Manchester United remains swirls in the Premier League around the plughole.
Rasmus Højlund (22, Denmark) and Joshua Zirkzee (23, the Netherlands) have not met the expectations at Manchester United. An important factor in the current crisis of the club is their alarming lack of goals – Nobody scores.
For a club that once had productive front men such as Van Nistelrooy, Berbatov, Van Persie and Cristiano Ronaldo, this pursuit is downright embarrassing.
Højlund arrived in Old Trafford with a substantial price tag – € 75 million from Atalanta – but has difficulty justifying the investment. With only 2 goals in 21 Premier League performances, the Danish international found it much more difficult than expected to score in England.
Manchester United is confronted with a similar problem with Zirkzee, which has only managed 3 goals in 26 league matches. After scoring his debut in August and adding two more against Everton at the beginning of December, he passed a long -term goal of drought, characterized by inefficiency, missed opportunities and a lack of presence in United's struggling attack.
Manchester United: A True Basket Case
Both players were considered exciting signing sessions – young, promising talents that were seen as diamonds needed to polish polishes. However, their fortunes have taken a drastic turn and the criticism has been intensified. With the expected goals but not delivered, they have fallen short of the high standards at Old Trafford.
Their struggles are becoming even more striking compared to Antony, who, despite being borrowed from Betis, has already scored twice, or Mason Greenwood, who scored 14 goals in 22 games in the French league.
Højlund and Zirkzee have left an apparently endless number of questionable and expensive transfer decisions in the spotlight, emblematically for the constant struggles of the club.
They are only a hair width of the relegation zone, with only 2 places that separate them from a really frightening battle to stay up. Against a bad Everton side they were 2-0 down and had to fight to save a point, with manager Rúben Amorim probably wonders where he can find solutions for the mess he inherited at Old Trafford.
New owner Jim Ratcliffe has also fulfilled no promises, which reduces the costs at the club by firing long -term employees instead of dropping the players' wage account. The stadium also falls apart, a real metaphor of the ailing club that cannot stop the spiral.
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