Senne Lammens

Goalkeeper - Manchester United
6 Nov 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Senne Lammens

4 Edition

The Manchester United Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Tom Heaton puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Manchester United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Manchester United — 7.68

1 for Youri Tielemans, marked 7.68, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

Words exchanged at Manchester United

Vinícius Júnior and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Diogo Costa

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Youri Tielemans’s goal not enough for Manchester United

Youri Tielemans scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Chelsea, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Market

Andrey Santos wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

No place for Miguel Lozano in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Manchester United are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Samuel Wilson left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

The first one for Youri Tielemans

Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Manchester United have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Manchester United Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Vinícius Júnior arrives at Manchester United in a $40.4M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Manchester United have paid $40.4M for Vinícius Júnior, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Market

Manchester United pay Porto $31.8M for a proper upgrade

Porto did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $31.8M for Diogo Costa, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Transfer targets

No deal for Josh King at that price

Manchester United offered $20.4M; Fulham said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets

Manchester United make their move for Julio Soler

$14.6M on the table at Bournemouth. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Everton come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Manchester United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Patrick Dorgu has said yes to Swansea City

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Manchester United have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Squad

A move Vinícius Júnior would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Vinícius Júnior is living that version at Manchester United, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Tempers go at Manchester United

Vinícius Júnior was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

Manchester United go back to the board over Josh King

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $22.0M — a club that wants Josh King enough to be asked twice.

In brief

1 Edition

The Manchester United Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $40.4M for Vinícius Júnior

Manchester United have gone to Real Madrid with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Manchester United make their move for Diogo Costa

$31.8M on the table at Porto. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

A career in one shirt: Luke Shaw

12 seasons and 296 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.

Market

Bruno Fernandes wants more than Manchester United are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Market

Lisandro Martínez attracts admirers

The name of Lisandro Martínez has come up in conversations Manchester United were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Bruno Fernandes stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Bruno Fernandes and Manchester United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Manchester United turn down Grazer AK for Shea Lacey

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Youri Tielemans in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Manchester United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Manchester United may not be able to give Lisandro Martínez what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Lisandro Martínez wants continental football; whether Manchester United can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

In brief