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And we have just signed Nick Powell, who to me looks more like a striker than he does an attacking midfielder. I would not be suprised to see Sir Alex use Powell as fourth choice in the place of the injured Will Keane, who we all know was going to be fourth choice in the first place. All this assuming that Berbatov is leaving. Therefore, to add to OP's original comment, there is NO NEED for Lewandowski.

Powell will also not be loaned out his first year, as I feel Sir Alex likes to keep his new signings for a season at least. (Bebe, Diouf, De Laet, etc stayed for a season before being loaned out)

He's not a striker, evenvif you watched clips of his goals. He's a young Gerrard.

powell is another potential, and not exprience player at their prime..... back in the day we used to have at least 3 exprienced ones or even 4. we have far to many potential for that positon, 6 mill on bebbe, 6 mil powell, diouf a few mill as well..hernandez 7 mill.... i wonder if fergie wouldnt be better off buying a player at their prime , we have spent about 20 mill on potential strikers the last few seasons. maybe if he had spent a little more than and bhoought aquero, or ...... we might have been better off.

And we have just signed Nick Powell, who to me looks more like a striker than he does an attacking midfielder. I would not be suprised to see Sir Alex use Powell as fourth choice in the place of the injured Will Keane, who we all know was going to be fourth choice in the first place. All this assuming that Berbatov is leaving. Therefore, to add to OP's original comment, there is NO NEED for Lewandowski.

Powell will also not be loaned out his first year, as I feel Sir Alex likes to keep his new signings for a season at least. (Bebe, Diouf, De Laet, etc stayed for a season before being loaned out)

the only player who is exprienced up the field is rooney. you need at least 2 player with exprience up there , as there will be injurys and a lot more(cards) . welbeck wont get more than 10-12goals. hernandez could if his overall game gets better, but there we go, maybe he wont. we need another player up there with exprience and good who can eithjer play with rooney or when rooney is not there. except rooney we havent got any one else.

We need 4 strikers and SAF has said that too plenty of times.

If we only have Rooney,Welbeck,Hernandez and Rooney gets injured,we are fu**ed.Can you imagine facing Bayern,Barca or Madrid in CL with only Hernandez and Welbeck as our main strikers...? We would get knocked out right away.

GIGGS_IS_STILL_THE_BEST:

redmancr:

GIGGS_IS_STILL_THE_BEST:

redmancr:

GIGGS_IS_STILL_THE_BEST:

redmancr:

GIGGS_IS_STILL_THE_BEST:

What if two get injured?

What if they don't?

What ridiculous response. I'd rather have move cover than not enough.

Oh right, that's rediculous, but wanting 4 players to fight for one position is perfectly normal. Why stop there? How about signing 4 more wingers so we can have 4 options for each flank just incase we have too many injuries? After all, who cares what will happen when most of them are fit and there aren't enough games to go around?

You do realise it is a squad not a team? You're allowed more than 11 players in a squad. You're allowed to use different players in different games. You're allowed to rotate your squad if and when needed. How many years have we seen Sir Alex do this? The fact we always have more than three strikers suggests so.

You do realize there's a different between having a squad and have too many players? How much will you rotate to accomodate 4 players in one position when a season has a maximum of 65 games? Simple maths, do you think any of them will be ok with maximum 21 games a season?

This is why you have squad players as well as first team players. Simple! We've always had them and we always will. Very strange if you think that is suddenly going to change.

Who said it will? First team players are two for each position, we already have 3 strikers, unless Rooney continues to play behind the striker that is.

redmancr:

GIGGS_IS_STILL_THE_BEST:

redmancr:

GIGGS_IS_STILL_THE_BEST:

redmancr:

GIGGS_IS_STILL_THE_BEST:

What if two get injured?

What if they don't?

What ridiculous response. I'd rather have move cover than not enough.

Oh right, that's rediculous, but wanting 4 players to fight for one position is perfectly normal. Why stop there? How about signing 4 more wingers so we can have 4 options for each flank just incase we have too many injuries? After all, who cares what will happen when most of them are fit and there aren't enough games to go around?

You do realise it is a squad not a team? You're allowed more than 11 players in a squad. You're allowed to use different players in different games. You're allowed to rotate your squad if and when needed. How many years have we seen Sir Alex do this? The fact we always have more than three strikers suggests so.

You do realize there's a different between having a squad and have too many players? How much will you rotate to accomodate 4 players in one position when a season has a maximum of 65 games? Simple maths, do you think any of them will be ok with maximum 21 games a season?

This is why you have squad players as well as first team players. Simple! We've always had them and we always will. Very strange if you think that is suddenly going to change.

diwan al-haji:

redmancr:

volcom:

sheringham solskjaer yorke cole

cole solskjaer rvn yorke forlan

saha rvn bellion solskjaer forlan

solskjaer saha rooney smith rossi (ronaldo)

saha solskjaer larsson rooney smith

rooney tevez berba welbeck (ronaldo)

what we have now....... rooney welbeck chica.....

somehow i think the history of this club under sir alex ends this thread

Not at all, unless Kagawa plays on the wings in a 4411, the difference between your examples and now would be us playing with one striker instead of two. Meaning you need two strikers who play 25+ games (Welbeck and Rooney), and one impact sub/cover.

your a plonker! Kagawa is not a winger he is an attacking midfielder, hence he'll play in the hole and nowhere else!! Stop trying to convert players up to you, and by the way genius, go on United's main page or any other source and you can read about Kagawa's interview where he says he wants to play in the hole!

Try reading comprehesion before calling me a plonker.

GIGGS_IS_STILL_THE_BEST:

You do realise it is a squad not a team? You're allowed more than 11 players in a squad. You're allowed to use different players in different games. You're allowed to rotate your squad if and when needed. How many years have we seen Sir Alex do this? The fact we always have more than three strikers suggests so

I can't get my head around as to how people think we will rotate 3 players in all competitions and hope nothing goes wrong with any of them next we will see Jones play upfront in a worst case scenario midway through the season, having enough cover is better than having none, keep them all on their toes

redmancr:

volcom:

sheringham solskjaer yorke cole

cole solskjaer rvn yorke forlan

saha rvn bellion solskjaer forlan

solskjaer saha rooney smith rossi (ronaldo)

saha solskjaer larsson rooney smith

rooney tevez berba welbeck (ronaldo)

what we have now....... rooney welbeck chica.....

somehow i think the history of this club under sir alex ends this thread

Not at all, unless Kagawa plays on the wings in a 4411, the difference between your examples and now would be us playing with one striker instead of two. Meaning you need two strikers who play 25+ games (Welbeck and Rooney), and one impact sub/cover.

your a plonker! Kagawa is not a winger he is an attacking midfielder, hence he'll play in the hole and nowhere else!! Stop trying to convert players up to you, and by the way genius, go on United's main page or any other source and you can read about Kagawa's interview where he says he wants to play in the hole!

GIGGS_IS_STILL_THE_BEST:

redmancr:

GIGGS_IS_STILL_THE_BEST:

redmancr:

GIGGS_IS_STILL_THE_BEST:

What if two get injured?

What if they don't?

What ridiculous response. I'd rather have move cover than not enough.

Oh right, that's rediculous, but wanting 4 players to fight for one position is perfectly normal. Why stop there? How about signing 4 more wingers so we can have 4 options for each flank just incase we have too many injuries? After all, who cares what will happen when most of them are fit and there aren't enough games to go around?

You do realise it is a squad not a team? You're allowed more than 11 players in a squad. You're allowed to use different players in different games. You're allowed to rotate your squad if and when needed. How many years have we seen Sir Alex do this? The fact we always have more than three strikers suggests so.

You do realize there's a different between having a squad and have too many players? How much will you rotate to accomodate 4 players in one position when a season has a maximum of 65 games? Simple maths, do you think any of them will be ok with maximum 21 games a season?

redmancr:

GIGGS_IS_STILL_THE_BEST:

redmancr:

GIGGS_IS_STILL_THE_BEST:

What if two get injured?

What if they don't?

What ridiculous response. I'd rather have move cover than not enough.

Oh right, that's rediculous, but wanting 4 players to fight for one position is perfectly normal. Why stop there? How about signing 4 more wingers so we can have 4 options for each flank just incase we have too many injuries? After all, who cares what will happen when most of them are fit and there aren't enough games to go around?

You do realise it is a squad not a team? You're allowed more than 11 players in a squad. You're allowed to use different players in different games. You're allowed to rotate your squad if and when needed. How many years have we seen Sir Alex do this? The fact we always have more than three strikers suggests so.

volcom:

sheringham solskjaer yorke cole

cole solskjaer rvn yorke forlan

saha rvn bellion solskjaer forlan

solskjaer saha rooney smith rossi (ronaldo)

saha solskjaer larsson rooney smith

rooney tevez berba welbeck (ronaldo)

what we have now....... rooney welbeck chica.....

somehow i think the history of this club under sir alex ends this thread

This exactly, but somehow i feel as though the reason SAF stopped playing 442 was because the midfield area was lacking creativity, which was the reason Rooney dropped back out of a strikers position, and he enjoyed that role, but now that our midfield is getting refreshed Rooney, Lewy, and Kagawa can form a powerful trio combination, and a little competition is good for the lads, sure they might get less game time, but only more reason to do well when you do get the chance!

ManU_4_Life:

redmancr:

ManU_4_Life:

redmancr:

ManU_4_Life:

macheda isnot going to score 15+ goals per season . neither is welbeck like

Welbeck scored 12 in his first full season with us, and he's only 21, why won't he score 15+ exactly?

because he wont score 15 goals he had the opportunity this season and scored 9 in the league . he should be scoring more

Lewandowski scored 8 goals two seasons ago, did it stop him from scoring 22 last season? Didn't think so.

Welbeck had 34 appearences this season with 28 starting scoring 8 goals . last season lewy had 32 appearences 15 coming on as a sub because he was second fiddle to Lucas Barrios scoring 8 goals . Lewandowski imo is better than welbeck

Actually, he had 30 games, with 23 starts and 9 goals. Lewandowski, two seasons ago, had 33 games with 17 starts and 8 goals. Infact, even last season, Lewandowski had 12 starts more than Welbeck. Unless you're talking about more than the league of course, in which case Lewandowski had 41 games, 21 starts and 9 goals. While. Welbeck had 38 games, 27 starts and 13 games. So overall, a goal every two starts and 3 games for Welbeck, and a goal every 2.3 starts and 4.5 games for Lewandowski.

Knowing United we will go through some injuries, it's always good to have a great back up striker or strikers, but Lewandowski is a starter. That's why I don't think he will join us. And we aren't getting Modric either just throwing that out there haha. Sick of people saying we will.