Solskjaer trusts Leicester star defender Jonny Evans should in any case be at Manchester United.
Louis van Gaal’s choice to sell the center-back for a very less fee in 2015 has ended up being a curse for United. Manchester United chief Ole Gunnar Solskjaer trusts Leicester City’s Jonny Evans should have been a United player as he loves the club as well.
Solksjaer said ahead of United’s FA Cup quarterfinals match against Leicester City: “You know, Jonny Evans should have been a Manchester United player now, of course. But sometimes football takes you to other places when changes in management happen. I’m sure that Jonny Evans has feelings for Manchester United and we have feelings for him too. So it is a pleasure to see him playing as well as he does and we just have to move on. But of course, local lads – I call them local lads, you know what I mean – we want to build our next youth team on players like Jonny Evans if you like. With Mason Greenwood, Scott McTominay and Dean Henderson, and all of the lads, added on with top quality players of course.”
Solskjaer was as yet a United player when the Northern Ireland center-back was a valued academy player in the club’s foundation, making his senior introduction in 2007. Evans played in excess of 200 games for United before he was offered to West Brom in 2015 for £8 million, in the long run joining Leicester in 2018.
Evans has been one of the Premier League’s most reliable defenders since leaving United in 2015, settling on Louis van Gaal’s choice to sell him for as little as possible seems misinformed. Manchester United’s gigantic expenses on buying new center-backs since Evans left just serves to underline that blunder, as Harry Maguire, Eric Bailly, and Victor Lindelof have cost a consolidated £144m ($200m).
Maguire has set up himself as an unmistakable starter in the core of United’s defensive setup, yet there is a lot of talks that Solskjaer’s side could spend lavishly on another center-back this late spring.
