A Premier League striker on the radar of Man Utd refused to dismiss the switch rumours when delivering his response to the hyperlinks.
Man Utd have a wealth of choices on the high finish of the pitch. Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford and Mason Greenwood can all play centrally when required, whereas Uruguayan veteran Edinson Cavani has surpassed all expectations on his first season in England.
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The 34-year-old’s performances have been of such a excessive stage that Man Utd moved to prolong his Outdated Trafford keep by one other 12 months. Upon doing so, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer fired a daring warning to their Premier League arrivals forward of subsequent season.
Regardless of their abundance of choices, the membership proceed to be linked with extra arrivals.
A blockbuster transfer for Harry Kane has been touted. Although that will seemingly swallow up the overwhelming majority of the membership’s summer time switch price range. Moreover, it could seemingly diminish the function of Cavani with each gamers extra suited to a central function.
A less expensive various was mooted final week when a report revealed Man Utd’s curiosity in Southampton hitman, Danny Ings.
The 28-year-old has excelled since leaving Liverpool for the South Coast. His all-action shows and medical ending have led many to consider he might simply improve the ahead ranks of a membership difficult for high honours.
Now, responding to the hyperlinks when chatting with talkSPORT, Ings gave little away and stopped wanting dismissing a doable exit.
“I’ve acquired a contract till the summer time of 2022,” he mentioned (through the Metro). “I haven’t actually acknowledged them [transfer rumours]. I’ve simply been targeted on every recreation. Finally, I’ve nonetheless acquired a contract right here.
“My fundamental focus is to complete the season sturdy.”
Saints boss Ralph Hasenhuttl was requested in regards to the rumours throughout his Friday press convention.
Committing to a extra hard-line stance, the Austrian insisted he’s “assured” Ings will stay at St. Mary’s subsequent season.
“I’m assured that he’ll stick with us,” he bluntly informed reporters.
Ferguson reveals trophy-costing Messi remorse
In the meantime, Former Man Utd supervisor Sir Alex Ferguson revealed a burning Lionel Messi remorse that he believes immediately prevented the membership from being topped European champions for a fourth time.
Home success was frequent, although proved far tougher to return by on the European stage. Two Champions League trophies have been lifted in 1999 and 2008. However Spanish powerhouse Barcelona prevented extra titles within the 2009 and 2011 finals.
A key contributor to the Purple Devils’ downfall on every event was, unsurprisingly, Messi. The Argentine scored in every match, although Ferguson believes the latter closing would have been very totally different if he had pulled the set off on a tactical change at half time.
Chatting with Sport Bible, Ferguson insisted tasking famous large match specialist Park Ji-sung with man-marking the Argentine famous person would have ensured a special identify on the trophy.
“That’s the place I misplaced the ultimate in opposition to Barcelona at Wembley,” mentioned Ferguson. “I ought to have modified at half-time and put Ji-sung Park on Messi.
“That was a mistake… I used to be going to do it at half-time, then I mentioned, ‘Nicely, we simply equalised earlier than half-time, they could see the sport in a different way, we could develop into the sport higher.’
“We have been really fairly good within the final 10 minutes of that half. We got here into it and we might have been in entrance.
“But when I’d performed Ji-sung Park in opposition to Messi, I believe we’d have crushed them. I actually do.”
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