'Big mistake': Robbie Savage says Man Utd really messed up when selling £25m player
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Manchester United's start to this Premier League season has been nothing short of disastrous.
The Red Devils sit 13th in the table after six games, and many of the problems that were present last season are continuing to persist.
Indeed, Manchester United's midfield is still way too easy to carve through, and the signing of Manuel Ugarte doesn't seem to have helped matters, at least not yet anyway.
Speaking on BBC 606, Robbie Savage has been discussing United's ongoing midfield issues, and he's claimed that Ugarte isn't a good fit for United.
Savage believes that Kobbie Mainoo needs to be partnered with a player who is more mobile, and, for that reason, he believes it was a serious mistake to sell Scott McTominay to Napoli for £25m this summer.
Scott McTominay sale a mistake
Savage shared his verdict on United's midfield and the sale of McTominay.
"He (Mainoo) needs somebody, and I'm surprised about them getting Ugarte, because Kobbie Mainoo needs someone who can get up and down, and I think that it was a big mistake selling Scott McTominay, I really do," Savage said.
Scott McTominay is missed
It has to be said that Savage has a point here.
McTominay, for all his flaws, was always a reliable option for United, and he scored multiple valuable goals last season that arguably kept Erik ten Hag in a job.
McTominay has started brilliantly at Napoli, and there is a real case to make that he'd be starting in this United midfield at the moment based on the respective form of Casemiro and Ugarte.
Manchester United just can't seem to get anything right at the moment, and McTominay isn't the only departing player who seems to have improved.
Indeed, it's a similar story for Jadon Sancho at Chelsea.
For some reason, players seem to improve when they leave Old Trafford these days, and that is a damning indictment of the manager's ability to get the best out of his squad.
