Here we go with the Barca thing. Sorry but you could argue that no matter what 11 players from our squad was thrown onto that pitch we would've gotten overpowered anyway.
I agree that we would've gotten over powered anyways, but not shat on. It would be more like rome again where the match and statistics weren't so one sided.
same.
Nasri I meantNonsense. The vast majority won't vote against him just because they think he'd be harder to get than the other 2. He's not really any more of an unrealistic target than Modric, who's winning.
He is the most creative that's true but he's not that much more creative to make up for his deficiencies in the more defensive aspects compared to Modric in particular, who is far and away the closest to being box to box. That's even ignoring that Sneider is injury prone and plays the same role as another player already at our disposal.
Sneijder is more box to box than Modric. How is Sneijder injury prone? He recently played a huge amount of games in a tremendous season in which he played in most major competitions in world football, serie A, the CL and the World Cup. He only lost the WC because of Robben.
Indeed, if anything Sneijder would be worse than Rooney in big games as he wouldn't track anyone.
Pogue posted the numbers not long ago, he played less games than the other two pretty much every season, add into that this season he has spent large periods playing uselessly whilst struggling with his anaemia, which is a big issue for whether or not it would come back and effect him again.
Hold on, I'm talking about 4-3-3 where Wayne Rooney is not the answer to our midfield problem. Rolling with the top teams in the league and the CL, Rooney goes up top with three midfielders behind him, for my money. If you're talking about 4-2-2, Sneijder is still the obvious choice, especially above Nasri.
Well that's the point though isn't it? We were using Rooney in that role last year so ... how would buying Sneijder make any difference seeing as Rooney is a better player? We'd still need that defensive minded player who won't be bullied.
Because in my opinion in the big games a midfield with Sneijder at the front of a three with Rooney ahead of him (a position where he scored the most goals for United in a season) would be far and away our best team capable of winning the PL and the CL. Hernandez is a fantastic player and there are many games where he could start, but there were a few I thought he shouldn't have started and we should have packed the midfield. But not with Wayne Rooney.
I don't understand the bolded part really. I don't think Sneijder offers any more in that aspect than Rooney because they'd pretty much play the same role.
I just don't agree it's the same role, really. It might appear so but it's a deficiency in our midfield that Rooney has to drop back into that area to bridge the gap. Sneijder would do that and allow Rooney to rest alittle off the ball.
i was thinking the same..modric is a player who can control the game for us..
.But Sneijder plays the exact same role as Rooney was playing last season when he's in a 4-3-3...
You're working off the assumption Sneijder is an actual midfielder, the only difference between Roomey in the hole and Sneijder in the role is that Sneijder began his career as a "midfielder" (read winger) and Rooney started as a "Striker", theoretically that makes Sneijder better for the role but the game isn't played on paper, look at Gerrard, Rooney offer more defensively than him for instance as shown at the start of this season when Gerrard played deeper, at least Rooney chases and can do some defending when deep!
Because I don't think Sneijder would be a great purchase for us anymore? Harsh mate, harsh!
This is so, so flawed, Rooney isn't better defensively than either Gerrard or Sneijder. Sneijder can dictate a game and it's tempo, Gerrard can dominate a midfield. They're both midfielders who at points in their career were considered amongst the very best (Sneijder still is) in their particular role.
Who do you think he showed this for? For Inter he often played ahead of Zanetti, Motta and Cambiasso in a 4312, or in a 4213 ahead of Cambiasso and Motta. That's at least two energetic holding midfielders behind him for the vast majority of his time there. For Hollans at the World Cup he had Van Bommel and De Jong behind him, one pure defensive midfielder and a tough-tackling holding midfielder, playing in a 4231. For Madrid he played in a 2 in a 4231 or on the wing, and he was the player subbed off more than any other Madrid player in his time there (which surely suggests something about his ability to go box-to-box for 90 mins) and looked defensively liable.
In a 4231 the AMs are generally deployed more like forwards than midfielders. Hence both Sneijder and Nasri are more suited to advanced positions, Modric is a proper CM, which is what you need.
