More Football Chat

Re: More Football Chat : Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:36 pm

mutt1 wrote:

Thought Nani had his best game for the club yesterday but lets hope the penny has finally dropped and it wasn't just a one off performance.

Aye. He needs a run in the side after that performance though, so that he can continue to develop and get more confidence. He won't though. He'll be dropped on Wednesday. Fergie simply has to keep that back 5 together though so they can get a run of games together.

mutt1 wrote:

In a game like yesterday when we knew we'd have most of the ball what was the point in playing Park? he just offers nothing going forward. I rememeber Fergie saying Park is the type of player you want in the team when you don't have the ball, well how many games do we play where we get dominated possession wise? Parks work rate comes in usfull against the likes of Chelsea and Arsenal but come on it was Hull at Old Trafford.

I thought the same. Away in Europe he's quality and very important, especially in front of Neville / Rafael. But at home to Hull in front of Evra, he's borderline useless. Evra was more of a threat yesterday.

mutt1 wrote:

Owens confidence looks shot at the minute he just can't seem to hit the ball clean. Maybe he could do with a bit of a run in the reserves but he doesn't even get risked in that team.

Yep. He actually played pretty well IMO. Proved that the Rooney-Owen partnership, can and does work, some of their link up play was quality. He also had a few decent chances, however, he should have scored one, when he just tapped it to Myhill. But again, like Nani, he isn't playing often enough. He scored a hat-trick against Wolfsburg and has only played as a sub 4 times since, before yesterday.

mutt1 wrote:

Any truth in the rumours that Fergie now has £120m to spend from the bond issue? But will wait untill the summer

Doubt that very much. Apparantly it cost the club £54m just to secure the bond issue. We've already "used" £36m from the next sponsorship deal with Aon.