Who would you prefer?

Robert (9.5m)or Veron (28m)

Elliot (free) or Blanc (free)

Van Nisterooy (19m) or Bellamy (6.5m).

Bobby Robson's bought very wel if you ask me.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Answers

ffs Rik...Robert and Veron?...two totally different palyers.

Look...you lot would LAUGH at the likes of Neville. P, Nevill. G, Butt and Sylvestre. Medal count anyone?

Early days Rik...yer running away with yerself man.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

LR, what did you think of our new additions? I thought Veron was OK, but not worth £28 million. As for Van Nistelrooy again overpriced but OK. As for Blanc, not a patch on Japp Stam, he wouldn't make our subs bench.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Robert looked the part...but to be honest our defence is making any old Hackney Marsh line-runner look the part at the moment. Good player mind but too early for grabbing the Kleenex mate.

Blanc needs to adapt. That's all. May not be as good as Stam but there are rumours going round that Stam had actually lost it since his operation....it happens..and basically swapping one for one...plus a few million was superb business.

Veron will be worth a lot more that that soon...he'll be as good as Eric and I'm glad RVN got a haircut...he was looking worse than Seaman.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

You don't believe that about Stam do you?

I thought an intellegent bloke like you would have seen straight through the "he's knackered after the injury" rumour no doubt started by Manchester United to appease the fans.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Rik..who was it who poster the rumour here...from the very same mill...that Stam had played his last game for us?

Anyway....I would suggest that his comments would have a far more degrading effect on the team had he stayed, than a slow Blanc.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

I'm not sure on that one, a slow blanc , if Taggart sticks with him is likely to have the result of Man U winning Feck all this season.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Thing is, Man Utd's buys were just strengthening an already awesome side - our purchases were trying to improve a decent side.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

"already awesome side" Howay Dougal ,

Living in cockney land is starting to brainwash you into believing that Manchester United are streets ahead of the rest.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Who lives in Cockney Land: if you weren't pre-occupied with golf and remembered your mates on here, you would know I have been up here for 6 months.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Ah that's right, You're in Makemland now . BUT STILL THINKING LIKE A COCKNEY.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

How about Veron vs Bassedas, Rik? Slightly fairer comparison, but explicable very simply and straightforwardly - Taggart had £29mm to Spend, Bobby didn't.

Let's remember that KK bought Darren McDonagh and Peter Garland was well as Sir Les, Ginola, Rob Lee and AS - with precisely the same explanation - available cash. Nowt to do with judgement.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Exactly. Price tags are redundant in this context. If Manager A has £100m to spend and buys a mediocre player for £10m, he's effectively done better business than Manager B with £1m to spend, who spends the whole lot on a similar player.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Let's face it, without Stam, Manchester United are firing Blancs (or at least they should after Saturday)

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001