The Premier League Panel: Do Manchester Utd need to change their recruitment strategy?

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Which summer signings have stood out - and which have flopped? The Premier League Panel takes a look at this season's transfer business.

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00:00Welcome back to the Premier

00:10League panel where we're looking

00:10at how some of this summer's

00:12signings are getting on.

00:13Curtis, we've been looking a lot

00:14of a lot of the success stories

00:16so far.

00:17Who's disappointed you?

00:20I think as a team Manchester

00:22United haven't had a great

00:24window again.

00:25I think you'd expect big things

00:27from Xerxe.

00:28It's hard to be too harsh because

00:31you need time to settle.

00:32Hoyland took a few months to

00:33settle and then kind of exploded

00:35into life a bit more in the

00:36second half of the year.

00:38But for £36m he hasn't looked

00:40great.

00:41He's not really looked comfortable

00:43yet in the team.

00:44And another big one was Manuel

00:46Gatti and it just doesn't seem

00:48like Ten Hag really wanted to

00:50sign him.

00:51He's not got much football.

00:52I think the only start he got was

00:54the 3-0 defeat to Tottenham.

00:56And he was £56m.

00:59They're obviously in need of a

01:00centre mid but it just doesn't

01:02seem to be getting much football

01:03at the moment.

01:05I mean when you look at

01:06Manchester United signing,

01:07you mentioned Joshua Xerxe.

01:09One of the things I sort of

01:11thought about that signing in the

01:12first place was that they seemed

01:13to have signed him to play as a

01:14No. 9 to give competition for

01:16Rasmus Hoyland up front.

01:17But he didn't play No. 9 at

01:19Bologna.

01:20He played in a much more deep

01:21lying role.

01:22He wasn't the main man spearheading

01:23the attack.

01:24Then you look a year back and you

01:25look at the way they signed Mason

01:26Mount and then sort of tried to

01:27play him as a traditional central

01:29midfielder rather than either as

01:30a No. 10 or on the left wing.

01:32Do you think they're sort of

01:33trying to sort of put square pegs

01:35in round holes I suppose?

01:36I mean what do you make of their

01:37transfer work overall?

01:40Yeah it's not, they don't look

01:42very cohesive.

01:43Like they don't seem to fit in,

01:44they don't seem to play players a

01:45lot of the time in their best

01:47roles.

01:48It all kind of seems a bit mix and

01:50match.

01:51I'm not sure what goes on with

01:52their recruitment.

01:53I just don't think it's been very

01:54good.

01:55They just prefer Ajax far too much

01:57of my liking.

01:58They just keep going back to that

01:59well that's just dry.

02:02Yeah it's a funny one because

02:04players like Matthijs de Ligt,

02:06he is a good defender.

02:07I mean you don't play for Bayern

02:08Munich and Juventus without being

02:10a good defender.

02:11You don't?

02:12Well why is he allowed to leave

02:13then?

02:14Why is he allowed to leave then?

02:15So easily every time.

02:17I mean I didn't know much about

02:18his work at Juve but I know Thomas

02:20Tuchel at Bayern Munich when he

02:21was dropping him was talking about

02:23the fact that he isn't

02:24particularly press resistant.

02:26He isn't particularly good at

02:27getting the ball upfield quickly

02:28like the traditional centre-back

02:29stuff.

02:30The heading and the clearances,

02:31the tackling.

02:32He's fine there but it's that

02:33ability to play as part of a

02:34different kind of team in terms of

02:37fitting into the tactics and the

02:38scheme.

02:39I guess I just wonder if we're

02:40going to have the same problem at

02:41Manchester United.

02:42I suppose George I mean you can

02:44carry on with Manchester United if

02:46you want but who's disappointed

02:47you?

02:48Is there anyone else that you've

02:49been frustrated by or has let you

02:51down a little bit?

02:53I just keeps United letting me

02:55down because they signed Lenny

02:57Ioro because the only reason they

02:59got him is because they paid £12

03:01million, £40 million more than

03:02anyone else wanted to pay for him.

03:04It's the only reason why they got

03:05ahead of Madrid or Liverpool.

03:06And then a report came out saying

03:08that physically his knees are

03:11really poor, really bad.

03:13They're going to crop up more.

03:15It's going to be more regular

03:16injuries across the course of his

03:17young career just because of the

03:18way he's built.

03:19He's very gangly.

03:21And he's still got that Varane

03:23build but we've seen how he

03:24struggled with injuries over the

03:25years.

03:26And I think you're going to keep

03:27seeing regular injuries with him

03:28at 19 to 18, spend all that money

03:30on him when I don't really think

03:32he's going to get, like I said

03:33with that report, I just thought

03:35it looked really ridiculous.

03:36And there's so many better options

03:37out there on the market for across

03:39all the signings they made really.

03:40He didn't have to sign Dillit.

03:42I think they just wanted to bring

03:43in a name again at the centre-back

03:45and I think Maserati's okay.

03:47I think he's probably been the

03:48most consistent out of all of them

03:50but I don't think he's set the

03:51world alight.

03:52He can play left-back or right-back.

03:53I think that's really helpful for

03:54them.

03:55And when you're saying about

03:56Square and Roundhall, it's just

03:58the signing players and again, we're

04:00going, well, they could probably do

04:01a few more players in the next

04:02window.

04:03And we've said that every window

04:04for the last four years.

04:05They could probably do a few more

04:06players when that window is meant

04:07to be the window that solved it

04:09all.

04:10And the Maserati one will always

04:11be hilarious because the only place

04:12they can play him is in Bruno's

04:13position.

04:14They don't drop Bruno.

04:15So that, again, makes no sense.

04:17And Igarte's too small for the

04:19Premier League and he got dropped

04:20by PSG after three months.

04:22So I think it's hilarious how a

04:25club like that can just continue

04:26to fail in the window again and

04:28again.

04:29And it's just, just do what

04:30Chelsea do and go and buy a

04:31Brighton scout and then I'm sure

04:32they'll be a lot better.

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