Manchester United have been warned that Senee Lammens is not the long-term answer to their goalkeeping conundrum by former Liverpool star Emile Heskey.
The Belgium Under-21 international joined the Premier League giants during the closing stages of the summer transfer window in an £18million move from Royal Antwerp.
Lammens was forced to bide his time and wait to make his first team debut with Ruben Amorim keen to hand Altay Bayindir a chance following the departure of Andre Onana.
After an error strewn display against Brentford, Bayindir lost his place and was replaced by Lammens who has impressed over the course of back-to-back wins over Sunderland and Liverpool.
Despite the eye-catching start to his United career, Lammens has failed to convince Heskey is is the long-term solution and he believes better options are available.
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‘I still believe Manchester United need to sign a goalkeeper in January, despite Senne Lammens’ promising start,’ he told BetBrain.
‘They are one of the biggest clubs in the world, so they need to attract the best talent in every position.
‘Just look at Man City – they signed Gianluigi Donnarumma in the summer, and he won the Champions League last season!
‘That’s a great example of a club recruiting one of the best players in the world in that position.
‘Man United need to regain that status and bring in a world class goalkeeper that can stay at the club for many years to come and reinforce the spine of the team.
‘That should be the focus for Ruben Amorim over the next few months.’
Amorim has been similarly cautious with another summer recruit, Benjamin Sesko, who started last weekend’s landmark victory at Anfield on the bench.
Heskey added: ‘Ruben Amorim hasn’t thrown Benjamin Sesko into the deep end just yet because he’s seen what effect that has had on former Manchester United forwards.
‘I think he’s sheltering him a little bit. But that can go both ways; United are winning games without him, so that might beg the question of whether Sesko is that great of an asset to the team.
‘Amorim would’ve had to have made his plan very clear to Sesko, because otherwise the player’s mindset might change and he could feel undervalued if he’s not as involved.
‘We all saw what happened to the likes of Rasmus Hojlund. The club has a history of signing forwards that don’t necessarily fulfil their potential and end up moving on – they don’t want another one of those.
‘The last thing Amorim needs is for that same process to happen to Sesko.’
