The Dutch coach considers the selection of Red Devils closed within a Premier in which Chelsea is the leader in terms of payout, after paying 82.5 million euros for Fofana
After signing Brazilian winger Antony for €100m and keeping the integration of Slovakian goalkeeper Martin Dubravka, who would come on loan from Newcastle to compete with David de Gea, practically equal, Erik ten Hag considers Manchester’s selection United as closed. that Cristiano Ronaldo, except for an unexpected last minute twist, will continue at the Theater of Dreams. “The window will end like this. You should always be on the lookout, but we are going from September to January with this template. We had to strengthen the team offensively,” said the Red Devils coach in the preview of the game that the Mancunian team will measure against Leicester, corresponding to the fifth match day of the Premier League.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s was one of the soap operas of the summer. The Funchal star wanted to leave Manchester United at all costs to further fatten his legend in the Champions League, a competition in which the ‘red devils’ will not participate this season after finishing sixth in the Premier League last year . But due to the repeated refusals encountered by his agent Jorge Mendes, the Portuguese has practically no wiggle room and a complicated horizon at Old Trafford.
Tensions with Ten Hag have been constant since Cristiano Ronaldo placed himself under the orders of the Dutch coach, who believes the star’s attitude hinders harmony in the dressing room. This has been evident in the Premier’s first four days, where Cristiano has only started once, precisely in the 4-0 win the Red Devils allowed at Brentford stadium, and he has started from the bench in the remaining three matches. A supporting role ill-suited to the ambition of the five-time Ballon d’Or winner, who has seen no door this season so far.
But after clubs like Atlético, Bayern Munich, Chelsea or Milan have closed their doors to him, Cristiano Ronaldo seems to have no choice but to try to win Ten Hag’s trust to once again become the offensive benchmark of a team that has been blowing up the market in recent weeks to try to revive old laurels and calm its fans, tired of so many disappointments in recent seasons.
With €238m invested, Manchester United are second in the ‘top ten’ of clubs that have invested the most money in this summer market. A table dominated by the entities of a Premier League where the money keeps flowing non-stop. Without Tuesday it was Antony who ended up in the British Isles for £100m to put on United’s elastic, this Wednesday it was Chelsea who broke the bank by paying Leicester £82.5m to use Wesley Fofana’s services. to get hands. For example, at the age of 22, the French defender becomes the third most expensive central defender in history, behind Englishman Harry Maguire, who joined Manchester United in 2019 in exchange for €87 million, and Dutchman Virgil van Dijk, for whom Liverpool paid €84.65 million to get him out of Southampton in 2018.
The signing of Fofana, which Chelsea have been longing for for weeks despite only being international for France five times, will allow the ‘blues’ to position itself as the club that has spent the most money a day after the closure. from the market. The entity owned by Todd Boehly a few months ago has paid out 269 million euros to include Marc Cucurella (65.3 million), Raheem Sterling (56.2), Kalidou Koulibaly (38), Carney Chukwuemeka ( 18) and Gabriel Slonina (9.09), in addition to the aforementioned Fofana (82.5). On the contrary, it has divided only 44.4 million between the sales of Timo Werner (20) and Emerson Palmieri (15.4) and the transfers of Romelu Lukaku (8) and Malang Sarr (1).
Source: La Verdad
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