MANCHESTER UNITED NEWS : MID-WEEK TRANSFER STORIES
“Better to
have fought and have lost than throw down the weapons and accept defeat”. These
words can not relate any better to Manchester United than now. These words
relate to Manchester United even better after the clubs, recently, concluded
season that ended with a disappointing FA Cup final at the hands one of
Manchester United’s numerous London rivals Chelsea. Yes, the season has
officially over for Manchester United and sadly with the club underachieving in
all competitions including the Emirates Cups, formerly known as the FA Cup, a
competition which Manchester United themselves had successfully won and used as
a sought of small beacon as official been taken away from the football
following last weekends defeat. Even though Manchester United fans might have
had a lot of situations to complain about during last weekends battle with
Chelsea such as terrible officiating, Mourinho questionable choice of starting
XI, one very positive aspect that was very refreshing to see as spectators was
the level of Intensity and the type of hunger Manchester United shows in large
parts of the match.
All
through this past season, Manchester United fans had gotten so used to viewing
their beloved perform with such a flat tempo in almost every game the team participated
on that at some point during this past season the expectations from the fans in
regards to the teams’ performance level turned into a situation where the fans
expected the team to play with a slow pace in almost every game this concluded
season. So you can imagine the absolute shock and delight plastered across the
faces of most Manchester United fans when they witnessed a strong defensive,
non resilient attack minded, Manchester United team taking the game to Chelsea
by continously laying pounds and pounds of pressure on Chelsea’s defence. As an
analyst, while some aspects of the match were filled with contentious decisions
that left the team empty handed at the final whistle, you must have loved the
level of hunger and passion devoted by all Manchester United players who played
in last weekends final.
“Best team won. But completely happy with the efforts of my player”. That was Mourinho commenting at his post match conference of this seasons FA Cup final loss. Pure content
and satisfaction from the manager on the
performance
his players but could this be read as some level of content from the manager in
the way the club is currently performing. With no intention of sufficiently
adding to the team this summer?
Definitely
not! The news of Manchester United’s plans to improve the club in this
summer’s transfer window will come as no surprise to a large number of football
fans across the globe after Jose Mourinho declared during his interview that
Manchester United will indeed be active this summer. As expected, thousands of
Manchester United fans as well as Football Vloggers have already begun to cast
their opinions as to which Players Manchester United have, presumably, already
bought so early into the transfer window.
This week’s news is one big one that has Mourinho
showing he is indeed a man of his words as Manchester United has secured the signature
of former Benfica ace man Anderson Tulisca. The 24-year-old Brazilian who
recently returned to his parent club Benfica from a loan spell from Turkish
side Benfica, will be packing his bag and making his way to Old Trafford in a
matter of weeks. The deal worth 35 million pounds will see Mourinho seal the
signature of the 24-year-old Brazilian mid-fielder. The part about this news
that will be icing on the cake for Manchester United fans is that if Manchester
United do unveil Anderson Tulisca as a Manchester United player, which is
expected to happen in a Matter of weeks, Mourinho will have solve two problems
currently facing Manchester United with a single purchase. In other words, to
quote the modern day cliché, Mourinho will have “killed two birds with one
stone”.
As a number of Manchester United fans
might be aware of after watching Manchester United play this past season, two
problems which Manchester United found incredibly problematic in the team was
that Manchester United lacked enough creative, fast players in team, especially
from the right side of the field. Marcus Rashford had done a terrific job most
of last season when Mourinho decided to deploy young Rashford on the right side
for a majority of last seasons matches. Although Rashford broke into Manchester
United first team as a natural out and out striker, Rash ford has successfully
grown into a very productive right wing player for the Red devils but with the
purchase of Talisca, Rash-ford looks destined to share his playing minutes with
Manchester United’s new Brazilian hit man as soon as the Red Devils official
unveil Tallish as a Manchester United player.
Speaking to reporters this past week on the future
of Talisca, Besiktas manager openly admitted to the move, although the manager addressed
the topic indirectly, when he responded as follows:
“I’m sorry to announce that Talisca will not be with
us next season. Talisca has parted ways with Besiktas and we wish him all the
best. Talisca will be a rival to former Besiktas team mate Cenk Tosun next
season .” Cenk Tosun, as some people might be aware of, is the ex-Besiktas
player who currently plays his football with Premier League side Everton which
could indicate that Talisca might be heading to Anfield this summer. when asked if the Besiktas manager could be a
little clearer and if his statement puts Liverpool as a possible destination
for Talisca next season, the manager responded with the statements “Look higher!”
The question now falls to the Manchester
United supporters as to how they feel about the clubs new signing Talisca?. Undoubtedly, Talisca is a great player with a lot of attacking quality that will potential boost the
clubs attacking strength next season. But the question still remains: Is this
the necessary move that Manchester United needs to be making to be successful
next season? If we analyze Manchester United team as a whole, the results will
constantly remain that, Manchester United’s attack and Manchester United
midfield is good enough to win any current competition in Europe at the moment.
Ask numerous managers around Europe: if their squad has players like Paul Pogba,
Anthony Martial, Alexis Sanchez, Juan Mata, Ander Herrera and Romelu Lukaku all
playing at their club tomorrow, will the squad be able to win a Title? The answer to the question will generally
come in the form of a question such as “depends on how good other players in
the club are?”. i.e., do the club have enough defenders in the team or will the
club have time to develop the defence?” There lies Manchester United’s current
problem which is that the club either fails to see that the clear problem facing
the club is lack of one extra solid defender or Manchester United Owners with
Mourinho are easily deluding themselves thinking the teams’ current defenders
will eventually be good enough to win a trophy.
The truth is that The
ManchesterUnitedPost is a website that focuses on linking the thoughts of the
Fans of Manchester United with the actions of Manchester United football club
itself and finding the balance between the two. At the moment, the actions of
the board members with the help of the manager seems to negate the needs, the
demands and the expectations of the clubs’ fan base. Here you have a club ready
to spend millions of pounds this summer and yet no mention of buying a
defender. Simply shows the level of poor management in the club.
As if Manchester United’s football clubs’ situation was not bleak enough, The
ManchesterUnitedPost is sad to announce that Manchester United’s star player
Paul Pogba has declared his unwillingness to devote his future to Manchester
United. Pogba will be heading into the final stages in his current contract
with the Red Devils next season, the Red devils will be left with two choices
of either selling Pogba to French giants PSG who have declared strong interest
in signing the French man this summer and risk losing Pogba next season for
free when Pogba officially becomes a free agent or simply convince Pogba to
sign a new contract under the promise that Manchester United will improve the
squad this summer to a team that win the Premier League next season.
Finally, judging from Mourinhos' source of
frustration last season, which clearly was the state at which Manchester
United’s midfield was operating and adding the position of which Mourinhos'
first supposed summer signing, Talisca, operates, it seems the verdict of Mourinhos' priority this summer might be improving Manchester United’s
attacking strength by buying new attacking players. The Manchester United
Manager will certainly have a sufficient amount of financial surpport from
Manchester United’s owner and Board member after the club released the clubs
transfer budget estimated to be worth at least 100 million pound. Mourinho only
job this summer will be to find the right players that will be right fit for
the club but most importantly, Mourinho's choice of players
has to include at least one quality defender who will work together with the
current batch of defenders to bring solidity to Manchester United’s' back
line. Mourinho has openly declared that Manchester United have plans clearing a
large number of players from Manchester United in other to make room for new,
incoming, players this summer and as exciting as the plans are, unless these
plans include at least one out and out central defender, Manchester will
struggle to succeed once again next season.
