After their worst Premier League season in 2024/25 there would always be staff changes at Manchester United.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe is said to have offered the entire team of the first team for sale, is more a marker to let every player know that they are not indispensable, instead of a real attempt to load as much of the men's senior team as possible in one summer.
Man United has to strengthen this summer
However, it is clear that certain positions in the team must be strengthened.
To begin with, there are not many players with the willingness and ability to take the ball and run to the opposition with the aim of.
Amad Diallo would be the most obvious example, Ditto Alejandro Garnacho, although the Argentinian has recently gone off the boil, perhaps as a result of a loss of confidence from the manager.
Ruben Amorim seems to have a very clear idea about the type of player and the personality he wants in the team, and with that the 26-year-old Brazilian Matheus Cunha seems to fit the bill.
The former Wolverhampton Wanderers Ace enjoys positively to be able to drive to defenders, to be unbalanced by taking them on their own or withdrawing them and thereby bringing them out a better placed teammate to continue an attack.
Cunha's versatility is ideal for Amorim
As skilled when playing the hold-up when he is deeper, his physical presence, experience and application are all things that Amorim has missed from his attacking players since taking over the Dugout last November.
The attached image indicates that the amount of attacking ball he has made in the 24/25 campaign (441), which is only a shortage of the 479 of Bruno Fernandes, which demonstrates an interest in that area for both players.
Matheus Cunha Ball wears 2024/25Opta by Statspleform
Fernandes and Cunha had also scored the most goals last season (six) from outside the area.
Where the Brazilian becomes an essential gear in the wheel for United is with its versatility. In various phases from last season, he played as a main attack, central attacking midfielder, left wing player, left midfielder and right midfielder.
In the same 3-5-2 or 3-4-3 system that he uses to play at Wolves, set his ability to maintain every area with the same aplomb, Amorim gives an abundance of offensive options in the future.
Not forgetting that he is also a player who scores goals, something that the Red Devils apparently missed last season or two.
40 target involvement in the past two seasons
Cunha's 40 targeted involvement in the past two seasons also speak for themselves, and it is only necessary to see how evenly spread over the field are 1,764 accents about last season to see how much land it is covering.
Matheus Cunha Premier League touches 2024/25Opta by Statspleform
About where Amorim sees him best, much depends on which players are retained and which will be released this summer.
With Garnacho apparently more out than with Old Trafford, it would be no surprise to see Cunha in a wider position to start.
Bryan Mbeumo wants to move to Old Trafford
Bryan Mbeumo from Brentford would also seem to have offered himself to United, and although he is a completely different profile than Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee, one can see why he would be a decent enough fit in a front line in a new look in the theater of dreams.
He is not an attacker who plays with his back to goal and holds the ball up to bring others into play, but he can do this if necessary.
Although he can also play wide, it is central that his bread and butter is, and his pace of a standing start is deceptive.
As we have seen for a while, the excellence of Mbeumo lies in his ability to find out the last line of defense and to have the power to keep his opposite number before he finds the back of the net.
Something he did in the Premier League last season in the Premier League, and to put that in perspective, only Erling Haaland, Alexander Isak and Mohamed Salah scored more.
His 20 goals were also more than Hojlund and Zirkzee in all combined competitions.
Potential rebuilding is considerable
What characterized the sporting side of Amorim was the speed with which they could break or counterattack, and that is the only thing that had not had his united side so far.
In general they are slow and worked to build their attacks, and there is no 'zip' for their game. As a result, opposition teams have easily been able to put pressure on them, forcing them to play back to their defenders and to start the attack process again.
Manchester United -manager, Ruben Amorim, participates in the official training in the Bukit Jalil National Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 27 May Thanggara / Nurphoto / Slothterstock Editorial / Profimedia
In a new look United, the reverse must take place, and it must be the Red Devils who set the pace, check games and make the opposition work much harder to win the ball back.
The meaning of what seems to be the beginning of a rebuilding cannot be lost with someone, both those who work at the club and those who support them. It just has to work this time.
New beginning
Not only because Amorim has set his reputation on it, but because United is going further and further away from the upper table of Domestic and European football, and there will be no way back soon.
Cunha and Mbeumo represent a change in the guard and a new beginning, but they must be the start of something and not the sum of the club's ambitions.
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