There are not many midfielders available who would suit
Manchester United more than Arturo Vidal. The Chilean midfielder is just that,
a midfielder. He can be attacking, defensive and do it all in the way football
used to expect of the very best in the centre.
Manchester United buying Marouane Fellaini looks more
puzzling by the day. His cost is one thing but he also stated when he signed
that he wants to play as a defensive midfielder and expects that. Manchester
Untied already have Michael Carrick in a deep role and wouldn't need the two
and Fellaini is at his most terrifying when bursting into the box and perhaps
even when playing off the striker. Manchester United needed to add goals and
assists to midfield and if Fellaini only does that in an advanced position but
prefers to play deep then it doesn't really look like a perfect fit.
Vidal on the other hand does. Last season he scored 10
goals in Serie A and a further 3 on 9 Champions League games. He hot 8 assists
as well in the league and is a battler with it, Vidal is not some lightweight
floating butterfly, he's a real presence.
The Chilean was supposed to be signing a new contract all
through out September, he said he didn't want to leave and his family were
happy. September creeped into October and there's still no new contract been
signed and now there's a fall out. Vidal was told by Juventus that if he play
both of Chile's international games during the last break that he would not
feature against Fiorentina, so after featuring in both matches he decided to
get a later plane back to Chile which hasn't impressed hard-line Antonio Conte
one bit.
In a Tuttosport poll, 80% of Juventus fans voted to
punish him and he's not likely to start today against Fiorentina, which is what
the player himself thought was happening anyway and obviously wasn't very happy
with it.
This gives a little hope to interested clubs, and
therefore Manchester United but would David Moyes be willing to show he knew
he'd got it wrong with Fellaini? He may not have to, the Belgian could move
ahead of Carrick in the manager's thoughts for a DM. Moyes showed with his
pursuit of Leighton Baines that he's not afraid of upsetting established
players at Manchester United.
Culled from Sportwitness
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