Man Utd legend Rio Ferdinand insists the Red Devils must invest in AZ Alkmaar midfielder Kees Smit as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
The Red Devils spent over \u00a3200m on five new signings last summer and it is set to be another busy transfer window for Man Utd in a couple of months.<\/p>\n
Man Utd<\/a> are looking to bring in at least two midfielders after neglecting that position last summer, while a left-back and left-winger are also understood to be on the agenda.<\/p>\n Nottingham Forest\u2019s Elliot Anderson, Newcastle\u2019s Sandro Tonali and Crystal Palace\u2019s Adam Wharton have been among the midfielders linked with a move to Man Utd in the summer.<\/p>\n But Ferdinand thinks AZ Alkmaar\u2019s Smit is the midfielder they should be going for as a matter of urgency with the Man Utd legend describing the Netherlands international as \u201cthe truth\u201d.<\/p>\n Ferdinand said on his YouTube channel<\/a>: \u201cKees Smit is the truth man, I\u2019m telling you.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0England secure fifth Champions League spot with Arsenal victory<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s one you go: \u2018I\u2019m buying him.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t have to be for now. I hope he does come in and takes the world by storm, but if we\u2019ve got to wait six months to a year for him, I do not care. We cannot let him go elsewhere.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve seen him play a couple of times now and that\u2019s all I need to see. I\u2019ve seen the clips\u2026 man. I\u2019ve spoken to some guys in Holland, friends. The kid has got it.\u201d<\/p>\n Harry Maguire signed a new contract to stay at Man Utd until at least the end of next season and Ferdinand admits he was wrong to tell the centre-back to sign for West Ham in 2023, when he was struggling for minutes at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n Ferdinand added: \u201cHe was tossed about I think he was offered to West Ham and various other clubs over the time and he said no.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I was one of the guys that was saying: \u2018go and play, go out and play.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I have to give him his credit. He\u2019s stuck by his decision, his determination, and his kind of stubbornness has gotten him to this point here.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE MANCHESTER UNITED COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 Marcus Rashford, who looks set to leave Man Utd for Barcelona or elsewhere in the summer transfer window, scored a decent goal for the Catalan giants as they beat Atletico Madrid 2-1 over the weekend.<\/p>\n And Ferdinand insists he would still have Rashford back at Man Utd with Barcelona looking to renegotiate the \u20ac30m buyback clause in his loan deal.<\/p>\n \u201cOh, what a goal, what a good goal, man.\u201d When asked if he would have Rashford back at Man Utd, Ferdinand replied: \u201cAbsolutely if Marcus Rashford is playing like that.<\/p>\n \u201cThat goal there is Marcus Rashford, right? That isn\u2019t a surprise. We\u2019re not sitting here going, \u2018Oh my God, did you see Marcus Rashford, what he did the other day? Never knew he could do that.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cNo, no, that\u2019s what we expect. That\u2019s what Marcus Rashford has made us feel is the norm with him, because he\u2019s that good, potentially, he\u2019s that good, right? It\u2019s just that we hadn\u2019t seen it for a while at Manchester United, and there are obviously reasons behind that, but let\u2019s forget that now, that page has turned, right?<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s now at Barcelona, 10 goals, 10 assists this season. What a loan signing he has been for Barcelona, if you look at it like that, and, so, would you have\u00a0that\u00a0Marcus Rashford back? 100%, right? But I think that ship has sailed and I think Marcus Rashford is looking forwards.<\/p>\n \u201cI think deep down, he\u2019ll want to go to Barcelona, and I just hope that actually materialises for him, because I think when you look at it like that, is he playing consistently like the Marcus Rashford that we knew before? I\u2019d argue probably not.\u201d<\/p>\n Ferdinand continued: \u201cIf Barcelona get him for the reported \u00a326million that we\u2019re talking about, and they get that version of Marcus Rashford, that is an absolute robbery, it\u2019s a steal.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, as I said, I\u2019ll just say good luck to him, I want him to do well, you know what I mean? Because I\u2019ve seen him grow as a young player at Man Utd, and good luck to him in that sense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man Utd legend Rio Ferdinand insists the Red Devils must invest in AZ Alkmaar midfielder Kees Smit as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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