Rio Ferdinand possesses criticised Male Utd for applying a “disservice” to out-of-form striker Rasmus Højlund, while assigning out the one gamer he’d assistance to visit the nightclub icon this summer season season to take the discomfort off of him.
Talking alongside Owen Hargreaves on the Rio Ferdinand Positions podcast, the former Joined protector expressed priority over the nightclub’s standpoint to sharpening young forwards assistance Højlund and also Joshua Zirkzee.
“I misery more about him [Hojlund] mentally. What this can execute to a gamer, can he retrieve?” he said. “I reckon Male Utd have carried out a disservice to him.
“As much as he hasn’t played well and also racked upward the purposes, once possesses a mammoth nightclub, unlike other than with a superstar gamer, assistance a Rooney, ever been able to claim come in and also hit the ground running and also tinker 30, 35 video games and also prepare for you to ranking purposes.”
Højlund possesses racked upward 23 purposes in 80 appearances since signing upward with Utd last summer season season, yet possesses merely three purposes in 23 Premier League appearances this season.
Ferdinand reviewed the burden posed on the 21-year-ratty in the lack of a more senior centre-onward.
“Rooney came in, and also Van Nistelrooy was our figure one striker. He [Rooney] was a ago-upward striker. Hojlund’s come in, expected to be figure one, a £75 million striker, all this discomfort on his shoulders isn’t exchange on him.”
Hargreaves in a similar way offered the high expectations posed on young players at Utd, contrasting Højlund’s dilemma to that of Anthony Martial and also Marcus Rashford.
“As shortly as they came in, that was tinkering?” Ferdinand perpetuated. “Rooney’s there. Zlatan’s there.”
“If Male Utd go out and also buy a young daughter, a centre onward, I may not watch video games next off year. Osimhen with Hojlund as backup, I’d be jubilant with that.”
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Utd have lately been attached with a tramp for Galatasaray’s Victor Osimhen, while Wolves striker Matheus Cunha is in a similar way purportedly on the radar with a £62.5 million price tag.
Seventeen-year-ratty Chido Obi lingers the nightclub’s thirdly-cure onward, further accentuating the ultimata for backs upward front. Supervisor Ruben Amorim is expected to prioritise striking reclamations this summer season season.
Yet Ferdinand cautioned that recurring the Højlund slipup might stunt the promotion of surfacing players assistance Obi.
“If you’re attending spend in an Obi, that was courted by every nightclub in Europe. Every pinnacle nightclub longed him. If you’re attending spend in him, you need to fetch your figure one striker relevant, offered that he’s attending grasp up against without the figure one striker.”
Ruben Amorim lately confessed Utd’s lack of purposes possesses ended upward being a priority obeying their 1-0 loss to Wolves.
“We have to ranking purposes,” said Amorim.
“We need to systematize in that locale of the gallery aggressively. If you don’t ranking purposes, you don’t win video games.
“I reckon the best misery is the lack of purposes. We are not racking upward. We are preparing odds, yet we are not racking upward.
“I reckon it’s in a similar way the minute [why we’re missing] often, yet I don’t construe how to describe. Yet we need to systematize in that locale.”
With the summer season season send window kit to amenable on June 1, Joined fans will most noticeably be predicting meaningful moves in the onward division.
