MANCHESTER UNITED TALK : What does the future have stored for Manchester United ?
The transfer deadline has finally past. Manchester United football club certainly had several football critiques on the edge of their seats trying to decipher the clubs' master plan in regards to the recent past 2020 January transfer window.
Edson Cavanni, Erlin Harland, Christian Eriksen, basically anyone could name any good player who had gathered a good record from his performance in the first part of the 2019/20 season and Manchester United was more than likely linked with rumors of signing the player during the January 2020 transfer window.
Looking back at the amount of attention generated by Manchester United during the transfer window through the level of news circulated around the football club on the web and in newspaper stands understandably falls in line with the high dose of interest Manchester United continue to attract as one of the worlds biggest football club within the sports Journalism community and amid sports lovers around the globe.
Being regarded as one of the biggest franchises in the sports industry clearly has a positive aspect and its negative aspect. One of the negative aspects which Manchester United, unfortunately, will never seem to escape is the reality that at least 80 percent of the attention coming from all who are one way or the other involved with football will be centered on the city of Manchester for the entire season and more so during each transfer window.
Before the end of the 2020 January transfer window, on the final day of the transfer window, Manchester United lifted the spirits of the club's fan base by revealing two completely different signings that appear to be night and day according to the response received from the clubs fan base. In Bruno Fernandes, Manchester United fans appear to embraced the Portuguese midfield as a player whom should and hopefully is an integral part of the clubs' long term future.
While in the case of the clubs new loanee, Odion Ighalo, reports gathered by the ManchesterUnitedPost suggests Manchester United views any contribution received by the Nigerian striker as purely temporary solution scheduled to be dissolved come to the end of the season regardless of the level of impact the Nigerian striker makes in his short spell at Old Trafford.
Solid plan? Well looking at the current set up of the Manchester United squad as a team assembled with players primarily at the age of 27 and under, this writer is convinced that a short term is the only card Manchester United holds in their hand in terms of signing Odion Ighalo. With that being said, if Manchester United's goal behind signing Ighalo is to have an experienced striker, whom can find the back of the net, upfront on a temporary bases for Manchester United simply to help the club accomplish the task of getting into the Champions League next season, then acquiring Ighalo was a terrific deal.
From recent indication, Manchester United current team is built around the idea that players under the age of around 28 are the desired range of players the Red devils aim at building their team around.as we progress into the future. The evidence of a team built with youth making up the main core of the team as the club progresses into the future appears to be the main goal for Manchester United in the current 2019/20 season and beyond the 2019/20 season.
Having established youthful tenacity as the focal point of Manchester United's long term goal, the clubs recent acquisition of 25-year-old Bruno Fernandes, the presence of 26-year-old Paul Pogba, Anthony Martial 24, Marcus Rashford 22 plus a host of other young players currently present on the Manchester United squad, the reality of the status of current 30 year old on loan striker Odion Ighalo as strickly a temporary move starts to make sense.
With the addition of Bruno Fernandes to the Manchester United squad, Manchester United appear to have rediscovered the bounce or the edge in their football that appeared lost for a short period before January 2020. With the return of Paul Pogba, Marcus Rashford and Scott Mctominar all expected to return in March, Manchester United might start to view their current charge for the Premier League top four which was presumed to be dead in December 2019 to possibly make a strong recovery in March 2020.
A transformation from villains to heroes possibly? While a noticeable amount of Manchester United fans, a noticeable amount of sportswriters and a noticeable amount of football analysts might still not be completely convinced with the idea that the little improvements which have been recently implemented in Manchester United over the past year or so by the Glazer family, from the appointment of Ole Gunner Solskjaer as permanent manager to the recent expensive yet fantastic signing the club has made within a year, might have just taken the Glazers one giant step closer to the hearts of Manchester United fans.
Has the decision to sign a massive player such as Bruno Fernandes and all other recent additions such as Daniel James, Aaron Wanbisaka, Harry McGuire and others resolved the bitter resentment held against the Glazers by the Manchester United fans? Not entirely. Here at the ManchesterUnitedPost, the understanding is that Manchester United fans have watched the Glazers commercialize Manchester United football club for two decades at least amassing countless revenues without reinvesting enough back to enable the football team to deliver enough success on the pitch for the devoted fans to witness.
Manchester United have certainly made good strides to return a few steps close to the top of the pile but to cap up the clubs' recent strides back to the top the Red Devils will be aware that retaining the services of some of the clubs' most influential senior players. With contracts of one of the clubs big player namely Paul Pogba still up in the air, Manchester United continue to hold regular talks with the clubs star midfielder with the expectation of making a breakthrough before 2021.
Should the Manchester United successfully convince the french midfielder to commit to Manchester United for another for years at least, Manchester United will have a team that can quite possibly once again be a force to be reckoned with not just in the Premier League but a force to be reckoned in the Champions League as well.