{"id":17908,"date":"2025-07-23T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/manchester-united-could-start-without-star-striker-failure-in-signings\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:30:10","slug":"manchester-united-could-start-without-star-striker-failure-in-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/manchester-united-could-start-without-star-striker-failure-in-signings\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United could start without star striker: Failure in signings?"},"content":{"rendered":"The Manchester United could start the season without a new center forward, after a frustrating search for a recognized player in the &#8220;9&#8221; position, according to sources close to the club.\n\nRuben Amorim&#8217;s team has been reinforced with the arrivals of Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo, who combined to score 35 goals in the Premier League last season. The transactions had a total value of 135 million pounds.\n\nAmorim has also shown interest in adding a new striker in the transfer market, after his team scored only 44 goals in the league last season.\n\nHowever, after interest in Liam Delap, Viktor Gy\u00f6keres and Hugo Ekitike, which did not materialize, sources indicate that there is no guarantee that a new striker will arrive before the transfer deadline.\n\nOther potential targets are being evaluated and conversations with agents and intermediaries are ongoing.\n\nThere is also the acceptance that, if the club were to sign a new center forward, space would have to be made in the squad.\n\nMan United on their pre-season tour in the USA: Amorim&#8217;s objectives and players to watch.\n\nUnited arrived in Chicago on Tuesday for their three-match tour of the United States with forwards Rasmus H\u00f8jlund, Joshua Zirkzee and Chido Obi in the traveling group.\n\nH\u00f8jlund and Zirkzee struggled last season, managing only seven league goals between them.\n\nH\u00f8jlund has been linked with a return to Italy with Inter Milan and Juventus, although sources indicate that his preference is to fight for a place in the United squad.\n\nUnited keeps its options open with the 22-year-old player, who has three years left on his contract.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0723%2Fr1522643_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Ruben Amorim wants to add another striker to his squad.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Ruben Amorim busca a\u00f1adir otro delantero a su plantilla.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThere is speculation that United could be tempted to reach an agreement with Chelsea, which would see Nicolas Jackson move to Old Trafford and Alejandro Garnacho go in the opposite direction.\n\nGarnacho is available for around 40 million pounds after being excluded from the summer tour of the United States. Jackson&#8217;s future at Stamford Bridge is also uncertain after the arrival of Delap and Jo\u00e3o Pedro.\n\nA possible solution to the problem is for Amorim to play with Mbeumo as a center forward instead of one of the &#8220;10s&#8221; in his 3-4-3 system.\n\nThe international Cameroonian could debut for United against West Ham in New Jersey on Saturday.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manchester United could start the season without a new center forward, after a frustrating search for a recognized player in the &#8220;9&#8221; position, according to sources close to the club. Ruben Amorim&#8217;s team has been reinforced with the arrivals of Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo, who combined to score 35 goals in the Premier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[143,1066,5804,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-17908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-manchester-united","9":"tag-mbeumo","10":"tag-striker","11":"tag-transfer"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}