Man Utd player branded ‘one of the worst to ever wear the shirt’

Manchester United summertime signing Joshua Zirkzee has been branded an ‘absolute imposter’ and ‘one of the worst players to ever play’ for the Premier League giants.

United signed Zirkzee from Serie A broadside Bologna past summer successful a woody worthy £36.5m.

Zirkzee scored 14 goals successful 58 appearances for Bologna and had begun to diagnostic regularly for the Netherlands erstwhile Manchester United secured his signature connected a five-year deal.

The 23-year-old guardant scored connected his Premier League debut but past went much than 3 months without a goal, yet ending his drought successful the 4-0 triumph implicit Everton successful Ruben Amorim’s 2nd crippled successful charge.

A brace against Sean Dyche’s Toffees failed to kick-start Zirkzee’s United career, however, and helium was brutally subbed disconnected successful the archetypal fractional of past month’s Premier League decision against Newcastle United.

Given his dismal spell astatine the Theatre of Dreams, Zirkzee has been linked with a determination distant from Manchester United conscionable six months since his arrival, with Juventus believed to beryllium funny successful a January deal.

If helium remains astatine United, Zirkzee volition look to get his United vocation backmost connected way and statesman to warrant his £36.5m move, though ex-Premier League midfielder Jamie O’Hara cannot spot that happening.

‘Joshua Zirkzee is 1 of the worst players I’ve ever seen successful a Manchester United shirt,’ helium told Grosvenor Sport.

‘It’s unbelievable that he’s playing for them. He’s an implicit imposter!’

The erstwhile Tottenham prima added: ‘Manchester United are perfectly unspeakable – they’re 1 of the worst teams successful the Premier League astatine the moment.

‘They’re atrocious astatine the backmost and their midfield is non-existent. Their options successful onslaught are unspeakable arsenic good – Amad Diallo is the lone subordinate who looks similar helium deserves to play for them.

‘I consciousness for Ruben Amorim a spot – helium did truly good astatine Sporting Lisbon and implemented a enactment that did good for them, but it intelligibly doesn’t enactment astatine Man United and successful the Premier League.

‘Does helium dice by the sword and proceed to play 3-4-3 erstwhile it doesn’t enactment successful this division? I don’t deliberation the enactment suits this league – it’s excessively accelerated paced and demands excessively overmuch from the players, particularly successful midfield.

‘I deliberation he’s a bully manager, but he’s going to person to alteration the enactment until helium gets the unit helium wants, oregon different helium volition suffer his occupation – the nine volition person to sack him if things proceed similar this.’

Zirkzee scored conscionable his 4th extremity for Manchester United successful past month’s Carabao Cup decision to Tottenham.

He did, however, people the punishment which sent United done to the 4th circular of the FA Cup and condemned Arsenal to an aboriginal exit.

Following that triumph astatine the Emirates Stadium, Harry Maguire reassured Zirkzee that the United squad were backing him to travel bully astatine Old Trafford.

‘I’ve had a clip for this nine wherever things are tough, and everyone seems to beryllium against you,’ the England defender said.

‘But 1 thing’s for definite is that the United fans instrumentality with you. When times were tough, they stuck with me.

‘That crippled against Newcastle he was the unfortunate 1 to get brought off. You could person subbed immoderate of the 11 players disconnected astatine that infinitesimal successful clip and they would person each got booed, due to the fact that we each deserved to get booed due to the fact that we were atrocious successful the archetypal 30 minutes.

‘He was the unfortunate 1 that the manager [subbed off] due to the fact that of the tactical nous of it. Kobbie [Mainoo] came connected and changed the crippled really.

‘It had thing to bash truly with Josh. He astir apt knows that and helium astir apt felt it astatine the time, adjacent though it was disappointing for him.

‘It’s a large ending that helium scores that winning punishment – and the lads had afloat religion successful him due to the fact that that’s what helium does.’

Zirkzee was precocious named by Manchester United fable Paul Scholes was 1 of 8 players the nine should beryllium looking to determination on.

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