MANCHESTER UNITED TALK : WHERE ARE THE RED DEVILS HEADED IN TERMS OF RETAINING AND ATTRACTING YOUNG QUALITY PLAYERS WITH STAR POTENTIAL ?:
Well, one thing that was anticipated to take place at Old Trafford this summer has certainly kicked off in full force from the last days of June 2020 until this current early part of July 2020. The activity being talked about today is contract renewals at Old Trafford.
Manchester United appear to have prioritized contract renewals over any other matter facing Manchester United football club today. With players such as David De Gea, Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford, and now Nemanja Matic all committing their long term future to Manchester United, the Red Devils will have the picture painted as a club moving strongly in the right direction.
Scratch beneath the surface at Old Trafford and the question pops up: in terms of retaining top-quality players (both quality players for this present period and quality players of the future) let’s look back on what has happened in the past two-three seasons from a contract perspective and ask the question: have Manchester United actually done a good job in terms of retaining quality players and in terms of attracting other quality players to the club?
Joshua King who has become a very potent goal scorer under manager Eddie Howe Bournemouth AFC side, Ravel Morrison at his prime who was allowed to leave Manchester United to join West Ham back in 2010. The list of quality youth players whom Manchester United has lost over the past decade at least continues to be quite illuminating if you stop to think about the situation
While you are thinking, consider throwing in this idea into your train of thought: Will Manchester United be in this current situation where obvious debt in quality continue to be seen in Ole Gunner Solskjaer squad because looking past the current starting IX for Manchester United, the Red Devils continue to carry a hole in regards to the strength and depth in the level of quality present in Ole Gunner Solskjaer squad. A hole that can be filled if Manchester United can just look within themselves and what the Red Devils have in Carrington training ground when recruiting new talents.
Yes, signing a young experienced quality player in the transfer window is important. But the reason why Manchester United was so successful under Sir Alex Ferguson was that at the time the Red Devils knew that while signing experienced players was important to any teams success, maintaining a strong level of presence from young talents in Manchester United's youth team into Manchester United's senior team is important for the future success of the young players and an important tool to fuel success at Manchester United. By providing constant promotion for players in the youth system, the decision creates that hunger and determination to improve at the same time maintain a steady injection of quality in Manchester United’s first team.
There is no denying that Manchester United have backed away from this system a little bit because there is visible evidence to back the theory up. No one needs to look too far in search of evidence to support the theory the upper management at Manchester United football club simply takes the idea the idea of retaining top-class players at Old Trafford for granted thereby eventually leaving themselves vulnerable to the eventual reality of watching some top talent ( young talent or experienced talent) walk out of Old Trafford come to the end of each contract.
The recent experience Manchester United had at the end of negotiations of a new contract between the Red Devils and 20-year-old Angel Gomes should give people a glimpse of how unsteady Manchester United's contract negotiations and how unsteady promotions from Manchester United's youth academy into Manchester United's first team is at the moment. There is no surprise when a claim is made projecting how talented a youngster such as Angel Gomes is. There is also no further surprise when claims such as Angel Gomes being one of the most talented youngsters in the Manchester United academy for the past 14 years of his footballing career is made.
What is surprising is how Manchester United watched Angel Gomes's contract expire? Which meant that one of the most talented youngsters in modern football whom most Managers, assistant managers, top football recruiters around Old Trafford and even football analysts around the globe continue to rate as one of the top talented youngsters around was set to walk out of Old Trafford since the end of 2019.
With Manchester United supposedly failing to come to an agreement with Angel Gomes after such a “lengthy discussion”. Here is the second part of my question: if Manchester United were truly serious about the new path of including the youngster in the march towards success why was Angel Gomes left out?
Possible answer, Angel Gomes was the tough choice Manchester United needed to leave behind to secure the Red Devils new signing and new number 7 Jadon Sancho. As many of the viewers of Manchester United Channel website might have noticed, Manchester United Channel attempts to keep away from talking about information that has been labeled as certain when in reality the answer is not yet certified.
Guaranteeing a transfer deal is already done when the truth is that a resolution between both clubs has not yet been reached is a method modern news outlet continues to use efficiently to promote traffic towards each news outlet. A strategy which Manchester United supporters continue to get entrapped in time after time.
As far as Jadon Sancho goes, here is the information Manchester United Channel has received so far: Jadon Sancho has agreed to terms to move to move to Manchester United but Borussia Dortmund has not signed any contract that officially allows Sancho to leave the BVB stadium and join Manchester United this summer.
While Manchester United is expected to be ready to wait patiently knowing that the contract signing is merely a formality, there is still the possibility that Jadon Sancho can pull out of the verbal agreement and continue his football career in Borussia Dortmund.
