I don't watch soccer often, but when I saw Tim playing against Arsenal, I was very proud of him, may be he is not a very stable player? do you really think that Manchester's Van der sar is better than Tim?!
2007-03-25 08:20:27 · 18 answers · asked by aiza 2 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ English Football
Let me first say that I also liked Howard, and have nothing against him.
He is a good goalie, but just not United quality.
He started well, looked like he was clearly going to be a long term option and a much better keeper then Carrol.
However, he made too many mistakes; one of which knocked us out of the Champions League. He never recovered from that, even though he hit form, I don't think SAF ever really trusted him after that.
We sold him because he has found a good place at Everton and we, as United, have a long term prospect in a number of keepers, especially Ben Foster. There simply isn't room for Timmy anymore.
Also, to the person talking about Howard and a contract to Van der Sar; you got your story wrong.
Howard signed a contract extension. Soon after, United bought Van der Sar. Howard was pissed because had he known Van der Sar was coming to United as the starter, he wouldn't have signed an extension with United.
2007-03-25 10:01:46 · answer #1 · answered by Wittmann 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Van Der Sar is better then Tim Howard and even though Van Der Sar is comin to the end of his career it was sensible for United to cash in on Tim Howard at the time they did. This is because they have Tomasz Kuszczak and Ben Foster who are both younger and just as good if not better than Tim Howard. I'm an Everton fan and I'm glad we have managed to sing Tim permanently as he has replaced the huge gap left by Nigel Martyn and has put in some brilliant performances this season. Hopefully he will continue to do so as we push on for Europe. COYB!!
2007-03-25 13:59:33 · answer #2 · answered by andy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm
I read an interview with Timmy. Aparently he was told he was being loaned to Everton to get first team playing time and................that when Van Der Sar's contract was up he would come back and start for Man U. That's what he was told by Fergusson. However two or three days later Man U turned around and gave Van Der Sars a contract extension !
After that, Well, Howard liked Everton and they liked him so they worked something out with Manchester and now he's signed with the Toffee's through 2010 I think.
2007-03-25 08:32:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Van Der Sar is way better than Howard..
I have nothing against Howard, but he's not man utd's level..
He makes a lot of mistakes during matches, and maybe everton is ok with that, but manutd only wants best players to play for them...
2007-03-25 21:46:17 · answer #4 · answered by n.s.d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
van der sar is the 5th ranked goalkeeper in the world. incidentally 4 of the top 5 are in the premier league.....
he is in a whole different class than howard. howard is very good mind u, but just not like eddie (van der sar)....
anyway, like someone said, we had loaned him out to everton and were using eddie and kuscak as our keepers.....then we bought ben foster (england's substitute keeper)......he's excellent too.....
so we figured what the hell, why have 4 keepers. howard would not have played much for man u with all the competition so since he enjoyed being at everton and he was fabulous for them, we could use a little spare cash so we sold him.....
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2007-03-25 15:29:40 · answer #5 · answered by r€dЀυiŁ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um...yes. I love Tim though. He's my favorite GK. But honestly Howard and Van Der Sar do not even compare to each other.
2007-03-26 03:56:15 · answer #6 · answered by sweetpanther08 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tim Haward
2017-01-19 04:18:41 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude...Edwin Van Der Sar..is SOO good..and REALLY tall...Tim Howard was good for a keeper..but Van Der Sar takes it to the next level...it sucks that they lost him but they got someone better...for ex...you have a really good wide reciever and he does what you want him too...but if you get Cristiano Ronaldo..who are you going to play?
2007-03-25 16:58:32 · answer #8 · answered by ERInZOna 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course
Van der sar is better he is a world class GK
Howard is prone to make a lot of mistakes
TO think he was the second choice to the world's biggest Idiot
Roy caroll
And i think Kuszack is a better keeper and so is Foster
so he had to sell him
2007-03-25 18:24:31 · answer #9 · answered by Nightcrawler 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you high? OF COURSE Van der sar is better than tim howard!!!!!! I don't know why man utd. bought him in the first place!!!!
2007-03-25 08:32:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋