Ruben Amorim paid prize after Erik ten Hag ignored Sir Alex Ferguson’s advice

Despite the best attempts by Sir Alex Ferguson to warn Erik ten Hag about one transfer movement, Manchester United -boss Ruben Amorim still pays for the error today

Ruben Amorim has seen a historically bad season in Manchester United left the bill by some of his predecessors. But perhaps no misstep at the moment is more transfer than the decision to sell Scott McTominay, something that Sir Alex Ferguson tried to warn the club.

Erik ten Hag was still at the Old Trafford Helm when the Red Devils took the decision to terminate the 22-year term of office of MCTominay, who was first connected to United at the age of five. And the lack of foresight of the club has been emphasized again after the Scot Series A won in his debut campaign for Napoli, and the player of the competition is also mentioned.

Mctominay, 28, led the indictment of Antonio Conte to a 10th career scudetto (five as player, five as a coach) with 12 goals and six assists. Only six players scored this period more in the top flight of Italy, and unnecessary to say that the contribution could have been used by a United team that had just set a new record low for goals scored in a Premier League season (44).

Not bad for an investment of £ 25.7 million considered the surplus of the requirements by his boys’ club. Ferguson’s admiration of the player is well documented, and during the days under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer that the United Great made it clear that he felt that Mctominay deserved to be a prominent part of the XI.

“Scott Mctominay is now on the rise as one of the big players of Man United,” Ferguson told the Scottish does In 2021. “When you see how Man United chooses their team for a big competition, Mctominay’s name is in it. He is a good character, a great trainer. I know a bit about the boy and I think that’s the background.”

That testimony of the moral fiber of the player describes exactly the profile of player Amorim could have used more this season. Too often United has taken the lead in competitions this season, just to welcome the pressure in themselves, while their 18 defeats are the most they have included in a competition campaign in more than half a century.

To the honor of Ten Hag, the Dutchman said in October that he “did not want” to see McTominay leave in a decision that was pushed more by the club. McTominay seemed to confirm the same amount in December when he told BBC Football Daily Podcast Financial Fair Play (FFP) was a factor.

Many of United’s transfer trips in the Post-Ferguson era amount to prioritizing the wrong profile of the player. The club has spent enormous amounts on bringing in big names or expensive prospects that often do not fit into the account in their positions, often overlooked of certain immaterial things that MCTominay owns.

‘I signed [McTominay] When he was seven or eight years old and he was actually a center-forward like a child, “added Ferguson in 2021.” He has just been developed, a bit like Darren Fletcher. Darren had a few small annoying injuries while he grew and needed a few rest periods and things like that.

“McTominay is of a similar type like Darren – long, lanky, good winner of the ball and a good turn of pace in the future, a great attitude towards the game. All these postures that Darren Fletcher had, he has them.”

Ferguson, 83, developed a talent for recruiting somewhat among the radar talents that made his teams bigger than the sum of their parts. And these players often had a hand in making the shiny names on the team magazine, with Park Ji-Sung, Nemanja Vidic and John O’Shea perhaps one of the best examples.

The £ 25 million or so United received for the signature of McTominay now as a shock, given what he has achieved in Italy. It is fair to say that the loss of the Red Devils was Napoli’s win when he easily went to Italian football and showed the kind of presence in the midfield of midfield that was clearly visible in his last season at Old Trafford.

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