Man United shouldn’t be tempted by James Maddison’s availability this summer season.
That’s the view of former Aston Villa and Liverpool attacker Stan Collymore, who believes the Crimson Devils’ efforts to signal Mason Mount from Chelsea, which have to date proved fruitless, shouldn’t cause them to goal Leicester Metropolis’s James Maddison in its place possibility.
Maddison, 26, is ready to depart the King Energy Stadium this summer season after the Foxes had been relegated again to the Championship on the ultimate day of final season.
In line to observe Youri Tielemans out the exit, Maddison, valued at round £50m, is believed to be a high goal for each Spurs and Newcastle United.
What has Stan Collymore mentioned about James Maddison?
Nonetheless, whereas United regularly attempt to land Mount for someplace between £50-£55m, Chelsea, who’re digging their heels in over the midfielder’s £65m price ticket, don’t make it simple for his or her rivals to finish a deal, and Collymore is apprehensive that might result in Maddison rising as a back-up possibility.
“Newcastle are a membership trying to construct and take the following step, as are Spurs; so a participant like Maddison, who has nice credentials, equivalent to being a senior England worldwide, is a perfect goal,” Collymore mentioned in an unique interview.
“Nonetheless, relating to the potential of him becoming a member of a high-pressured membership like United and even Liverpool, no person is aware of how he’s going to reply but. Mount, then again, regardless of being simply 24 years previous, has already confirmed he could make that step up. He has a Champions League winner’s medal to show it.
“Maddison will go away Leicester Metropolis as the largest fish in a small pond, and if he went to Outdated Trafford, instantly he’d be a really small fish in an ocean – would he rise to the event and thrive off the stress, or would he shrink? – All it’s a must to do for an instance of what the latter seems like is have a look at Jadon Sancho.”
Regardless of signing for a whopping £85m (TM), Sancho’s opening two years at Outdated Trafford have largely been a disappointment. Scoring simply 12 objectives in 79 video games in all competitions, the previous Dortmund ace has did not reside as much as the hype that earned him such a giant switch.
