[BBKing]

As all Gooners know, medals aren't handed out for being top in November. As for being injured, Scholes was injured most of the time United were doing ok earlier in the season and him coming back has coincided with the current startling decline, but it's not his fault. Beckham scored a lot, made a lot and hasn't been replaced and United are in danger of slipping back into third place permanently as a result, and this can all be traced back to Man U not being a big enough club for top stars any more.

Any fool can see that if you've got a great midfield of Beckham/Scholes/Keane/Giggs and you sell one, move one forward and move one back you leave a hole. The question is, has that hole been filled (playing Solksjaer out of position doesn't count as filling it)?

Keane's strength wasn't as a defensive midfielder, it was as a box-to-box midfielder. That's gone from his game due to age.