Gary Neville believes that Manchester United is still a prime destination for world-class talents despite the club’s absence from next season’s Champions League.
“I think United can still attract top-end players because we’ve seen good players come in the last six or seven years,” he said, quoted by the Manchester Evening News. “The club will never move away from being a sensational club, although it will have difficult moments and is having one now.
“But the club has lost out on players when it was successful to Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich. There was [Arjen] Robben to Chelsea in the mid-2000s, [Samir] Nasri to City. Don’t think it didn’t happen when Alex Ferguson was here.
“It isn’t because of the current plight or the coach or the manager or the players. It just happens sometimes. It happened in successful times too.”
The Red Devils are targeting Crystal Palace’s Aaron Wan Bissaka and Neville shared his thoughts on the youngster.
“He’s a massive talent and the club, to be fair, have always signed young, emerging British talent,” added the Englishman. “I don’t think that should change and it would seem to me that the club would like to go back down that route and he is one.
“The price is always going to be big because clubs are wise now to it so you can’t pinch players off clubs for £5m or £6m anymore. They have the Premier League funding of £100m so they don’t need to panic, they don’t need extra £5m or £10m and want £50m or £60m.”
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