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Well his peers named him as the goalkeeper in the Premier League team of the season last season, which is a good sign. The main difficulty he had was coming for crosses in a crowded penalty area. Hardly surprising given that aerial crosses are as rare as hen's teeth in La Liga, so he had to...

I'd be interested to see what happens with Juergen Klopp at Dortmund. Signed a new contract through to 2018 not so long ago, but since then Dortmund's league form has taken a nosedive and they have started to sell off the family silver with Lewandowski going to Bayern in the summer and Reus...

He did as it turned out, although that was more down to the manager that followed Rioch than Rioch himself. The point I'm making is that players aren't necessarily going to join a club just because of who is the manager. Arsenal finished 11th the previous season before Bergkamp joined, but that...

When Dennis Bergkamp joined Arsenal, their manager was Bruce Rioch. Can't imagine he joined because it was his lifetime's ambition to play for Rioch.

I wasn't referring to the opposition they were playing, but the actual patterns of the matches. The match against Spurs last season, they were completely outplayed in the 1st half and Gareth Bale ran Rio Ferdinand ragged. They played better in the 2nd half, but left themselves too much to do...

There's a lot of truth in that. The last 2 matches United have played at OT v Tottenham and Swansea are matches they would never have lost under Ferguson. Not talking in terms of the opposition, but in terms of the balance of play in both matches. Neither Spurs nor Swansea were exceptional in...

I actually think there's a chance he would've been introduced in the last 10 minutes of the match had Fabio not been sent off so soon after he came on to replace Ferdinand. The wing play in the match was quite predictable and crossing pretty terrible, so a late impact sub may have made a...

Have used 2 subs, including 1 to replace a central defender, and then finding themselves down to 10 men, it wasn't really a situation conducive to bring him off the bench.

Selling Fellaini improved Everton as it stopped them lumping balls up for him to flick on all the time and allowed them to play a more expansive passing game.

Difference being that Dalglish left Liverpool aged 40 and returned aged 59. Ferguson is 72 and I think he was only too aware that a rebuilding job was needed, but that he was not at the stage of life to be having the energy to do that.

I think the problem is that if the scrum for the top 4 places is tight, results between the teams fighting for those places could end up counting for a lot. And so far this season, in league matches against the other teams in the top 9 in the Premier League, Manchester United have won once...

Tom Cleverley and Chris Smalling are not exactly youngsters now. They're both going to be 25 this year. With Smalling you can make more of an allowance as centre backs tend to peak a bit later, but Cleverley cannot be regarded as 'one for the future' any more in his mid-twenties.

That's when they were appointed, NOT when they started their jobs. Moyes and Woodward both officially began on 1 July. United traditionally get their transfer business out the way early. This year they wouldn't have got down to it really until July and by then that enabled clubs to play hardball...

United showed no urgency until Tottenham's 2nd goal went in. A lot of pressure and responsibility is being heaped on Adnan Januzaj and if you are relying on an 18 year old all the time, you have problems. A combination of Woodward and Moyes taking up their posts too late in the summer resulting...