OLIVER HOLT: Manchester United signing Casemiro will not shift their horror reality
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OLIVER HOLT: Manchester United signing Casemiro will not shift their horror reality

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The mere prospect of it is enough to titillate and to tantalise scholars of English literature everywhere but if Ryan Giggs were to turn his poetic talents towards the plunging fortunes of his alma mater, what a cavalcade of metaphors and similes he might unleash. Giggs’s trial at Manchester Crown Court — he denies causing actual bodily harm to an ex-girlfriend and assaulting her sister by elbowing her in the jaw as well as using controlling and coercive behaviour towards his former partner — has mirrored the mood of dark and unintentional mirth surrounding United at the start of this season. Casemiro is set to join Manchester United from Real Madrid in a £30million deal Erik ten Hag has taken over a ship at United that has been sinking for nearly a decade Not even Friday’s signing of Casemiro, one of the best midfield players in the world, can shift the reality that, nine years on from their last Premier League title win, United have become a laughing stock. Once an Old Trafford icon, forward Cristiano Ronaldo is now desperate to leave the club Brazilian Casemiro will link up with former Madrid team-mate Raphael Varane at United Casemiro is joining a club who are the whipping boys of English football, used as a punchline and a tease by Elon Musk and still reeling from conceding four goals in the first half to Brentford in west London last week. Avram and Joel Glazer have tried to rebuild their relationship with the fanbase several times More protests are expected when United face Liverpool at Old Trafford on Monday evening Too often, the club’s dealings in transfer windows have resembled amateur night.

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