Casemiro: How will Man Utd line up with Real Madrid icon?

Casemiro is officially a Manchester United player.

After months and months of chasing Frenkie de Jong to no avail, the Red Devils have finally plugged their gap in defensive midfield which has yawned ever since father time caught up with Nemanja Matic.

The Old Trafford faithful have been tearing their hair out at the ineffectual pairing of Fred and Scott McTominay at the base of their midfield, crying out for the likes of Declan Rice, Kalvin Phillips and Boubacar Kamara in recent years to finally give their back line the protection it needs.

But alas, out of nowhere, United fans have been presented with a better solution than they could have imagined in their wildest dreams in the form of Real Madrid legend Casemiro.

A five-time Champions League winner who formed a midfield trio for the ages with Luka Modric and Toni Kroos, Casemiro has all the makings of exactly the player Erik ten Hag needs as a vertebrae in his United spine.

And while, yes, signing a 30-year-old on bumper wages probably isn’t the path that United really want to be taking in the long run, you’d still be hard-pressed saying ‘no’ to an undoubtedly world-class player.

However, given that United have had so many problems with their midfield over the past half-decade, how does Casemiro actually fit in and how will Ten Hag get his central players singing off his hymn sheet?

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Well, sadly, we don’t have a secret camera in Ten Hag’s Carrington office that would provide the answer to that question, but we have, nevertheless, tried our best to imagine what will be going through his head.

And the result is four exciting ways that United could line