Manchester United

Manchester United

The establishment of expected goals, or xG, showed, among other things, that the best goal-scorers score lots of goals mostly because they take lots of high-value shots. Finishing skill matters, but only at the margins. The ability to find space or create space near the goal, over and over again, is the unifying skill among all the best scorers on the planet.

"It's hard to know quite how seriously to take him as a genuine target at this stage, but Pablo Barrios is a player that I have heard Man United really like, explained Jones. I think the interest may have even come as a consequence of looking at Conor Gallagher. But, regardless of how they ended up watching him, he's spoken about glowingly at a few clubs and United are one of them.

I hate Mr Tumble. I was in the dressing room for Match of the Day and he was next to me. The reason I hate him - well, I don't hate him for what he does, it's just that I've had to sit through it four times with every kid. It's got to the point now where I just can't. He's the reason I've got the snip. I couldn't have another kid to go through it again.

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Sancho is on loan at Aston Villa until the end of the season, but his parent club, Man Utd, are keen on selling him in the middle of the campaign. Sancho joined Villa on a season-long loan deal from Man Utd in the summer of 2025. The former Borussia Dortmund winger has made 13 appearances for Villa so far this campaign, but he has not scored

Starting with the hosts, signing off October in the midst of a three-match winning run, it appeared that Manchester United had finally started to find their feet under Ruben Amorim's guidance. However, dropping out of the European spots and once again showing some glaring inconsistencies, the former Sporting Lisbon boss once again finds serious scrutiny on his position at Old Trafford.

AS Roma are stepping up their efforts to sign Joshua Zirkzee, with the Serie A side advancing in talks over personal terms as they look to make the Manchester United forward their top attacking target for the January transfer window. Roma are keen to move quickly, viewing Zirkzee as a priority addition capable of elevating their frontline during the second half of the season, according to Fabrizio Romano.