The nerd me is out! Now my weekends wont be that boring anymore even when i don't do anything, hehehe!! As long as there's football to watch, i'll be fine, especially when Manchester United plays. So it's been roughly 2months since the season ended, transfer window is still open til 31st August, so not all teams are completed but as far as i know Manchester United is about to close their cheque book this summer.
With that they have bought 3 amazing talented players, 2 really young ones and 1 26years old. Lets start off with the oldest signing 26 years old winger Ashley Young.
His best position would be attacking right / left wing, and looking at Man Utd's squad he is probably gonna be playing on the left most of the time. Everyone knows what Young can do, cross...cross and cross all day long, he has pace too something we lacked off since Ryan Giggs hit mid 30's. He was signed in an undisclosed fee, but from all the reports the fee is ranging from 18-20million pounds. Is he worth it? In my book pretty good buy, he can cross, create, shoot, pass, run and at the right age too! He has been playing premier league the past 4-5 years, so he knows the league in and out by now. Hopefully he lives up to his expectations, double digit assist would mean a good season =)
So moving on to the second signing, Phil Jones! 19 years old monster, plays center back also operates well in the defensive midfielder position, and with a bonus he could play right/left back defending too!
Wearing the No.4 jersey that was once famously worn by captain Steve Bruce in the 90's. At age 19 he is already on everyone's buy list in the summer, he did not think twice on which club to join, smart boy! =) Of course it comes with a expensive price tag at 16million pounds, legends and past England players have already made a prediction that he will end up captaining the national team someday or maybe even Manchester United. I call him a monster just base on how powerful he is, he is HUGE for 19 years old, and from what i see in pre-season and the community shield he has the potential to be the worlds best defender someday. With the guidance of Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand now, only time will tell how GREAT he will be in the future. Sir Alex has already labelled him as one of the main starters in the team this season, that's how highly rated he is. He is making waves like what Wayne Rooney did when he first joined us at 18/19years old. Oh yeah just another thing to add, my next United jersey i will be putting Phil Jones name, first ever defender name =) hehe that's how much i like this guy!!
Last but not least, David De Gea 20 years old replacing the infamous retired Edwin Van Der Sar. One of the Spanish wonder kids, freshly winning the under 21 European cup with Spain, he is definitely one of the most important signing we needed this summer.
Sir Alex Ferguson admitted his mistake by not signing Edwin Van Der Sar when Peter Schmeichel retired, the goalkeeping position gave us so much problems we ended up buying about 6-7 keepers before finally landing Edwin! So this summer, i am pretty sure there were a few names thrown into the position but he looked no further but at David De Gea! Very young, very good agility, 3years experience in Spanish league, won a couple of big trophies in his time at Atl.Madrid too. He will surely be the No.1 keeper for Spain when Iker Casillas retires in future. Bought him at 17.5million Euros, wearing the number 1 jersey now, hopefully he shows his true potential once the league starts! He had a shaky first half at the community shield, but came out at the 2nd half flying and diving making a few good saves. If he does well on his debut season, i am pretty sure we will end up winning a silverware! Simply one of the best goalkeepers around even at his age, love this piece of transfer done by United!
Overall a great season break for us, the pre-season looked good in America plus now winning the community shield, first silverware in the bag! All the transfers look very promising and good, only down side to this season is that we will no longer be seeing Paul Scholes, Gary Neville & Edwin Van Der Sar in the line up, but there's a bunch of young kids climbing up the ranks now, the future looks bright for United =) Premier League games will be starting this coming Saturday, United will be kicking off on Sunday! Hopefully we start off with a win and go on to win the 20th League title and rub more salt into Liverpools face =)) GO RED DEVILS!!!!