“Looking in from the outside it became a little bit turbulent there in the last two or three years but they seem to be correcting that now and moving on”.
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There have been reports that the former Blackburn Rovers defender is willing to stick around and fight for his place, although, it would be extremely hard for him to break into the team as a regular and not just as a rotation player, considering the form of Eric Bailly and Daley Blind and how good of a season Chris Smalling had last campaign – which resulted in him winning the Manchester United Players’ Player of the Year.
“When you’re Sir Alex’s assistant for long enough, I presume you go through everything”, Meyler said, “and he’s not taking any short-cuts now”.
This weekend they travel to Hull City in a game that should be another easy task for them although Hull will have different ideas since this team has had a pretty good start to the season considering the club’s situation at the start of the season.
“As I said we’ve made enquiries, we’ve talked about a lot of players, too many to list to be perfectly honest.”
With Hull’s Allan McGregor facing fitness problems and back-up Eldin Jakupovic rather unconvincing, Hull have scope to bring in a new custodian and there aren’t many better than Marshall outside the Premier League.
“There are three things to solve at this club”, Phelan explains.
To be fair to Moyes – who was axed after less 12 months in charge – Louis van Gaal didn’t fare much better with Jose Mourinho now trusted to cast-off the giant Fergie-sized shadow that still engulfs the Theatre of Dreams. Is a takeover on or off?
“It will be a hard afternoon but the players are excited about the prospect of what is to come”.
Now, however, he is expected to have talks with Hull over a move there ahead of the closure of the transfer window on Wednesday night. “Nobody has yet come into the building, we have not yet signed any new players”. They are back in the Premier League this year and are having a surprising start.
“We’re getting ourselves ready for Manchester United”, Elmohamady said.
Yet despite all that, Hull, who only won promotion via the play-offs, have beaten Premier League champions Leicester and Swansea to join United, along with fellow heavyweights Manchester City and Chelsea, as just one of four teams to make a flawless start in English football’s top-flight this season. He had what United fans want to associate themselves with.
“Hindsight is a amusing thing”, he said. You expect that changes were going to be made.
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Remaining steadfastly philosophical about his exit from United in the summer of 2013, he added: “It wasn’t my decision to stay”. I was told that new people would be coming in with the new manager, and from that moment on you just set your own stall out to try and do something else.
