United - Gotze Interest?

We spent/wasted 20 million on Carrick. If Fergie feels that the lad has the ability to merit such a high fee he will shell out for him, the only problem really is can Fergie persuade the trolls, sorry Glazers to splash out.

In all fairness, the spuds fans are the ones who are happy now and rightfully so, what is Carrick an att mid, a def mid, a ball winner, playmaker, what is he, look at it this way how does Capello rate him, would he drop gerrard, lampard, milner, or the like to accomodate Carrick? No, Does our midfield look stronger with him in it? No. He helped us win 3 league titles, maybe but only as a small cog in a big machine, he's good at passing the ball, ffs, he's more likely to pass the ball backwards nowadays, he breaks up play do you really think he can read a game that well plus what modern midfielder cannot pass the ball well, he is not good defensively, to me he just seems too stagnant on the pitch, look at Fletcher and Anderson now, look at the improvements made to their game, if Hargreaves was injury free would Carrick still be at the club? Who would take him if we let him go? Maybe the Barca game has destroyed him, but why then is he still here if he ain't the same player? We could of gotten Ozil for 12 million Van der Vaart for 10, how many of our rivals would have him in their team? Carrick is a bit like Gibson not great at defending not great at attacking, just decent-ish at both, if you play one of them in the centre the other cm has to do so much more. I suspect he was signed to play similar to Scholes but the experiment has failed hence the reason we have 2 36 year olds dictating our play form midfield. Sorry for the incoherent rant I'm hungover.