Gary Neville is “excited” to see Jadon Sancho and Raphael Varane play for Manchester United, but he believes they still have one position to “sort out”.
Man United have been busy in the transfer market so far. They have signed Sancho from Borussia Dortmund and they have “reached an agreement” with Real Madrid to sign Varane.
These two players are set to cost the Red Devils around £115m plus add-ons.
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Neville has told Sky Sports (as cited by The Metro) that he is looking forward to seeing Sancho and Varane play for Man United:
“I think Varane is really exciting. Sancho’s exciting but it was almost inevitable that was going to happen.
“They needed to fill that right-wing spot. It’s been a bit of a problem for the last year or two. I think demonstrating patience and getting him, to be fair, was a bit more measured.
“United have become a bit more measured in this last two or three years. I think Ole has brought that to the club, they’re not getting players for the sake of it.
“Varane is exciting and I think last season, every United fan, every commentator, pundit, fan and analyst watched United and said, “They need a partner for Harry Maguire”, and they’ve got one.”
The Man United legend went onto suggest that his former club still need to “sort out” their goalkeeper situation:
“He’s a good age, got massive experience, he’s got a good centre-back alongside him. In fact, he’s got a good back-four,” Neville added.
“So he’s not coming into a team where he’s having to hold it together. He’s, you could argue, the last piece of the jigsaw in the sense that the rest of them are doing a pretty good job.
“[Victor] Lindelof did a good job, [Eric] Bailly did a good job alongside Maguire but there weren’t just that little bit extra that you need.
“And I think Harry Maguire will come out of this tournament with England strong, more confident than ever before, he’s got a great centre-back partner alongside him now in Varane.
“Varane has played at Real Madrid in the biggest games you could ever play in, World Cups, the lot, so they’ve got two brilliant centre-backs.
“If they can stay fit together… and obviously the two full-backs as well who have got great energy, both of them are great defenders – one of them is great going forward and Aaron Wan-Bissaka is definitely improving.
“I think just sort the goalkeeping situation out, settle that down, decide who is going to be number one and United are in a good position defensively and Sancho can hopefully bring that balance that’s needed in attack.”