What effect will http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Phil-Jones-c29903 have on Manchester United’s squad and formation? (Part 1)
Now that Phil Jones’ move to Manchester United has been confirmed by both the player and the club in question, we can get down to assessing the impact that Jones might have on a team like Manchester United. On the face off it,
Jones looks like a player that Manchester United really didn’t need.
In a team which is already filled with substantial backups for the centre back position, another defender doesn’t make any sense at all. Ferguson has now gone out and spent a large part of 17 million pounds on an unknown Englishman
and thus many Manchester United fans must be asking what will become of the club if such buys are the flavour of this summer transfer window.
For hardcore Manchester United fans, questioning Ferguson will undoubtedly be unacceptable, the old Scotsman has shown time and again that he buys young talented footballers and turns them into superstars. United’s academy has
been a supply source in the past but now things have changed in English football. Three years ago, 17 million pounds for an unknown Englishman would’ve had the critics eating away at Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 at Old Trafford but now this seems to be the norm, given the way
today’s transfer market is currently behaving.
In the January transfer window http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 spent 35 million pounds on Andy Carroll. In the summer transfer window, Liverpool dipped into the young English talented ideology
once again as they paid a whopping 20 million pounds for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jordan-Henderson-c19102. Inflated as these transfer fees might be, they are the reality of today’s summer transfer window.
Getting back to the debate about Jones’ place in the Manchester United squad, at just 19 years of age, Jones’ is one for the future at Old Trafford. There is already confusion as to where the young Englishman will play if he indeed
manages to get into the starting line up in his debut season with the Premier League champions.
There are two main options for Sir Alex Ferguson with regard to Phil Jones’ position on the field. At Blackburn, Jones played in a defensive minded midfielder’s role where his main http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rovers-c40385
back four. But his own manager at the time, Sam Allardyce said that eventually Jones has the capability to play in the back four, something that he did under Steve Kean in his last season at Blackburn Rovers alongside http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Christopher-Samba-c9212.
When Manchester United visited Ewood Park for their pen-ultimate away match of the 2010-2011 season, Javier Hernandez and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736 both had a tough time against Jones as United only managed a one all day in the end.
Their only goal of the encounter came from a penalty kick which further suggests that Jones did his job perfectly alongside Samba in Blackburn’s central http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Defence-c38904. Ferguson’s main reason as to why he spent so much money on an unproven
Englishman has to be the exit of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Owen-Hargreaves-c28918 from his squad at Old Trafford, something that we will discuss to a greater extent in the next part of this article...
To be continued in part 2...
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