The 07/08 Season
We’ve won the double and been hailed as “outstanding” by most experts and pundits this season. A poor start, only to come back with a series of high scoring wins. Arsenal looked strong early on but fell though as expected when the going got tough, we capitalised and went 5 points clear before throwing away most of it giving Chelsea a chance of catching us, luckily we could finish the job and retain the prem.
The league cup, although, utterly unimportant, was a bit of a disappointment. We did well in the FA cup with a 4-0 trashing of Arsenal before a bitter loss to Portsmouth which still annoys me, hopefully we can do better next year, 3 championship teams in the semis isn’t acceptable. In the CL we’ve been outstanding, there is no doubt that we deserved it on overall performance despite the Finale being an even contest.
Are we as good as the media seems to think? I personally see allot of room for improvement, Fergies comments about it being his best side ever seems more like an attempt to spur the players on than a reflected comparison. I can agree that talent wise we’re immense, we’ve got depth and by far the best defensive/offensive balance in Europe, but these are young unfinished players who has the potential, but I think they need to grow and improve if they want to be the best United side “ever”. The season has been good judged on silverware, but we’ve fell though more than we should in easy games, we can’t do that if we’re gonna win it against even more hungry opposition next year. Hopefully our dominance of the other top 3 will be the same next year.
The new signings have done well in general, It’s time for a good evaluation, what do you think? Is Nani showing promise, or will he never be more then an inconsistent back up? Is Anderson our best signing, or has he fallen though in the season run in? Has Hargreavs played/fought his way into the supporters hearts or is he lacking too much technique and awareness to become more that an “alternative” in big games? Is Tevez an immense addition or are two attacking midfielder who misses too many chances a problem?
What do you people think? Take a second to reflect and give an HONEST opinion, none of that moronic wind up crap or bitter biased anti united ranting please.
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