The Manchester United Chronicle
Market24 Aug 2026
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 The request is on a desk at Manchester United, and it is not being withdrawn.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 ratings24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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 dugout24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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 dugout24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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
- Player ratings Amad runs at them all day
- The dugout Senne Lammens does not fit this one
- Market The Bryan Mbeumo story refuses to die