Manchester United goal David Raum has described a transfer to Premier League as a “dream” fuelling hearth over a switch because the Purple 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 means with defensive nous within the huge 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 Previous Trafford, whereas present fullbacks Noussair Mazraoui and Diogo Dalot have additionally performed, or are able to taking part in, on this place.
Nonetheless, the left-hand facet of the crew is much much less stocked with gamers capable of 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 will not be defensively sound sufficient to be pushed again.
Shaw, 29, could be a wonderful possibility within the wingback place, given his technical high quality on the ball, however the England worldwide merely can’t keep match; and this situation would solely be exacerbated by the bodily calls for of the LWB position.
Conversely, whereas Malacia has efficiently returned from a debilitating knee harm, the 25-year-old Dutchman isn’t 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 equivalent to Amad.
A brand new left wingback is, subsequently, a urgent precedence at Previous Trafford within the coming switch home windows.
And, as relayed by The Peoples Particular person , membership officers contemplate 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 season.
Bild, a German nationwide newspaper, 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 perhaps a dream and a giant purpose sooner or later,” the 26-year-old is quoted as saying; and it could possibly be a dream which is realised this summer season if Previous Trafford’s recruitment division resolve Raum is the participant Amorim must implement his philosophy.