Ruud Gullit says £36m Manchester United star ‘joined the wrong club’

Chris DaviePublished Oct 5, 2024, 11:46pm|Updated Oct 5, 2024, 11:50pm

Ruud Gullit believes Joshua Zirkzee made the incorrect determination successful joining Manchester United.

The 23-year-old made the determination to United successful a £36.5 cardinal (€42.5m) woody from Bologna successful the summertime transportation window.

AC Milan had besides held extended talks to motion Zirkzee successful the summertime and earlier successful the window, the Serie A nine were assured implicit securing a woody for the Netherlands international.

Zirkzee opted for United aft talks with Erik 10 Hag but his commencement successful England has been muted with conscionable 1 extremity successful 9 appearances truthful far.

And Gullit, who won 9 trophies arsenic a subordinate for AC Milan, feels Zirkzee should person opted to stay successful Serie A for astatine slightest different season.

‘Zirkzee would person done amended to accidental yes to Milan alternatively of moving to Manchester United successful England,’ Gullit told Gazzetta dello Sport.

‘He knew Serie A and different mates of seasons successful this league would person been precise utile for his maturation but astatine a apical nine similar Milan.

‘Now alternatively helium is astatine a nine that has truthful galore problems and that does not facilitate his growth.

‘I anticipation helium manages to reverse the inclination aft an inevitable play of acclimatisation.

‘He’s good, nary uncertainty astir that, but astatine United, it’s hard to bash good astatine specified a infinitesimal successful history.’

Speaking past week, Ten Hag called for patience with Zirkzee, who has not scored since United’s triumph implicit Fulham connected the opening crippled of the Premier League season.

‘You person to measure the situation,’ Ten Hag said.

‘Still we are moving and are successful progress. We person made the prime to motion young players, similar past twelvemonth Hojlund, similar this twelvemonth Zirkzee, Yoro, players who we judge successful astatine this infinitesimal and besides for the aboriginal and we person to physique them.’

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