5 players Manchester United should look to sign in January

#4 Alejandro Grimaldo

Alejandro Grimaldo

Another Spanish left-back is Grimaldo, formerly Barcelona’s youth team set-up. Instead, Grimaldo is playing his football for Benfica in the Portuguese league, where he is proving to be quite a handful in trying to mark.

While Grimaldo has only contributed one assist this season for Benfica, he is still a prominent attacker and overlaps his winger expertly.

There have been many clubs interested in Grimaldo, ever since his Barcelona youth days, but that interest has only amplified since his positive arrival at Benfica.

A key plus point to Grimaldo is his ability to take free-kicks and set-pieces, something United lack. While they do have crossers of the ball and Zlatan Ibrahimovi? on free-kicks, they do not operate at a consistent level.

Manchester United’s routines from corners has been declining for years, and has, arguably, reached a new low. They rarely pose a threat from the set-piece, even though they are the tallest team in Europe and have such powering figures in the area and so a player like Grimaldo could well fix that for a long-term solution, given the Spaniard is only 22.