Regardless of enjoying their first aggressive league match of the brand new 2022-23 Premier League season, Manchester United are but to kick off their marketing campaign.
After being drawn to face Graham Potter’s Brighton and Hove Albion at Outdated Trafford on Sunday, though the Pink Devils suffered an abysmal 4-0 defeat throughout the identical fixture final season, there was restored hope the English giants would come away with all three factors this day trip.
It wasn’t to be although and regardless of United present process a summer season of change, together with bringing in new supervisor Erik ten Hag from Ajax, followers can be forgiven for feeling that this season already appears to be like to be a lot of the identical outdated story for the Pink Devils.
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A primary-half brace from Pascal Gross was sufficient for Potter’s Seagulls to return away victorious, leaving United’s squad with no selection however to go away the Outdated Trafford turf with their tails between their legs.
Following on from Sunday’s abysmal efficiency and end result, current stories have claimed the 20-time league winners are actually pushing to signal Bologna striker Marko Arnautovic (Sky Sports Italy).
The shock hyperlinks, which seem to have come from completely nowhere, have left followers shocked.
Arnautovic, previously of Stoke Metropolis and West Ham United, has been an honest ahead all through his profession, however he’s 33 years outdated now and hardly a family identify, and one one that feels United’s pursuit of him ‘stinks of desperation’ is super-agent Rob Segal.
“I couldn’t imagine it after I noticed current stories suggesting Manchester United have made a bid for Marko Arnautovic,” Segal stated in an unique interview.
“If any membership does that type of enterprise, there isn’t a method they’ll then come out and say ‘we’ve a long-term plan in place’.
“I simply can not work this one out and it’s laborious to not really feel sorry for the followers. One among their largest rivals, Manchester Metropolis, have simply signed Erling Haaland and right here Manchester United are, within the working for a mean 33-year-old former Stoke Metropolis participant, who can also be confirmed to be a problematic participant.
“It simply stinks of desperation.”
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