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26th December 2009, 22:26
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Man on a mission
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Is fergie searching for a new cantona?
Just reading the rebel who would be king and it occurred to me that lord ferg could be looking for the new cantona, or has the desire to build his side around an untapped genius. I think that the berb was his first foray and he now seems to be attracted to child prodigies who haven't fulfilled their potential: obertan, maybe ben arfa.
My personal opinion is that we miss that bit of genius, a figure who elevates the team psychologically and as a team. Could we ever find another cantona? Or ami drunk and am overanalysing? Fuck I miss eric. |
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26th December 2009, 22:59
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Man Utd boss Ferguson: Berbatov so much like Cantona | Premiership News | tribalfootball.com
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26th December 2009, 23:05
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26th December 2009, 23:15
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26th December 2009, 23:16
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26th December 2009, 23:23
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26th December 2009, 23:52
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Mourinho is the closest to Cantona right now that I can think of, though he's obviously not a player. |
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26th December 2009, 23:53
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I think we are 2-3 players short, and no single player will complete this team. If we had someone like Ibra, we would still need a consistent lead the line striker, a center midfield playmaker, and may be a winger, depending on Obertan's development.
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27th December 2009, 00:02
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Hi, I'm Barry Scott
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Capello's demanded that Rooney play high up and he's got some great results from him. I'd like to see him play as a front man for us, more. He and Berbatov both drop deep too often. People complained when he and Tevez did it, difference was we had Ronaldo gambling in behind defences then. |
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27th December 2009, 00:07
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27th December 2009, 01:00
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27th December 2009, 01:30
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sorry
no new duncan edwards no new bobby charlton no new gerorge best no new eric cantona these are legends and as much as i would like a new eric there will never be one........................................ |
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27th December 2009, 01:33
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27th December 2009, 02:00
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Ridiculous you talk about the way Capello's played Rooney and then suggest he should be the furthest forward when he's clearly been behind a target man at International level under Capello. |
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27th December 2009, 03:31
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I mean when we bought Eric, we were a very good side missing something. We're now in a different scenario. We've young kids with championship/champions league medals.. They can look up to scholes/neville and Giggs who will have learnt a lot from Eric I just think if we had our defenders fit, we'd be top of the table now and therefore we've evolved to a healthy state where we can rotate and find a good level of confidence throughout the team I think we've a lot of quality in the squad BUT we have to be careful and got get too sentimental during the transition of replacing Scholes/Giggs. We could have giggs say for another 3 seasons but what if we missed out on the new giggs to accomodate the old? Most people can spot the questions a mile off. Clearly we need to get more out of Dimitar. |
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27th December 2009, 03:45
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27th December 2009, 03:58
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27th December 2009, 05:14
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No not really considering people are saying he could be, not that he is this era's Cantona.
Plus it's quite a silly statement when you think Berbatov has been mentioned in this thread who has done far less for United than Rooney so far, yet you come out with this "doesn't deserve to be mentioned" shit for Rooney. |
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27th December 2009, 05:32
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