Gary Neville believes Manchester United need to sign "two unique players" in order for Ruben Amorim's system to work. Amorim has tried to implement the 3-4-3 system he had so much success with at Sporting, but United have continued to struggle. He has won just two of his eight Premier League games in charge and the Red Devils are languishing in 14th.
And Neville believes the wing-back role is "fundamental" to the success of Amorim's tactics and that United need to sign two players who can "attack and defend equally as good" in the position". When asked which positions United should target in the transfer market, Neville told Sky Sports: "I could say centre-forward, let's get a world-class centre-forward, let's get Isak in, but that's never going to happen.
"I think if you were starting, you'd have to start with the fundamentals of this system, which is the wing-backs, they hold it together. If you don't have the wing-backs functioning up and down that are able to attack and defend equally as good, and there aren't many of those around, by the way, because there aren't many teams that play wing-back, then you're going to struggle.
"So you need two quite unique players in those wide areas, and I think that will be the starting point. And that's nothing against Mazraoui or Dalot, I think they're very willing and doing the job the very best that they can. But they're to me the areas that I would start in this system.".
