... Berbatov ... this guy reckons he is one the best strikers in the world.
He is. Plenty of people agree with that assessment.
You reckon that Drogba and Rooney are better, and I assume that since you're an Arsenal fan you'd put Henry above him. Even if accept all that for the sake of argument, who else is better? Even if you name 2 or 3 others, that would still put Berbatov in the top 7 around the world.
.. His stats don't even hold up that well to Henry even though Henry missed most of the season injured and when he did play he played through injuries yet he is now a better player....
Yet another poster who hasn't read (or pretends not to have read) the start of this thread. The question was, not who is the better striker, but
who would make the better signing now, taking into account age, proneness to injury, attitude etc etc.
... Why don't we let him get two good seasons under his belt before we start comparing him to a person who has 7 years (if we don't include last season) of brilliance behind him?
I quite agree, if you're talking about overall record so far and looking
backwards. But that's not what this thread is about - it's about the here and now and looking
forward, which is what any sane manager would do in deciding which player would now make the better signing.
.Another interesting thing is if a bid of around £25mill comes in Spurs WILL sell him to Man utd...
Yeah yeah, we've heard it all before, since January in fact .. it still ain't happened and it never will this summer because Spurs have made it very clear that he's not for sale. In any case, Spurs have already rejected higher bids than 25m for Berbatov.
It's a shame you couldn't get Barca to value Henry as high as 25m though isn't it
..... Man utd seem to be more willing to pay around that much on Tevez and go through all these MSI, premier league and West Ham problems rather than completing a nice and simple move for Berbatov. That says a lot right there.
If it says anything, it says that United realised weeks and weeks ago that Berbatov was not on offer, so moved on to the 2nd best available option.
If Berbatov is better than Henry then why are Barca bothering with signing him when they can pay a bit more (for a better player according to some muppets here) or why is Milan, R.Madrid, Inter not interested either?
Clubs can't buy a player who isn't actually for sale - a basic rule of the market and not a difficult concept to grasp.
... It is because he isn't that good at this moment, if he was they would of taken him of Spurs because he would jump at the chance to play CL footy. ...
Funny that, I thought Henry jumped ship because he wanted the chance to win the CL and obviously didn't fancy his chances with a declining Arsenal side whose main hopes these days are to scrape 4th place in the league and whose hopes of ever winning as many European trophies as Spurs seem to have fallen by the wayside.
As for Berbatov, as you said in your post, he has already played in the CL. And he sees the chance of doing so again, with Spurs in the season after next.
No doubt yours will be a sneering response, but we shall see what happens this season won't we. Spurs will be up there, pushing hard for top 4, you can bet on that.