But ManU is more than just good.... they are great! and greatness takes more than money!
And this BIG striker and Small striker combination talk leading to Rooney and Tevez not being a good partnership is pack of assness... ah alot of assness! I don't even want Tevez at ManU because he is from Argentina, but since when does a team having A big guy and a small guy the standard!
What about Yorke and Cole.... Two of them was almost the same.... hmmm...
Talent rules on the day and it is a completely random and magical coindence when to strikers complement each other like that! there is no formula... so stop trying so hard to sound like a freaking football orcale
Marcus,
I agree with most of what you say apart from this tootoo above..
But is my fault and i apologize cause i was too general with my "big forward/small forward" analysis of what usually forms the majority of successful strike partnerships..
What i really meant... The fact is that the majority of successful systems that employ 2 forwards work on the basis of one forward to hold up the ball and another to play off of him... This is especially true in the EPL where the long ball is prevalent, and the game is physical..
Lets look at such successful type partnerships currently in the EPL:
Holdup Fwd (Bigman) Support Fwd (Smallman)
Saha Rooney Man Utd
Drogba Shevchenko Chelsea
Adebayor Henry Arsenal
Crouch Kuyt/Bellamy Liverpool (Borderline successful)
Berbatov Keane/Defoe Tottenham
Anelka Diouf Bolton
Kanu Benjani/Lua Lua Portsmouth
Zamora Tevez West Ham
Now do you see a clear pattern between the type of players in the first list and the second list and how they complement each other?? If you can't maybe football is not for you....
I'm not sure if you watched Man United football in 1999, but Yorke and Cole worked in EXACTLY the same way... Yorke was the hold up player (one of the best i've ever seen by the way) who would collect with his back to goal, and lay off to beckham, scholes and giggs or cole if he got into space.. Cole was the predator/finisher who would play off of Yorke.. Thats why that combination worked so well because they were two totally different players..
So how could you say its pure assness??
In my opinion Rooney and Tevez won't work.. Unless Fergie and Quieroz have some revolutionary new system to play dem 2 forwards, or he going and play them out of position, i feel they will get in each other's way.. By and large they play the same way..
And finally yes, for your information i am a football oracle!