After Sir Alex’s retirement David Moyes an absurd challenge of replacing the 71-year- old United legend, he had an enormous duty of signing seven to eight players in a single transfer window in which he failed and ended up signing a 6-foot, curly hair Marouane Fellaini, who was only a guy at a wrong place at a wrong time. Definitely, Moyes was not what United expected at the time as they already had Shinji Kagawa and Wayne Rooney, who played in the same position as the former Chelsea man. Later on, Moyes was fired quite cruelly by the United management. This decision was expected to come sooner or later. He failed by cause of that difficult task was given to him. A little number of managers can release 7-8 first team players when they have a title winning squad from the previous season. But Louis van Gaal was a perfect replacement and he is the ideal manager that every squad dreams of. When United bandwagon were signed by Van Gaal, the senior members of the squad realized that they were extra to requirements. Unexpectedly, in a single transfer window Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic were all allowed to leave. This came as a surprise because in the past decades these three players were the pillars of the United defense. The defensive problems shadowed the intensity of the problem in the midfield. For the moment, at least two quality centre backs, who would help youngsters Phil Jones and Chris Smalling develop and provide cover to Jonny Evans, are needed by United. Moreover, Luke Shaw was signed from Southampton who was thought to be the understudy to Patrice Evra. When both Evra and Buttner decided to leave, unexpectedly a 19-year-old Shaw became a crucial first team player with nobody to cover him and for the irony of the fate he gets injured even without starting the new season Despite of being unheard three months ago, Marcos Rojo signed to United ( even though at the beginning United didn’t want to sign him). The signing of Rojo still it is not sufficient and the real concern of United is the absence of a centre back position. They ignored the problematic area and signed Angel Di Maria breaking so the British transfer record. Surely he is a skillful and talented players, but at this hour he is not needed. Definitely United is in chaos since there is no one world class centre back available or interested to join them. Gary Neville announced in a show that ,”In the past 12 months the amount of money United have spent to get Mata, Felliani, Herrera and Shaw, with the right timing and money they could have got Gareth Bale, Cesc Fabregas and Toni Kroos.” He certainly is right. Since replacing David Gill, Woodward has completely failed in the transfer dealings. Before, David Gill and Sir Alex used to make masterstrokes in the market and pluck unknown talent and developing them into world class players. The only who signed hungry youngsters and strengthen them into world beaters, have always been Manchester United. When George Best, Eric Cantona, the Class of 92’, Cristiano Ronaldo were signed to Manchester United weren’t popular but later on they were transformed into the world’s legends. But this term United hasn’t injected young, talented and hungry players, and if this is a mistake this remains to be seen.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:00:04 +0000
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