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| Giggs expects swift return to the top Posted: 28 Apr 2014 12:13 AM PDT
Giggs was named interim manager in the wake of David Moyes’ sacking and got his managerial career off to a winning start, as United demolished Norwich 4-0 on Saturday, playing with a verve and tempo they had almost never shown this season.
Finishing seventh and missing out on the Champions League for the first in 19 years have given the press the opportunity to have a field day and United have labeled in different quarters as a team in terminal decline, a notion Giggsy doesn’t subscribe to at all. "We won the league last year, the year before we lost it on goal difference and the year before that we won it. "Liverpool – where did they come last year, seventh? Who'd have said they'd be where they are this year? So a lot can change. We've certainly got the players and we've got everything in place to have a successful season next year. "It's going to be hard, obviously, because we've had a tough season this year and the lads at Liverpool have improved and other teams around us have improved, so it won't be easy. But I'm confident we've got the players," said Giggs. After Moyes’ beleaguered reign came to an end next week, Giggs made an immediate impact as caretaker manager but while the romantics amongst us would love to see him appointed permanently, Giggs himself hasn’t thought much about the future. "Hopefully if I have got four wins, I'll deal with it then," he said. "But there are so many things and aspects to this job I haven't really got time to look too far ahead. There's so many things I have to sort out this week and my focus is on that.” Giggs is instead more likely to be involved in the coaching staff alongside whoever gets named Manchester United manager, which will spare him the trouble of having to leave players out and might prolong his footballing career for another 12 months. "I think that's another conversation as well," said Giggs. "I don't know what I'm doing about playing, I don't know what's going to happen, so again it's something that I'll think about and decide with the appropriate people after the season. "I've obviously been at the club for a long time and I know the ins and outs of the club but, like I said, there are so many other things that come with the job that I never knew did, because I've never been in that position before. "They all add up during the day and they all add up during the week and it's tough. It's a real tough job, but one that I'm enjoying the challenge of and hopefully will continue enjoying until the end of the season. "It was strange out there. Things like: how many times do you get up? Do you sit in your seat? What are you going to wear? It's all things I'm not used to, even though I've played so many games for the club.
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| Is Manchester United Youth Star Ben Pearson The Next Roy Keane Posted: 27 Apr 2014 11:37 AM PDT
He along side Paul Scholes, formed one of the best midfield partnerships the Premiership has ever seen. Scholes was the man who ran the show using his feet from the midfield. His spectacular passing, grace and composure on the ball is unrivaled by any player to wear a Red Shirt in recent memory.
Alongside him was Roy Keane. A man who during his 12 years at the club cemented his place in United folk lore. He wore the Captains armband with passion and lead the team through example. His reading of the game and his ability to break up play was central to United’s success. It was in my opinion Roy Keane’s most important performance over his 12 years at Manchester United. It was the 1999 Champions League Semi-Final and United were on-route to a Historic Treble, however they were up against Italian powerhouse Juventus who had French maestro Zidane in their midfield and one of the best out and out strikers to grace the game, Inzaghi. In the 11th minute of what could possibly be the most important game of his career, he was booked, which meant he would be unable to represent Manchester United in the final. Heartbreaking. That’s what it would have been for many however for Keane it looked like it served as further motivation. He fought through the 90 minutes with more grit and determination than ever. After watching the whole game recently, I could feel his passion transcending into the other players across the pitch. Without him, I don’t think we would have reached the final against Juventus and Zidane and Inzhagi. It was his finest hour and gritty performances like those from an individual are something we have been missing recently, specially in the middle of the park. However recently Manchester United youth starlet Ben Pearson has shown he has the potential, to be our next Roy Keane.
“Most of my game is really about tackling and breaking up the play. The club have been really good to me. I’ve been here since I was a kid really and am just doing the best I can to get this far.” Like Keane, Pearson is not afraid to get ‘stuck in’ and is always at hand to stop play when the opposition look dangerous, be it from a successful tackle or a foul. He gets the dirty work done. This is something Manchester United have been lacking in their midfield. Despite Fellani showing signs of being able to do this, the jury is still out on him, as he needs to pull out several consistent sharp performances to justify his £27.5 million price tag. Pearson has also been brought up the Manchester United way, as he has been with the club since 2004, and has progressed through the ranks at Old Trafford, to the point where he is playing with the U21 side at 19. This shows how highly he is rated by U21 manager, Warren Joyce. U18 manager Paul McGuinness had this to say about Ben, “Ben's been outstanding,” said McGuinness when losing the key man to the older age-group when signing professional terms. “He's an outstanding passer of the ball, a combination player and a good playmaker and link player in midfield. We'd like him to get forward and make more forward runs but sometimes the personnel we had meant he had to play in more of a holding role. But he's also got the ability to snuff out danger and he's very quick over 10-15 yards.” High praise indeed for the 2012/13 Jimmy Murphy Young Player Of The Year. An award previously won by club legends Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes. However the young midfielder is well deserving of the praise as he battled a bad bout of glandular fever during 2011/12 to achieve this award. His fantastic displays during the 2012/13 season also earned him not only a cap for the England U18′s, it also earned him the captains armband. The boy from Oldham must have obviously impressed as he has now progressed through the International ranks, now currently playing for the U19′s. As he continues to impress both at club and international level, his chance of a first team call-up for Manchester United is surely on the rise. He has shown he has the potential to fill the large boots of Roy Keane however his game is far from perfect. Much like his inspiration Paul Scholes he can tend to fly into tackles a bit too readily which can end in a red card, which it did vs Real Sociedad, as the video shows above. Another aspect of his game he needs to work on is his goal scoring. Despite scoring 2 goals for England U19′s this season, Pearson still needs to work on his ability to find the back of the net as that could be the difference between a call-up to the first team or another game in the U21 Premier League. I would like to wish Best Of Luck To Ben and I really do hope that in the next couple of seasons he gets the chance at the first team he deserves! Thank you for reading my post! If you enjoyed head it over to my blog where you can read more pieces on our youth players. |
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