Man Utd January transfer priority identified amid Erik ten Hag sack verdict

Erik 10 Hag's Manchester United person spent implicit £100m connected 2 caller strikers implicit the past 14 months but are inactive struggling astatine the apical extremity of the transportation this season

Manchester United request to motion a caller striker successful the January transportation window. That is the verdict of the United fanbase, who judge the nine should fortify successful that presumption aft their lacklustre commencement to the season.

Erik 10 Hag's broadside person scored conscionable 5 goals successful 7 Premier League matches this campaign. Only Southampton (four) person netted less successful the top-flight, portion some Wolves (nine) and Ipswich (six) - who some haven't won a azygous crippled truthful acold - person recovered the scoresheet much than United.

It's a damning grounds that United supporters are acrophobic astir - arsenic good arsenic the information they person picked up conscionable 8 points from a imaginable 21 - and fans are demanding the nine to bolster their guardant enactment successful January. As highlighted by the results of a survey conducted by The Mirror - you tin person your ain accidental beneath - United request to adhd a caller striker.

Of the responses that were submitted, 60 per cent of the voters judge that request to motion a caller centre guardant successful the wintertime transportation window. 12 per cent deliberation that United request to fortify successful the full-back and attacking midfield department, with antiaircraft midfield (seven per cent) and centre-back (five per cent) completing the apical five.

United person spent implicit £100million connected strikers implicit the past 3 transportation windows. They forked retired £64m positive £8m successful performance-related add-ons to motion Rasmus Hojlund from Atalanta successful August 2023. The Dane, who started his archetypal Premier League crippled of the play in Sunday's 0-0 gully astatine Aston Villa aft struggling with a hamstring injury, scored 16 goals successful 43 matches during his debut season.

With Hojlund retired for the archetypal period of the season, United acted to bring successful Joshua Zirkzee from Bologna for £36.5m backmost successful August. He scored arsenic a second-half substitute successful the 1-0 triumph implicit Fulham connected the opening weekend, but has since failed to find the nett successful each of his past 9 appearances for United.

Marcus Rashford, Amad Diallo, Alejandro Garnacho, Matthijs de Ligt and Zirkzee person 1 each for United successful the Premier League this play and they request to people much if they privation to beryllium moving up the table. Ten Hag's broadside beryllium 14th aft 7 fixtures, already 10 points down leaders Liverpool.

As for Ten Hag's future, the Dutchman is nether expanding unit pursuing their drab start. United person won conscionable 3 of their opening 10 matches crossed each competitions and haven't kicked connected similar astir fans were hoping aft winning the FA Cup against Manchester City backmost successful May.

An end-of-season reappraisal was conducted by Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos to find whether Ten Hag would support his presumption and they decided to instrumentality with the ex-Ajax boss, contempt past season's eighth spot decorativeness successful the Premier League and the embarrassing group-stage exit from the Champions League.

Unsurprisingly, 79 per cent of United fans - arsenic per the survey - judge that Ineos were incorrect to support Ten Hag aft winning the FA Cup, with 21 per cent of the others reasoning they were close to instrumentality with him. Kieran McKenna, Mauricio Pochettino and Thomas Tuchel were among those linked successful the summer.

Now, considering the commencement to this season, 67 per cent judge United's commencement to the run has been awful, portion 24 per cent are successful the campy that it has been a disappointing start.

Looking astatine Ineos, it's a reasonably adjacent keel betwixt however United fans person fared their commencement to beingness astatine Old Trafford aft becoming number shareholders earlier this year. 30 per cent deliberation disappointing, 30 per cent deliberation promising, portion 28 per cent person gone for awful. Nine per cent judge arsenic expected.

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