'Traore signing is part of Man Utd's cultural reboot'published at 22:09 British Summer Time 5 October 2020
Simon Stone
BBC Sport
Amad Traore is someone Manchester United have scouted for quite a long time. He is very inexperienced. He has been at Atalanta for a while but he came over from the Ivory Coast.
He is the kind of player that Manchester United have been building towards signing - a young player that they can develop.
I hesitate to use the words Cristiano Ronaldo but they got Ronaldo as a relatively young player, he was a little bit more experienced than Traore but he was equally as young.
That is what Manchester United are working towards, this ability to bring in players and develop them into world stars who play for Manchester United.
That is the cultural reboot of United, which the club said they were working towards in the wake of Jose Mourinho's departure. That is what this kind of signing is aimed at.
Trarore's signing is more in line (with the cultural reboot) than someone like Edinson Cavani.