ABU DHABI, 20th August / WAM / After two consecutive defeats at the beginning of his career in the English Premier League, Manchester United had no choice but to move quickly to support the team before the transfer window closed this summer.
The owners of the ancient club, who held the record number of times to win the English Premier League title, realized that there was no longer any room for experience or risk and that strengthening the ranks at this time must be with players who have great experience and are widely accepted by the fans.
This tendency was compounded by the controversial performance of the former Ajax defender, Lisandro Martinez, who joined Manchester United this summer in the team’s match once morest Brentford.
The new coach of Manchester United, Eric Ten Hag, who brought Martinez from his former team Ajax, had to change the player following the end of the first half to stop the flood of goals following Manchester United conceded four clean sheets in the first half.
But the performance of the Manchester United midfield in the second half was not able to react and adjust the result. Therefore, the club’s owners realized that the team needed a player who might become a “balance pomegranate” in the midfield and who might counter the competitors’ attempts to impose their control that emerged from Brentford in The first half, leading the team forward in an optimal way, which the team missed in the second half.
And Manchester United found its goal in the Brazilian Casemiro, who has tremendous experience with Real Madrid.
Although he is over 30 years old, Casemiro was the deal that Manchester United pushed strongly in its direction to resolve the player’s transfer to its ranks before the transfer window closed at the end of this month, hoping to get out of the cycle of defeats and stop the bleeding of points.
Real Madrid and Manchester United announced yesterday, Friday evening, that they had reached an agreement on the Casemiro deal, pending the official completion of the deal once the player obtains a UK visa.
Real Madrid clarified that Casemiro is among the players who left a real imprint in the club’s history, as he won with the team 18 titles, the Champions League 5 times, the Club World Cup 3 times, the European Super Cup 3 times, and the Spanish League 3 times, the King of Spain Cup 1 time and the Spanish Super Cup 3 times.
The club indicated that it will hold a ceremony next Monday to honor and bid farewell to the player, in the presence of Florentino Perez, the club’s president.
Neither club revealed the financial compensation for the deal, while news reports indicated that its value amounted to 70 million, quoting the famous Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano, who specializes in transfers, in addition to 10 million euros as variables, and that the player’s contract with Manchester United will be for a period of 4 years.
And the global “Transfer Market” website, which specializes in numbers and statistics for players and clubs, indicated that this financial compensation for the deal makes Casemiro the second most expensive player in history in terms of transfer fees at the level of players over the age of 30.
Only Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, who moved from Real Madrid to Juventus at the beginning of the 2018/2019 season, is surpassed by Casemiro for 117 million euros.
Manchester United is now relying a lot on the experience of the two players together, in addition to their experience of playing together in Real Madrid previously, to get out of the current setback.
Miralem Pjanic fell to third place on the list, as he moved from Juventus to Barcelona in 2019/2020 for 60 million euros.
With this, Casemiro set a record in the English Premier League even before the start of his career with Manchester United, where he became the highest-paid player over 30 years old in transfer deals to the English Premier League.
In second place on this list is Senegalese defender Kalidou Coulibaly, who moved from Italian Napoli to Chelsea this summer for 38 million euros, according to the “Transfer Market” website.
Casemiro now needs to bring his great experience to save his new team from the cycle of poor results as quickly as the club followed in signing him to calm the angry fans following the team’s 1-2 defeats by Brighton and Brentford 0-4.
