Manchester United Archives: 08/2016

It seems like Manchster United score more late winners than anyone, but they don’t even score more than Arsenal

According to reports, Valencia are lining up Manchester United’s Marcos Rojo as Shkodran Mustafi’s replacement.

One of the strangest players Arsenal have been linked with recently is Manchester United’s Phil Jones, and I’m not just talking about the faces he pulls.

With very little in the way of actual news, we got stuck into the deep, depressing world of Arsenal gossip, including the latest on Shkodran Mustafi.

Antoine Griezmann has admitted that although he’s open to a move to the Premier League one day, at the moment he’s under contract with Atletico Madrid.

Southampton boss, Claude Puel, claims that Jose Fonte isn’t disturbed by the speculation surrounding his future with the Saints among new reports linking him with Manchester United.

Friday was mainly about the gossip, despite our Premier League match with Leicester just around the corner.

Thierry Henry recently met Manchester United’s £89m man, Paul Pogba, who admitted that he had a poster of the legend in his bedroom as a child.

The Sun are claiming that Arsenal are set to have a bid of £16m for West Brom centre-back rejected.

Arsenal are apparently willing to pay €9m for Southampton’s Jose Fonte, and with Manchester United’s Marcus Rojo not leaving the club, some media outlets believe Arsenal have a clear run at the player.

On Tuesday it was all over the internet that Arsenal, along with Manchester United, were interested in signing Jose Fonte from Southampton.

Back in early August Arsenal were linked with PSG’s Blaise Matuidi, who was a Manchester United target at the time and now his manager, Unai Emery, has come out to insist he’s one of the best players in the world. Okay.

As Arsene Wenger met with the press on Friday they couldn’t help themselves asking about Manchester United.

Thursday’s headlines were dominated by the news that Shkodran Mustafi’s agent confirmed an agreement between his client and Arsenal but other stuff happened to, believe it or not.

Mesut Ozil reckons that Manchester United and Manchester City will do well next season, with the playmaker being particularly impressed by Pep Guardiola’s new signings.

Jack Wilshere gave his opinion on the recent transfer of Paul Pogba to Manchester United and he believes that the France international will improve the Premier League.

Wednesday was full of the usual fun – I mean that sarcastically, of course – and some news.

This news may not come as a surprise to many but Jose Mourinho has become the first manager to spend over £1bn on new signings.

After slating Jurgen Klopp and Arsene Wenger recently over comments that spending close to £100m on one player is crazy, Jose Mourinho hinted that Manchester United can afford to do this because they’re a big club, while ‘other clubs’ can’t.

Thierry Henry has made it clear that he rates Manchester United’s new signing, Paul Pogba, but also believes he needs to work on his defensive work if he’s not going to be played in a more advanced role.