Placing the Emphasis on Carrick!

No offence lads, but Tom Cleverly is awful. After two decades of Robson, Ince, Keane, Scholes and the rest, he is just terrible. Hope Carrick doesn't get injured.

Cleverley is awful based on what Tactically Challenged? His first game since being able to play since injury whilst lacking match fitness for a poor, under aged and inexperience, scrambled together Team GB side against a much more technically gifted and better Brazil? Once he gets back to fitness I'm sure he'll putting in the same performances he did for us at the beginning of last season and it wasn't just coincidence that our best performances and form during the season was when Cleverlery was in midfield and died off when he got injured and couldn't add composure to it.

As for my opinion on the article itself. Like I said before Fergie is overrating Carrick a bit here, he's a good player but that's about it, nothing special or world class about him. He should see us through the group stage yes but anyone who's a squad player at the club I expect that of. However when it gets to the knockout stages and your facing centrsl midfields made up of Kroos/Schweinsteiger, Xavi/Iniesta/Busquets/Fabregas, Alonso/Ozil/Khedira/Modric(maybe) thats when the strength of your midfield matters and where Carrick is a good squad player and should see us through th egroup stages hes not of the quality to match up against these talents players and it's where our team needs a more quality.

Out of curiousity, what have you seen him do to give you the authority to criticise him so harshly? He's no Jack Wilshere no, he doesn't play long 30 yard sweeping balls however his short pass and move play is great and allowed us to repeatedly break down premier league defences and added a lot of composure to out midfield and allowed us to dominate possession for a majority of the games in which he played. Like I said it wasn't just coincidence that when he was in the side and fit to play we had our best form nor is it coincedence that as soon as he got injured our best form went and we were lacking something in midfield, and aspect we didn't retain until Carrick rediscovered his best form and Scholes returned. Don't get us wrong mate no United fan think he's going to be a world beater but he's certainly a good player, enough to be a solid squad member and fight for a first team place and certainly not as bad or ordinary as you're making him out to be. How you can rate Allen so highly based on one season in the premier league is beyond me, he hasn't even had the displeasure of being man marked or had to endure 'professional fouls' like Cleverley had to in just his first few weeks of playing. You Spuds do an half rate Huddlestone highly to the point where you overrate him, par his passing range what abilities does he possess? If we're looking to buy midfielders we should be looking at true class players not average premier league midfielders like Huddlestone and Allen but M'Vila and Martinez maybe even Strootman or Elm.