Souness blasts Man Utd's 'atrocious' £25m transfer cock-up amid 'industrial scale mismanagement'
Expert Graeme Souness has hit out at Manchester Joined’s “atrocious” send disadvantageous move by means of club principals defendant of “salable scale mismanagement”.
The Red Satanic forces offloaded academy point McTominay throughout last year’s summertime season send window as he joined Serie A colossi Napoli for around £25m.
The Scotland international was heavily affixed by means of exits in numerous send abode windows in days gone by he drifted Male Utd, yet he was one of their much better entertainers in a alarming 2023/24 project.
Despite this, INEOS chosen to assent his exit after spotting him as an inconsequential asset as they peeked to provoking funds for signing.
This judgment has a tiny backfired as McTominay has been in nice form for Napoli this period, nabbing 7 purposes and also 4 in 28 ganders.
Now, Souness has hit out at Male Utd for giving up McTominay, as they “ought to sorrow” this sale.
“Oh, how Manchester Joined ought to sorrow selling Scott McTominay, whose penalty lended Scotland a win in Greece on Thursday night,” Souness obtained up in his column for The Daily Mail.
“He’s a wondrous modern footballer. A high-power, box-to-box workaholic that chips in by means of paramount purposes.
“He was 27 years archaic and also not injuring Joined by means of his winnings once the club’s ‘judgment-tools’ believed it was a tough pointer to sell him to Napoli for £25m.
“They’d gone out and also spent £58m on an ageing, 30-year-archaic Casemiro, and also paid him £370,000 a week. As well as an additional £42m on Manuel Ugarte. Collective send costs of £100m.
“Would most certainly a individual at Joined please grasp their hand upward and also insurance claim: ‘This was my howl.’ Theorizing that it’s been an atrocious chunk of judgment.
“The perfect example of the mismanagement on an salable scale at that club since Fergie replete in.”
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Last week, pundit Rub Nevin’s panorama was analogous to Souness’, recharging Male Utd of rendering a “beast disadvantageous move”.
“I assume Scott McTominay was well worth £50 million in days gone by he taken off Manchester Joined. It was a beast disadvantageous move by Joined,” Nevin said.
“If you frisked any Scottish humans once he taken off for £25million, every individual went, you what?
“After what he’d been doing for Scotland after that period he’d possessed in the team for Manchester Joined once he immediately was switched over a caboodle further onward and also showed what he’s nice at in his ideal posture.
“But unresponsive from anything else from Joined, he was mirroring the liveliness every uncompanionable time we stepped on that mart that that club needs, that that club doesn’t have to be any place near the level they yearn.
“You’ve obtained Casemiro and also Christian Eriksen, great players in their time, yet their time’s drafted for upward and also you’re conquering McTominay? That’s purely loan. That’s entirely nothing else.”
