Napoli midfielder Kevin de Bruyne has appeared to question the decision by Man Utd to allow Rasmus Hojlund to join the Serie A.<\/p>\n
The Red Devils brought in Benjamin Sesko over the summer in a big deal from RB Leipzig with Hojlund falling down the pecking order at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n
There was even less room in their forward line with the additions of Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo as Man Utd<\/strong><\/a> made a big effort to improve their attacking output.<\/p>\n Only four Premier League sides scored fewer goals than Man Utd last season with Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee only scoring seven league goals in total.<\/p>\n Hojlund left for Serie A giants Napoli on a loan deal with an option to make the deal permanent for \u00a338m in the summer and he\u2019s already contributed three goals in five matches in all competitions.<\/p>\n The Denmark international bagged both goals in a 2-1 win over Sporting CP in the Champions League on Wednesday with Hojlund pleased to hit the ground running in Naples.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Five reasons why Ratcliffe is right to pick Southgate as next Man Utd manager<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Hojlund said:\u00a0\u201cI celebrated touching the Napoli badge because I\u2019m happy to play here and the Champions League badge because I love to score in Europe.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was the night you dream of, playing in the Champions League. I don\u2019t like to talk about my performance, but about the team.<\/p>\n \u201cPlaying with an exceptional talent like Kevin De Bruyne is special. I just need to get into space and he\u2019ll get me the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n De Bruyne, who also moved to Napoli in the summer, got both the assists for Hojlund\u2019s goals and the\u00a0Man City legend hinted that Man Utd have made a mistake to move the young striker on.<\/p>\n MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 De Bruyne said of Hojlund: \u201cRasmus has a lot of quality and as a striker when you go forward you need that smell of goals.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s really important for him and the team. It\u2019s a great night for him and it\u2019s going to help us get more goals with him.\u201d<\/p>\n Napoli boss Antonio Conte said of their performance against Sporting:\u00a0\u201cSporting are a good, strong team with many key players. To win is a big achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n Sporting boss Rui Borges added: \u201cI\u00a0couldn\u2019t be more proud. We were competitive in a great game.<\/p>\n \u201cPlayers with the quality and experience of Kevin De Bruyne make a big difference. We are proud, not disappointed.<\/p>\n \u201cWe think game by game, so let\u2019s see. Tonight we had chances we didn\u2019t take, then Napoli scored the winning goal. The whole team had a great game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Napoli midfielder Kevin de Bruyne has appeared to question the decision by Man Utd to allow Rasmus Hojlund…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,794,19,17,23733,11,12,15,16,20,5,795,5278,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-98972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-home-page","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-kevin-de-bruyne","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-manchester-united","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-premier-league","25":"tag-rasmus-hojlund","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ud83d\udc49\u00a0Who will be the next Man Utd manager if Ruben Amorim is sacked?<\/a>
\ud83d\udc49\u00a0Man Utd technical team \u2018bemused\u2019 by Ratcliffe pick to replace Amorim at Old Trafford<\/a>
\ud83d\udc49\u00a0New Chelsea star Alejandro Garnacho breaks silence on Ruben Amorim treatment at Man Utd<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n