Popular football journalist Tyrone Marshall has said that Manchester United must be regretting the decision not to sign Declan Rice and Harry Kane. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
Stressing that refusing to negotiate with Tottenham for Kane was a terrible move, Tyrone revealed that MUFC could have easily signed Rice ahead of Arsenal if they wanted to.
He, however, added that missing out on Mateus Fernandes is not the end of the world because he is no Tchouameni.
His words, “I’m not sure this is a particularly new development.
They could and possibly should have signed Declan Rice before Arsenal did and the decision not to try and sign Harry Kane because they didn’t fancy negotiating with Tottenham was a terrible one. It’s not so much big-name players that are the issue now.
Nobody can say Mateus Fernandes is a big-name player and had Aurelien Tchouameni left Real Madrid, United would have been pushing hard for him.
United could have signed Fernandes had they committed £85million and the best part of £250,000 a week to the deal, but that doesn’t fit within the budget they had for the deal and would have wrecked the wage structure.
It’s hard to argue against that approach when we’ve seen United be aggressive in the past, only for those deals to fail and the players to prove impossible to shift. United remain confident they will sign players they want this summer, but obviously, a desire to be a bit stricter with what they pay does mean they will occasionally miss out.
There hasn’t been a natural replacement for Casemiro so far, and I don’t think there will be one. The club aren’t fixated on the idea of signing a defensive midfielder this summer, but instead want technically proficient players who have the mobility and physicality to play in a Premier League midfield.
Andrey Santos and Ederson fit that bill and there is a view that the all-round skillset of the midfield and having two players in a 4-2-3-1 will equate to having a natural holding midfielder.”
