After 85 days, Crowe returned to the Manchester United line-up on Sunday (July 31) in the evening warm-up match, hosting Vallecano. However, the 37-year-old Portuguese superstar did not live up to expectations, becoming the only Red Devils player to be substituted in the first half, which was certainly a shame for the soccer king.
This performance may have inspired Crowe's anger and he left the field early before the game was over. The likelihood of Crowe's transfer will increase further after this battle.
As United had just played a warm-up match against the Malaysian club the day before, there was a massive rotation in the lineup for this match, with only Crowe and Warani as regular starters in the starting lineup, and two newcomers, Kristian Aleksson and Ricardo Martinez, in the starting lineup.
The protagonist Crow, who requested a transfer due to his dissatisfaction with Manchester United's failure to qualify for the next UEFA Europa League, had previously missed the first five warm-up matches after United started their campaign, and did not make his comeback until this match. However, Crowe was obviously in poor shape after a long absence and only got a chance to shoot in the 12th minute, but failed to hit the target.
United manager Tannhäuser explained the tactics in the "watering hole", Crowe looked very impatient. The two teams exchanged a scoreless draw in the first half, and after the half-time break, Crowe was replaced by Amit Diarou, who broke the deadlock after only three minutes on the pitch, opening the door to victory for Manchester United.
Nine minutes later, Juarez Janu's Ewalu Garcia equalized to make it 1-1. United's last three warm-up matches have resulted in only two draws and one loss, losing the momentum of their previous three consecutive victories.
In contrast, Crowe's every move was even more dramatic. In the last 10 minutes of the game, he was photographed leaving the pitch already, it is not known whether he got the approval from the manager, Tannhäuser. But from the point of view of Crow's failure to move forward and backward with the team, his relationship with Manchester United has dropped to the freezing point, and his departure from the team seems to be a foregone conclusion.
