAF's decision to play Gibbo when we clearly need to win this. Luckily he made the changes as early as halftime. Really paid off.

Good job to the team after that hideous first half. And speedy recovery to Rafael.

You should stop calling names. It is not proper. As much as frustrated as you do, calling names isn't a good resort.

Shame on you. And Man U?

Well maybe he thought by starting 4-3-3, he could get Rooney back to his groove. Didn't pay off and we were overplayed all over the park.

I woke up a bit late and only started to watch the match after 5 mins being played. Was baffled to see Gibbo there. After all, we do know that Blackpool is capable of upsets. So, it was a bit of gamble there.

Anyway, job is done and this is our 3rd away win of the season. Wooohooo. That is something to be celebrated about.

4m is an understatement of Adam, really.

We could rest Giggs and play those youngsters. Obertan to step up? Perhaps. I could see Fabio playing on the weekends as well. Rooney will certainly play in order to get his form back. Midfield wise, it could be tricky. I have that feeling whereby SAF will pull a lot of changes to first XI against Southampton this weekend.

Will Lindegaard play in this one? Or PIG?

I agree with that. The most would 10m?

This. At times he overdid things as in fact he could just play an early cross. By the time he wanted to cross, the 6 yard box is already filled with people.