That Jesse Lingard is still at Manchester United is a failure of the club's broken structure. In the summer, any objective judge would have concluded Lingard was surplus and sellable after a reinvigorating four-month loan with West Ham.
Sources close to Lingard suggested at the time United didn't really want to sell Lingard. That seemed odd. Lingard was 28, in the last year of his contract and Jadon Sancho was expected at Manchester Airport.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was effusive about Lingard at Derby, where he was bright in United's opening pre-season friendly. Solskjaer was adamant Lingard would have started the competitive season against Leeds but for contracting Covid-19 a week earlier.
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