Manchester United have made a loan offer for Vitaliy Mykolenko. It has been stated from the Ukrainian media outlets that United will be looking to get the defender on loan in January and then buy him permanently in June. His current value in the transfer market is close to £12 million.
Manchester United’s mid-year spending has so far observed them procure Dutch global Donny van de Beek on a drawn-out agreement from AFC Ajax. The 23-year-old doesn’t give off an impression of being the main marking of Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s this year, notwithstanding.
So then who is this star kid who recently made his way to the national team as well:
MEN Sport indicates that Solskjaer is quick to get further fortifications, with Ukrainian global Vitaliy Mykolenko having impressed United. The 21-year-old is Dynamo Kyiv’s inhabitant left-back and a player with a somewhat recognizable style of play.
As a result of Dynamo’s childhood institute, he started his profession as a left-sided focus back, highlighting in that function for Ukraine’s lesser public sides. At club level, however, Mykolenko has quite often been utilized as left in a back four, regularly taking up positions more inseparable from a player conveyed as a wing in a five-man safeguard.
Mykolenko is a competitor above all else; a staggering sprinter, with a colossal motor. He has no misgivings covering the length of the pitch, embracing the touchline, giving width to Dynamo in the Ukrainian Premier League and UEFA Europa League in the course of the last three seasons.
He is a full-back more than equipped for covering the winger on his side and would suit Manchester United’s style where Marcus Rashford will in general cut inside from the left. Mykolenko is knowledgeable in serving as a left-winger in assaulting stages, extending rivals’ protective structures by hanging wide and getting to the by-line.
It is in these regions where he is generally perilous and best; his intersection being one of his fundamental ascribes. The physicality he has permits him to dash into fully open spaces down the left, into great intersection positions. From that point, he has various intersection varieties he will, in general, utilize, penetrating and skimming into the crate, critically away from the goalkeeper, or scaling the ball back to the edge of the case.
This huge swath in his intersection collection could be gigantically advantageous to United, a side who have various similarly invested players hoping to flood the container as play is spread wide or profound towards the by-line. Any semblance of Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial, Mason Greenwood, Bruno Fernandes – and even Paul Pogba with his late runs – can be destroying from inside 18 yards.
As not out of the ordinary with a 21-year-old who has no involvement with a best five European alliance, there are lacks to Mykolenko’s down. Protectively, he can be overeager and resolves to difficulties where he maybe ought to apply more genuineness and tolerance, standing his aggressor up. In the Premier League, against a higher type of winger, that could be something that makes him look nonsensical instead of indispensable in United’s guarded line-up.
Mykolenko’s flexibility and involvement with focal protection implies that he is focused with regards to his situating. On events where he might be gotten out, his speed, wiry figure, and physicality permits him to recuperate ground on practically any aggressor.
The Ukrainian is appropriate to five-man protection as of now, yet could be uncovered in a back four. A side like United who will overwhelm most installations would be a superior climate for him to get familiar with the better quality, with less one-on-one introduction and a more tight rearguard in help.
Solskjær will battle to locate a harder working left-back, equipped for tucking into a tight back four, yet additionally having the option to play expansively, for the moderately little expense in Premier League terms, which Dynamo Kyiv are probably going to order.
In front of the following summer’s European Championships where Mykolenko could star for Ukraine, United would be savvy to contribute now, regardless of whether there is no ensured beginning function for him starting at yet, instead of Luke Shaw or Brandon Williams.
