The Manchester United Chronicle
Squad14 May 2035
Cole Palmer is carrying Manchester United
18 goals and a season average of 7.55. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market14 May 2035
Only the photograph left for Enso González
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Enso González will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Manchester United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings14 May 2035
Cole Palmer, 33, rolls back the years — 8.45
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.45 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market14 May 2035
Mateo Arrieta hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Manchester United can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 May 2035
Tempers go at Manchester United
Pau Cubarsí 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.
The terraces14 May 2035
The crowd has taken to Joseph Walker
At 17 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match12 May 2035
Manchester United find a way past Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough made Manchester United work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match12 May 2035
Manchester United make home a hard place to visit
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Player ratings14 May 2035
Harvey Elliott was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.13. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Looking ahead All roads lead to Manchester City
- Market No place for Enso González in the plan
- The dugout Pau Cubarsí gets picked when it counts