Robbie Savage has highlighted who he feels Manchester United need to sign this summer – but isn’t he forgetting something…?
David Moyes is gone and several members of the class of ’92 are now in charge of things at Manchester United.
Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt and Paul Scholes are ably assisted by Phil Neville at Old Trafford – the quartet even stopped for a photograph this morning.
Another member of that era of United players has now been having his say on the next step for the club – that man is Robbie Savage.
Savage was a part of that talented bunch of players’ way back when – but he left the club in 1994 to get first-team football at Crewe Alexandra.
The Welsh international’s career then took him through Leicester City and Blackburn Rovers before he went into punditry after retiring in 2011.
Now a regular and opinionated voice on Match of the Day he also writes columns for many of the big newspapers – and in The Mirror last night the topic was of course United.
And he went as far as to tip the club on five players they should buy this summer…
“Whoever the Glazers bring in, they must then hand him a £200million war chest to go out and spend on players who fit the United way. Ross Barkley, Adam Lallana, Luke Shaw, William Carvalho and Toni Kroos would be the top five on my shopping list – and I wouldn’t take no for an answer from any of them… Get Ancelotti or Van Gaal, build a Boot-room dynasty and land those five top-quality signings, and the upheaval of the last 12 months may not have been for nothing. But if United fall short on any of those components, their pain may only just have started.”
All five are great options – but Savage has surely forgotten a thing or two.
First off, Shaw and Carvalho seem like excellent options – and both play in positions where United genuinely need improvement.
However the next three players he highlights are all much of the same. Dynamic playmakers with an eye for a pass – I know United need more ball-playing midfielders but surely a central defender has to be first on the list after the shocking performances and fitness records at the heart of United’s defence this campaign?
Sign one of Lallana, Kroos and Barkley for sure – at a push two … but three is overkill.
Saving that money for a central defender would be a far better option for whoever takes the helm at Old Trafford.
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