Despite losing C.Ronaldo and Tevez, Manchester United still lost to Champion Chelsea by only one point in a tightly fought title race last season behind a career season from Wayne Rooney as he scored 26 goals in 32 games. The current Manchester United squad is not the most talented pool comparing to most of their past league champion sides over the last 20 years; however, Ferguson is one of the best managers in the world in making average talents "over-achieved"! Such statements is not an understatement of Man.Utd. players' quality, but rather a true compliment and tribute to the experienced "old fox" Alex Ferguson. Player to player, Man.Utd. could be inferior to Chelsea, Arsenal,Liverpool and Manchester City stars. A great evidence is that only Vidic, Evra, Parks, Rooney, Hernandez making the South Africa World Cup this year. (with Ferdinand and Nani out injured) Yet, under Ferguson, Manchestered United can play at incredibly high effectivness and efficiency with great organization, tactical awareness, understanding and passing-movement. With less attacking quality in the side, Ferguson has the ability to trun the team into a rock solid defensive team with effective counter attack. Without the individual brilliance of C.Ronaldo, Ferguson still managed to guide Portugal WG Nani and Ecaudor WG Valencia play to the best of their ability and produce highly effective attack from the wings. Even losing star DMF Roy Keane for retirement with replacement Hargreaves never been able to avoid injury, Ferguson still capable of developing Scottish CMF Fletcher into an efficienct hard-working DMF and switching formation to play 2 DMF to lessen the weakness in DMF position. At the age of 35-36, club veteran heros Giggs and Scholes still manage to provide great leadership, goals and assists for the team at key moment through effective substitution and game time management under Ferguson. As the board facing growing financial problem with less transfer fund making available, Ferguson and his scout team still managed to get in young talents such as Brailizan wing-back brothers Fabio and Rafael, Mexico FW Hernandez,Italian FW Macheda with local talents such as MF Gibson and N.Irish CB Evans coming through the ranks quickly. Whatever problem the team has to face, Ferguson always have the answer in leading the team sustaining at very top level in the league.
Manchester Untied once again is the top favorite to win the league this season. However, without Tevez and C.Ronaldo, the team has been relying too heavily in the scoring ability of Rooney up-front. Last season, the team has kept a tight race with Chelsea until they lost Rooney through injury near end of the season which immediately led to loss of important league points with title chance fating away. Therefore, Ferguson has acquired talented Mexico star FW Hernandez to improve the depth in the striker area and he could well be one of the surprising finds of European football! Still, the performance of disappointing Bulgarian FW Bebertov and FW Michael Owen will be the the decisive factor for the team's title race as Rooney sure needs much more support up-front in a long hard season and ever competitive premier league.
Although the team did not get in more talents to strengthen the squad especially in CB (as Ferdinand gradually injury more often) and CMF (Fletcher,Carrick,Scholes,Anderson CMF combo is not quality enough for Champion League), the Red Devils remains the most balanced , well-coached and consistent team with a great mix of veterans and youngsters among all title challengers. As youth development has always been an intergal part of the team, the new Premiership home grown player rule should favor the team compared to the likes of Chelsea and Man.City. In conclusion, Red Devils has a great chance to re-claim the league title, but should expect to face fierce challenge from Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea. Will Ferguson, Giggs and Scholes get league title before their farewell season which should come very soon? (as a LFC fan, I sure hope not!)
Strongest line-up: <4-3-3/4-2-3-1>
Manchester Untied once again is the top favorite to win the league this season. However, without Tevez and C.Ronaldo, the team has been relying too heavily in the scoring ability of Rooney up-front. Last season, the team has kept a tight race with Chelsea until they lost Rooney through injury near end of the season which immediately led to loss of important league points with title chance fating away. Therefore, Ferguson has acquired talented Mexico star FW Hernandez to improve the depth in the striker area and he could well be one of the surprising finds of European football! Still, the performance of disappointing Bulgarian FW Bebertov and FW Michael Owen will be the the decisive factor for the team's title race as Rooney sure needs much more support up-front in a long hard season and ever competitive premier league.
Although the team did not get in more talents to strengthen the squad especially in CB (as Ferdinand gradually injury more often) and CMF (Fletcher,Carrick,Scholes,Anderson CMF combo is not quality enough for Champion League), the Red Devils remains the most balanced , well-coached and consistent team with a great mix of veterans and youngsters among all title challengers. As youth development has always been an intergal part of the team, the new Premiership home grown player rule should favor the team compared to the likes of Chelsea and Man.City. In conclusion, Red Devils has a great chance to re-claim the league title, but should expect to face fierce challenge from Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea. Will Ferguson, Giggs and Scholes get league title before their farewell season which should come very soon? (as a LFC fan, I sure hope not!)
Strongest line-up: <4-3-3/4-2-3-1>
Van Der Saar
Brown Ferdinand Vidic Evra
Parks Fletcher Scholes
Valencia Rooney Nani
Prediction: Champion! (warning: my prediciton is always wrong! )
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