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Last Updated: 09/18/20 9:34 am
Gareth Bale returns to Tottenham, but why didn’t Manchester United make a move for the Real Madrid striker?
The Wales star has repeatedly been linked to a return to the Premier League during his seven-year stay in Spain, with United often being reported as a likely destination.
Yet with the 31-year-old Bale set to complete a sensational loan deal to his former club Spurs, United have stayed out of the picture.
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Northwest Sky Sports News reporter James Cooper believes that although United may have been interested in Bale in the past, they now have players of the required level in Bale’s favorite positions, while Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho remains their priority. number one in transfers.
“I think in the summers before he is someone who would have fit into United’s pedigree,” Cooper told the Pitch to Post podcast.
Gareth Bale had long been linked to a move to Manchester United
“When I talk about a Plan B scenario with Jadon Sancho, [Bale] it was someone they were looking at. A loan deal would be difficult and interesting, but also where would it fit in on the field?
“Apparently he’s a left-sided player. There’s no problem there because Marcus Rashford is playing left-sided. And, with the utmost respect for Gareth Bale and all that he has won, they are at different stages of their career. One person. brave who took Marcus Rashford out of left place and put Bale there.
“Bale could play at 10 anyway, but they don’t need that, they have players like Bruno Fernandes and Donny van de Beek, and even Paul Pogba.
“There is an argument that he could play on the right, where they need him, but that’s not getting the best out of Bale.”
4:24 Sky Sports News’s Dharmesh Sheth says Manchester United don’t want to pay £ 108 million for Jadon Sancho and has always had that view across the transfer window
Cooper also noted that United just took Alexis Sanchez’s high salaries off their books and suggested that fans may loathe to see the club re-sign such an expensive deal, especially with Bale in his 30s.
Instead, those finances could be spent to keep current key players.
“It would have been good, in terms of the caliber of the player, but there would also be Manchester United fans thinking, we got rid of a problem player in Alexis Sanchez, we got rid of that salary that allowed us to increase the likes” of Dean Henderson, “Cooper said. “I think there will be a new contract pending for Paul Pogba because of that respite with Sánchez missing.
“And there will be some United fans who think we don’t need to do that again, we don’t need to spend a lot on a player who may not be number one in terms of Manchester United’s first team.”
“It would have been interesting to see how it worked out, but perhaps there is an argument to say that Tottenham need Gareth Bale more than Manchester United right now.”
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Solskjaer eager for football after ‘nightmare’ summer
Manchester United will return to Premier League action against Crystal Palace on Saturday, kicking off at 5.30pm live on Sky Sports Premier League.
Cooper says boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will be delighted to get the new campaign underway after a difficult close season, with off-the-field incidents involving Harry Maguire, Mason Greenwood, Paul Pogba and the never-ending search for Jadon Sancho.
“Manchester United had a fantastic block as a club,” Cooper said. “We saw everything they did in terms of feeding the NHS workers, in terms of food banks and even in terms of lighting Manchester United in the colors of the NHS. They had a blockade to be proud of and they led the way.
“But it’s been a summer to forget. To be honest, it’s been a nightmare for them.
It has been a summer to forget. To be honest, it has been a nightmare for them.
Sky Sports News’ James Cooper on Man Utd’s offseason
“If you think about some of the things that have happened: Paul Pogba testing positive for COVID. It’s not an ideal situation and clearly not his fault, but it’s almost like Mario Balotelli at Manchester City, ‘why always me?’ Why always Paul Pogba?
“And then you look at Mason Greenwood and everything he did last season, equaling the records of the likes of Wayne Rooney, Brian Kidd and George Best by scoring 17 goals and really putting himself in the image of the Manchester United first team. And for England the situation. , it was a real blemish on his copy book.After this stratospheric surge, he’s slowed down a bit.
“I think Manchester United have seen the benefits of Ole being almost a father figure, backstage. He will have needed to dig into that arsenal again with Mason Greenwood, not just to put an arm around him, but to say, ‘Look, you’ve got the responsibility as a United player to behave in a certain way and all eyes are on you. ‘
“And then Harry Maguire in Mykonos. I don’t envy anyone a vacation, but he is the captain of Manchester United, whether he should have been in the center of Mykonos town or not, those things happen and he is reminded that There are certain responsibilities about your behavior and where you should be and where you don’t need to be as captain of Manchester United.
“Overall, Solskjaer would have gone into the month-long hiatus thinking everything is fine, I’ve done very, very well here. But then in the last four weeks, a bit of a breakdown and that raises questions about whether United can close. the gap “.
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