At the same stage '98-99: 

Yorke 18, 

Cole 15,

Ole Gunnar Solskjær 11,

Sheringham 2 

=46 goals 

vs '12-13: 

| Robin Van Persie | 22, 

Chicharito 14,

Wayne 'Wazza' Rooney 10,

Danny Welbeck 1 

= 47

Manchester United have become the first sports team to be valued at $3Bn by Forbes. The second highest valued team is the Dallas Cowboys (NFL @ $2.1Bn).

Sir Alex Ferguson and Shinji Kagawa :)

Chicharito

Chicharito and Wayne 'Wazza' Rooney :')

Sir Alex Ferguson:
"The FA Cup is an important trophy for us this season. We haven't won it for 10 years. Rio Ferdinand has never won an FA Cup medal, so we need to do something about that. The four strikers we had in 1999 were fantastic players but we have four now who are equally as good. If we can get three or four players around the 20-goal bracket then we're in business."

Nemanja Vidić on | Robin Van Persie |'s goal: "It’s movement from the book, touch from the book, finish from the book. It’s something they can show to kids."

Match day has arrived and the FA Cup starts proper with today's third round ties. (DP)

| Robin Van Persie |-Player Of the Month for December

ON THIS DAY: In 2006, ManUtd signed Spartak Moscow's Serbian international defender Nemanja Vidić for £7m.

Robin Van Persie: "This is a special team. Everybody wants to help each other. Everybody's keen for everyone to score. Defenders are working their socks off for the midfielders, the midfielders are working for the strikers... everybody wants to run and everybody has one target in their mind.

“We have to look at it game by game but everybody wants to be champions. I feel that I'm surrounded by champions. They know how to win and that makes it really easy for me.”

“[Javier and I] scored two goals each and he gave a really good pass for my first goal. It was a good goal because every single touch was the right touch, in my opinion.

“The first one was a little behind me and I had to drag it onto my left foot. That was a good touch. Then I waited for the guy to slide in, had a good touch inside and then a quick finish. Three touches but all good touches.

“It was a very good performance we scored the goals at the right time. We've played Wigan twice this year and won 4-0 both times, so that's good for goal difference.

“Everybody's helping each other and everybody wants to share the goals. Look at the last goal – Danny wanted to give the ball to me so I could score. Everybody's like that. I'm like that, Chicha is like that... everybody wants to share the goals and that, in my opinion, is the way to score heaps of goals.

“Hopefully we can keep it going. We’ve had a couple of games where we've had high scores but we want to score even more goals because that could be vital come the end of the season.”

Javier 'chicharito' Hernandez:

5 starts- 8 goals. However he is best know for being a super sub.

Sergio Aguero:

16 starts 8 goals. Never scored of the bench. 

Enough said.

FACT: | Robin Van Persie | has 16 goals in 21 league appearances for Manchester United. Nobody has ever done that in the Premier League so far. Ruud Van Nistelrooy had 15 at this stage.

Happy new year Reds!