Alejandro Garnacho has been at Manchester United since 2020. He joined from Spanish side Atletico Madrid for £420,000 and signed a professional contract in July 2021.
The Argentine has been one of Manchester United's most consistent performers over the past year but has struggled to hit the same form during the first half of this campaign.
As a young player, there will be periods of his career and seasons when he falls in and out of form.
With how reactionary football fans can be and a major player for Manchester United that can be a lot of pressure on a young player's shoulders.
Over the past years and during difficult campaigns for the Red Devils the winger has been a light for the fans as someone they can look for as a man to lead them back to glory.
With Manchester United icon Cristiano Ronaldo being his idol, he has a similar style of play to the Portuguese; especially during Ronaldo's time as a winger at Old Trafford.
As many players during their careers, they will struggle with confidence and when a team is struggling together it can be difficult to get that form back to where it once was.
Why keep Garnacho?
- Garnacho is a homegrown player and helps Manchester United when registering players for European competitions.
- Is still young and has the potential to become a legend at the club, as well as help the club get back to winning leagues and fighting for all major competitions.
- Despite only scoring three goals in 22 games in the Premier League this season, he is underperforming his expected goals; this means that there are loads of opportunities for improvement.
- Has been a consistent performer in the Europa League this season with an average of 7.09 match rating (Via SofaScore).
- Hugs the left touchline and attacks the byline, which stretches the opposition's defence opening gaps for his teammates to make runs and having more space and time on the ball.
- With Marcus Rashford expected to leave the club and currently out of favour, there is a massive opportunity for the winger to make that left-winger position his own and make himself irreplaceable.
- Prevent the ability for rivals to get stronger and pull further away and get closer to winning a league title.
- Manchester United's DNA is built on scouting players at a young age, bringing them through the academy and making young players into superstars.
Why sell Garnacho?
Due to the club's high debt, there is a chance to reduce it and this will benefit not only the club long term but will benefit the fans and the rising ticket prices.
- The next couple of seasons for Garnacho could make or break his Manchester United career and with such a big transfer fee being offered it could be the best chance for the club to sell the youngster.
- The sale could help Amorim bring in players that are more suited to his system not only in the left forward position but all over the field.
- Despite having a lot of shots coming in from the left hand side, is quite greedy and been wasteful when in possession.
It is easy now to say that young players aren't good enough, with how fast football content is being consumed and comparing young players to other young players.
This is seen much more now, with Barcelona's Lamine Yamal winning the European Championships with Spain and being one of the Catalonia club's star players.
The best players in the world weren't what they were or are now when they were 20 years old:
- Mohamed Salah had five goals in 2012/13
- Gareth Bale had three goals in 2009/10
- Ryan Giggs had four goals in 1994/05
These stats show that even some of the best to ever play the game weren't producing insane amounts of goals at the same age as Garnacho right now.
