These are your evening Manchester United headlines for Monday, July 18.
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Manchester United are targeting Tyrell Malacia, Frenkie de Jong, Christian Eriksen, Antony and Jurrien Timber this summer, as they look to improve their squad.
Erik ten Hag began his reign as United manager on Monday as pre-season training kicked off, with the Dutch boss already implementing rules similar to those made by Sir Alex Ferguson. United are looking to hijack Malacia's move to Lyon with a bid in the region of €15 million and are set to make an improved offer to Barcelona for De Jong, whilst free agent Eriksen is also a top transfer target.
United are also interested in Ajax trio Antony, Timber and Lisandro Martinez as Ten Hag looks to raid his former club. So, if United were to complete Ten Hag's dream transfers this summer, what sort of impact could they have? Could the new signings help them win a trophy?
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We simulated the 2022/23 season with De Jong, Antony, Eriksen, Malacia and Timber in the United squad and this is what happened.
To set up this simulation, we used the Football Manager 2022 editor to arrange for De Jong, Antony, Eriksen, Malacia and Timber to join United at the start of the summer transfer window with Ten Hag as manager of United, using FM22 to run the simulation. Paul Pogba, Jesse Lingard, Edinson Cavani, Juan Mata, Tahith Chong and Lee Grant were all released, whilst Nemanja Matic and Axel Tuanzebe were both sold.
Ten Hag was able to fit all of United's new signings into his starting line-up, with De Jong and Eriksen playing in a midfield pivot behind Bruno Fernandes. Timber and Antony formed a strong partnership down the right-hand side of United's set-up, with Jadon Sancho moving to the
These are your evening Manchester United headlines for Monday, July 18.
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Manchester United's pre-season preparations have been thrown into jeopardy following reports over the weekend that Cristiano Ronaldo wants to leave the club in this summer's transfer window.
Defender Lisandro Martinez has admitted that he is "proud" of the way he developed under Erik ten Hag at Ajax amid Manchester United's ongoing interest in his signature.
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Manchester United continue to step up their pre-season preparations at Carrington and the club's biggest names have yet to lace up their boots this summer.
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