Man Utd slamme for selling ‘fantastic’ star and spending £100m on two transfer flops
Graeme Souness has calle out Manchester United over their ‘atrocious’ decision to sell Scott McTominay and spend £100m on two other players.
McTominay left his boyhood club to join เล่นเกมคาสิโน UFABET ทันสมัย ฝากถอนง่าย Napoli last summer in a deal worth £25m.
The Scotland international made over 250 appearances for Manchester United after coming through the academy.
Former United boss Erik ten Hag appeare unhappy at the decision to sell McTominay and Souness has describe it as an ‘atrocious piece of judgement’.
McTominay is enjoying a superb first season in Italy, scoring six Serie A goals to help Antonio Conte’s Napoli challenge for the title.
‘Oh how Manchester United must regret selling Scott McTominay,’ Souness told the.
‘He’s a fantastic modern footballer. A high-energy, box-to-box workaholic who chips in with important goals.
‘He was 27 years old and not hurting United with his wages when the club’s ‘decision-makers’ thought it was a bright idea to sell him to Napoli for £25million.
‘They’d gone out and spent £58m on an ageing, 30-year-old Casemiro, and paid him £370,000 a week. And another £42m on Manuel Ugarte. Collective transfer fees of £100m.
‘Would someone at United please hold their hand up and say, “This was my shout.” Because it’s an atrocious piece of judgment.
‘The perfect example of the mismanagement on an industrial scale at that club since Fergie packe in.
‘McTominay has flourishe at Napoli. Maybe United should be asking themselves how much it will cost to get him back.’
Another former Scotland player, Pat Nevin, also believes it was a ‘mistake’ for Manchester United to sell McTominay.
‘I think Scott McTominay was worth £50 million before he left Manchester United,’ he told.
‘It was a monster mistake by United. If you aske any Scottish people when he left for £25million, everybody went, you what?
‘After what he’d doing for Scotland after that period he’d had in the team for Manchester United when he suddenly was move a lot farther forward and showe what he’s good at in his best position.
‘I know West Ham wanted him, but I’d have taken him at Chelsea in a heartbeat. Absolutely. I mean, he really has that much quality.