I have been reading a number of articles in the last few days regarding next years formation. To my surprise Carrick appears to be looked over repeatedly for Hargreaves??? Even by posters who believe we will play 4-2-3-1 next season, which I agree with. I find this hard to understand, as if you look at the teams who operate with this formation i.e. Milan you will see that while they have a Gattusso figure there are also two other CM players in the team. One of which roam looking for space (Kaka), and the other (Pirlo) is an excellent passer of the ball who sits back with Gattusso.

I firmly believe last season both Carrick and Hargreaves were our top targets for these positions as they are perfect moulds for these roles.

Scholes is an exceptional passer of the ball, and a genius going forward but is terrible at tackling and defending in general. Anderson has been bought to gradually take Scholes place in the side, over a few seasons, while Nani is a replacement for Giggs.
Surely than the formation should be then


Anderson and Nani will be protected by Fergie in the same way Ronaldo was in his first season. We will have two defensive midfielders and scholes will be freed up to link up play and dominate midfield.

I may be wrong but I doubt we chased both Carrick and especially Hargreaves if they were not going to be in the First 11.

dont use ac milan as ur example because they play with only one up front, either gilardino or inzaghi

we have to play 2 upfront because this restricts our natural attacking flow- carrick and hargreaves will the central midfield partnership, but not quite yet- hargreaves and carrick have to abide by what scholes does regarding when he retires, but until then carrick, hargreaves and scholes will just be rotated, but im sure hargreaves will play more in europe and carrick in domestic matches