Popular fan figure Mark Goldbridge believes Manchester United should not have sold Scott McTominay earlier in the summer.
The 27-year-old midfielder joined Napoli on a four-year contract after agreeing to a transfer worth a reported £25 million.
The Red Devils did replace the Scotland international with Manuel Ugarte from Paris Saint-Germain, but the Uruguayan has yet to make a significant impact.
Mark Goldbridge regrets Scott McTominay sale
Consequently, Goldbridge thinks his team’s abysmal performance, particularly their 3-0 defeat against Spurs last weekend, has highlighted just how badly they’re already missing McTominay.
Responding to Kris Boyd, who told Sky Sports, that McTominay’s physical presence is what Erik Ten Hag is lacking, Goldbridge said: “Yeah….exactly what we needed against Spurs.
“Someone to pop up in the box when we’re being dominated all over the pitch and can’t get in their box.”
During his time at Old Trafford, especially in the weeks and months leading up to his departure, McTominay, who came through the Red Devils’ youth academy, contributed to several important goals.
Often arriving on the edge of the box and fooling opposition defenders, the 27-year-old’s ability to unsettle rival defences has already served him well in Italy.
Opening his Napoli account, McTominay scored the Italian’s fifth against Palermo last week, and the midfielder’s 77 minute strike, which saw him find space in the 18-yard box, was guaranteed to have reminded United fans what they’ve lost.
many utd fans saw the importance of keeping mctom yet when they aired their opinion in the toxic united stands chatroom they were shouted down by the arrogant little sh#* weasel that is goldbridge who was adament he needed to go and wasnt good enough for us,now here he is moonwalking his way around theses articles saying we need him
Mctominay is sadly missed but Hojlund is injury prone and a great big mistake along with Zirkzee why not go for proven scorers instead of hit and miss we should have bought Ivan toney and Rashford has morphed into Anthony Martial mark 2 We sold Alvaro Fernandez for peanuts and yet we have no recognised left full back too many of Ten Hags dutch amigos DE Light another flop we got rid of De Gea to replace him with a clown
Sir Jim should have got rid of Ten Hag who is as useful as Cyril Smith running weightwatchers