Originally posted by DR BOB
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Though i still disagree about Carrick, even when fully fit last season you can see he's lost his pace and ability to get forward and contribute to the attack. I know people will come in and say he's a defensive midfielder but when have United ever played with an out and out defensive midfielder before Carrick? We have box to box players like Keane and Fletcher but we have never needed someone to just sit in front of the defence and pass sideways. Carrick before this season just gone wasn't even a defensive midfielder in my eyes, he was a completely different player more like a deeper lying playmaker. I don't know how he got so slow and reckless with his passing. He scored 0 goals last season in all competitions, he always manages to score usually but he's just stopped going forward completely. The main thing he had going for him was his passing ability but i don't see him doing anything nowadays apart from passing sideways to a player more capable of passing it on to the forwards.
You could see with Anderson and Cleverly our attack is much more effective, our midfield is more dynamic and we really didn't miss having a DMF. We scored three goals and conceded none without one. He's already 30 years old and looking like a donkey so i say drop him or sell him to a mid table Premier League side.
As for De Gea, i think he's too young. He made some decent stops and will get better with time but right now i'm not sure how reliable he's going to be, though we're always going to compare him to how solid VDS was so it's kind of unfair really. He doesn't even speak English very well yet.
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