Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is \u201cshocked\u201d Scott McTominay was sold by Manchester United amid the Red Devils\u2019 \u2018concrete interest\u2019 in re-signing the midfielder from Napoli.<\/p>\n
McTominay<\/a> made 255 appearances for United, including 115 under Solskjaer in his time at Old Trafford, before moving to Napoli in the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n The Scot was named Serie A Player of the Year in his debut season as he helped Napoli to the Scudetto, and a report on Wednesday claimed United have \u2018concrete interest\u2019 in his return and are preparing an \u2019emotional bid\u2019 to re-sign him<\/a>.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Patrick Dorgu isn\u2019t \u2018a dud\u2019 and Man Utd should be embarrassed for trusting the man who thinks he is<\/a><\/p>\n And Solskjaer is surprised he was allowed to leave Old Trafford and wouldn\u2019t have been sold in the Sir Alex Ferguson era.<\/p>\n \u201cI was almost shocked because you need or want a core of the local lads, ones who get the club. Scott did,\u201d he said on the Stick to Football podcast.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, I think he\u2019s shown in Italy how good of a player he is. His character, personality around the place, he sets the standards and he\u2019d survive when we played 100 per cent.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was voted Serie A Player of the Year last year and won the league with Napoli so he\u2019s one of them that you only know when you\u2019ve got him, how good he is and how important he can be.<\/p>\n \u201cIn my squad, Scotty probably wasn\u2019t allowed to play in his best position enough, yeah [because of] Bruno and maybe the lack of physicality that we had.<\/p>\n \u201cYou saw a couple of games against Leeds, we said: \u2018Scott, this is a man-to-man game, we want you running through as a third man,\u2019 and he scored, two or three, I can\u2019t remember how many goals he scored against Leeds. That\u2019s probably a reason because we think of him as\u2026 he\u2019s one of the eights. Great physicality.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE ON MAN UTD FROM F365: But former United captain Roy Keane believes his \u00a330m sale was \u201cnot a bad deal\u201d for United.<\/p>\n Keane said: \u201cI\u2019m always wary when lads leave, for a club like Napoli now but it\u2019s a different challenge to Man United and he\u2019s done well.<\/p>\n \u201cGood luck to the lad but I still wasn\u2019t hanging my hat on him every week going, \u2018He will be the lad that will bring Man United back.\u2019 When you\u2019re classing him as a squad player and someone says, \u2018Here\u2019s \u00a330m,\u2019 it\u2019s not a bad deal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is \u201cshocked\u201d Scott McTominay was sold by Manchester United amid the Red Devils\u2019 \u2018concrete interest\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,585,1525,44,53958,40763,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-282063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-roy-keane","15":"tag-scott-mctominay","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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