Manchester United Let Yet Another Top Player Walk Out The Door Of Leah Sports Village - Will Mark Skinners' Team Be Punished For The Glazers Oversight Yet Again?
This is just a fact that has been confirmed throughout the past few months. Jackie Groenen wanted to stay at Manchester United but the Manchester United board simply would not pay the player what a player of Jackie Groenen deserves. This has created a very concerning situation of what level of player retention really exists at Leah Sports Village.
Frankly, this is a situation that had been unraveled at Leah Sports Village over the past year at the very least with Manchester United understood to have been deliberating over handing a long-term contract to a player who had proven time and time again that the level of quality which the player in question had injected into this Manchester United women's team boosted the player has to be a rather indispensable commodity for the Manchester United women's team at least for the past three years before her departure this year.
For the sake of not mincing words, the fact remains that the arrival of 1st September 2022, the idea of a player such as Jackie Groenen walking away from a Manchester United women's team – A Manchester United women's team who were finally finding their feet and needed to retain as much quality as possible to continue to implement the growth necessary within a team hoping to attain top success over the next few years- was simply a notion which sounded ridiculous right from the start.
Nevertheless, what is understood to have transpired between Manchester United Pauly Bancroft and Guido Albers-the representative of Jackie Groanen over the past year?
In regards to the potential new contract negotiation that had transpired between both sides was simply a situation where Manchester United had refused to hand Jackie Groenen the level of contract the player and agent understood she richly deserved at this point of her career.
Coming towards the end of the 2021 calendar, the conversation had-for most of the 2021 calendar year- been centered around the issue of contract renewal or failure to instigate the renewal of expiring contracts to a host of key players within the Manchester United women's team. inertia which seemed rather on because Manchester United executives had consistently promoted the idea that the current build towards the top which the Manchester United women's team had generated for themselves under the new leadership of Mark Skinner remains the main priority of the Manchester United hierarchy.
Failure to attain Champions League football yet again in the second
time of trying since the Red Devils gained promotion into the Barclays FA women's Super League competition in 2019 So these few disappointing concerns but the mentality had always been that the project run in Manchester United women's team had a long road ahead to cover before any potential top success can be attained.
A quick surge to the top In the Barclays FA women's Super League and the ability to attain Champions League qualification rapidly was never on the cards for Manchester United women's team and that was clearly understood by the Manchester United board and this was also a notion which was clearly understood by the Manchester United fan base.
Three or four years of improvements and steady progression was always understood to be the minimal time frame expected to be allocated to the Manchester United women's scheme to allow necessary improvement injected into the Manchester United women's team before any form of top success can be expected from the Red Devils.
The topic of winning any possible elite trophy available in the women's division such as the Barclays FA women's Super League trophy and the current illogical target of lifting the Champions League trophy at the end of this season continues to be a conversation ultimately put away for now by the Manchester United women's team circle with the idea of implementing steady progression and achieving short term goals understood to be the main MO firmly understood to be operational at the moment at the heart of Leah Sports Village.
Basically, at the moment, any conversation centered around the topic of the Manchester United women's teams' being anywhere near able to lift any major trophy available in the modern-day women's game of football is now understood to be a conversation that has been scheduled to be brought back to the table in the next four or five seasons after the Manchester United women's team have recorded a series of matches played in top flight football under their belt
The current situation faced by not just the Manchester United Women's team but the Barclays FA Women's Super League- these issues continually present themselves as the main catalysts creating problems for the continuous growth of the women's game continues to be that the handful of redundancies which has been attached to the Barclays FA women's League sadly continues to exist.
Redundancy such as racism and sexism which has unfortunately slowed the rate of growth of English women's football Is an issue that must continue to be addressed as the dress as complete eradication of these nuisance activities sexism and racism continue to be the mentality marginally existing within the Barclays FA Women's Super League
Nevertheless, the more educated, football-savvy technicians Involved with women's football have indicated that the level of growth seen in women's football in England and in Europe, in general, has been recorded as growing at an unprecedented exponential rate over the past two years.
The agenda-free-minded spectators who are understood to have remained attached to the Barclays WSL at the moment have stated that the Barclays FA women Super League is now regarded as a top-level competition in which the very best players in women's football come in to test their level of quality.
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The same group of higher intellectuals has also stated that the Barclays FA Women's Super League is now regarded as a League where a substantial level of top talents in women's football come to strive to achieve the highest point of success in the English women’s division which is currently to win the highly competitive Barclays FA women's Super League trophy.
Realistically, English women's football can be or is now categorized as a competition that has arrived at the summit in regards to quality football displayed every week. As a result, the Barclays FA women's Super League competition has from all indications, attained the unanimous opinion That women's football is here and here to stay.
It's about time women's football gets the top credit it deserves.
Conversations regarding the growth and progression of women's football have been conducted at multiple intervals. the bottom line of the conversations regarding how far women's football has come is that gradual growth and expansion of the women's game are anticipated to continually take place with women's football expected to remain in existence indefinitely.
Certainly, a good topic to address and certainly a topic that will surely be addressed in one or two forums centered around the women's division. However, today's topic relates to a topic that unfortunately had been brewing within the Manchester United women's team for the past two years.
Sadly, this long-running topic finally came to a conclusion- Be it a frowned upon conclusion- at the end of August 2022. Simply put, the topic of conversation which has or had been brewing for the past few months in regards to the Manchester United women's team is the topic or rather the question of-
Why did Manchester United allow a top player such as Jackie Groanen to leave the Manchester United women's team in the late period of the 2022 summer season?
Let's talk about Jackie Groanen and what is understood to have transpired between the player and Manchester United football club in the past two years. Jackie Groanen Is officially a Peiris St German player. An outcome which through the usual method players swap clubs is that the Dutch midfielder signed with Paris St German on a lucrative contract set to last until 2025.
This, from a Manchester United perspective, unfortunately, means that Jackie Groenen will be rocking the Navy-blue and white jersey of the French club while displaying her array of the top talent in Paris for the next three years of her football career playing for the French club Paris St German.
Jackie Groanen is a PSG player until 2025. that is certainly a sentence that will taste bitter in the mouth of Manchester United fans, particularly the section of fans who have been and remain well vested with the unsteady progression rate which continues to transpire within the ongoing project forecast on establishing a successful Manchester United women’s team.
However, for a while, there was the unanswered question of how exactly the situation had come to be that a top player such as Jackie Groanen was allowed to walk out the gate of Leigh Sports Village despite the concrete understanding that before her departure Jackie Groenen was understood to had been adamant that her future remained at Leigh Sports Village with the Manchester United women's team.
In fact, there is a follow-up question that has only recently been answered which is the question of -Why did Manchester United let such a top player leave the club even though the Manchester United hierarchy including the current Football Director in charge of the women's division at Manchester United- Polly Bancroft were very much aware that Jackie Groanen wanted to extend her career as a Manchester United player?
The reality of the situation which had surrounded Jackie Groenen's exit from Manchester United dawns an even more devastating outlook with the knowledge that the Manchester United board sat back and watched an entire year elapse without completing the simple task of securing the Dutch midfielder’s services to extended years at Leah Sports Village. Manchester United hierarchy had one full year in advance to arrive at a reasonable understanding regarding a new contract for Jackie Groanen and yet Manchester United hierarchy along with Polly Bancroft barcode the simple task of convincing a player who wanted to stay at the club to put pen to paper on a new contract.
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Just what exactly happened with the Jackie Groanen situation that led to a supposed massive football club such as Manchester United failing to convince a player who wants us to stay under the club to put pen to paper on a new contract?
Jackie Groenen wanted to stay at Manchester United, and Guidos Albers was open to the player remaining a Manchester United player if a new contract was presented- which it was. Manchester United presented the player with a new contract which meant that the club was happy to retain the services of the player for the foreseeable future.
So, what happened?
Where did the breakdown which led to the players' eventual departure from Leah Sports Village occur?
(Next part of the article will be provided soon)
