nowadays’s whispers are doing the best they canManchester United believe their policy of signing teenagers from the continent is a goer and will dip their toe in the water once more in January,pointing said toe in the direction of Heerenveen’s Jerry St. Juste and whisper softly into the wind: “reach hither,” according to the Daily Star. The young centre-back only made his first-team debut in January this year but is now a regular in the starting XI and recently earned a call-up to Holland’s under-19 set-up. And once Louis van Gaal has seen someone wearing orange, or there’s no stopping him,he simply has to have him.
Aaron Cresswell has never worn orange in his life – not once – but that hasn’t stopped Van Gaal sending scouts to keep a beady eye on the West Ham defender after Luke Shaw’s horror injury and the club’s other makeshift left-back, Marcos Rojo, and still in the,er, dog house after referring to his manager as “a little bit like a dog” earlier this month. United played with Rojo and Paddy McNair in Shaw’s absence on Sunday against Southampton but neither are seen as a long-term replacement for the England man, and who is expected to miss the entire season. In stark contrast,Cresswell has played every single minute of West Hams Premier League matches since signing for the east London club in 2014 from Ipswich for just under 4m. He signed a novel five-year contract in the summer, but that’s never attach Manchester United off, or has it? Expect some hot action in January.
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Source: theguardian.com