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Should Manchester United Let Eric Bailly Go? [viz by The Devils Den] Bailly Arrives At Manchester United Eric Bailly signs for Manchester United [via Daily Express] On 8th June 2016, Eric Bailly became the first signing of the Jose Mourinho era when he was signed from Villarreal on a 4-year contract for a fee of €30 mn. The promising young Ivorian was regarded as the "next big thing" at the heart of the central defence for Manchester United. But his ride has been rough in England. A host of consecutive injuries have halted the Ivorian's career growth at Old Trafford. The Ivorian Came With A Reputation Bailly established himself as one of the best CBs in La Liga [via BBC] Eric joined the Red Devils as one of the best center backs in the La Liga during the 2015-16 season and playing a key role in the impressive Europa League run of Villarreal seeing them progress to the semi-finals. With a United Defence which lacked a strong, physical and brutal defender at that time, the...

Man Utd name Darren Fletcher technical director and promote Murtough to football director [via FotMob] Manchester United Director of Football Yes, they're in the same sentence! For the first time in the history of the club, Manchester United have appointed a Director of Football . John Murtough has been promoted from Head of Football Development to Director of Football. Ex-Red Devil, Darren Fletcher takes up the helm of Technical Director alongside Murtough. John will have overall leadership and responsibility for operations and strategy across all football functions. Murtough presided over the recruitment reboot two years ago with Solskjaer and his work on the three fronts has seen him gain a reputation as a fixer at Manchester United. He has worked closely with  Solskjaer and the rest of the football staff to create the structures, processes and culture to deliver sustained success on the pitch. This has included successful overhauls of the club’s Academy and recruitment departm...

-By Hitanshu Samantaray "As a player, I still have a lot more to give and achieve in my career and to do that with Manchester United will be a huge honour." The Serbian Commander has extended his stay at Manchester United by three years until 2023 Let's accept this. We massively criticised Nemanja Matic for his inconsistency, immobility and unexciting style of play, and I'm glad that Matic has proved us all wrong, working on every aspect that he seemed to lack earlier this season.  Let's have a look at his season... A Woesome Start to the Season Spending the first three games of the season on the bench, virtue to a really poor finish to the 2018/19 campaign, it was a woeful start for Matic. By the start of October last year, the Serbian had featured barely in two PL games and notched up just 350 minutes of first-team football. Further agonising the issue, he was ruled out for 3 months due to an unknown injury through 20th Oct'19 till 15th Dec'19.  By the s...