MANCHESTER UNITED: STANDSTILL (PART 1)
A three part look into Ole Gunnar Solksjaer’s transfer targets and their subsequent viability this transfer window
After a dismal transfer window last season, which saw no noteworthy additions to the starting 11 bar Edinson Cavani, a player who became starter only through Anthony Martial’s injury in the first place, United’s recruitment department have to wake up and smell the coffee. Another year of additions like Van De Beek, Amad and Facundo Pellestri would see United plunge into a deep hole of “catch up” with other PL clubs and that cannot be allowed to happen. Every player that puts pen to paper in the next two months needs to be a bonafide starter and nothing less. Lets take a deeper look.
TARGET 1 – JADON SANCHO
The Sancho Saga has been stretching on since last summer and it has sucked the life out of all stakeholders involved at this point. Almost a year since United put 100 million on the table and got rejected, the price has since been lowered to 85-90 million according to credible sources. The personal terms are agreed, agent fees is in place and other handshakes have been shook, it is literally just the question of United sending in a new formal bid and the deal is as good as done. A new adequate bid that is.
The 21 year old is a ball magnet who can operate on both wings and leave defenders for dead with his trickery and agility while also boasting high levels of chance creation for his teammates, qualities that this United side desperately needs. But what’s best about Sancho is his decision making, the high levels of it. A high IQ footballer who can play on the wing with a “La Pausa’ is something that comes along very rarely. And for him to reach 38 G/A alongwith all of this? Insanity
United need to stop penny pinching and get this deal over the line otherwise they risk other players such as Chelsea and Liverpool taking advantage. A solution to a decade old problem of United, the right wing, Sancho is the least that Ole Gunnar Solksjaer deserves.
United are huge penny pinchers and this time the risk of losing Sancho to other bidders is even bigger. Murtough needs to act fast and smart and get the English lad back home, it is the least Ole deserves.
VIABILITY – 9/10
