Was at the United game yesterday.
I like Berbatov. Always have (always will clarence). His main problem is that the good things he does are overlooked when he takes about five minutes to get back on his feet after going over from a real or perceived slight.
The first time he did it yesterday, I couldn’t tell if it was a foul that put him off that shot until I saw the replay (it wasn’t) but he stayed down for what seemed like an age and seemed to develop a head injury halfway through the mini career break.
This does your head in and predictably his sublime ball in for Valencia within two minutes gets overlooked. I don’t, like some United fans seem to, want some headless chicken charging around upfront into needless challenges like Alan Smith on goofballs just to show his passion and commitment but Berbs is doing himself no favours with his habit of letting his head down.
It’s fairly well established that Berbatov can’t play on his own up front. The idiots that put forward the well worn argument that “A thirty million pound player should be able to do that” would probably blame a fancied horse for not winning a race even though the beast doesn’t know it’s the favourite.
United had enough chances to win the game and failed to do so. Simples. Ferguson is showing himself to be the Glazer apologist that he’s become by not addressing the glaring deficiencies in this threadbare squad or publicly associating them with the root cause that sees United do a more than passable impression of a blind man on a unicycle teetering around the rim of the pit of doom.
Liked the last paragraph. Good analogy.
As a Utd fan i’m getting really sick of people (idiots) saying things along the lines of “Uhhh, Berbatov doesn’t have to track back, he’s a striker, uhhhh, he’s really talented, uhhhhh”… It is a simple rule of football that if each of the 11 players on the team do not make an effort to win the ball back, that team will not win games week in week out. Rooney tracks back, as we know. So do Torres and Messi. It is the hallmark of a great player. it isn;t just about innate skill, it’s about attitude as well. Berbatov doesn’t try a leg, so that by definition negates any talent he has.
It’s just not happening for Berbatov at United, he does have the talent, but maybe he doesn’t suit the team, just look at Shevchenko when he was at Chelsea. The dilemma is when and if they off-load him who replaces him and how much will it all cost United.