Re: 3 Goal Valencia to Replace 23 goal Ronaldo?
Ian, Rooney is a very good player, but he is by no means the best attacking player in Euro...
Ian, Rooney is a very good player, but he is by no means the best attacking player in Europe. He has to improve his touch, dribbling and scoring rate by quite a bit before he can even be considered to be that. The problem with the loss of Ronaldo and Tevez is that it takes the focus of the mess that is the central midfield, the weakest part of the team. Carrick has slow feet, and while his long range passing is great, his short range passing is average at best. Anderson's technical abilities seem to have diminished in the last season, Scholes is finished, Hargreaves has a chronic injury (and thus could be argued to be finished) and Fletcher, while having greatly improved, is still mediocre. Defence and attack has won us titles, the midfield has been pedestrian and workmanlike in comparison, meaning that there has been an over-reliance on counter-attacking football against the best sides.
