It is fair to say that Manchester UnitedThe 2024/25 campaign did not go to plan because they are currently sitting in 15th place in Premier league and closer to out of the best of four.
The season started with Erik Ten Hag and quickly crossed the Dutchman before they named Ruben amorim In November, but the Portuguese boss failed to reverse the shape.
The Red Devils returned to secure a 2-2 draw on Saturday with Everton at Goodison Park, a game in which they mostly lacked Spark on top of the field.
United does not have a central attack that can win games with moments of magic, pulling them to victory, as they once did with former Everton striker Wayne Rooney.
Wayne Rooney’s Manchester United Record
Return to the summer of 2004, Manchester United came across the signature of English number nine from Toffeses for a Reported fee of £ 27 million Enhance the attacking capabilities of Sir Alex Ferguson.
As you can see in the upper graphic, Rooney scored a whopping 253 goals in all competitions for Red Devils, the leading club at five Premier League titles.
Played on a multitude of positions during his stay at Old Trafford, but a generation striker scored 188 goals He also secured 92 assists in 374 games as a central or other striker, which shows that he provided a regular threat to both the scorer and as a goalkeeper.
Rasmus Hojlund (two) and Joshua Zirkzee (three) are combined for five goals In the Premier League this season, which shows that Amorim is currently no attacker who is somewhere close to how Rooney was for the club.
Man United may have its next Wayne Rooney
The Portuguese main coach, however, could have a young talent with the potential to develop in Rooney-Equue Talent for a club in the form of 17-year-old Prodigy Chida Obi-Martin.
United in the summer signed teenage perspectives from the Premier Arsenal Premier League and he made his first Two appearances on top of flight Against Spurs and Everton this month.
Denmark U18 International, who was Described as “Wonderkid” The author of the U23 Scout Antonio Mango, has scored 12 goals And he provided two assists in 12 appearances for the Red Devils at the level of young people this season, which has earned him a recognition of the first team in recent weeks.
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Chido Obi-Martin (U18 Premier League) |
23/24 (Arsenal) |
24/25 (Man UTD) |
|---|---|---|
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Performances |
18 |
6 |
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Goals |
32 |
5 |
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Helping |
3 |
1 |
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The logs of the goal |
45 |
68 |
As you can see in the top table, its impressive Manchester United form is coming out of the back of his extraordinary Arsenal campaign this season in the last term of the U18 Premier League.
Obi-Martin, who has scored seven goals In three fa Youth Cup matches this season, it used to be Welcomed as the “goalkeeping machine scope” From the scouts of talent, Jacek Kulig and his statistics for United and Arsenal support the claim.
Young star, which scored ten goals In one U16 game against Liverpool 2023, a special center for directing with the potential, which further proving Amorim’s decision to include it in the first team in the last two games.
Akin
Now it’s down to Obi-Martin to take a step up to the first team and translates his exceptional goalkeeper at the youth level to the senior side, as his form for the club academy suggests that the potential is there to appear as a new Rooney at Old Trafford in the years coming .
