TRANSFER TALK
Briliant display of calculated football.
Martial and Rasford’s presence in the team clearly added that extra element of
pace, guile in the team and the introduction of Martial and Rashford also helped Manchester United which arsenal found near impossible to
control. These must have been a mere portion of the thoughts of some Manchester
United fans as the criowd exited the Old Trafford stadium on Sunday. This past
weekends match between the club from East Manchester, England and the club from
the north side of London had been highly anticipated simply because of the
history between the two clubs. Or was it? Was there a glimps of bad blood
between both managers? Or was there a few players in the pitch who felt they
had some small mission of proving themselves to the opposing sides manager as
well as the fans of the opposing sides. Whatever the alterio motives might have
been, last Sundays match was one that had moments of excitement and a few flairs
but most importantly, the match resulted to yet another victory for Manchester
United as the club keeps moving closer to the end of another decent season. A
second place finish would be yet another impressive spot to finish this current
season on but little questions have started to creep up from different corners
of the Red side of Manchester asking the question “ Will Manchester United ever
win Medals Under Mourinho”? Can Manchester United dethrone teams such as
Manchester City, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich with this current group of
defender or will the club look to seriously invest on one or two rock solid Centre-Backs to take charge of the defensive line for Manchester United next
season? Last weekends press confrence
was one that brought delight for the manchester united faithful crowd as our
Portuguese manager confirmed, in so many words, that Manchester United will be
entering the transfer window in search of another quality Centre Back to add to
the clubs roaster.
Manchester United has been exhibiting clear
signs of unstable defence this current season which has. resulted in hefty price
for the club on the red side of Manchester. Also, there has been no seecrret
that the faithful crowd have just about had enough of the clubs current
defensives problems and demanded that Mourinho resolves the clubs defensive
issues before the start of next season if the Red Devils are to have any
realistic chance of compete for domestic and european tittles next season.
Mourinho appearently has either been listening to the thoughts of the fans
through social media, Blogs etc or the Manchester United manager had also been
unsatisfied with the club unstable defense himself. The portuguese manager had
already told the press earlier last week that Manchester United would be
bringing in more players into the club inother to provide the club with a lot
more boost to keep up with other high profile clubs not just in the premier
league as well as other high profile clubs around but Mourinho was not quite
about which position he will be intent on improving in this summers transfer
window. Here is what Mourinho had to say : The reality is that some clubs were
ready to win while other clubs are not ready to win. One thing is to go for the jugular and another is
to build a different process. If the clubs that are in a better position than
us stop investing and we invest, then we
are side to side. If they keep investing the same or more than us, it’s
difficult. “ in the last seven years Manchester City were Champions twice and
if you want to say three times because they will be in a few more weeks- and
they were second twice. That’s heritage. Do you want to know what is also
heritage? Otamendi, Kevin De Bryune, Fernandinho, (David) Silva, (Raheem)
Sterling, (Sergio) Aguero, they are investments from the past not from the last
two years. The Manchester United Manager was then asked if he was concerned Manchester
United may never catch Manchester City, Mourinho Answered : I’m not saying
that. Mourinho went on to say : I won the Champions League with Inter Milan. I
did not win the Champions League with Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi. I never played with Messi and when I
was Ronaldo’s manager we did not manage to win the Champions League. We
(Manchester United) can and we will fight for it ( Titles) again, no doubts.”
Mourinho even compared the challenge facing currently at Manchester United with
the one he once faced as Real Madrid manager “Obviously Real Madrid had a
nucleus of players of a really high level,’ mourinho added “ But I’m always
confident. Using the words in football, substitution bring it to life and to
the job, there is no substitute for hard work and belief. So judging Mourinho’s recent statement with
the statement he put out during his post match interview last Sunday April 22
were he said “ Can we improve next season, let’s try. Can Manchester City keep
this level or improve this level on them they can say but if they have the team
they have and they are going to invest on top of the team they have, ofcause it
is going to be very difficult for us”. So
when asked what the future plans are for his own team? Mourinho replied “ We
are going to invest the basics to improve our squad. We need to find a
replacement for micheal Carrick, and if Marouane Fellaini leaves then we need
to find a replacement for him. There is always, in a group of players, in a
squad, a couple of players who they are not playing a lot & they try
obviously to leave. So we are going to try again to touch our squad and to
believe more than just spend spend spend, is better to just concentrate on the
evolution of our players. We have some new players who still need to grab with
both hands the opportunity for their evolution and that is it. But in this
moment I don’t think about next season. We want to finish second & we deserve to finish second.”
So to summerize, it seems as though
Manchester United are indeed planing to bring one or two players during this
summers transfer window but Mourinho’s main objective will be focused on
retaining and improving the current group of players in the team in preparation
for next season. This sounds like a very good logic and should be acceptable to
Manchester United fans. With Mourinho more or less confirming the clubs
intentions of being active in this summers transfer window, the question now is
who will Manchester United bring in and what possitions will Manchester United
be improving this summer? One very interesting news that has caught the
attention of the Manchester United Post is that Manchester United are strongly
interested in pursuing ex Manchester United man Johny Evans. Evans, 30 years of
age, currently plays his football for english club side West Brom. Evans has
just one more year left in his current contract wish expires in the 30th
of June 2019, after which Evans will be allowed to leave if a new contract has
not been offered to Evans by then. Evans is currently valued at a rate of £13.5
Million with a £3 milion realese clause which will automatically be effective
when West Brom are religated at the end of the current season which would make
the Northern Irish man an easy aquisition for Manchester United this summer.
But the big question regarding the speculated return of Johnny Evans is how
will the return of Evans sit with Manchester United fans? Manchester United fans have made no secret of
the fact that Manchester United need a strong proven Centre Back who can take
charge of Manchester Uniteds defence with Eric Bailey as a reliable partner but
the faithfull fans of Old Trafford might just lact a burst of joy if one of the
clubs past heroes does make his return to the club where the Northern Irish man
was once adored simply based on his age. Manchester United have maid no secrets
of their strong desire to have a new young center back added to the club this
transfer but the aquisition of Johnny Evans might just leave the fans with a
lot of mixed emotions which might be just a little more negative than possitive.
One thing is for sure, if Johnny Evans will eventually end up moving to
Manchester United this summer, then Mourinho has already started to make room
for Evans return with the speculated sale of Victor Lindelöf. Lindelöf has
struggle to find a place in the starting IX and has inevitably fallen down the
pecking order in manchester United. The sweedish born defender was purshased
during the summer of 2017 with the expectation of replacing the departed Rio
Ferdinand and Nemaja Vidic but the Swedish defender have failed to live up to
the expectation. Mourinho is destined to find the Linderlof situation and the
aquisition of Johnny Evan a little tricky because while Johnny Evans will be
open to cutting ties with recently relegated West Brom in exchange for a return
to Old Trafford, Linderlof whose current contract still runs until 2021 will be
easily coarsed into leaving Manchester United. Mourinho has a lot of work ahead
and ManchesterUnitedPost.com will be keeping a close tab on the clubs
activities during this Transfer season and will keep our lovers of Football
posted every Wednesday throught the summer.
