Former Manchester United striker Michael Owen has said that the club’s double swoop for Andrey Santos and Youri Tielemans is good business. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, even though MUFC have to spend the cash for top-quality footballers, the team is still well short of bodies in different positions.
Owen hailed the Red Devils for doing very well to get 2 quality players for the price of one.
His words, “You’d say so, wouldn’t you? It’s not like they’re in a position, like certain teams get to, like Arsenal now, you get to a position whereby you don’t need numbers. You just, if something of real quality comes up to improve your team, then you go and do it.
I still think Manchester United are probably a little way off that. Especially with Casemiro leaving, I still think numerically they’re quite short in different positions. Obviously, Champions League this year as well, they’re going to need more.
They hardly changed a player last year. So I think they are going to need, it’s numerical as well as quality, I think, at Manchester United at the moment. I get why they’ve gone for two for the price of one, as you put it. We certainly know plenty about Tielemans.”
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top division in the English football league system.
Nicknamed the Red Devils, they were founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, but changed their name to Manchester United in 1902. After a spell playing in Clayton, Manchester, the club moved to their current stadium, Old Trafford, in 1910.
Alex Ferguson and his assistant Archie Knox arrived from Aberdeen on the day of Atkinson’s dismissal, and guided the club to an 11th-place finish in the league. Despite a second-place finish in 1987–88, the club was back in 11th place the following season. Reportedly on the verge of being dismissed, Ferguson’s job was saved by victory over Crystal Palace in the 1990 FA Cup final.
The following season, Manchester United claimed their first UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup title. That triumph allowed the club to compete in the European Super Cup for the first time, where United beat European Cup holders Red Star Belgrade 1–0 at Old Trafford. The club appeared in two consecutive League Cup finals in 1991 and 1992 the left and the right, but he’s not got any sense of danger yet, and empties the midfield area too readily.
