Bruno Fernandes: Man United already has options to replace their Talisman – Man United News and Transfer News | The people person

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Football clubs at top level must run like oiled machines and especially outside the field. But the past decade or so there has been a tinkle and a scratching of gears in the Manchester United engine room, smoke marked ‘strategy’. And the open pushing simply reveals that the forward planning committee has had an extensive vacation if they were ever there.

Being a Future Pril is not something that seems to come for this club naturally. The previous football regime preferred movements such as Panic-Re-Subjecting Cristiano Ronaldo and started endless, doomed chases of Barcelona midfielders instead of fighting and making the team good and better now. But accidentally or design seem to have learned ineos from history and put the club on the right track to have been an almost fatal blow.

United Talisman

Each team has its hero and every generation his superstar – Ronaldo was one, just like Wayne Rooney, Eric Cantona, Sir Bobby Charlton and a few more. These players dragged, inspired and wore United to trophies and glory, but the current equivalent of the Red Devils has seen a small return for the blood, sweat and tears he left on the Old Trafford Turf.

Bruno Fernandes has been the beating heart of the different distributed and incoherent united sides of which he was a member since he drew for the club five and a half years ago, when he was done one of the best pieces of January by someone, done everywhere.

Since then, he has once lifted the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup and left it in the abyss in the abyss after two Euroopa League -defined defeats. But more importantly, his instinctive side of the role of Talisman, cutting putt from the jaws of the defeat and then some of those draws across the line in crucial victories.

If someone earns a league title at United, it is he, but time is quickly rising to make it happen with the Portuguese who will turn 31 next month. It is painful to think about where the club would be without him, but just like owning an 18-year-old cat, there is a disturbing conversation that comes closer every day. To quote Erik ten Hag, “all eras come to an end”.

Heirs clear

After a slow start, it was an exciting summer for transfers at Old Trafford, where a new trium virate from attackers about the threshold is input to try to build something new after last year’s disappointment. Two of those new arrivals, Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo, are hard-boiled Premier League-Consessed attackers who have done some of their best work behind the rush hour and were chosen by hand by Ruben Amorim to play as 10s in his 3-4-2-1 system.

That formation, introduced by the charismatic Portuguese coach as soon as he touched in Manchester, forced many square pegs in round holes, but Fernandes has admired himself admirably as one of those 10s. His goal threat, working speed and creativity were typically impressive, but once the victim of his own success, he also presented himself as a capable couple of feet to fill one of the deeper midfield rolls next to Casemiro.

The Summer Window and the Much Squadevision content would always shed light on Amorim’s long -term plans, and the introduction of two top class 10s suggests that the future of Fernandes is further back.

But by investing so heavy, smart and quickly, United maneuvered itself in a position in which Fernandes could never play another game in red as a number 10 and they could live – a position that would have been almost unthinkable last season. This is a clear signal of intention for planning outside the Bruno era, because an attack once embodied by him, no longer necessarily contains him.

A deeper problem

Seen from a different angle, however, this can simply make the look on the road; You cannot fail to replace your key player at number 10 if he no longer plays there.

So what about Fernandes Mark 2? He is still the same talisman, the same 5 ft 10 centimeters of pure desire to win, just sent back a few meters further. If Cunha and Mbeumo were reasonably obvious choices to replace early Fernandes, planning will take a real headache. The midfield of United is a mess and, despite a considerable show against Arsenal, Casemiro’s time should be.

The Red Devils are expected to strengthen them in that department, but even that signing may not be made without checking the post-Bruno route map. Only because the new player works with Fernandes does not mean that he will work with his successor.

Ready-made successor

But the masterstroke is that the successor is already there, that already has that shared the field 63 times with his captain And still has to be 21. Kobbie Mainoo, who has quietly become stronger, fitter and slimmer during a low-profile summer, has all the attributes that the Pacemaker of United’s midfield takes over, the in-depth playmaker who can run the game and scatter what Stardust can stard in the process.

A possible fly in the ointment is that Amorim Mainoo and Fernandes seem to see as interchangeable, instead of playing side by side. There is something in it, but the 20-year-old with the towering ceiling remains pre-eminently crowdable and should not wait for the decline of the Fernandes before he gets his chance.

The manager expressed words that were intended today to reassure in his press conference, which explains that Mainoo will get opportunities and that there will be spaces for him this season, but until the young person will get a new contract and a few regular minutes there will remain a slight unrest.

United is finally with all the means they need to get over what inevitable will be a difficult stumbling block; If they play their cards well, the club could have solved their biggest problem before it even started.

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