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Rewind to final summer time and Manchester United had been in disarray when Erik ten Hag took over the reins and nearly all areas of the squad wanted upgrading.
And the Dutch boss began with the obvious one — defence and midfield. He had seen sufficient to grasp that Harry Maguire and Victor Lindelof weren’t ok to begin for the Crimson Devils.
The identical therapy was meted out to the much-maligned pair of Scott McTominay and Fred and in got here Lisandro Martinez, Casemiro and Christian Eriksen.
CR7’s unsure future led to Antony arriving
However there have been doubts surrounding the way forward for Cristiano Ronaldo and which membership would are available and save the previous Ajax coach from a world of ache.
Regardless of tremendous agent Jorge Mendes’ greatest makes an attempt, no membership got here forth to supply the Portuguese an escape route and United had been caught with their legendary No 7.
Ten Hag should have thought he might use the Portugal worldwide’s abilities in a approach in order to learn the membership and therefore went for strengthening the wing and in got here Antony for an inflated €100million.
In keeping with journalist Ciro Venerato, United might have as an alternative focussed their efforts in getting Victor Osimhen from Napoli and the deal might have been performed.
By the way, the Nigerian is likely one of the high targets forward of this summer time after a splendid season wherein he’s heading in the right direction to win the Golden Boot and his membership the Serie A title.
Osimhen might have come to Previous Trafford final summer time
The deal that was being mentioned again then was the previous Actual Madrid man could be heading to Naples whereas Osimhen would come to Previous Trafford.
“United had already adopted him final yr, then selected to spend 100m for Antony. However he talked about it with Mendes who proposed Ronaldo to Napoli with the wage nearly fully paid by United and 100 million money for Osimhen.
“Then the factor was not performed as a result of Napoli was not accessible to attempt Osimhen and above all to take Ronaldo,” the journalist reported.
Ronaldo ended up departing below acrimonious circumstances simply earlier than the World Cup and United have been pressured to play the vast majority of the season with no recognised striker.
The Reds will discover it way more troublesome to get Osimhen this time round with Napoli trying to maintain him whereas Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Actual Madrid all within the race.
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