It’s been over five years since Javier Hernandez moved from Mexican side Guadalajara to the big time at Old Trafford. In that time he has won the Premier League and Community Shield twice apiece, the CONCACAF Gold Cup with Mexico and the Club World Cup with Real Madrid.
Hernandez has also made over 100 appearances for the Red Devils scoring 37 goals. But a player that was once seen as such a promising young talent and a future United star, is expected to be sold to Bayer Leverkusen, leaving Manchester United for good.
It would seem that he hasn’t made a good impression on Louis van Gaal. Chicharito was averaging well over 20 games a season in his time under both Sir Alex Ferguson and David Moyes but Van Gaal was quick to loan him out at the start of the 2014-15 campaign.
It was a move which may have been designed to test him at the highest level but one which has ended up hindering him. He still made a number of appearances at the Bernabéu but often came off the bench and struggled to score.
While he has looked promising at times early in this new season, he has lacked the finishing required and hasn’t been able to convert the opportunities he has had. This is something that I believe would improve if he was given time. But with a large error from the spot against Club Brugge it looks like he will be a Red Devil no more.
Perhaps this is the new United, a club that would rather spend on the world’s stars than nurture its own talent. But surely with deadline day upon us and only one other proven striker on the books, Hernandez would have been a valuable player to have in the squad.
A lot is riding on the new signing of a striker for United. If it doesn’t happen, a team that might have been title contenders could slip back to fight for a top four spot again.
With the goal scoring problems that United have been having this season already, you would have thought that they would be looking for more strikers, not less.
But with Robin van Persie gone and Hernandez on his way out this deadline day will be very, very interesting for the red side of Manchester.
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