He was one of the late spring’s most sizzling exchange properties. A veteran of Shakhtar Donetsk’s Champions League crusade and an extreme yet sharp focal midfielder, Fred had his pick of both Manchester clubs when the minute came to venture up to football’s first class.
Much the same as with Alexis Sanchez, it was United who won in their exchange tussle with neighbors City. Also, much the same as with Alexis, it is City who should now feel mitigated they passed up a player who has demonstrated pitifully inadequate at Old Trafford.
Under the eye of famously requesting director Jose Mourinho, the 25-year-old from Belo Horizonte has begun only six Premier League matches and, in the Champions League, the competition in which he made his name, has piled on a negligible 69 minutes of activity, all of which arrived in a simple prevail upon Young Boys.
The Brazil universal’s absence of playing time must come as a shock even to Mourinho, who successfully named his £52 million marking as the missing connection in United’s midfield when he touched base at Old Trafford amid the late spring.
The Brazilian assumed a featuring job in a generally disappointing pre-season crusade, running the midfield in the International Champions Cup prevail upon Real Madrid, inspiring with his quiet on the ball as well as with his readiness to search for the executioner pass, accordingly keeping the
Champions League victors on the back foot all through.
Consequent exhibitions, be that as it may, have been consistently disillusioning, except for a goalscoring betray Wolves in a generally dull draw.
Fred, rather, remained an unused substitute as United were destroyed by their adversaries, an outcome that makes a title test and even capability for the Champions League look rather idealistic at this moment.
Source: Goal and The Premier League
