Anderson ready to be Fergie's next gem
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Sir Alex Ferguson has backed Anderson to become Manchester United's next midfield legend as he prepares to unleash the Brazilian and his fellow Old Trafford young guns against Queen's Park Rangers on Tuesday.
The Premier League champions, stung by Saturday's 2-1 league defeat against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, face Championship outfit QPR in the League Cup fourth round with boss Ferguson ready to rest his established stars.
Promising youngsters Jonny Evans, Rodrigo Possebon, Darron Gibson and Danny Welbeck are all set to be handed the chance to shine.
But Ferguson admits that 20-year-old Anderson, a 19 million pounds buy from Porto 18 months ago, is the player that he has the highest hopes for amongst his young crop when it comes to emulating the likes of Roy Keane and Paul Scholes.
Ferguson said: "Anderson is a different type of player altogether to Roy Keane, but when you are looking for that central midfield player - we've got Scholes who is coming to the end of his career, Roy Keane has left us to try his hand at management - you say, 'who is going to function for Manchester United?'
"Then a 19-year-old lad comes in and you see his performance level. You know he is going to become a terrific player and life moves on. United move on, it's inevitable.
"Our style has changed over the last few years. We've got different types of players to ten years ago, so you cannot replicate every team with identical players.
"When I first came here they used to say Bryan Robson was king and you cannot win a game without him. I began to believe it as well because we didn't operate as well without him.
"We had to change the mentality - change the mental toughness. They thought you could never find another Robson, but then Roy Keane came along and filled the breach marvellously.
"Then they thought you would never get another Keane, but then someone like Anderson steps through the door and the cycle just keeps going."
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u can do it.
one of the best.
where is the pic of him staring at gerrad?
and we all know he shits on fabregas.
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the next paul scholes?
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i think Fergie's killing him by playing him so deep.
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Yes hes the next big thing, so is Rafael!
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yea but judging from the arsenal game, anderson needs to work on movement off the ball.. it was quite clear that MUFC trademark fluent passing game could not materialise bcos midfield, especially the central midfield, wasn't giving enough options for the defenders to pass the ball to.. in the end resort to long balls and then lost possession..
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whatever happened to Michael Carrick & Owen Heagraves...
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with anderson man u is going to win league cup forth round with ease
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Originally posted by red_amoeba:
whatever happened to Michael Carrick & Owen Heagraves...
I think Fergie bought them to buy sometime to train his younger generation.
