Scott Parker Can Drive United Forward
 Saturday
18 August 2005
By Jon
Lockwood
The summer comes and another transfer window begins, expect the usual
seemingly never-ending transfer sagas, hopes built and dashed and
the frustrations of the "never going to happen" transfer
targets.
And when the transfer window did open there were a few split on where
we needed to strengthen but with the loss of Bellamy and Kluivert
together with the fact that Alan Shearer isn’t going to be able to
do it all by himself in his final season, it was obvious one of our
main priorities would be a striker or two, preferably someone with
pace and power. So what positions do we fill? You guessed it, central
midfield.
Scott Parker was the first player through the door and although his
position seemed to be the least of our worries many were still excited
by this signing, we had beaten off some pretty stiff competition for
this player and what a player we have signed!
This is a player of true class, a real battler but someone with that
touch and composure of a playmaker. A player who may not have the
greatest of scoring records but when he does score he does it with
style. The man is a driving force in midfield, a man who really has
a passion to win. I have heard him called a "poor man's Steven
Gerrard" but at the end of the day, if Sunday's performance against
Arsenal at Highbury is anything to go by, the poor man must have just
won big!
Although as said this was probably the last position we needed to
add to, the addition of Parker will in my opinion take us up another
level. True great teams always have a very strong spine and Parker
added to Given, Boumsong and Shearer completes that spine. Although
seemingly not a shouter Scott is the type of player who will lead
by example and his great passion and commitment can only be a good
thing for the rest of the youth in our midfield.
I feel this is definitely a player who we can build a successful team
around and with his partnership with Emre looking promising - if not
more than the one formed by Boumsong and Bramble last year - we can
only begin to start to imagine some of the high tempo, steel in the
middle, possession football we are about to be treated to.
Parker is the driving force we have lacked since Rob Lee left Newcastle.
Welcome to Toon Scott.
© Jon Lockwood
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