Garnacho stance will help United to end bad habits

By listening to offers for the Argentine forward, Old Trafford chiefs are boosting the club’s flexibility in the transfer market

- PETE HALL

One of the many areas Manchester United have fallen behind noisy neighbours Manchester City in recent years is their inability to sell players at the right time.

While City year after year generate hundreds of millions on player sales, some from their academy, hence their strong PSR position, United cling onto players far too long, reluctant to part ways with talent their have nurtured themselves especially. It was not all that long ago Jesse Lingard, Paul Pogba and Romelu Lukaku all left for nothing in one summer.

The possibility of selling one of their own, Alejandro Garnacho, has angered much of the club’s fanbase. The club have, however, been tempted to part ways, and for good reason. Garnacho is not an ideal fit in Amorim’s system. The new United boss likes the width in his side to come from wing backs, and the Argentine is simply not disciplined enough to fulfil those needs.

The PSR benefits, where selling an academy graduate represents 100 per cent profit on the balance sheet in this warped new world, appeal at a time when, in the transfer market at least, new co-owners Ineos are looking down the back of the sofa for whatever change they can scrape together.