United’s desperate defensive injury problems were only heightened at Upton Park - the term 'down to the bare bones' barely does the situation justice.
Along with Vidic, Rio Ferdinand, John O’Shea, Jonny Evans, Rafael and Fabio all missed Saturday’s 4-0 win over West Ham, while Gary Neville and Wes Brown were forced off during the match to add to an already depleted rearguard.
“Losing defenders the way we are doing at the moment is a bit of a headache to us,” admitted the boss. “Nemanja Vidic was out with flu, meaning we had to put Gary Neville at centre-back and then he goes off after half an hour. Then Wes Brown came off at the end.
“I don’t know how we’re going to get a back four together for Tuesday. I’m hoping Nemanja will be OK and I will probably play Michael Carrick with him in defence.”
Do United need to start seriously thinking about signing a defender? They do have a number of decent of defenders but this injurie problem seems to be ongoing. There has also been worrying reports of Nemanja Vidic being unsettled at the club and possibly moving on, which would be a huge loss to the club.
Manchester United are reportedly lining up an £11m bid for defender Simon Kjaer. The Danish international has emerged as a target to replace Nemanja Vidic should he leave the club. The Serbian defender has 18 months to run on his contract and if talks break down it would appear likely he would be sold in the summer to cash in before his contract runs down. I personally think that its all paper talk and he's going nowhere and a new deal will be made.
Other linked defenders are:
Micah Richards from Man City
Gary Cahill from Bolton
Maicon from Inter
Jamie Richards from Plymouth Argyle
The question is do we need to buy or not? And who is the man/men for the jobs?
Mike & Kev
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