You could see what Paul Ince was getting at. As good as Casemiro was against Reading, Manchester United didn’t spend £70million on a 30-year-old to pull the strings against a mid-table Championship side.
This was a reminder of Casemiro’s enduring class and the last few days have been an example of a player freed from the routine of his mundane job at Real Madrid. He created two goals at Nottingham Forest, scored two against Reading, and is the architect and the wrecking ball in this United side.
But Casemiro won’t really be judged on games against Forest and Reading, as Ince was intimating in his post-match comments praising the Brazilian.
