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Originally Posted by Thatslife
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.
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Yes and no.
This current squad (with the addition of a pacey more direct striker) has the potential to be the best Man Utd squad ever. They I certain one of the most talented groups of players we've ever had. BUT on the evidence of this season they aren't the best MUFC squad Fergie has had. As Hanuma says we didn't exactly set the CL alight and in the end our points result in the league wasn't anything special.
This squad has a lot of room for further improvement and considering they won the League and CL double as it is the fact they can get a lot better is a great position to be in.
Think about it - VDS hasn't had a great season, Wes Brown has done well at right back but that is a position we could (and perhaps will) improve/strengthen. Vidic, Ferdinand, Evra and Ronaldo are probably the only players that have had particularly good seasons. Players like Carrick, Anderson, Hargreaves, Nani, Tevez and Park have done well (relatively) but all have room for improvement (some due to injury problems or lake of proper preseason preparation, some due to inexperience, some just due to not really excelling).
Rooney had a poor season. Giggs worse. Scholes along with VDS and Giggs is notable as being one of the few players who is only going to get worse compared to the season just gone.
Add to the above the limited options we had at right and left back due to Neville's injury and us selling Heinze and then loosing Silvestre for most of the season. Oh and of course the now expected absence of Saha from all but a handful of games.
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Originally Posted by Thatslife
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?
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Hargreaves and Tevez had the biggest impact of the 4 new names.
Anderson has bags of potential and had a great first 6 months but did fade towards the end of the season. I don't think that is something that we should be concerned about.
Nani is a very raw talent. Lots of room for improvement there.
Hargreaves season was seriously disrupted (especially in the early parts) by tendinitis so he can have an even bigger impact than he has so far. Despite that he is already becoming a fan favourite. Takes a great freekick, brilliant at penalties, works fucking hard and can play, very well, in about 4 different positions.
Tevez, because of the transfer saga taking so long to sort out, pretty much missed preseason entirely. That was certainly a handicap but he had a great first season nonetheless.