Several players regress once they join Manchester United, according to Michael Owen.
The ex-player feels former Arsenal player, Alexis Sanchez is a perfect example and the club has to move away from the idea of quick fixes and focus on addressing the serious issues at the club.
According to him, he still does not understand how Sanchez went from amazing to poor after he joined Manchester United.
He added that something’s going wrong fundamentally at the club and the managers are not getting the best out of the players.
His words, “I think players are turning up there and regressing as football players.
“I think that’s the most worrying aspect of it all.
“We can all sit here and agree or disagree, Alexis Sanchez was the best player in the Premier League for two, three seasons.
“I think we’d all agree that, he was brilliant. How can you go from that level to being so bad like that?
“You can go on and on and on. I can’t see any player in that team, in the last six, seven years that you think ‘We signed him, he’s now better, he’s getting better as a player’.
“If anything they stay the same or regress.
“So yes we can talk about signings, good and bad, but I think we’d all agree at some point I thought Alexis Sanchez was going to be a brilliant signing, we all did, how can you not? He was brilliant.
“It’s alright saying everything’s bad, but why is it bad?
“If you continue to splash money, Di Maria here, and all these great players – it’s not a coincidence that they’re all just going bad, or they’re bad signings.
“Something’s going wrong fundamentally at the club where they’re not getting the best out of them.
“I think that’s what you’ve got to find out first before you just go and blow another £100m.
“At the minute, as we’ve all said, there’s scattergun signings, there’s scattergun tactics, there’s scattergun everything.
“That’s why I’d be so hesitant if I was holding the purse strings at Manchester United just to go ‘Yeah, go on, go and sign another £100-200m player’ – it’s going to be a waste again.”
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