R.E.D:

We have Carrick, Scholes, Anderson, Cleverley, Fletcher, Giggs and i think Powell. We will 100% address this problem next season when both Giggs and Scholes retire but until then i don't see us buying a CM especially since we will play every game 4-4-2 and with only 2 CM's needed.

lol so you want us to depend on 2 injury prone players, two very very old men, Fletch who knows how fit the lad really is as his comeback has come like a bolt of lighting tbh and a kid who was playing in the fourth division and where did you get the notion we will play every game 4-4-2 ? As he never applies that system in CL and up to last season always went 4-5-1 in the big games in the EPL. Then there's Carrick, hmm I wonder which one shows up this season ? The player we admired so much in his first few yrs and best part of last season or the joker we had from 09 CLF up to last season.

R.E.D:

We have Carrick, Scholes, Anderson, Cleverley, Fletcher, Giggs and i think Powell. We will 100% address this problem next season when both Giggs and Scholes retire but until then i don't see us buying a CM especially since we will play every game 4-4-2 and with only 2 CM's needed.

Carrick: good player, can play every match.

Scholes: good player, will probably not be able to play every match, especially during busy times with CL and whatnot...

Anderson: Very injury-prone, might not be able to get many matches this season either...

Cleverley: promising player, could be injury-prone though, too early to tell... hope he will have a injury-free season

Fletcher: Like I said earlier, he might never come back to hes old form.... And I'm pretty sure it will at least take some time

Giggs: Please ! don't let him play in the CM.... He was horrible there last season

Powell: Would like to see him playing next season, but I don't think he will get much play-time

So you can see.... Carrick is the only player that you can really "trust" in playing every match and producing the quality needed.... I hope I'm wrong, but you have to prepare for the worst, certainly after what happened last season with injuries....

R.E.D:

We have Carrick, Scholes, Anderson, Cleverley, Fletcher, Giggs and i think Powell. We will 100% address this problem next season when both Giggs and Scholes retire but until then i don't see us buying a CM especially since we will play every game 4-4-2 and with only 2 CM's needed.

I think your'e spot on.

We have Carrick, Scholes, Anderson, Cleverley, Fletcher, Giggs and i think Powell. We will 100% address this problem next season when both Giggs and Scholes retire but until then i don't see us buying a CM especially since we will play every game 4-4-2 and with only 2 CM's needed.

shlongconnery:

unitedelliott1989forlife:

Cr4iger:

He has a point.... If we don't get a new CM, then we are taking a big risk the coming season....

The only reason for doing something like this, would be to give room for our youth and promote one or more of them.... That would be risky, but it could be good for the future....

But if SAF doesn't play them, then the coming season would be disaster....

And BTW, Fletcher will not make any difference, he was never world class, just like you said, and I doubt he even will come up to that level again....

please...

THIS!!!!

Saying the coming season would be a disaster if we don't buy a CM or promote a youth was maybe not the right thing to say....

But you have to admit that our midfield needs some new blood to really compete with the biggest clubs.... I would be happy if our youth got a chance....

And the thing I said about Fletcher, was maybe a little harsh, but was I meant was that we can't really take him into account when looking at our midfield.... Not yet, he might come back to his old form and be a asset for us, but we can't rely on him doing that.....

I think he will play Kagawa against certain teams to offset that problem, because he will drop back to give us that extra man in midfield so we have a 5-man midfield.

Because IMO.... Rooney will play in midfield this season, think about it....he's got the energy to run from box to box, can still score 15+ a season from midfield, he can make the team tick, short passes, switch flanks or unlock a defence, and he's not afraid to get stuck in. And by signing RVP, we will hopefully have a person to score the 30+ goals. ps - Darren Fletcher is a world class player, and when fit, one of the first names on the teamsheet.

what this guy said, but may i add. de jong is **** and would not fit into OUR midfield which you seem to think needs so much work. And so is milner and barry while we are on the topic of city's midfield, putting it out there. fletcher has done more for us than the city midfield has for them

Ronevra Possebon:

Just curious what the OP thinks we actualy need in the middle of the park? Is it just a ball winner?

Would you for example, be pressing for a new signing if we still had Hargreaves (playing) in the team?

If Hargreaves was still here, we wouldn't have the problem and I wouldn't have made the post.

It's a ball winner we need, yes.

If Tunnicliffe is given a substantial chance, then I'd be happy.

Just curious what the OP thinks we actualy need in the middle of the park? Is it just a ball winner?

Would you for example, be pressing for a new signing if we still had Hargreaves (playing) in the team?

This subject has been done for around 3 to 4 years now.

Fergie said last summer that he was not going to buy any midfielders because the youth coming through in those positions where good

I had no problem with that until ... he stopped playing those youngsters in preference to Giggs, Scholes, Park etc week in week out.

If he comes out with the same stance this season then the same old problems are going to persist for yet another year.

Cr4iger:

He has a point.... If we don't get a new CM, then we are taking a big risk the coming season....

The only reason for doing something like this, would be to give room for our youth and promote one or more of them.... That would be risky, but it could be good for the future....

But if SAF doesn't play them, then the coming season would be disaster....

And BTW, Fletcher will not make any difference, he was never world class, just like you said, and I doubt he even will come up to that level again....

You don't have to be world class to be an important member of a team.

He has a point.... If we don't get a new CM, then we are taking a big risk the coming season....

The only reason for doing something like this, would be to give room for our youth and promote one or more of them.... That would be risky, but it could be good for the future....

But if SAF doesn't play them, then the coming season would be disaster....

And BTW, Fletcher will not make any difference, he was never world class, just like you said, and I doubt he even will come up to that level again....

c.thomas howell as soul man:

I'm pretty sure SAF knows what he's doing. And as far as whether or not fletch would get into city's midfield give me a f u c k i n g break mate, 1 title and we're at the stage of worrying whether or not our players would get into there side? F u c k that. Further more I'm worried that the only analogy you could use with a black hole is kolo toures a n u s.

^^ This pretty much ^^

I'm pretty sure SAF knows what he's doing. And as far as whether or not fletch would get into city's midfield give me a f u c k i n g break mate, 1 title and we're at the stage of worrying whether or not our players would get into there side? F u c k that. Further more I'm worried that the only analogy you could use with a black hole is kolo toures a n u s.