Touching: The addition of Christian Eriksen adds excitement to Manchester United

13 months after his collapse in the Euros, the Dane chose the new project at Old Trafford over a renewed connection with ex-Tottenham and Antonio Conte, this with the "approval" of his partner partner in the recovery journey.

His arrival restores the expectation and optimism to the Red Devils that have been missing since Ferguson's retirement

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07/22/2022

Friday, July 22, 2022, 3:35 p.m

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"Manchester United is a special club and I can't wait to start.

I have had the privilege of playing at Old Trafford many times, but to do so in the red shirt will be an amazing feeling,'' Christian Eriksen shared with the fans after it was officially announced that he had signed a contract until 2025. 13 months after Denmark in particular and the football world in general came to a standstill following his collapse on the pitch in the middle of the game against Finland at Euro 2020, the experienced midfielder will now open another exciting chapter in his career, in a plot twist in a direction that no character predicted until just a few months ago.

United was not the only option for Eriksen, and the final choice he even defined in the rooms in recent days as "the most challenging professional decision I had to make in my career", due to a variety of considerations: First, Eriksen felt personal loyalty to Brentford and the Danish manager who leads the club, Thomas Frank.

Frank coached him in the youth teams of Denmark many years ago, and while many teams rejected out of hand the possibility of allowing him to return and play competitively after his heart collapsed at the last Euro, it was Brantford (after extensive and strict medical tests) that gave him the opportunity to return to the field .

There was not a dry eye left in the stadium of the modest team from West London on February 26 of this year, when in the 52nd minute Eriksen came on as a substitute for the game against Newcastle in the most exciting comeback remembered in world football for many years, and despite being part of the newcomer to the Premier League for only a few months, the impact the professional,

Another exciting chapter opens.

Eriksen (Photo: GettyImages, Martin Rose)

While the wave of rumors in the current transfer window highlighted the Red Devils as favorites to take Eriksen, another player has come into action in recent weeks with a strong desire to return the "prodigal son" home to the place where his Premier League career began: Tottenham.

The nickname that stuck to him among the roosters was "Gulaso".

And although his departure to the Italian league allowed him to win the championship that he fantasized about in North London for a long time, the fact that his coach at the time at Inter, Antonio Conte, is standing on the lines of the Spurs now, strengthened the belief in Tottenham that the successful shared experience of the two in Italy, alongside the team's participation in the Champions League this season In the near future (unlike Manchester United), there will be attractive tools in order to land him back at the club.

Tottenham acted calmly and cunningly behind the scenes, and while the headlines in the English media declared on a daily basis the amounts and the length of the future contract that United would offer to the 30-year-old player, leading players at the club who cooperated with Eriksen before his departure, spoke with him several times to convince him to return to Spurs.

The last phone call that Antonio Conte made before leaving the team for the game trip in South Korea was to Eriksen, and in it he honestly shared with him his professional plans for the near future, the role and the great amount of responsibility he assigned to Dani, and especially the great feeling of confidence that this season the team is able to significantly offset the gaps from Manchester City and Liverpool and for winning the championship.

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The union with Eriksen did not materialize.

Antonio Conte (Photo: Reuters)

During Sir Alex Ferguson's long tenure, there were few times when a central player wrestled with a question that, at least to the outside world, was seen as rhetorical: "Should I join Manchester United?".

However, nine years have passed since the retirement of the legendary Scot, and on the lines at the "Theater of Dreams" is now the eighth manager appointed to the position since then (including temporary coaches), who will try to restore a crown to its former glory in a club that is - once again - at a professional crossroads.

Eriksen himself expressed his personal gratitude to Erik ten Haag, when the latter coached Ajax and allowed Dani to return to training regularly after Inter released him last December, and his final decision to join the Red Devils (who finished last season in a disappointing sixth place, 13 points away from the Champions League ticket) not only Was full of emotion or empathy, but stemmed from his personal great belief that at the current point in time he is able to upgrade Manchester United in several aspects.

And there was another very important figure that influenced Eriksen's final choice of United as his next destination: his partner, Sabrina Kvist Jansen.

Eriksen is a source of inspiration as a person and as a footballer: the star of the Danish national team, who gave Brentford the boost needed to ensure staying in the Premier League, is an experienced player in the European football landscape who needs physical and mental strength to return and play the game in which he has excelled for over 12 years.

But he could not have succeeded in the challenging journey without Sabrina's absolute support.

That day she was at the Parken stadium in Copenhagen and watched as her partner and father of her children, a professional athlete with an impeccable medical background, dropped to the grass and teetered between life and death.

The moments of uncertainty in which the captain of the team and the man who was defined as the central hero of that complex day, Simon Kiar, tried to calm and comfort the upset Kvist Jansen are mainly remembered.

Although after the start of the recovery journey, Eriksen pledged to Kvist Jansen that his days as a footballer were over,

This also happened when the race to sign Christian Eriksen intensified in the current transfer window, and in light of the many tempting offers that were placed on his table, the move to United involved not only changing the level of expectations from his new team, which is at the beginning of a manager's tenure with no experience in the Premier League, but also a significant family move of approx. -320 km north to an area where they never lived, unlike London where they lived for many years.

Simon Kier comforts Sabrina Kvist Jansen after the unforgettable event at Euro 2020 (Photo: Reuters)

"Eriksen will push the entire Manchester United squad to improve!", the official website said in the announcement of his signing.

In Ten Haah's debut season on the lines of the most stressed team in the Premier League, which in recent years has watched the huge gap that is gradually opening up between it and its hated rivals, and while the cloudiness of Cristiano Ronaldo's future raises a question mark about how the team will form and function, the addition of Christian Eriksen mainly adds excitement, anticipation And great optimism - three elements that hardly existed at Old Trafford for almost a decade.

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