sell: rooney (too big-headed, very high salary, ball control still terrible), macheda (rossi & tosic were better than him), hernandez (can only play well with rooney on form...), anderson (boroi & injury prone)
buy: hernanes (lazio, best as regista/current scholes position, can also play wide & take freekicks), kagawa (dortmund, better than Ozil, can run around as much as JS Park), hulk (he bossed citeh's backline in the europa match)

haha, yeah it looks more like a counter attacking team innit?

...nani.......berba/welbeck/hulk......valencia
.......hernandes......carrick......kagawa.......
evra........smalling...evans.......jones/twins

or 4-2-1-3 with kagawa at 1

here's another thought: get AVB as fergie's no. 2, in 2015 who knows...?


cleverley, maybe, but anderson is/was an attacking midfielder, he can't play the keane's role -he'd be better if he had a hargreaves/fletcher behind him, but not much better

imo nani needed to work on his understanding with the fullbacks behind him, the current best player to pair with him would be evra, then rafael/fabio then jones

wokeh, couch managers/footballers unite!


problem was ando's defensive discipline/positioning, attacking ando+cleverley was amazing but both can't protect the CB's;
perkataan boroi tu trolling je...

hahah I'm malay and I couldn't make sense of that sentence you quoted


re. the game, didn't watch. but from match reports and what happened previously:
* utd can't handle aggressively pressing teams = barca, newcastle, bilbao

* utd. struggle when carrick/scholes/giggs are marked or the opponent put more bodies in midfield; and on counter attacks there'd be no one to cover the back four or help Carrick

* out of all the wingers only Valencia can properly help the fullbacks (and only on the right side)

* out of all the strikers only Berbatov has excellent ball control, Welbeck is mobile but has poor control and finishing; Hernandez can finish but struggle with positioning and control; Rooney has good positioning and finishing -horrible control also, but can contribute defensively, and on form can pass well to bring others into play

* defensively utd. likes to play a high line, which don't suit Ferdinand anymore; barring injuries the best back four should be Smalling, Evans, Vidic, Evra -this line up could dominate teh BPL for a few seasons

All said, it's a testament to Fergie's ability to dominate the BPL that this team is still second in the league (great record vs the top 4/5 too this season!), but to succeed in Europe they'd need to keep the defensive unit injury free, get a replacement for Fletcher (or drill defensive sense into Cleverley and Anderson), and bring back Queiroz (or even AVB )

I still believe Utd at their current best (and defensive upgrade) can stand toe-to-toe with the likes of Bayern Munich, Juve and Milan but there's still Barca and Real to deal with (and great smaller teams like Napoli, Dortmund, Bilbao, Benfica, Porto)...