After Lonnick's Manchester United suffered the first defeat, it seemed that all the problems began to pour out at once, and the celebrities criticized the 4222 formation, spit rotation, on-the-spot command, dressing room people's minds and so on. Ronnick, who was coaching the giants for the first time, also began to feel the pressure, and the winter window came in time, and he was eager to change. So many problems piled up, doomed Ronnick to be busy this winter window. In addition to dealing with the future of players who want to leave the team, he also needs to strengthen the team's shortcomings through reinforcements, and strive to lead Manchester United to stage a wave of counterattacks without being optimistic.
According to the Manchester Evening News, due to the ups and downs of the existing midfielders, Manchester United urgently need to strengthen the midfield position, and the outstanding performance of Portuguese midfielder Ruben Neves in Wolves has attracted the attention of Manchester United manager Ronnick.
Ruben Neves is an old face on United's gossip list, with the Portuguese midfielder being a potential target for United long back in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's tenure. In the summer window last year, after getting Sancho and Varane, Manchester United once had a scandal with a number of defensive midfielders, but in the end, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer chose to stay still and signed Ronaldo when the transfer window was about to close. The two ends were reinforced, and the middle was still the same as before. Manchester United's waist pole is not hard, and the performance is naturally strong.
There look like a lot of players who can play in the back in The Manchester United midfielder today, but none can really meet the 4222 requirements. Early in his tenure, Lonnick made Fred start. The Brazilian midfielder has had a shining moment, scored a world wave, and his attitude is still diligent, willing to run. However, Fred's ability to play the ball can not meet the requirements of combing the midfield, once encountered by the opponent's high pressure to rush the mistakes.
In addition, Fred's physical confrontation ability cannot play a role in protecting the back line. Most of the middle and lower Teams in the Premier League play defensive counterattacks, leaving a few strong and fast attackers in the front court to steal the counterattack. Fred's shortcomings can not play a role in quickly blocking the opponent's attack in the stage of attacking and defending, one is either unable to hold or catch up, showing the appearance of embarrassment.
So, in the last 2 league games, Lonnick has sent veteran Nemanja Matic. The old horse has much better ball possession and shooting ability than Fred, and during Pogba's injury, only Nemanja Matic can play the role of a backcourt brain. But Nemanja Matic has long been not the peak of the "horse forward", the decline in physical function has made him lose the speed and coverage of the year, and sometimes the reaction is also half a beat slower, resulting in passing errors.
McTominay played the top B2B style against Burnley, attacking and retreating, almost single-handedly supporting United's offensive and defensive conversion. But at that time, some people asserted that once they encountered a strong team, the defense was upgraded, and the space for handling the ball became smaller, the true color of McTominay's "rough brother" would return to the position. Sure enough, although wolves are not traditional strong teams, they are known as "BIG6 killers". Offensive constipation this season, but defensively powerful. In Wolves' well-run system, McTominay was once again mediocre.
Lonnick is good at high-level pressing tactics, and now he can't play the tactical elements he is good at, so he must be reinforced. If you can't buy it, this idea seems good. Ruben Neves is not worth much, 36 million euros, but the chances of Wolves letting Ruben Neves go in the winter window are almost zero unless United pay a sky-high transfer fee that the other side cannot refuse. As a result, Ronnick's more realistic targets are Amado Heidara of RB Leipzig and Bubacar Kamala of Marseille.
In short, Manchester United's battle for 4 is already very passive, in addition to actively seeking tactical changes, Lonnick has to look to the transfer market for answers, we will wait and see.