Former Man United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has opened up on why the club didn't sign some of his top targets.
It's easy to look back at fork-in-the-road moments and lament. Had things gone another way everything would be much better now. But it's never as easy as that.
Would Declan Rice be the leader capable of taking games by the scruff if he wasn't far and away the best player in a team that he captained to European glory? Would Moises Caicedo have developed into a £100m player without the patient, low-pressure, exciting environment of Brighton? Would Erling Haaland have become the best striker in the world if he was immediately thrust into the Premier League at a young age rather than joining the development paradise of Borussia Dortmund? Would...
"Erling Haaland, before he made his Salzburg debut. Declan Rice, who wouldn’t have cost what he did in the summer. We discussed Moises Caicedo but we felt we needed players ready for there and then," Solskjaer said when asked which players he missed out on. "Brighton are very good at letting players come from abroad and find their feet for a year and a half. At United, you don’t have that luxury and that has cost the club loads of players.
The tragic thing is, that should Sancho depart after his bust-up with Erik ten Hag, it will feel no great loss to his manager. Whatever the circumstances, a player who shone as brightly as Haaland and Bellingham in Germany has been chewed up and spat out at Old Trafford and fallen from the sky like a piece of space trash.
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