Michael Owen names ‘solid’ Man Utd star as Erik ten Hag’s best summer signing

Michael Owen believes that Noussair Mazraoui is Manchester United’s champion signing of the summer model aft the full-back’s agleam commencement to beingness astatine Old Trafford.

It was a large summertime of upheaval for United, who extended the declaration of under-pressure brag Erik 10 Hag but importantly revamped the club’s off-field footballing operations.

New sporting manager Dan Ashworth has taken power of recruitment aft successive summers which saw the nine splurge immense sums to small effect.

And contempt an indifferent commencement to the caller Premier League season, United recorded a much-needed 3-0 triumph against Southampton.

New signing Matthijs de Ligt notched up his archetypal United extremity successful the triumph astatine St Mary’s, but Owen believes it is the Dutchman’s erstwhile Bayern Munich teammate, Noussair Mazraoui, who has made the champion content truthful far.

‘I deliberation Noussair Mazraoui has started the play really, truly well,’ the erstwhile United striker told Genting Casino erstwhile asked astir the Moroccan who has started the past 5 games for Ten Hag’s side.

‘I person been truly impressed with him. We’re judging aft a mates of games, but it’s appeared to maine that helium has taken to the Premier League truly well.

‌’In the opening crippled helium made a mates of large tackles, large interceptions, large blocks, and looked comfy connected the ball. He looked beauteous coagulated to maine for an opening game.

‌’If that’s thing to spell by, considering he’s going to amended connected that arsenic well, past it could beryllium a truly bully signing. The aboriginal signs are promising truthful helium could beryllium United’s astir awesome summertime signing.’

While Mazraoui could beryllium a semipermanent solution astatine right-back, United are inactive deploying Diogo Dalot retired of presumption astatine left-back to screen for the injury-plagued Luke Shaw.

Although the Portuguese planetary has deputised determination to large effect, Owen believes the nine whitethorn dip into the marketplace successful January to find a full-time replacement for Shaw and earmarked Fulham’s Antonee Robinson arsenic idiosyncratic for the nine to consider.

‘Left-back has been rather a troublesome presumption for Manchester United and Antonee Robinson is simply a subordinate that truly ne'er misses a crippled and that’s the benignant of happening United need, reliable players,’ helium said.

‘They person a large subordinate successful that presumption with Luke Shaw, but injuries are evidently thing that you’ve got to instrumentality into information and arsenic a manager, you’d privation to bring successful a subordinate who has shown that they are reliable successful presumption of availability.’

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