The Manchester United Chronicle
Player ratings20 Aug 2035
Nobody could get near Amad
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad20 Aug 2035
A one-man rearguard from Senne Lammens
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market20 Aug 2035
Preston 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.
Squad20 Aug 2035
Bryan Mbeumo 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.
Market20 Aug 2035
Michael Fisher 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 The request is on a desk at Manchester United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad20 Aug 2035
Oliver Wilkinson gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Oliver Wilkinson has just signed for Manchester United, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad20 Aug 2035
Real improvement from Robert Shaw at Manchester United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Robert Shaw is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom20 Aug 2035
9 academy players handed senior numbers at Manchester United
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market20 Aug 2035
One of our own: Oliver Lawrence joins the Manchester United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Oliver Lawrence is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Manchester United promote Jack Harris from within
- Match Bryan Mbeumo the difference as Manchester United beat Hull City
- Boardroom A promise the Manchester United board did not keep