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Manchester United remain a mess, but there is still a lot of potential there. That’s provided the team can find some real semblance of team chemistry. The Premier League title race is over now, and they have been out of the mix for some time, but you still have plenty to play for.
However, nothing salvageable will come of this season unless interim manager Ralf Rangnick can figure out his lineup. He needs to find the winning hand that works for him and his side.
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As Manchester United prepare to host Brentford FC on Wednesday, the main storyline revolves around the rift between Anthony Martial and Ralf Rangnick. The Frenchman has fallen far out of favor for quite some time, and one wonders if his days at the club are numbered.
Rangnick insists the once fractured player-manager relationship has now been mended though. “I’m here now for six weeks, all the things that needed to be said, I said after the press conference (at Aston Villa),” Rangnick said to a news conference today.
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Norwegian striker Erling Haaland is The Next Big Thing in football, so when he leaves Borussia Dortmund for his next club, it will be blockbuster news. According to the man himself, it seems like it’s going to happen this summer, and the preliminary negotiations will get started soon.
Haaland has been linked with absolutely all of the biggest clubs, in the entire world, including Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Liverpool, Bayern Munich and Chelsea.
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Both left back Luke Shaw and interim manager Ralf Rangnick have made it clear, publicly that we have some major team chemistry issues at Manchester United. It is a divided dressing room, no doubt, and it’s resulted in a consistent pattern of uninspiring efforts and unexpectedly poor results.
Now the face of the franchise, Cristiano Ronaldo, has called on side to rise up and reach their full potential. As United get set to battle Aston Villa, for the second time in six days, Ronaldo sounds like potential new team captain material to us.
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Manchester United will face Steven Gerrard’s Aston Villa side for the second time in six days at the weekend. This time it will be at Villa Park, for a league fixture, with United having emerged victorious 1-0, at their place, on Monday in FA Cup competition.
There is a lot ground to cover with some pretty big names, MUFC team news wise, so let’s just jump right in on that.
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Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford is a national hero in England, for all that he has accomplished off the pitch. He’s been bestowed the MBE honor, which stands for Member of the Order of the British Empire.
It’s awarded for an outstanding achievement or service to the community. While it takes greater significance than anything he does on the pitch, Rashford is still a football player first, and his job is to score goals. That is something the England international just isn’t doing right now, and he struggled yet again against Aston Villa last night.
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After the first of back to back matches against Aston Villa, in different competitions, Manchester United caretaker boss Ralf Rangnick provided some fitness updates on a couple of key players on his roster. Rangnick discussed the injury status of both his team captain, Harry Maguire, and the face of the franchise, Cristiano Ronaldo.
We’ll start with the latter, as the German said that CR7’s muscular injury was not “anything serious.” Ronaldo missed the 1-0 FA Cup third round win over the Villans, as did Maguire, Jadon Sancho and Phil Jones.
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Edinson Cavani, arguably the most clinical finisher on the current Manchester United squad, is set to stay until the end of the season. Known as El Matador, the 34-year-old Uruguayan, who unfortunately doesn’t see regular playing time with the club, has been linked with a move away this January transfer window.
According to interim manager Ralf Rangnick, who wanted the former Paris Saint-Germain man to stay put, the striker has now been convinced to stay put until the end of the season.
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Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has hit back at the reports suggesting that his club is filled with players who don’t want to be there. Both Luke Shaw and Ralf Rangnick have alluded to the fact that team chemistry is missing right now, and various reports have indicated that numerous United playes want out.
“We’ve all been disappointed with recent performances and we’ve been as disappointed with the news coverage questioning our commitment to not only the manager and the coaching staff but the club,” Rashford Tweeted.
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Manchester United are in total disarray as they commence their FA Cup campaign for this season. According to various reports, as many as 11 players want to leave the club, and another six on top of that number, are unhappy right now.
Interim manager Ralf Ragnick admits (Luke Shaw openly said it too) that there is some substantial discontent within his dressing room, and it means he’s currently got a monumental task on his hands. Maybe the January transfer window will see some of the malconents exit, and this help to somewhat alleviate the pain of his situation?
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There have been multiple reports, across several different outlets, that many members of the Manchester United squad are currently very unhappy to be there. Some of these reports indicate that numerous players want out of Old Trafford, as it appears interim manager Ralf Rangnick has lost the dressing room; or at least a significant portion of it.
According to the Daily Mail the problem is so severe that a total of 17 players are unhappy, and that a majority of them want out. How many want to leave as soon as possible depends on who you talk to, or what you’re reading, but the consensus number seems to be somewhere around 11.
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Manchester United are a complete mess right now- that is obvious to anyone paying attention. A big part of the reason why is Ed Woodward. The club CEO/EVP is slowly on his way out now, at the end of this month, and it remains to be seen how much will change will really occur once he’s gone.
Old Trafford badly needs to do some roster revamping this January transfer window, or they’ll finish outside the top four. The Woodward era, which began when David Gill and Sir Alex Ferguson left the club at the end of the 2012-13 season, finally comes to a close (more or less) at the end of this month.
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