they must have a better rightback in mind, surely.
Shawcross to Liverpool
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Isn't he a CH?
Decent player and could reach Carragher's level as he is a player of similar mould.
You could say that about hundreds of young centre backs including another one of our alumni, Paul McShane.
Yes, I'd forgotten they'd signed Johnson. Replacing Arbeloa with Shawcross seemed a Rafaesque thing to do.
Shawcross is a CB, they signed Glen Johnson for RB
Unfair comparison. While both were reasonably promising at reserve level, Shawcross has always had more of the attributes to make it than McShane . I always liked the look of him and he has gone from strength to strength. I can see him playing for a bigger club at some stage. McShane is going in the opposite direction.
Shawcross is definitely a better player than McShane.
My issue was with implying that because Shawcross has some similarities in style with Carragher that could go on to become as good as him. I would say that's extremely fecking unlikely to be honest, unless our coaching staff have cocked up massively.
There are hundreds of young centre backs that are "in a similar mould" to Carragher but only a tiny minority (if any) will end up as good as him. I seriously doubt any of them will have been found surplus to requirements at a club like United.
I don't even think it's true. He's more like a poor man's Stam.
But the poster who opined he could end up as good as Carragher probably doesn't think McShane could, so it seems like a crap way of bringing the argument down. Shawcross is very promising, I think.
But the poster who opined he could end up as good as Carragher probably doesn't think McShane could, so it seems like a crap way of bringing the argument down. Shawcross is very promising, I think.
Decent player. But playing for Stoke and playing for Liverool is the totally different scenario. Don't get me wrong, I'd wish him all the best as well.
Makes sense. They need someone who can make Glen Johnson seem like a decent signing.
I'm sure he didn't. I was using that as an extreme example to point out it was silly to claim Shawcross could be as good as Carragher because he's "the same mold"
Of the two of them, I think McShane is probably more similar to Carragher in the way he plays, just infinitely worse.
Yes it would be a big step up.
He was usually one of our best few players in the ressies when I watched him though, and more promising than some who are still at the club. I don't think our coaching staff have fecked up as I don't think he'll end up being as good as Evans, say. Cathcart is at the same kind of level as Shawcross was in his last year with us I'd say, but has a bit more composure.
Shawcross is as tough as feck though and a real threat in the air. He'll have a good career.
Liverpool have a dangerous lack of cover at RB and CB. Good.
He was usually one of our best few players in the ressies when I watched him though, and more promising than some who are still at the club. I don't think our coaching staff have fecked up as I don't think he'll end up being as good as Evans, say. Cathcart is at the same kind of level as Shawcross was in his last year with us I'd say, but has a bit more composure.
Shawcross is as tough as feck though and a real threat in the air. He'll have a good career.
Liverpool have a dangerous lack of cover at RB and CB. Good.
Liverpool would be a bad option for Shawcross, considering he needs games not picking splinters out from his arse.
Yeah the wooden dildo wielding antics of Benayoun and Aurelio are definitely a turn off in terms of joining Liverpool.
Apparently Glen Johnson was well up for it, though, and Aquilani liked it so much he injured himself in his initiation ceremony.
Apparently Glen Johnson was well up for it, though, and Aquilani liked it so much he injured himself in his initiation ceremony.
Weren't Dildo, Initiación and Ceremoni those guys Benitez bought in 2006 for £7m each and sold again last year?
No they all died from internal injuries. All hushed up. Very dodgy. Fact.
How could they have been? He never has any money to spend.
fecked.