The Manchester United Chronicle
Market9 Aug 2027
Paris Saint-Germain watching Victor Osimhen
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Manchester United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Gabriel signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gabriel commits to Manchester United for another 4 years.
Market9 Aug 2027
Jarrad Branthwaite wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Manchester United hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Manchester United
Victor Osimhen 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Daniel Gore at Manchester United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Gore is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Manchester United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcus Rashford is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market9 Aug 2027
Diego León has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Manchester United can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Loan watch9 Aug 2027
Carlos Baleba has seen enough of Hull City
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Manchester United, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Market9 Aug 2027
The Marcus Rashford question follows Manchester United around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Marcus Rashford’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout Casemiro has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout A door opens for Ian Maatsen
- The dugout The manager comes out for Matheus Cunha