Manchester United’s transfer window is off to a fast start, unlike the previous years under the Glazers, even when Sir Alex Ferguson was at the helm of affairs.
However, Ruben Amorim is already moving like Sir Alex Ferguson in the market evidenced by one running theme in all the transfers.
Nobody can ever say that they will come close to achieving what Sir Alex Ferguson managed at Manchester United, but taking a good habit of his is definitely a positive.
Amorim seems to have taken that advice and implemented it into United’s transfer strategy. It’s long overdue at Old Trafford.
Photo by John Peters/Manchester United via Getty Images
Photo by John Peters/Manchester United via Getty Images
Sir Alex Ferguson’s Man Utd transfer strategy
Two British record signings, one who ended up being the club’s all-time leading scorer, multiple icons of the club, a few legends, and a who’s who of serial winners.
Sir Alex Ferguson’s record in the transfer market was successful and had more hits than misses, which is why he could continue to dominate.
However, the accolades listed above all had a similar running theme. Roy Keane and Andy Cole were British record transfers from Leeds and Newcastle.
Wayne Rooney from Everton, Rio Ferdinand and Eric Cantona from Leeds, Dwight Yorke, Edwin van der Sar, Michael Carrick, Dimitar Berbatov, Robin van Persie, and numerous others have one thing in common.
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Their signings served a dual purpose. Not only did they strengthen United remarkably, but they also directly weakened a team United would almost certainly play at least twice every season.
Already playing in England, these players didn’t need an adjustment period to the league most notoriously difficult to adjust to.
Ruben Amorim’s first summer window shows he’s taking a page out of that book.
Ruben Amorim is moving like Sir Alex Ferguson
The Premier League is not the same as the one in which Sir Alex Ferguson reigned supreme. The influx of TV money has made it more competitive so it’s not as easy to pluck a player away from Tottenham or Everton, let alone Arsenal.
However, United are trying to nail down the step just below that, as evidenced by the signing of Matheus Cunha or Bryan Mbeumo.
Wolves finished close to United last season while Brentford finished well above, but United are using their prestige to trigger release clauses and act like the predator at the top of the chain.
That sort of thinking has been long overdue at United who went after panic buys or stop-gap signings too often in the last decade or so.
By signing Cunha, and hopefully following it up with Mbeumo, United have directly extracted 49 goals+assists from two teams in the league.
Not every transfer made from a fellow PL club will work out (Eric Djemba-Djemba says hello), but the line of thinking is finally right.
United are a big club and now they are finally acting like it.