Sir Jim’s main task is to rebuild the club and heal the huge rifts within the fanbase therefore the club doesn’t need any distractions, I hope Greenwood plays well at Getafe but only because he’s an asset that has to be sold in the summer for the highest price, there will be many more challenges for Sir Jim going forward, one player, however good he may or may not be is simply not worth dividing the fan base any further, we’ve had over a decade of hurt and pain and it’s time for the fanbase to be united, with the current intensity of Elite Football Greenwood may even decline dramatically in 5 or 6 years like Rashford has, the question should be do we continue to have a divides within our fanbase over one player who still hasn’t got 20 goals and 10 assists in a season as good as he might develop to be or do we simply sell him for as much as we can get and while we are at it sell Antony, Sancho and Pellistri for a combined sum of £120m for all 4 players in the summer and then go buy any 2 from the following ;
Pedro Neto, Michael Olise, Ansi Fati,
K Mitoma, Nico Williams, Marius Sole, Johan Bakayoko, Federico Chiesa, Leroy Sane, Serge Gnabry, Rodrygo
My point had the team scored more than the pathetic 35 League goals in 23 games then the clamour for MG return would be less intense within a certain faction of the fanbase.
A Team like United should have 5 or 6 players of elite standards yes 2 or 3 will still be better than the rest but not by a significant margin.
As bad as Rashford has been this season, he’ll still finish with 15 Goals and assists in the PL and that’s the reason he’ll stay, our problem is that neither him nor Garnaucho and certainly not Antony should be starting a PL game after they stunk the place out the week before so signing any 2 from that list, especially 2 young hungry options without baggage makes United much better and starts to heal the fanbase without reintegrating a political hot potato like MG
The club selling him for £40-50m helps our FFP situation immeasurably. If the summer rolls on and United sell the 4 mentioned and then buy Michael Olise(50m), Nico Williams(35m) and add another back up striker like Santiago Gimenez or Benjamin sesco(40m) and it’s only cost the club £5m but probably less than that on the books because the wages for these three players will be no more than 400k per week and the club would have let Martial go to add to the 4 players mentioned so wages saved will be 350k per week less.
This hopefully will be how the club operates this summer and the new players will need time and support just like we gave to Rasmus however If our squad options in attack are ; R Hojlund, B Sesco, M Olise, N Williams, M Rashford, A Garnaucho and Amad.
Three will always play, one might not work, one will always be injured and more importantly 2 or 3 will be on a 9 Man bench looking to come on and change a game.
Currently the squad is so bare, Manchester United rely on Scott McTominay to make an attacking change, that in all honestly is the clubs biggest problem alongside injuries with players getting older and not having suitable replacements.