Saturday, February 16, 2019

Can United reach past heights ?

With the right decisions yes. Bad decision making combined with mistakes made in Fergusons later years haave dogged united for the last 6 years in the premiership. Decision making in terms of transfers at United has shown lack of footballing organization at the club. The answer to that problem is bringing in a Director of football which helped clubs like Juventus and Atletico perform consistently well in their league and Champions League. United seem to be going after stars and while they have succeeded in recruiting stars in their late 20s like Alexis Sanchez, Radamel Falcao and Angel Di Maria - None of these players could shine in a red shirt. Its a puzzle why so many south american players don't do well at United with Juan Sebastian Veron, Diego Forlan, Kleberson being notable failures in the Ferguson Era. But when we know that south americans just cant play well at united why aquire more  south american players ?

In terms of footballing structure the first thing united should do is to bring in a Director of football. Looking at what ManchesterCity did in the last decade is important considering Txiki Berigistain has made really smart signings without spending exorbitant amounts of money.

United now need to let the deadwood in the team go - Ashley Young is 34 and Antonio Valencia 33. It's beyond me why these wingers were deployed as Right Backs in the first place and why we don't see the need to buy a proper right back. Diego Dalot shows promise yes but either make him a regular or but a second right back if Dalot is not considered first choice but playing young against the likes of Mbappe in Champions league is rediculous. Having said that recruiting a leader in the center of defense is priority too. I always wondered why we dont recruit players like Jose Maria Giminez who has consistently done well at Atletico. Milan Skriniar who has played so well at Inter Milan is another option. Missing out on young players like Issa Diop is a problem considering the solidity he brought in to the west ham defense. On the other hand selling players like Marcos Rojo, Phil Jones/Smalling is also a priority cosnidering Phil jones spends more than half of the season Injured and Rojo too in the recent past.

Moving on Alexis and Lukaku who both have deficiencies is also important while we look to bring in fresh blood on the right hand side of the attack.  Jao Felix the portuguese youngster caught my eye recently and it's important to have intelligent footballing brains in the squad. Jadon Sancho who made his name at Dortmund this season is another option while Kai Havertz and Federico Chiesa also deserve a  big move.

The most important arrival however should be in Midfield. I don't feel we ever had a good midfield after Roy Keane and Paul Scholes. We need a midfield enforcer - Someone like Ngolo Kante who does the dirty work behind pogba and Herrera. Matic is too slow and has entered into 30s and Fred the Brazilian has failed miserably. We need someone composed in midfield who reads the game well. It's beyond me why we never went for Miralem Pjanic while he was at Roma who can read the game well and 'run' the midfield while the likes pogba flaunt the skills upfront. It'd be interesting to see who united sign this summer and how many of the positions i mentioned above will have players coming in.