I am abit late with posting about this since it happened a few days ago. Mikael Silvestre has been sold to Arsenal. Silvestre, who has played for United for 9 years, was not pleased with his lack of first team action. He had lost his place to Evra in the first 11. His injury last season didnt help either.
He has come back recently and played in various matches and played pretty well. He is an very good defender who can cover for left back and also in centre back. With the loss of Pique a few months back we have less cover. (Although we do have the 2 new Brazillian brothers who have done really well in pre-season).
The big surprise was that he was sold to big rivals Arsenal and also he was sold for only about £700,000. Sir Alex Ferguson has explained why he sold him:
“I could have been selfish and put Mikael in the reserves… but we are bigger than that. Mikael said he wanted first-team football. He had lost his position to Patrice Evra, so after nine years’ service, there was no point holding the boy against his will.” He also said: “He is a really nice lad and a great professional, so I let him conduct his own affairs. We knew the price we wanted and informed the teams who came in for him. He went up to Sunderland last Friday, and was very positive about that, then Manchester City came on to the scene.”
Thanks Mikael for 9 good years!
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