Lack Of Budget, Manchester United Hunt For Free Players For New Recruits

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JAKARTA - The new coach of Manchester United, Erik Ten Hag has not yet occupied the coaching chair. Even so, his work plan began to be taken into account by the club.

When they arrive at Old Trafford later, Ten Hag will make a major overhaul to concoct a slick squad. However, the plan apparently requires no small amount of funds and is inversely proportional to the club's financial capabilities.

Setan Merah only has a minimal budget to be able to realize Ten Hag's wishes. Therefore, the club was also forced to sort out free players to fulfill the team reshuffle.

Quoted from The Sun, Tuesday, May 10, the current interim coach of MU, Ralf Rangnick revealed that the club needs ten new players if it wants to appear more competitive next season.

On the other hand, Ten Hag was only given a budget of around £100 million or IDR 1.7 trillion by the club for player spending. This amount is much reduced from the previous budget plan of IDR 3.7 trillion.

Several senior Red Devils players such as Edinson Cavani, Paul Pogba, to Nemanja Matic are confirmed to leave at the end of this season. Meanwhile, Cristiano Ronaldo seems to have made up his mind to stay at Old Trafford.

With the rest of the squad, MU must be really observant in choosing potential new players. The minimum budget also makes them have to look for cheap even if necessary free of charge.

Learning from the current situation, the club continues to receive scathing criticism because with the large funds during the previous spending, the team's achievements were still minimal. The situation also made Lawlor and Marcel Bout who felt responsible decide to resign from their positions as scouting.

Now, Richard Arnold as the new chief executive can only target several free star players such as Paulo Dybala who recently ended his contract at Juventus. In addition, Ousmane Dembele could also be included in the list of next MU recruits considering his contract is running out at Barcelona soon.