How many of Robbie Keane's goals would have been scored without Berbatov?
How many of Keane's other goals have been provided by our other strikers?
How 'good' was Berbatov last season?
Answers to these questions and more to anyone prepared to admit that he is actually a great player and far from the moody sod many of our less intelligent supporters would have us believe. Berbs could go to any club in the land for big money. If Drogba goes (likely) Chelsea will be all over him. Utd already are. We'd be muppets to lose him, and I don't think he's as desperate to get away as everyone says. If he is happy in his football and the club moving in the right direction (i.e. we get over this poor run) he'll stay for a couple of years.
We need Berbs. Without him last season we'd have finished mid table. FFS how many points do people think he earned for us pretty much on his own. It wasn't as if he was finishing off great team moves. He scored and created so many for himself and made many for others that the alternative (Mido) simply wouldn't have. The board and certain fans seem to think a different coach is the key to our success, when reallity shows a very different stroy. If you want CL football, then you need CL standard players. When Berbs and Leds (our only truly quality players) played together last season we average 2pts per game (76 pro rata), which was easily good enough for 3rd place. The season before when Leds and Carrick (our only truly quality players) played together we averaged 2pts per game, which was easily good enough enough for 4th spot. When pur quality players were fit we didn't just have a points tally better than Arsenal we had a points tally comfortably better than Arsenal. In fact we shit on them. The difference between us was that we only had 1 Leds, so when he was injured we were screwed, whilst Arseanl had Toure and Gallas. When Berbs was out we didn't have a spare genius, whilst Arsenal had both RVP and Henry. It doesn't matter who the coach is, we can't afford to sell our quality players. When both Leds and Berbs are fit we are a top 4 standard team. If only we had kept Carrick as well.
Berbs is a legend. We'd be silly to let him go without a fight
When he starts banging them in you'll soon forget about all this. Saying get rid of him is fucking madness. We need every bit of quality we have right now.
What type of quality, good or bad?
I won't settle for bad quality, even if you do.
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Good points, SS57.
I'd challenge anyone to name me 3 strikers/attacking/creative players who could 100% not be called either petulant, arrogant or moody.
I'll even give you one to start off: Michael Owen
I've thought all day and I can't think of any others (from the past 15 years, anyway)
Good points, SS57.
I'd challenge anyone to name me 3 strikers/attacking/creative players who could 100% not be called either petulant, arrogant or moody.
I'll even give you one to start off: Michael Owen
I've thought all day and I can't think of any others (from the past 15 years, anyway)
Berba will leave IF he leaves