A Manchester United signing could now become an accidental success
Manchester United have failed to score in 11 of their 47 fixtures this season and their most threatening centre forward at Nottingham Forest was a centre back. Ruben Amorim has not often contradicted himself yet Joshua Zirkzee, whom he said is "not a number nine" less than two months ago, started there 16 days after United's actual number nine scored for the first time in 22 games. Zirkzee and Rasmus Hojlund commanded £108.5million in transfer fees and one could argue neither is a proper number nine. Hojlund barely got a sniff after an initially purposeful half-time introduction against Forest. Spending the best part of £30m on a left back-cum-winger and not investing in a forward in the winter transfer window was the latest inexplicable call by the power brokers at United. The squad's attack has been halved since the start of the season and they have had a minus goal difference since mid-December. Sir Jim Ratcliffe claims Jason Wilcox has "the best eyes in football". He did not look f...