TRUST ME, AARON’S A FANTASTIC FULL BACK

PEOPLE say that Aaron Wan-Bissaka has to improve going forward but I say he is a fantastic defensive right back. He should focus on his defending and become a brilliant Manchester United defender, one who keeps clean sheets. It’s not the case that because Trent Alexander-Arnold and Kyle Walker are two of the most outstanding attacking full backs in Europe, Manchester United have to have one too. I’ve seen Branislav Ivanovic and Cesar Azpilicueta be successful in the Premier League over the past five or 10 years and they have been very different to the attacking full backs. There is more than one way to win a football match. The one thing that I think Wan-Bissaka (below) should do is try to create a relationship with his right winger, whereby he can serve that player and his central midfield well. Roll passes at the right weight, to the right side of the player’s feet so that the attack can start. I have seen him left isolated on the ball at times, on what is a big pitch at Old Trafford. He needs that option in front of him to his right, inside to his left and a diagonal option into his striker. I always used to have those three options — whether it was David Beckham, Roy Keane or Dwight Yorke, or Michael Carrick, Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney. I knew where those three were and I was feeding it into them — serving the attack. But the idea that you are going to make Wan-Bissaka into Alexander-Arnold or Walker is never going to happen. So let’s not concentrate on that. Let’s concentrate on how he can support Manchester United becoming a winning team, which is going to be in a different way to how those other teams are doing it.