Before you get carried away with Michael Owen's fast start against Asia's select, here's SAF to throw some cold water on your plans.
Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed that he plans to use Michael Owen as little as every 10 days as he confirmed he was looking to employ the striker as an impact player at Manchester United.Good and bad here for fantasy managers. First we've confirmed the obvious that Rooney/Berbatov is United's starting front-line. However, we've also confirmed that SAF will be rotating his strikers. I would guess we'll see a lot of Macheda and Owen coming on for Berbatov late in matches, and getting the occassional start depending on the schedule. I still think Rooney is a safe play, and likely Berbatov as well, but I do think that there will be weeks of intense frustration where they don't make the starting eleven or come off early in matches.Owen has begun his United career as well as he could have expected, scoring twice in two games during the champions' tour of Asia, the second coming in today's 2–0 win here over a Malaysia XI. But Ferguson indicated he saw him as support to the existing strike pairing of Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov. "We can carry Michael Owen. I won't ask him to play every four days, I might ask him to play every 10 days," the manager said. "We can do it because I always rotate my squad."
Caveat fantasy emptor.
Sometimes I don't understand some coaches... Bring Owen as a big deal for the press, giving him the emblematic number 7 (Best, Cantona, Beckham, C. Ronaldo)... Then say he will be a back up for Rooney and Berbatov?? You get a ton of big bills for your star and then go for a back up for Berbatov?? You let go Carlos Tevez to get a player that in the last 6 years was as inconsistent as injured. You have a ton of money to go for a striker and you stay with Berbatov?? I don't understand Ferguson...
ReplyDeleteI think is being time to give the old guy a rest and give a job to someone else...