Most Improved Player

Esse85

Who do you think has improved the most as a player in the season just finished??

I think:

Flamini
Ashley Young
Glen Johnson

King John V

For me Adebayor really stepped up to the plate after Henry left.

Pigman II

Robbie Keane.

Daysha

Rio Ferdinand. He was a very good defender, now he's one of the best in the world.

445279.ie

David Bentley of Blackburn

invincibleirish

Ashley Young. The best thing about it is that next season he'll hopefully be even better now he's getting used to the 'Ronaldo' role.

Mr.Nice Guy

Wes Brown for me. I felt he came on leaps and bounds this season and was amazed at how calm and competent he was against Barcelona. Brilliant.

Galvasean

I'd say Adebayor. I didn't rate him very highly at all last season, now he's considered one of Europe's best strikers.

Impressed with Walcott's improvement after the half way point too. Pity he didn't play like this all season. hopefully he'll become the player Wenger predicted next season.

shoutman

Gotta be Martin Laursen, only played 15 games in the previous two seasons and played 38 this year, and was undoubtedly a cracking player for most of the times he played.

Bounce back ability for the win!

KERPAL

Good thread


Lescott has been brill.
Brown aswell.
Krancjar has improved alot.
Ronaldo is consistently improving.


But would defo give it to Fabregas, jst for his performances at the start of the season

leninbenjamin

Adebayor or Young, havn't seen as much of Young so i'd go with Ade, I knew with Henry gone he'd be given more space to play his game and he'd finally look the part, but he stepped up so much more than I expected after Thierry left.

eddiehead

Ferdinand, I never really rated him before but hes been brilliant this season

BFassassin

Lescott or Anelka when he was at Bolton.

scruff321

hardly say anelka has improved hes always been a consistant striker where ever hes been almost.

kranjcer is a real good player

adebayor has really come on leaps and bounds quality striker

wes brown and to be fair even tho i hate him riotard ferdinand has done well

robbie keane also showing he can be a consistantly quality striker

cournioni

Wes Brown. A bit player before this season to one of the most consistant players in a United shirt with more appearances than anybody else.

patrickc

adebayor/walcott both shined, if only walcott was given more playing time

JPA

Wes Brown and Flamini.

FearDark

Ronaldo, showboat last year with little impact to the best player in the world at the moment imo. Absolutely immense this year for Utd and without him surely would have dropped 20+ points.

Walcott, had my doubts last year, my god he' going to be fantastic player next season, unbelieveable pace!!

Im an Arsenal fan but sorry to say Adebayor needs 5 chances before he puts one away, having said that he has still improved.

Mad_Max

Lescott's really played well and has added goals.
David James has been immense. Rolled back the years.
Also think Ballack has performed pretty well in the second half of the season.

Mr.Nice Guy

FearDark wrote: »

Ronaldo, showboat last year with little impact to the best player in the world at the moment imo. Absolutely immense this year for Utd and without him surely would have dropped 20+ points.

Eh? He was the Player of the Year last season and United's top scorer!

JPA

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Eh? He was the Player of the Year last season and United's top scorer!

Ya, crazy post.

Ronaldo scored 23 goals last year with 20 assists.

invincibleirish

Must have been a coincidence old Wes was trying to play for a mega money contract at Man Utd this season.

Mitch Connor

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

Wes Brown. A bit player before this season to one of the most consistant players in a United shirt with more appearances than anybody else.

consistently average.

Rio Ferdinand has really stepped it up this season - he has been fantastic.

Flamini has been stunning this season - will be interesting to see if he can bring that form to Milan.

Carvalho has been great for Chelsea this season, their best player imo.

Torres has done brilliantly for Liverpool - better than he was for At. Madrid imo, and alot better than i though he would be. Hopefully he suffers from second season syndrome...

Lescot has been amazing for Everton, considering he is not a natural full back .

Keane and Jenas have improved themselves at Spurs, have to say i was a little disappointed with Berbatov this season.

Ashley Young has been nothing short of brilliant this season for Villa, i'd say a lot of clubs are wishign that they had taken the punt on him at Watford. Barry also deserves a big mention - hopefully Villa can hang on to him - i think a move to Liverpool would be a mistake for him.

KERPAL

Tauren wrote: »

Barry also deserves a big mention - hopefully Villa can hang on to him - i think a move to Liverpool would be a mistake for him.

Ye spot on why would you move from a similar status average english team to another?

Ronaldo - considering people thought he couldnt get any better!
Rio - best defender in the world, end of story
Brown - i think his lack of injuies coincided with his finding great form. He was absolutely immense in both games against barca and is under rated for me. Will never be a top top player but considering I used to hold him in the seem esteem as JOS and Silvestre as an error prone watser, he really has come on. I no longer worry when I see his name on the team sheet.

Fabregas - has been very good the last few years, this year he was brilliant
Adebayor - has grown into the top striker role very well

TBH half the Arsenal team grew up this year so a lot to mention.

Robbie Keane - has grown into one of the best strikers in the Prem this year

Torres - was very good when at Athletico, has been world class this year, hsi goal today was top top class.

Ashley Young - phenominal

David Bentley - integral part of Blackburns team now.

invincibleirish

Ill second the Torres being an improved player despite it being his 1st PL season. He was great for AM we know, but i didnt think he'd score the amount of goals he had this season. He is the difference between Liverpool and the CL chasers.

Methinks a new LONG TERM contract for Ashley Young.

Mr.Nice Guy

Tauren wrote: »

consistently average.

Silly comment. You don't play over 50 games for the club and have Fergie refer to you as outstanding if you are average. With that said, I see you named him on the other thread as one of the players you'd like to see leave the club so I'm guessing you just really dislike him. Why I do not know.

Dave!

Yah I'd say Bentley, Young and Ferdinand probably. David James was amazing this year too. Can't remember what he was like last year.

Is there a seperate 'Goalkeeper of the Year' award, btw?

staker

most improved striker-riise:D

Kevster

Whilst not the most improved player, Theo Walcott seems to have come strong towards the end of this season. Maybe he'll be a big part of Arsenal next season? I don't really see Bendtner as getting any much better.

cournioni

Tauren wrote: »

consistently average.

Consistently average having played the most games in the best defence in England and Europe this season? Am I missing something??

Dont be at yourself

Brown, Ballack and to a lesser extent Flamini all stepped up to the plate when they were needed most. All three silenced their not inconsiderable critics with their performances this season.

Peyton Manning

Ballack

An Citeog

Ballack had a really good season but tbh, I expected that. For me, Flamini was the most improved player this season. There were talks of Arsenal getting rid of him last summer but he hung in there and was absolutely pivotal to their midfield.

Predhead

OK he was injured a lot but an honourary mention to Jimmy Bullard for me. Fulham were dead and buried 'til he got back in the team.

CHD

Stephen Kelly came on alot

Xavi6

Sun Jihai. Just the one OG this season. Only gave away two penos as well.

Mitch Connor

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

Consistently average having played the most games in the best defence in England and Europe this season? Am I missing something??

he played loads because we had no one else to play at RB, not because he is all that good at it. Evra is an example of what a united full back should be. Brown is not. He is consistently average player, who has played a couple of blinding games, and also had more than a few absolute stinkers. The number of games you play isn't automatically a guide to improvement or brilliance.

So yes, yes you are missing something imo.

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Silly comment. You don't play over 50 games for the club and have Fergie refer to you as outstanding if you are average. With that said, I see you named him on the other thread as one of the players you'd like to see leave the club so I'm guessing you just really dislike him. Why I do not know.

As above.

He is a fairly poor crosser, doesn't have much skill on the ball, no shooting ability, basic passing skills and he doesn't get tight enough to the winger which allows too many crosses to come in. He is not good enough at right back, and I would swap him for Lahm or Alves in a heart beat, no doubt. As a centre back he is a lot stronger, once he has a commanding player beside him, but as a right back he is average at best, on a consistent basis. A decent squad player, but if Neville had no been injured all season you would hardly have noticed Brown was there. As for Fergie calling him 'outstanding', if he really rated Brown that highly, he would not have been offered a third tier contract, he would have been offered a contract befitting an 'outstanding' first choice right back. He wasn't, and United were prepared to let him leave on a free in the summer if he didn't sign a squad player contract.

IrishMike

Ashley Young for me.
Amazing season and would be my #1 target if i was Liverpool manager

Death or Glory

Tresor Kandol

chopperbyrne

Ballack is not the most improved player this season, he's just back to his usual high standard of play.

shoutman

IrishMike wrote: »

Ashley Young for me.
Amazing season and would be my #1 target if i was Liverpool manager

Hands off. He's not for sale

AnCapaillMor

Lescott knocked the socks off me the few games i saw him play.

Ballack finally picked up his game and was impressive.

As an Arsenal Fan Adebayor and Hleb.

iregk

Its ridiculous to put Ballack in here. I think its more for young players yet to prove themselves or the average/poor players who finally came good.

Ballack has been a superstar for years and had one quiet season. This year he is back to his best so you can't say he is an improved player. Simply one that got over his injury/quiet season.

For me best improved player I'd have to say Flamini.

meditraitor

David Bentley has impressed me this year, before this year he didnt stand out. Torres also.

ciaran76

Most improved players for me this season would be :

Ashley Young
Lescott
Flamini
Bentley
Kranjcar

pd101

For me the most improved players are Brown, Lescott and Adebeyor. Also Santa Cruz has improved a lot from his last couple of seasons in Munich. He beat his previous best goal tally by 15 this season.

delija_sever029

Adebayor,Flamini,Young

delija_sever029

staker wrote: »

most improved striker-riise:D

:D:D

Well i must notice Torres was great this season too,when we already mentioning strikers and improvements,he is going hardly to improve this he showed this year

Bubs101

Ballack and Ashley have improved under their previous showings for us this year and Kalou has been Kalass

Fratton Fred

ciaran76 wrote: »

Most improved players for me this season would be :

Ashley Young
Lescott
Flamini
Bentley
Kranjcar

I'd swap Glenn Johnson for Krancjar personally, but both have improved vastly.

I'd agree with the others.