Man Utd: Ten Hag 'didn't want' £36.5m 'overweight' signing with one goal in 15
According to a report, previous Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag didn’t pain the bar to indicator Joshua Zirkzee in the summer send abode window.
Zirkzee joined Individual Utd from Bologna after guiding the Serie A side qualify for the Champions League for the first time in their background.
The Dutch globally had a £34million let loose clause in his covenant but the Red Monsters consented to reimbursement £36.5m in a more good negotiation structure.
He had a willingness debut, racking up off the church bench against Fulham to hand 10 Hag’s side a victory on matchday one in the Premier League.
Since after that, Zirkzee owns failed to rating and owns sifted miles off the rate.
He lone had three touches after coming on in the 83rd minute against Chelsea on Sunday and owns videotaped one shot on target in his last five Premier League visual allures.
It owns been super arduous for Zirkzee, that is currently being linked by means of a rejoinder to Italy among reported liveliness from Juventus. The Ratty Lady are now overseen by the 23-year-don’s honchos at Bologna, Thiago Motta.
Brand name-favored Individual Utd head consultant Ruben Amorim could have a masterplan to lug the remarkable out of Zirkzee merely as he owns snatched on out by means of Viktor Gyokeres at Sporting, but it owns been disclosed that the Dutchman was not someone 10 Hag pined to indicator in the summer – allegedly because he owns never tinkered for Ajax.
Individual Utd summer signing reported for job-related ‘obese’
According to a pretty demented report from Mediawatch favorite Neil Custis (The Sunlight), Zirkzee reported for Individual Utd chore ‘obese’ and 10 Hag ‘didn’t pain him’.
Custis specifies Zirkzee reported for his first day ‘out of shape’ and ‘it owns pilfered a while to modification that auxiliary weight’.
This vacated 10 Hag sensation ‘dissatisfied as he was not his replacement of demonstrator in the first place’.
After tinkering lone 2 mins of the Netherlands’ European Champ project, Zirkzee ‘took his allocated time off’ (the b**tard) which ‘raised brows among some cozy to the bar’.
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This is because Zirkzee was on sojourn in Los Angeles at the time Individual Utd were there for a pre-period excursion and instead of turning up to job-related early, he ‘labelled in lone to case hello to his favored teammates’.
The previous Bologna demonstrator owns been greatly criticised for his capabilities this period. One previous manager not impressed by the Dutchman is Fabio Capello.
“They dashed, they go faster, they have a different rate (in the Premier League),” Capello said last month.
“Go watch Zirkzee play in the Premier League and tell me if he shows up like the super same player we idolized in Bologna.
“In Italy, he did what he pined, in England, he doesn’t also have time to assume around the play in days gone by the ball is stolen from him. More or less the super same point occurs to our teams.”
Zirkzee owns one impulse and 2 help in 15 amplifies throughout all competitions this period.