Lee Dixon On Keane

[rage]

don't you even think about what you write?

what if the player he had to buy is playing ****e and you have a better option? still play him? when do you stop playing him? until he gets sold? still play him as that's what he was bought for? we all know the best laid plans dont always work out so what do you do? thats why he wants options and possibilities. You seem to think he wanted to buy pennant as if he was thinking pennant was the final piece of the jigsaw or something. he bought most players because they could do a job and maybe kick on and become top players. its only since masher has he been able to land a couple of gems.

i agree with you on keane on the basis that i think he'll only have the impact we want when played up front. but if ngog and torres are on fire and we have nothing on the right then i'd happily play keane there. i think kuyt has proved more effective out wide than up front AND more effective than our other wide men so what should rafa do other than play kuyt there?

he plays the best players for the tactics he wants to use against the opposition. this approach won us the trophies under him, has closed the gap on the champs in the league and is essentially his whole philosophy. probably why he's not managing a pub team.

how about he just try it once?

[Sarb]

Rafa is too clever for his own good. If he played his best players in the best positions we'd have a better chance of winning the title. But he doesn't.

He got it badly wrong on Sunday and has done so on quite a few occasions. Some people just refuse to accept that

[jonymadness]

How come Fergie doesn't get the same **** for playing Rooney out wide, or Wenger for RVP? How comes Manure fans don't get on his case for it? Couldn't be better fans, could they?

Johnny Giles / Eamonn Dunphy / Liam Brady all give Slur Alex major stick on Irish tv over his insistance of playing Rooney wide in European games while letting Ronaldo do what he likes.

The English media dont seem to pick up on it though, probably afraid of being banned from asking him a question or getting into old trafford ever again as a result.

Even what he did with Berbatov on Monday was outrageous and yet, very little is being said about it.