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Originally Posted by Sam Atherton
While the majority of your points do make sense John, I have one issue and that is your point around Veloso. How can you be asking if Hargreaves was one signing too many whilst insinuating that we will need to replace him if we get rid?
Other than that I understand your point but i feel that Hargreaves will be of the utmost importance in the Champions League and will help us particularly in the big league games. Hopefully we will see that against Liverpool, although having said that, the way Carrick and Anderson played against Derby, he may not get the chance.
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I think the point about Veloso is that whilst I claim that Hargreaves wasn't a necessary signing, this is due primarily to his fairly limited capabilities and the fact he's injured a great deal. I'm confident we'd have managed fine this season without him, but with Scholes' advancing age, we would always have been looking to signing another midfielder at some point. Now, I can't say Veloso would've been any better than Hargreaves (I've seen him play once), but I'm not convinced Hargreaves would still be on our radar had we not signed him.
Hindsight is a fine thing mind.