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10th May 2017

Manchester United fans are reading far too much into their new kit announcement

Getting ahead of themselves?

Darragh Murphy

Manchester United supporters think they’ve found an underlying message in Wednesday morning’s away kit announcement.

On the surface, it just seemed like the Old Trafford club was letting its fans know that the new away jersey for the 2017/18 season was available for purchase online.

But while the announcement explained the thinking behind the rather unusual design, suggesting it was a throwback to the United’s shirt of choice in the early 1990s, fans read quite a bit into the picture chosen by United’s social media team.

Two of the Red Devils’ high-profile signings from last summer, Paul Pogba and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, were placed on the left of the image while Ander Herrera, arguably United’s player of the season, takes his place on the right.

The remaining spot was left for goalkeeper David De Gea to fill.

Talk has been rife, in what has become an annual tradition, that De Gea is destined to join Real Madrid this summer and there have been suggestions that Atletico Madrid stopper, Jan Oblak, will move to Old Trafford to become Jose Mourinho’s number one in De Gea’s place.

But surely United wouldn’t have included a player in their kit announcement photo if he was set to leave the club in a matter of weeks, right?

RIGHT????

Well that’s the hope that this group of United fans are desperately clinging on to anyway.