In today’s day and age, with news and opinions coming at us 24/7 via the internet and social media, when something happens people want to make their reactions and judgements immediately. Sometimes it seems that all semblance’s of patience are thrown right out the window. Story happens, you react, then we move on. Does it matter that often times we don’t actually know what the effect of what just happened will be for weeks, months, or even years? Of course not, we just react and put a label or grade on it anyway.
In comes Manchester United’s summer transfer window. After a summer of being linked with trying to sign just about every top player on the planet, United’s final day of the transfer market consisted of creating a very big mess in a the failed transfer of goalkeeper David de Gea, and spending £36 million on an unheard of French teenager.
Naturally everybody was quick to look at how Manchester United’s deadline day unfolded and label it an embarrassment. It was embarrassing that after an entire summer of knowing that David de Gea wanted to join Real Madrid, United couldn’t get a deal done and were going to lose him for free. It was embarrassing that despite everyone screaming from the mountain tops that United needed another striker, the club was forced to spend £36 million on a teenager, a move that screamed “panic buy.”
But now that we’ve had a few weeks and games to think about it, maybe we were a little too quick to judge them. Did we ever stop and think, maybe United had known what they were doing all along?
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