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Manchester United goal David Raum has described a transfer to Premier League as a “dream” fuelling hearth over a switch because the Pink Devils proceed to evaluate potential reinforcements within the wingback place.
New head coach Ruben Amorim’s trademark 3-4-3 system is reliant upon gamers who mix athleticism and attacking potential with defensive nous within the vast areas.
The 39-year-old has transformed Amad Diallo from a extra conventional right-wing place into an efficient proper wing-back within the first few weeks of his tenure at Outdated Trafford, whereas current fullbacks Noussair Mazraoui and Diogo Dalot have additionally performed, or are able to enjoying, on this place.
Nonetheless, the left-hand facet of the staff is way much less stocked with gamers in a position to fulfil Amorim’s wants.
Each senior left-backs – Luke Shaw and Tyrell Malacia – have skilled long-standing harm issues lately whereas the membership’s choice of left wingers aren’t defensively sound sufficient to be pushed again.
Shaw, 29, could be a superb choice within the wingback place, given his technical high quality on the ball, however the England worldwide merely can not keep match; and this situation would solely be exacerbated by the bodily calls for of the LWB function.
Conversely, whereas Malacia has efficiently returned from a debilitating knee harm, the 25-year-old Dutchman shouldn’t be ok with the ball to supply the kind of attacking outlet on the left Amorim’s system requires.
And gamers like Alejandro Garnacho and Marcus Rashford could be misplaced defensively if performed additional again as they lack the in-game intelligence of a winger akin to Amad.
A brand new left wingback is, due to this fact, a urgent precedence at Outdated Trafford within the coming switch home windows.
And, as relayed by The Peoples Particular person here, membership officers think about Raum – a 26-year-old RB Leipzig left wing-back – a “superb match” in Amorim’s system, after United got here near signing the German worldwide over the summer time.
Bild, a German nationwide newspaper, reveals Raum considers a transfer to England a “dream” which “opens the door” for a possible switch.
“I additionally, for instance, that the Premier League is likely to be a dream and a giant objective in some unspecified time in the future,” the 26-year-old is quoted as saying; and it may very well be a dream which is realised this summer time if Outdated Trafford’s recruitment division determine Raum is the participant Amorim must implement his philosophy.
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