He is a truely excellent player?
How can he be a truely excellent player when for two and half seasons he has done precisely **** all?
Two performances in two and a half years, thats all he has put in, £30.5 million pounds buys you work rate, effort, commitment and desire EVERY MATCH, not twice in two and a half years.
Its a shame he couldnt put the kind of running in yesterday against Villa the other week, where he turned in one of the most disgraceful performances I have ever seen from a profesional footballer.
If anything, yesterday just reinforces everything I have ever said about him, that for the most part he just cant be bothered, look at what he can do when he makes an effort.
Complete and utter rubbish, despite rarely being played didn't he score something along the lines of 10-12 goals in only 14-15 actual starts, he only played in 23 games worth of minutes on the pitch and, as Fergie managed to point out recently, he thinks a lot of berbatov's form is down to chopping and changing the team heavily most weekends.
He HAS been fantastic for the best part of the last 2.5 years, as I said, go back to when Utd won the title with Rooney/Ronaldo playing, look whose involved in almost every goal with the key throughball.
Mostly, the only time he's poor is when the ball blasted up to him is rubbish and the support running terrible, when Utd's wingers/other strikers play at least half decently, he's usually outstanding in supplying them with quality passing and when he gets a half decent ball in the box, he's very good. The trouble in the past 10 games is Utd have been, by 99.9% of Utd fans opinion, incredibly average to pretty much rubbish, scraping draws/wins all season with very dodgey performances. Midfield played well, actually gave Berbatov service, who was fantastic.
The ONLY trouble is, he's just not a Henry, he doesn't sit on the half way line waiting for a counter attack and like running with the ball for 50 yards before putting it in the net, so what, most players aren't like that, when the movement around him is poor, his game won't show. He's a pass and move master, if no ones moving, his passing and moving becomes pretty much irrelevant.
Utd finally, and for a change, played at pass, 1-2's, quick movement, passing the ball quickly and moving into space, generating chances and Berbatov buried them.