I'd rather see any transfer money we have go on Bale and Berbatov to be honest. Our midfield is not our weakest area. Heinze has looked suspect since his injury problems and with Saha possibly being offloaded in the Summer, we are left with Smith and Rooney as the only key strikers and Ole playing a bit part.

I don't agree with you. People said the same thing about Carrick after he signed for us and I have seen him integrate with the team well, never negative and one of the main reasons we have played such free flowing football this year.

If you're basing your opinions on Hargreaves from what you've seen of him in an England shirt, then that is fair enough because you have to realise that he is being played in behind Lampard and Gerrard. This means that he has a job to do to hold down the midfield, why the other two players go and do the things that you, are expecting to see of him.

He plays a different role at Bayern and he plays it well, he's a very good player. Obviously he's not world class and nobody is going to start calling him that just because he is moving to United but if he was so overrated and so overpriced then Bayern would have let him go when he had a broken leg and couldn't play for the whole season almost.

I will welcome him, he isn't a player that when he signs it's going to be like the saviour and we never have to worry anymore and he shouldn't be viewed like that by anyone. However, he will bring that depth in midfield we have needed and give us more options. The only thing which makes me a little aprehensive about it all is, that Fergie might be tempted to keep his money in his pocket in regards to a new striker and play the dreaded 4-3-3 formation which makes us play ugly Chelski football.

Are you kidding? What is there other than a 32 year old Paul Scholes and Michael Carrick? Fletcher and O'Shea? It is by far our weakest area.

Look at what Chelsea and even Liverpool have in there to work with.

That's not the midfield we have. Scholes and Carrick are world class regardless of Scholes' age. Fletcher is beginning to show signs of what he can do (about time) and O'Shea is registered as a full-back who just 'can' play in midfield. Add into that Giggs and Ronaldo and you have a tasty midfield capable of creating a lot. United's defence has always been an achilles heel and if Saha moves on in the Summer, our forwards will be down to 2 key and 1 maybe 2 back-up. Midfield is the least of our worries.

Nah, can't agree with you. You are looking at it one dimensionally, ok we have a great starting midfield but behind that we are thread bare.

Fletcher is never going to be good enough or strong enough to lay claim to a starting place. Always going to be a back up player.

Who have we got to fill in for Giggs? Richardson? Get away.

In our midfield, we have Ronaldo, Giggs, Carrick and Scholes who have proved themselves to be United class. That's it. Park is pushing it but he will be a great utility player.

So we have 4 or 5 players in midfield that I, and most would be confident in. Look at Chelsea's midfield, we don't have a chance if we take your attitude.

Just to prove a point.

Chelsea
Claude Makelele
Michael Essien
Frank Lampard
Joe Cole
John Obi Mikel
Michael Ballack
Geremi
Arjen Robben
Lassana Diarra
Shaun Wright-Phillips

Manchester United
Michael Carrick
Cristiano Ronaldo
Ryan Giggs
Ji-sung Park
Paul Scholes
Kieran Richardson
Darren Fletcher

I don't believe you don't see the problem.

very true, and how long will that be around for as well? SCholes and Giggs are getting on, and are going to be very hard to replace. Richardson is never going to be in Giggs league. Fletcher is a good squad player, but not a starter for me.

What will the United midfield look like without Giigs and Scholes?

Richardson...............Carrick............Fletcher/Smith/Fletcher.........Ronaldo

not really title winning midfield is it?

Exactly, I'm afraid that if the Chelsea squad really gels next season then we will be left in their wake. Something needs to be done about it and hopefully it will be.

well we have the same sort of problem. Our wings are very bare.

Central midfield we are laughing with

Gerrard
Alonso
Sissoko
Macherano.

Right Wings, Pennant - improving all the time, but probably not good enough for the highest standard.

Left WIngs, Zenden, Gonzalez, Kewell, Aurelio. Quite a few players there, but not good enough at all.

Firstly I think we over achieved in the Champions League this season no one would have thought we would get this far and if some one had said for this season united will get to the CL semi's Lead the Prem by 5 points and be in the FA cup final come the start of May I’m 100% all united fans would have taken that no questions asked.

Over the two legs our defending cost us, definitely two sloppy goal over the two legs cost us big style. I think we rushed Vidic back to soon because once he was in the team there appeared to be some sort of reliability factor on him from the other defenders.

Hienze really hasn’t reached levels of when first arrived, maybe its due to the injury he suffered coupled with not knowing if ur 1st I don’t know but he has not been his usual self.

What really surprised me was how shocking Giggs was, everyone is going on about the experience of the Milan and rightly so, but we have a guy who has played in numerous Semi's and has vast experience and he was playing like a new kid on the block, he should have been our inspiration in attack.

The only player that comes out with any fight was Scholes always the model pro and underrated player was always trying to make something happen. I feel for him, i just hope that we can try and get to a final for him to retire on a high.

I’m not disappointed that we got knocked out, (i would have loved to play Liverpool in the final), but I think the 7-1 battering we dished out to Roma created a false sense of believe in the CL that coupled with not having a solid defensive unit resulted in what we saw last night.

What disappointed me about last night was that we didn’t show any fight, it was a passive lacklustre performance reminded me 2005, there was a period of about 15 minutes where we pressed and we were causing them problems but we didn’t do that enough.

Overall Milan deserved their victory last night they outclassed us and there is no question about that, Kaka again was amazing in the 1st half and did the damage, second half didn’t do much, but the player that really shone through the 90 was Guttuso, immense player, immeasurable character and great leader on the pitch that is the type of player we were missing, I don’t even know if there are any other players in that mould nowadays.

We’ve still got the double to go for and I will be more then happy we secure a domestic double, because if are honesty to ourselves our one true ambition this season was to win back our league title as the lease period is coming to any end.

Glory Glory Manchester United.

I can see what he means though.
We are thin up front also. We need a good goalscorer to lead the attack. Would love to have Berbatov at United - but I dont see that happening.

I would agree with Forever that we need to bulk up the centre midfield - but this is why I say we shouldnt splash £20m on Hargreaves. We need to strengthen in a few areas. We need Fergie to get some bargains. He did well with Vidic last season, and Evra. Few more signings like that needed.

I'm not saying our midfield is perfect. Yes there are areas we need to strengthen but you don't win a Premiership title with a weak midfield. The English Premiership is a league where you need a strong midfield and we have a strong midfield, for now. We really need to strengthen in other areas before we concentrate on the one area that has been firing well for us this season. The two areas that have let us down the most this season is the back 4 and an in-and-out season up front. Vidic looks a great signing and hopefully his little hiccup in the Champs League last night won't affect him that much. Rio is world class and Evra has been improving this season. Rooney has not got enough goals this season and if it wasn't for Ronaldo chipping in with an excellent tally, we would be in a different position. We desperately need a forward to release the pressure from Rooney and Ronaldo. Definitely need a bit of strengthening at the back. Then we can look at the midfield.

Heinze is awful. Take a little unknown player and he will be better than him.

A few of you are shouting Hargreaves name for United to bolster their midfield. Wasn't he the same player who was run off the park in both legs of the quarter final against the same Milan side?

As for the gloating; lick your wounds and take it. Whenever Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Spurs, Everton or West Ham or whoever lose they get abuse from the rest, so don't expect any less. Especially after all the bragging that some of you Man U maggots do. Doggster, that doesnt include you.

Maggots? F*ck off Johaldo, you pompous pr!ck.

It was fair in my opinion.
The better team is in the final. Well done to Man Utd though, they've done an amazing CL season.

I agree with everything there. We have definitely over achieved this season. During the summer when we signed Carrick and Kuzczak I thought that was nowhere near enough in numbers or quality but Carrick has made a hell of a difference. It seemed far-fetched that Giggs and Scholes would last the most of the season without picking up injuries, so we have been lucky in that respect.

If Fergie doesn't bolster the midfield for next season then it could be season over. We need a real leader in the centre of the field - some sort of beast, a classy left winger to replace Giggs in the long-term and an out-and-out goalscorer, preferrably with pace (Owen would be awesome).

Terrible performance from the United team lastnight, the soaked pitch probably didn't help but never the less it was a shambles performance and a shame. I really wanted an all English final being a big fan of English football as well as CAFC

The tactics were the worst of all. We should have went for it, that team was set up as a shock absorber and it just couldn't cope but awh well, what can you do. What's done is done.

Oh my god I hope you are kidding me? Apologies if you aren't but i really don't see the appeal of Owen any more.