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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Samuel Luckhurst

Casemiro and Raphael Varane are driving Manchester United's reconnection

The only travesty about Casemiro's five months with Manchester United is he is yet to receive a chant. Bastian Schweinsteiger got one. So did Radamel Falcao. Angel di Maria received the obligatory "Ar-gen-ti-na".

When Casemiro's name is announced at Old Trafford, the applause is still not quite as reverential as it was for Schweinsteiger or Falcao, two crocks whose impacts can be summarised with a word starting with 'cr'.

Casemiro has bucked the trend of United's marquee additions. He has not so much hit the ground running but pounded it, covered it and dominated it.

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