If you want to select the European giants who have failed to transfer reinforcements in recent years, the Premier League Red Devils Manchester United is the well-deserved first, but in fact, buying people is not the most failed link of Manchester United, the club's sellers are worse, and the worst is the team's contract extension. Manchester United renewed a large number of players who could not be used, did not sell the cash transfer fee, but lost more wages, and finally the players fell into their hands, and the contract expired and left for free. Ivorian centre-back Eric Bai has become another negative teaching material.
In United's 0-0 draw with Watford, Lonnick abandoned England international centre-back Maguire, and the £80m Iron Guard's side on the bench was Phil Jones. The 27-year-old was once again abandoned by Lonnick, who had recovered to health two weeks ago, but neither was on the squad for the game between Leeds United and at home against Watford. He was given a ticket to Madrid, mainly because there were more Champions League substitutes and United needed him to make up the numbers.
Bary is now United's Fifth Centre-Back, behind Varane, Lindelof, Maguire and Jones. In his six years with Manchester United, there are 332 games, and Bai can only play 113 of them, less than 35%. This season, Bai may have struggled to reach the 20 appearances statistic.
This is largely due to injuries, with Bai returning to Manchester United from Côte d'Ivoire with an injury six times after international matchmaking days, just as he injured his ankle at the Africa Cup of Nations and hung up his free card as soon as he returned to Manchester.
But the most puzzling thing is the renewal process between Manchester United and Bai last year. At that time, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer expressed his dissatisfaction with the player's excessive injuries, but Manchester United suddenly used the priority renewal right to extend the contract period by 3 years. Now, Bail and Manchester United's £80,000 weekly salary contract expires in 2024, with one year of priority renewal.
According to United's plan, a new centre-back will definitely be brought in last summer, while Baii's contract expires in 2022 and has only played 15 games when it is renewed by mid-April. Instead of selling him, the club renewed his long-term contract. Bai has only made a total of 7 appearances this season, and he has started more times in Côte d'Ivoire than at Manchester United!
Aside from injuries, another problem with Bai is his style of play, and as a centre-back he is too adventurous. This style of play may have led to the impact of his savior in this game, such as the Champions League against Atalanta, but the next game is a sinner of mistakes, such as four days after the battle against Atalanta, he scored a oolong goal in the derby against Manchester City.
Bayre is unhappy with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's arrangement to let Maguire start anyway when he is in charge of Manchester United, and Maguire has joined the Red Devils three years late, but the number of appearances has surpassed Bai. Now that the two are brothers on the bench, Maguire is no longer the first to strike iron, and Bai's appearance order has fallen from 4th to 5th.
Britain's "Daily Star" said that Barca coach Xavi, who is recently building a Premier League squad, has taken a fancy to Bai and intends to arrange for the summer window to introduce him.
But United have bid a hefty transfer fee of £30 million, which Mourinho signed from Villarreal when he was in charge of Manchester United in 2016. The Red Devils want to recoup their costs, but if they stick to this price, I am afraid that the only result will be that they will not be able to sell.