Have any of our readers noticed how the Manchester United transfer mill has gone really quiet over the past week?
The sum of it has pretty much been a 16-year-old Dutch winger stating that Manchester United are interested – but, you’ve guessed it, even he wants to stay at his current club!
And we can’t help but think that the current managerial uncertainty is preventing Manchester United from making big moves in the market. Moves that could bring Champions League football to the club next season.
It was first suggested last week that United’s transfer plans were being hindered by ongoing managerial uncertainty. And that projection does seem to be playing itself out now.
Players like Edinson Cavani and Alex Teixeira appear available at the right price and would surely make a big difference.
And another versatile and pacy defender wouldn’t go amiss either, based on Manchester United’s defensive injury list.
Ed Woodward regularly wears the expression of a man who has a cunning plan that only he knows about. We’d all love to hear it.
And we wonder what Louis van Gaal has to do with this wonderful strategy.
But by keeping him on after a catalogue of terrible results and no sig of improvement, Woodward is inviting ridicule upon Manchester United.
LvG will surely leave before the end of his contract. And results aren’t going to improve with spirits so low around the club.
So what is the point of holding on to him? There must be a strategy. Either that or LvG is blackmailing Woodward with a sex tape. Because this isn’t going to end well.
By not sacking LvG Manchester United also appear to be suspending their transfer business this month.
It may all be part of Ed’s masterplan. But, from the outside, it looks like a complete mess.
Manchester United fans: Time to get rid of both
