Manchester United hoped they were getting a left back for ten years in Luke Shaw and they have. It has been far from plain sailing.
It was nearly five years ago that a former member of staff at Manchester United received a video of Luke Shaw being outsprinted by the club's new fitness coach Charlie Owen.
Mourinho had grown weary with Shaw's conditioning and questioned his robustness after he and Chris Smalling did not play through the pain barrier in the 3-1 win at Swansea in November 2016. The incumbent United manager Erik ten Hag last week said he would not "gamble" with a player's fitness. He already has with Shaw.
Since he was given the tour of Carrington in June 2014, Shaw has played in 275 United games out of a possible 558. That is less than 50 per cent of their matches over almost ten years. Shaw's relationship with Mourinho was destined to be fraught from their awkward sit-down two years earlier when Shaw and his family considered a move to Mourinho's Chelsea. Daley Blind, Matteo Darmian and Ashley Young all played ahead of Shaw at left back and Mourinho wanted to cash in in 2018. United vetoed that.
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