{"id":300646,"date":"2025-07-29T07:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300646\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T07:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:48:16","slug":"manchester-united-ollie-watkins-and-benjamin-sesko-top-of-striker-wishlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300646\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United: Ollie Watkins and Benjamin Sesko top of striker wishlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

At present, Rasmus Hojlund, who struggled last season scoring just 10 goals in 52 games, is Ruben Amorim’s first choice centre forward.<\/p>\n

Amorim praised the Dane for his performance in Saturday’s 2-1 win over West Ham<\/a> at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey and the \u00a372m man did well to use his pace and power to create an opportunity for himself which struck the outside of a post.<\/p>\n

However, he has yet to score in two pre-season appearances and one missed first-half chance in particular drew a frustrated reaction from his boss.<\/p>\n

United have so far signed three players this summer, spending almost \u00a3130m on attacking duo Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo, who could also play as a central striker but are thought more likely to occupy Amorim’s preferred two number 10 slots, and teenage defender Diego Leon.<\/p>\n

Amorim spoke on Friday about his current preference to sign players with knowledge of the Premier League.<\/p>\n

Rashford joined Barcelona last week<\/a>, while United’s other unwanted players Alejandro Garnacho, Antony, Jadon Sancho and Tyrrell Malacia were left out of the team’s tour of the US.<\/p>\n

Last week, Amorim said the club would not sell the players on the cheap and would welcome them back into the fold if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At present, Rasmus Hojlund, who struggled last season scoring just 10 goals in 52 games, is Ruben Amorim’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-300646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114935424891825553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}