Jack Grealish, head and shoulders the best Aston Villa player, wouldn’t even join the Manchester United team if he moved to Old Trafford.
The 24-year-old was closely linked to a summer transfer to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s squad, and his future is surely in the air when Villa descends into the championship.
Grealish played a 2-0 loss at Liverpool’s last loss at Villa, with his team landing in the bottom three positions five games before the end.
Meanwhile, United is riding the crest, three points behind the third after Bournemouth’s 5-2 destruction on Saturday.
Mason Greenwood, Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford were all on the game report – as was the new talisman Bruno Fernandes – a quartet that has given United more attack equilibrium than ever since Sir Alex Ferguson retired.
For this reason, former villa striker Darren Bent claims that United doesn’t need Grealish.
“I can’t see him on this United team,” Bent told talkSPORT.
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“Just because there is no way on the planet, United could have them three in the middle of the park, Fernandes, Pogba and Grealish, because they would defensively run over everywhere.
“I just think you’re looking at the first three martial, Rashford and Greenwood, he’s not going to get up there.
“I’m not entirely sure whether United needs him in midfield, to be honest – he has all the skills, but he won’t take Fernandes’ place or Pogbas, and you won’t use him there – Pogba won’t.” I don’t really want to play in midfield. “
However, Grealish’s former villa manager Tim Sherwood believes the attacker is exactly what Solskjaer needs.
“When Fernandes goes missing again, he’s the link that keeps all these players together when they have to find a cute passport – Jack has it.
“He has that drop of shoulder where he can take a free kick at the edge of the box and then they bend it into the top corner and then the team has to come out and then they can use the pace players.
“They won’t play against the three of them in midfield, he’ll play lightly on the left. I still think they need another center forward
“It’s Manchester United, they’ll end up playing 55 games per season, they’re always deeply rooted in every competition – that’s the man I saw as a kid.
“When they got Cole and Yorke when Teddy went there, you would have said he would never get a game.
“You need players, you need quality in your squad, you can spin it, get players off the bench to influence it. I think it’s a great slide for them.
“Would he start every game? No, probably not, but it would give Ole the opportunity to rest other players. “
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