tactics

beautiful football. how do you play beautiful football? well you start with the goal keeper. i goalkeeper needs both confidence and players around him to support him.

defence need to be load, communicating to each other and work like clock work. they need to be able to play a cover formation in which doesnt allow teams to break through them. they need not to be committed, they need to allow teams to play, you want the ball back in the first half of your side? let the midfield do that. CB's are meant to be big and strong which means they should never be put in the position of chasing back. full backs have to be fast and agile. this is to cut off supply. this means that team have to go into the middle in which the strong defenders clear it up.

2CDM's always 2. however they need to have 2 different jobs, one needs to be in charge of the main CAM of the other side, shutting off his ability to play, the other sits in and is the wrecking ball of the team, anything in his area he has responsibility to be able to read the game so that if the CAM gets away from his partner then he is able to clear up the mess.

1 CAM, these players need to be a natural cam, not like rooney. they need to have vision and you have to accept the fact that they are not defenders and many of them dont enjoy that aspect of the game. he also needs to be bestfriends with the striker, they need to be able to read each others game and work together

LW, RW, CF. the wingers need to be a goal threat, they need to have composure in front of goal and they need to be fast, not necessarily skillful. skillful players make boring players that expect to much everytime they get the ball, a fast player you know is going to run.

CF. he plays in the middle but behind the wingers, this means that he is also a goal threat but causes great problems to the opposition as they have no idea how to close them down. this means that all 3 can exploit the defence by connecting up with the CAM.

the best football and the most deadly football is fast football. the type were any player can change a match with one pass. but a great team also has control and patience. they need to read the game and be able to play with the ball at feet and be able to spread the ball. liverpool have shown that fast football is both effective and great to watch however they have not got their defence aspects correct. they play the covering line in which i prefer but as you saw against crystal palace there line was to deep and the players were allowed to play within the box. which led to 2 of the goals.

chelsea this season have been boring to watch yet absolutely brilliant. jose was able to cover everything that game against liverpool, he controlled the tempo, the way liverpool played and just didn't allow liverpool through. however that is not the football of a man with dignity. you play that kind of football if you're playing against the best team in the world and you're looking for a draw to win a title. you dont do that to ruin someone elses title credentials. they only way of would have admired jose is by trying to outplay liverpool which they didnt do.

anyway i said all this because i have a dream of becoming a manager. yes i know it probably wont happen but this is just a place in which i can broadcast my ideas in hope that someone of importance in the footballing world sees this. thanks, bryn

another arsenal one.

arsenal are conceding far too many goals to ever consider themselves champions. and if you look at their way of playing and there players they have you can understand why. each week they play 4 CAMs and a winger. which means they have very little defence, chelsea did not outplay arsenal. they just played behind the CAM's and in front of the defence which is a huge open space which was easily exploited. arsenal have one CDM who is flamini who has done well this season but is second to the much more attacking arteta. they need to bring in someone like javi martinez who can play both centre back and CDM. he has a had a brilliant season in germany and is solid. they cant keep having 5 up front leaving 4 at the back because they will be counter attacked which liverpool did and they will concede lots of goals. if i were wenger i would get rid of giroud. he has the same playing style as the CAMs which mean they have very little ability to score lots of goals. they need an opposite. they need to transform walcott into a striker.

walcott is composed in front of goal with great ability to find space and has the pace to get into it. he would offer a complete different to giroud which would make it very hard for teams to get there tactics correct on marking the striker. giroud plays balls behind the defence towards ramsey or ozil who then hopefully score and walcott would be a running at them player. this tactic of running at the defence has worked really well this season for players such as the ox who caused havoc for bayern munich and for ross barkley.

however walcott hasn't really been playing lately due to a sustaining injury so they need to invest in a striker. guess who? MURIEL!!! he is young and is starting to die down at udinese. a fresh start would be the best thing for him.

well sagna has pretty much said he will be going to manchester city so they need to bring in a replacement. they have been looking at the young rb serge aurier. he has plenty of potential and has great ability. he is a great choice. they also should consider danilo who is the young brazilian RB who has a had a great season. 

they need to have the ability to defend and score if they are to have a chance of competing next year for the title. and that sounds simple but they arent doing it. 

thanks, bryn

would anyone like me to cover anything other than football? I'm passionate about many sports and like to give my opinion on politics as well so just leave a comment below or email me @ mintus1888@gmail.com

taking rooney?

why are the taking him, and before you start saying he is amazing and the best player we have. he hasn't scored in a world cup. ever. and since we are starting with youth then surely we should take someone young, connor wickham has a had a great surge into form over the past months and seems to be a real threat to goal.

obviously it is to late to take wickham but i dont like rooney, he isn't a CAM however he is a decent CF, however he doesn't fit into the team with sturridge being the striker and him not having the ability to play CAM and the pace to play on the wing. he is behind lambert in my squad selection. but this isnt my squad.

i know most of you disagree with my tactics, my opinions and the way i like football played but i will never give in to hype, mourinho is a crap manager, david moyes needed more time, brendan rogers is good but isnt a major threat yet and the manager of the season has to go to the crystal palace manager, tony pulis, dont get me wrong. i love ian holloway but he isnt a premier league manager. and many players and managers have that problem of shining in the championship and then disappearing in the premiership, remember wilfried zaha? well he was brilliant.

why does this happen though? wilfried zaha is meant to be the next big thing? well for one they are over hyped. he was good and fun to watch but every time he got on the ball you built expectation only to be let down the majority of the time.  but how can young british player flourish? well they have this season with many of them on the plane to brazil. but they're competing against multimillion pound players that are a joy to watch due to the amount of control they have.

have you ever wondered what language the speak in the man city changing room? probably spanish. it just shows the influence of foreign goods. now i have no problem with this. but when they play great football and i dont think man city have this season. they have a strong defender, 3 brilliant midfielders and a great strike force, but that doesn't make for grear football. they aren't a team, they are a £206 million pounds of wages playing in the same kit. david silva is their best player as he connects it all together. yaya toure has been great but they haven't come close to liverpool this season. liverpool are a team that have worked together for a few years with youth coming through. the one point they lack in is their defence but as i said brendan rogers is still mastering the art and for me, they wont win the title for atleast 3 seasons until they're defence is clock work.

leave any comments below on suggestions on what topic i should cover or even how i should improve this.
thanks,
bryn

luke shaw the world cup?

well i have been thinking long and hard, i have watched southampton games over and over and have come to a decision. you only take him if you're playing wing backs with 3 CBs, i have watched him and hes decent tackler and good on the ball but you want someone behind him when he makes these runs. he is a decent player who is very young and that is what england need.

roy hodgson has said that he has known who is england squad is and has known for a while now. well you have to question whether it is his team or the medias team? well it has been for the past few years but hodgson has done something no manager has done before and looked beyond the hyped players and looked at bringing in new talent, because hey at the end of the day, gerrard wont be in the next world cup squad and rooney will be 32. he needs to bring players through and unfortunately a few have become injured. the beauty of player who are unknown is that you cant research them, when andros townsend came on for the first time england were playing some shit football. long ball and hopefully some one gets onto it. he came on and ran at the defence. oxlade chamberlain against bayern munich ran at the defence, ross barkley against man city ran at the defence. they're not players going to be drowned in the big matches because they dont understand the pressure and just want to play their style of football. sturridge has caused all kinds of problems this season and the only player who hasnt is rooney. he has been lazy in that area. he has been great this season dont get me wrong but he hasnt been the goal threat that people know him as and do you want to know why? because he is trying to play the CAM role and well that aint working. he needs to run at the defence because we arent going to win by playing long balls with italy because guess what, they will just play the same game but they have the key to winning big matches, its called a pirlo. the only way we will a match (we wont win the world cup) is by playing counter attacking style

is sterling to young? well yes. but maybe thats what we need. he took manchester city apart and has been a ball of energy through the whole season. he has shown composure, skill and vision and he needs a call up. will he get drowned out by wiltshire who has a had an alright season (though thats unfair to say as he has played well but season has been dominated by injury) because he has the experience to understand the pressure.

now i almost feel im wasting my time with these blogs because i highly doubt roy hodgson goes onto blogger very often. but hey its for my enjoyment and hopefully you enjoy it as well.

please leave a comment on what you would like me to do and how you are finding my pieces, i seem to have a group of german readers so feel free to leave a comment in german, it can only help me get better for my german exam next monday.

thanks, bryn

the last season of football

This year ends possibly the mark of competition for first place in the premier league. with chelsea and liverpool slipping you have to start asking why whilst manchester city skip to the finish line in a manner in which they can not be knocked for.

liverpool will make improvements and add depth which will increase their ability to fight for the league but as rogers has said, he is working on perfecting his perfect attack. this means they are limited to 2 tactics, the perfect counter/attack and then the barcelona way in which they have shown with their short passing this season which has broken apart defences. they need a team of complete contrast, the ability to work around tactics making yourself completely unpredictable.

chelsea have been worked out by everyone this season. if you're a good team expect to see a minimum of 9 of their player behind the ball when not in possession and be wary of the counterattack. to be fair to mourinho he did not use this tactic against arsenal. now arsenal are predictable, they have 4 CAM and arteta which means that they play a very attacking line which means there is space to exploit behind them as they leave a large space between them and the defence. they attempted the offside trap but then they lost 5-1 to liverpool. as i was saying about chelsea (my ability to wander between subjects is both dazzling and irritating as i have ruined the plot of my next paragraph, ah well ). they play with two tactics and against the teams that are lower down the league they play with arrogance. which is why mourinho has cost chelsea every title. attitude is one of the most important things when the player has got it right. i was watching the man utd game and the reason hull city lost, possibly, is because of the celebration after the goal. he simply wandered back to the centre circle and got ready for the restart. i have no problem with that but however he must show determination and character and the fact that he feels they are still in it. he wandered back to the semi circle at 2-1 down in the 60th minute.

arsenal are actually the  one team i think that can challenge next season for more than just the FA cup. bring a striker in who is small and pacey. this means that he can play striker or if a winger is to become injured then he can move over to the wing. they also need a more stable midfield. the midfield we saw at the start of the season which was brilliant with one of their goals making it on to a pornographic site. this faded with injury and they almost devolved as a team. they need some holding midfield player. i would honestly look into lampard this season and get him on the free on a 1 year contract. he does the job brilliantly and will give it his all as he closes in on retirement.

man city are only going to get better. they're money fuelled and determined. and so far you have to hand it to mancini that he built the basis of an amazing team. so this for me is the end of the battle for first as that will be handed to man city depending on their transfer window. chelsea, liverpool and arsenal will be in the battle for 2nd. we can only hope that man utd improve to regain their status as a high end football team. but tbh, they need to start playing with the positions in which people play in.

thanks, bryn.

more money questions

Are footballer paid too much? Well yes that’s any easy question. But what can be done about it? Is football a place for the public to have an input, in an ideal world, of course? But we don’t get a say in the BARCLAYS premier league which is shown on SKY and BT. this year BT and SKY signed a contract which means they share the premier league games for the next 4 years. During this time the BARCLAYS premier league will be given £3 billion. How many people here are happy that they’re showing the football? You see footballers are paid too much because we buy into the brands and we believe the hype.

The average household income of a working family is around £30,000 a year however an average premier league player earns £22,500 a week which totals to around £120,000 a year although the average length of a premier league playing career is 8 years where as. But does a regular family arrive at work at 6am and come home at 7pm to do a job they have been committed to since their early teens? Top flight footballers often talk of the sacrifices they have made to become a footballer in the modern day with everything from diet to recreation being controlled by a contract. Last year Rooney was dropped from the Manchester United team and given a £250k fine after taking his wife out to celebrate New Year. Would you do this job if you were paid £30,000 a year?

In this country, the average GP earns between £54,319 and £81,969 a year. These people are saving people's lives by making sure they get the correct care as quickly as possible. Also jobs such as people in the army and NHS that come under scrutiny very often yet still attribute great services to society yet even the people at the top of the army (excluding the royal family) don’t make the same as a football player. recently people in the NHS and army had a 1% pay rise but due to inflation rising by 2% they are actually earning less yet wayne rooney recently signed a £300,000 per week contract.  So why do footballers make all this money for simply kicking a ball around?

however why is it within the public domain to know how much football players are paid? they are not being paid by the government? they are being paid by a private business and then players in turn pay into the government often a large amount. also many of them have charities which they donate large sums of money such as didier drogba who used all the money he is paid by pepsi to build a hospital in his village and supply all medical essentials.

to stop these players being paid ludacris amounts we have to stop buying into the brand that is football. you are the one buying sky, you are the one buying BT and you’re the one who enables advertisers to create the hype around the products in which they sell. this is all down to you and if you stop paying the business will stop paying out. thank you

Are footballers paid too much?

In this article I will be reviewing the highly debated question. Are football players paid too much? In this we taking apart the stereo typical player that you see on the television and we will talk about players as a whole.

The average household income of a working family is around 30,000 a year. An average premier league player earns 22,500 a week. But does a regular family arrive at work at 6am and come home at 7pm to do a job they have been committed to since their early teens? Some possibly. Top flight footballers often talk of the sacrifices they made to become a footballer in the modern day with everything from your diet, and how much time you spend in front of the TV being controlled by a contract. Last year Rooney was dropped from the Manchester united team and given a 250k fine after taking his wife out to celebrate New Year. Would you do this job if you were paid 30,000 a year?

Money is a crucial part of the game today with big money transfers such as Gareth bale to real Madrid costing 85 million. With this kind of money that these teams have you can buy the most skilful players in the world which can create brilliant football to watch. However some people believe that money is ruining the game. Michael Johnson was a bright prospect at the age of 18 with all the major clubs keeping an eye on him. He signed his first contract which was at 40,000 a week which during this period was a very high amount. Being such young player with so much going on he was becoming a huge celebrity with a lot of money, this sadly got to him and he was released from his contract in 2012, he is still only 25. He traded the talent for the limelight. He is not the only player to fall of the tracks once money plays a part.

In this country the average GP earn between £54,319 to £81,969 a year. These people are saving people's lives by making sure they get the correct care as quickly as possible. Yet footballers make all this money for kicking a ball about.   

During the time I was writing this I asked several people if they would accept 200k a week for doing their job exactly the same, but there are more restrictions; diet, and time on breaks, holiday and not being able to go out. The majority said they would take it. I asked them why and they simply said because of the money. One person said though that it would ruin her morality, the fact that she would have just got there. With no work. And maybe that’s why money ruins football? Because they lose their sense of moral grounds.

This shows that the money isn’t just affecting the game with these super teams. This now means that teams like man city will win the premier league every year. It affects a player on a personal level, and as the secret footballer said - it ruined his childhood game.

You often see people arguing that nurses and fire-fighters deserve more money. Yet I see no attempt by these people to buy these heroes shoes. We are a product of society. We rebel yet really, we buy into it. When you go into the sports store and you buy a pair of shoes or you buy some boots which you say are of the best quality but really, you’re buying the face behind it, and the tick upon it. we all think that we are one of a kind and maybe if we stopped showing these people the attention by paying for sky sports every month and buying all the latest gear you saw some star, then there would no longer be a business for football and it would soon go back to the first 11 of the team being from the local catchment area. But you don't want that, you want to talk to your friends about what Rooney did to that referee last week and then got a red card.

Football clubs no longer have the ability to stem from nothing and make their way up, money has taken that away, 60 years ago you could connect Chepstow town with Manchester united. The players would have been from the local catchment and would have been part of the team from a very young age. Now the difference is huge. The whole money argument can be proven by Bristol city; 6 years ago they found a new investor who put money into the club. Those rose leagues quickly. They made it to the final of the championship playoff where they were beaten by hull. After 3 consecutive seasons of finishing quite highly the investor decided to take his money elsewhere. Bristol city are now bottom of league one with it very likely for them to be relegated. There players are being paid less due to lack of funds which has seen almost the entire first 11 change team. The player’s wages soon become affected so the players go elsewhere to make an earning where they will be playing in a high league whilst making more money.

These players make so much money it’s not about whether it was your childhood club anymore. The only thing that matters in football is that you get your pay check at the end of the month and hope that has quite a few zeros at the end.

Though saying that entire player have fairly short careers that often end in their early 30’s with the constant fear that the next tackle could be the end of your career. The majority of football player don’t have 250,000 + pay checks every week. In league 2 the average pay per week is £747, which is not far of the national daily wage at £470. This means they earn around 38,844 a year. This is a similar pay to the rest of footballers across the globe. It’s only the minority of exceptionally talented players that will earn a ridiculous amount of money.

So is a football player paid too much? Some are of course. But the majority earn just above the average house hold. But is the pay of footballers even a question of football anymore? It’s a question of do celebrities get paid too much?

When typing Rooney into Google images this is an instant return. This shows the power of the   media, he is no longer a sign of goal scoring or being the next great player. He is Nike. He is an advertisement that you see running around with a bunch other adverts every Saturday. Though you may think that we detract people from watching football it still has an essence of beauty such as the Arsenal goal vs. Norwich which is going down as one of the best team goals ever scored.

This source shows the increase of money being pumped into the game and the rate in which it is coming in. where is this money coming from? Well with the recent purchase of the FA cup by Bskyb for £3.4 billion you have to ask, where is the money going? And the answer is football has a vicious cycle. The money will go into the matches and the occasion. But you don’t need £3.4 billion to run the cup. So eventually this money finds its way into the player’s pocket. You may ask, is £3.4 billion a little over the top but it due to public demand. This statistic shows that the influx of business into the premier league has increased over the past 10 years have sports broadcasters have gotten better. So who’s to blame? Well, us. These big companies would not benefit without us purchasing their product?

As a conclusion I feel, and I hope you feel that top flight players playing in the top teams are being paid way too much. But I feel footballers in general don’t get paid too much. You may say they don’t deserve as much as a doctor or even a nurse. But then again, a few thousand people don’t come to watch you work every week. So for top flight players they are paid too much. I hope you have seen both sides of the story and evaluated all perspectives.  

ARSENAL!?!?

are they hoping to compete with the best teams in the premier league and world next season? well then stop looking into loic remy. he has been deadly for newcastle this season in securing them with a top 10 finish but he has not performed on a large stage, when you want to compete at the level arsenal desire then you have 2 options, buy world class players or buy young players. arsenal have bought the best in the world when they were very young such as theirry henry, robin van persie, alexis song, cesc fabregas. and the team they have now is getting better quickly with lots of the players growing up together. next season will get ozil more comfortable with the team and giroud is starting to make an impact.

dear arsene wenger,

please buy a striker and a RB, giroud has proved himself to be really good this season but he is your only reliable striker and sorry but sanogo is not the next theirry henry, he had a god junior world cup and then you brought him straight to the big leagues. now when i talk of sanogo i seem to be his only true fan but i think he has great potential but i wouldnt describe that potential as a goal scorer, more of part of a great strike force in which he feeds the ball through to luis muriel. yes i am a fifa lover and yes muriel is O.T.T on there but he is a brilliant player, he has scored around 5 goals this season, im not sure of the exact figure but its low, which is very unimpressive but some times players need a new start, a new surrounding and he would offer something different than loic remy who is a cross between giroud and sanogo.

sort out the midfield, now! lets bring come CDM's in because you cant be playing 5 CAMs each week, its led to the dip in your defensive stats this season and means teams can just play in between your defensive and midfield line. your need for a RB is going stronger as it looks as if sagna does not want to put pen to paper. i would advice abate as this season replacement as he is both good in defence and attack. possibly danilo but he is young and with both full backs being young this could lead to heavy pressure on the wing

arsenal are contenders and showed that during this season, but they need to get better against big teams, certain players disappear and dont provide the quality that they were brought in to show

that is all from today, please suggest any other subjects in can cover and possibly how i can improve them (i dont care about grammar or spelling) thanks again, bryn

mourinho the 'not so special one'

so when is mourinho going to get fired? here we are without a trophy even looking possible and we are still lead to believe he is the special one? And my memory is not perfect but when he joined chelsea the first time he claimed that the champions league was his. and fair play the guy he won everything else in british football and successfully maintained the premier league trophy for 2 years in a row. and he went on to do well at inter milan before suddenly failing at real madrid, and yes there is no other way to describe it. he failed there. he never made it past the semi final of 'his tournament' and only won the league once.

last season at chelsea rafa benetiz, who is known as the spanish waiter and chelsea fans back then had other nicknames for him in which i am not going to put on the internet. he was given the team after 6 matches without a win and the team was looking very poor, he stepped in with the task of securing champions league football. he went past that and came 2nd and won the europa cup. but he was made to step a side for the special one to replace him.

so now lets recap on this season. well their football style has been boring with no flare on excitement, they look like their about to come in 3rd. they havent won anything and were thoroughly beaten when faced with strong opposition like atletico.

now you're thinking he didnt fail at real madrid, he did amazing, right? if you have a team with ronaldo, ozil, di maria, benzema, xabi alonso, marcelo, sergio ramos and you do not challange until the final day of the season for the title or win the champions league then you have failed because im sure i could set my 8 year old brother up with that squad and they would compete better.

so in conclusion mourinho relies on controverial moments and the media to make him stand out, he is not a great manager, he is an average manager with a great team. chelsea may win the capital one cup next year and then maybe even compete for the FA cup but i see him stumbling at the first hurdle as players and the public start to question him and as hazard has already done.  

england sqaud, please read roy

well what are the two things england have shown we are good at this year? the liverpool way and the british way. so lets play like that.

this means i have come up with 2 teams for england that would work brilliantly for both, i hope.

                                                            hart

johnson                          Cahill                           jagelka                                                gibbs


                                     gerrard                           wiltshire

                                                           sterling

sturridge                                                                                                 oxlade-chamberlin
                                                             rooney

this team compliments each other brilliantly in my eyes. johnson, gerrard, sterling and sturridge have all been deadly for liverpool this season and have worked brilliantly together.

hart has really proved himself this season with some match and possibly season winning performances and has really shown that he deserves to be englands number one.

johnson is brilliant all over the pitch with some amazing crosses and some match winning tackles, one of the most consistent and exciting players to watch this season.

Cahill has been a beast at the back this year. his performances and understanding with john terry is second to none. unfortunatly john terry will not be on the plane but hopefully we can see some of cahills match winning performances.

jagelka is one of the reason everton have been so brilliant this season showing more than he is just a scary defender but he has brilliant football technique and a great eye for the game.

gibbs, now i dont care what you say, he has been brilliant and a joy to watch. he has great attacking threat and great defensive abilities. if he is not on the plane alongside leighton baines i will certainly be throwing a tantrum.

gerrard has had a season of a lifetime, he is known as the wrecking ball for the lack of care for other players who are in the way of the ball. his passes are accurate and threatening and if all else fails then he has a killer shot. he has to start every game.

wiltshire, this was a hard choice between wiltshire and henderson but due to the fact that england aren't the best team out there i have picked wiltshire for his defensive attributes as well as his high work rate that he has shown for arsenal this season. i would defiantly bring henderson but he is not the first choice.

raheem sterling has been the best player in the premier league. the energy and composure he brings to liverpool has been outstanding, along with a little pace. he has played brilliantly in the central position for liverpool and has rarely put a foot wrong, many people as why rooney is not playing there, well simple answer. thats not his position. rooney is very hard working and likes the defensive aspect, well that doesnt make him a CAM, he is a cf which is the position i am playing him.

sturridge on the right, he played her for chelsea and did well for a short period of time but prefers to play in the centre of the park. well with rooney playing at cf, this allows him to make runs inside which allow him both to be a winger and striker with the main goal threat coming from the players on the wide.

rooney. your job is to run at the defence, stop trying to become the english pirlo because it is not working for you. you have 2 jobs: run at the defence and strike fear in them to open up spaces and then if that is not possible then you hold the ball up and play it through.

oxlade chamberlin, this season, meh. he hasnt been great. he had a long injury period but he hasnt been the best. so why am i bringing him? because bayern munich couldnt contain him, he is the man of the big moment which is what you need.

substitutes?
milner: he has been very reliable and gets crosses in and is a great danger going forward
walker: never really been a fan but he is young and has all the attributes of a great RB
smalling: can play RB or CB and is consistent
carrol: he is big with a good head on him and if we are to play the english way then he is the english man.
barry: has been the difference for everton this season with great performances and has one of the best passing figures in the league, if gerrard needs to have a break then barry is the man to step in.

now will he take any of the players i mentioned? well probably rooney because of the hype surrounding and all the tv endorsments that he will still be playing first team when man utd sell him to wrexham in 15 years. and defiantly hart but every other position has competition.

by bryn evans

oh david

man utd, what's going on? they have been poor consistently through moyes' rein and seem to lack the spark of last season, and the reason why is the lack of a captain. who is their captain - vidic, but where has been half the season? On the bench or injured as moyes works out his first team, moyes only has one problem. he should have worked them out during week 1. this has lead to no solid man to take charge of the team once on the pitch. if you look at liverpool they have gerrard. man city have vincent kompany. chelsea have john terry and arsenal have per Mertersacker. without a solid man to keep things ticking on the pitch, they have no strength. so is a consistent member of the manchester united squad? Rooney? well he has had an excellent season which sadly has been over shadowed by the poor season of the club. though is he the right man for the job? he has taken captaincy a few times this season but hasn't shown the characteristics of a captain. yes he runs back, yes he defends and also scores but he is not a dominant player. you're running at the manchester united team and rooney is a worry for you, of course. but i would prefer to be two footed tackled by rooney over vidic anyday. the point i'm trying to make is for manchester united to turn it around next season then they need to have a stable, consistent player and you're not going to find that in Fellani or mata.

well now you're asking why i keep referring to midfielders needing to be the captain and well yes, there is a reason for that. well the manchester united midfield has been the laughing stock of the season, it changes every 5 minuets and well they have been awful. paying £40million for mata just to play him out of position with rooney taking mata's position. don't take this the wrong way rooney but you're not in my first 11 for united or england. unless we are playing a cf position in which you are the man for the job.

summer transfers? well thats easy, they need a left wing, and left back, a centre back, a right back, a centre defencive midfielder, and a striker. oh yeah, and a manager in which they can trust.

a goal scorer? well every team needs one. liverpool have suarez and sturridge, man city have aguero, chelsea, well they don't. eto has come through this season with some great goals but they tactics of mourinho mean that anyone can score at anytime which has worked well. and arsenal, well they're competing for fourth again because they don't and lose all momentum when the midfield is taken apart due to injury. so what needs doing in the united camp? well for starts, rooney is not a CAM. i can see the public misconception as he seems to work very hard in all aspects of the game. however he does not have the vision of a CAM but he does have the movement of a CF. but will he play there for england? no. he will play CAM because he is the not the best striker england have and not even first team. but you have to play rooney, its the rule of media. you cant play him on the wing because he doesnt have the pace. and lets be honest here i would prefer to have milner on the right wing and sterling in CAM. The problem rooney will have is if manchester united bring in a foreign manager who see's the work rate but doesn't understand the hype in which surrounds him.

next season man utd dont need to buy superstars, that has rarely worked for them. the class of 92 were not bought. they grew with utd which allows for a stable team in which can progress into the future. lets take away the business and the hype away from utd and bring it backs to its best of youth.