Buying players from the Premier League is a reasonable direction for MU after many years of preferring foreign goods. It is the players in the same tournament are weapons that help MU dominate the Premier League in the 1990s and 2000s. They were lost and now returning.
Almost all the important contracts of Sir Alex Ferguson in the early years of the Premier League were in this tournament. He wanted to buy Roy Keane right in the official launch for Nottingham in 1990. Andy Cole scored against MU on both home and away fields in the 1993/94 season for Newcastle, before joining the Red Devils with a record price of 7 million pounds in 1995.
Henning Berg has won the Premier League with Blackburn, and Teddy Sheringham was once MU's horror in the pathetic defeat in the new year at White Hart Lane. Meanwhile, Dwight Yorke is the author of one of MU's most scandalous defeat at Villa Park in August 1995.
MU not only dominated the 1990s on the pitch, but also on the British transfer market. When Ferguson decided to buy a striker in 1995, he considered Andy Cole, Les Ferdinand and Stan Collymore. And at the end of that year, Ferdinand and Collymore moved to Newcastle and Liverpool.
At that time, MU had the best choice. Now, after the proposal for Bryan Mbeumo, they know that they cannot only hunt in top clubs, especially a wise management club like Brentford. This list also lasted until the 2000s, both success and failure, including: David Bellion, Louis Saha, Alan Smith, Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tevez, Dimitar Berbatov and Antonio Valencia.
Coach Chris Coleman tried to fight when MU wanted to take Saha from Fulham. “My body has stepped through,” he declared but Saha was still sold and Coleman was still … alive when Saha left the price £ 12.6 million in January 2004. Villa's coach John Gregory in 1998 was much more hot -tempered. “If I have a gun, I shot him to death,” he admitted to knowing that Yorke wanted to leave.
MU has largely stayed away from the rookie of the Premier League in recent years, after the Ineos group came to Old Trafford. Coach Erik Ten Hag does not like to use Premier League, or very reluctant. He chose Mason Mount, an exception and inappropriate player.
After MU spent £ 80 million to turn Harry Maguire into the world's most expensive defender in 2019, they did not buy a player from a Premier League club to Mount's case 4 years later. Cristiano Ronaldo originated from the Premier League but it has been 13 years of absence here. Christian Eriksen, a free player, proved that he could still maintain his own performance for a short time with Brentford.
The top three goals of MU this summer are from the Premier League clubs. The terms of Matheus CunHa's contract release makes the transfer worth £ 62.5 million from Wolves easily, Mbeumo wants to join MU but Liam Delap refused.
All three show well when confronting MU. “Cunha surprised the crowd with two skilled balls, the second phase was blocked by Fernandes. CuHa would match Amorim's 3-4-3 diagram, a diagram that too many players were inappropriate,” a newspaper wrote about the confrontation between the two teams in the previous season.
Some skeptical people believe that MU's transfer strategy is reflecting Everton's strategy under Ronald Koeman. During the summer of 2016 and 2017, Everton bought Ashley Williams, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Yannick Bolasie, Michael Keane and Jordan Pickford, both of the best players at mid -range clubs in the Premier League.
During the period between those transfer, Everton drew 1-1 at Old Trafford and Koeman commented that he was “more comfortable” when confronted with MU compared to Liverpool. 5 months later, when returning to that football field, Everton was defeated by MU 0-4.
Jose Mourinho satirized: “Today, MU has a difficult match because he has to confront a team that spent £ 140 million.” That made Koeman angry at a press conference after the match and he alleged Mourinho was not realistic. Koeman was fired a month later.
MU bought an Everton player in the summer that Romelu Lukaku. The Belgian striker scored 26 goals for Everton, and also scored 28 goals in his first season at MU. Of course, Lukaku once recorded a hat-trick against Ferguson's MU net when wearing West Brom. But Ferguson did not buy Lukaku because at the end of that season, he announced his retirement.
