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Publication date: Saturday, October 3, 2020 9:00 AM
Will Edinson Cavani score goals for Manchester United? In the big picture, it hardly matters. Whether he scores three or 30 next season, the fact that the Red Devils are making This deal in all, his chaotic approach to hiring stands out once again.
The Uruguayan forward is said to be heading to England this weekend. joining the Red Devils in what some sources suggest is a two-year deal. Among other things, United need a center forward and it appears they have one, although he is a 33-year-old who no other club found to be worth the required outlay.
Similarly, Cavani’s agent wanted his big payday and while we don’t yet know exactly what commission Walter Guglielmone, also the player’s brother, will earn this weekend, he certainly found the biggest scapegoat in European football at another time. vulnerable.
United has been a disaster again during a window that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer suggested in April that the club could ‘explode’. Instead, the Red Devils have fought their way through another supposedly crucial summer, without offering even the illusion of intent to restore the club to the main table of European football.
With Four or five first-class signings are required – ideally a left back, a center back, a central striker and a right attacker – what they have achieved so far is a midfielder in which they have had a free kick and a veteran forward who prefers to be elsewhere.
Guglielmone exposed it all at the beginning of the year, when no club could remove Cavani from PSG when his contract ran out. The forward wanted “Fulfill your dream” of signing for Atlético de Madrid but the Spanish club could never add up the figures.
“If it was for money,” said the agent, “Edi would have gone to England, Manchester or Chelsea.”
Even as a free agent, Cavani is too expensive for Atlético and also for Benfica. Guglielmone was apparently demanding from the Portuguese side a three-year deal worth £ 8.8 million a year, around £ 170,000 a week, as well as the same in commission for him.
Atlético president Cerezo tells Movistar Futbol about Cavani: “I think the situation of some players with their families and their representatives is a shame. It is outrageous. We are not here to be robbed or to do anything strange. “There is talk that an agent fee of 18 million euros was requested
– Nizaar Kinsella (@NizaarKinsella) February 1, 2020
Less than a year after he allegedly resisted paying Mino Raiola what he wanted to bring Erling Haaland to Old Trafford, Woodward apparently dropped his pants for Guglielmone.
After losing Haaland to Dortmund, United panicked by signing Odion Ighalo on loan and it seems they are making the same mistake again. We know Woodward is sensitive to criticism – you’d think he’d be used to it by now – and to avoid criticism for doing nothing, I’d rather throw money at Cavani and his brother just to be seen doing something.
Woodward cannot sell Cavani to United fans as anything other than another resource. You may well point to the last veteran striker he signed as a free agent after leaving PSG, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but Ibra scored 38 goals in Ligue 1 in his final season in France. Cavani scored four. Zlatan was a coup: he was clearly José Mourinho’s man and the Swede signed early to avoid the threat of rival clubs. Cavani, like Donny van de Beek, United has no competition.
They also have no competition for Jadon Sancho and the Borussia Dortmund winger will be the poster boy in United’s window, regardless of whether they have finally lost the money they could have paid two months ago.
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“I know that at Manchester United we are one of the biggest and most financially well off,” Solskjaer said when suggesting that United could exploit the current climate. “I’m sure that when we get back to normal, we will be able to do whatever we want.”
What United managers want and what Woodward can do are two different things. The image United is trying to portray: remember the transfer bunkers and 804 right sides – It is the polar opposite to the reality of its hiring structure, with a head of corporate development as part-time transfer negotiator. Solskjaer is desperate for a young English talent who, while expensive, could play for United for perhaps a decade. At Cavani, he is getting a veteran that no one else really wants and that he himself would rather be elsewhere.
We’re just two or three days away from Woodward’s briefing that United are stepping up the search for a sporting director to buy enough time for him and his cronies to make the same mistakes again in the New Year.
Ian Watson
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