Manchester United legend, Paul Scholes has called out six players over the club’s poor start to the 2024-2025 campaign.
Scholes believes the likes of Bruno Fernandes, Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho, Joshua Zirkzee, Rasmus Hojlund and Amad Diallo need to step up their game for the Red Devils.
According to him, they are not good enough in terms of scoring goals.
This is coming after Erik ten Hag’s side dropped points in their last game against Crystal Palace in the Premier League after playing a 0-0 draw.
Speaking on the Overlap fan debate, the former England international said:
“Manchester United are struggling going forward – they are struggling for goals. They have scored five goals and three of them were against Southampton, that probably tells you the forwards [Bruno Fernandes, Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho and Rasmus Hojlund] just are not good enough.”
“Leaving Marcus Rashford out on Saturday was a strange one – he’s not scored for such a long time and suddenly, he comes and scores three goals in two games and he’s not playing.
“Alejandro Garnacho is a threat but he’s not the end article and we don’t have that finished article in any of the forward areas, apart from Marcus Rashford who’s had a tough time.
“Bruno [Fernandes] will score you goals, but they don’t have the centre-forward [that they need]. Amad Diallo is a little bit like Garnacho – he’s a little bit behind him.
“You think of [Rasmus] Højlund last year, again, it’s potential I’m not looking at him thinking, ‘Wow, we’ve got a centre-forward here, 25-30 goals.’ I’m not thinking that. [Joshua] Zirkzee does bring people into play a lot more than Højlund does, but is he that massive goal threat?”
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