Jaap Stam has talked about how United needs to close the space between them, second-placed Manchester City and front runners Liverpool.
With Bruno Fernandes who came in as a new signing, United’s overall performance has definitely increased. However, he argues that United certainly need more calibre to bring about a change and potentially become a threat to these two clubs.
“There was a lot of talk about Ole when he came,” the 47-year-old told Goal. “He had that great run, then when he signed his contract and lost certain games people were a little bit sceptical about the choice.
“But I think everyone at the club knew that the players who had come in needed time to adjust to the club, the pressure of playing for the club and what Ole wanted to do.
“Now you see players are getting used to the way of playing and by bringing in Fernandes, a quality player, it’s given them that extra dimension of creativity going forward which makes it easier at times for other players to get on the ball and get into scoring positions.
“So I’m delighted for Ole that it’s getting better and better. Unfortunately for him it’s stopped now because for the last period of the season they were looking very good.”
He advises bringing in newer, more “quality players” over to Ole Gunnar’s side.
“Against City they have had a good run of results,” said Stam. “But you can’t look at individual games and say we can go for winning the league because we’ve beaten them several times.
“I think you need to be very stable as a team throughout the whole league, which Liverpool is. You need to play in a certain way now and build your squad in a certain way, then eventually you can build that challenge for winning the league again.
“If I look at it now, I think they still need some more quality players in the squad to make that challenge.”
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