MANCHESTER UNITED person been warned not to effort and motion Jean-Phillipe Mateta contempt their ongoing striker issues.
SunSport exclusively revealed this week that Man Utd are monitoring the Crystal Palace striker and could determination to motion the 27-year-old successful the summer.
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GettyRuben Amorim is searching for solutions up apical with Joshua Zirkzee and Rasmus Hojlund presently firing blanks for the Old Trafford outfit.
Zirkzee has scored conscionable 2 goals successful his past 17 appearances, portion Hojlund hasn’t recovered the backmost of the nett successful his past 18 games.
But contempt Mateta scoring 7 successful his past 10, erstwhile Premier League striker Troy Deeney doesn’t reckon he’s the close antheral for United.
Speaking to talkSPORT, Deeney said: “No [he’s not the reply for Man Utd], due to the fact that he’s not the reply for Palace.
“So wherefore is helium going to beryllium the reply for Manchester United?”
Mateta struggled erstwhile helium archetypal signed for the Eagles successful 2022, managing conscionable 13 goals successful his archetypal 83 appearances.
But has been a antheral transformed since the accomplishment of brag Oliver Glasner past season, scoring 28 goals successful 46 games.
Probed connected wherefore helium thought Mateta wouldn’t beryllium the close antheral for the occupation astatine the Red Devils, Deeney added: “I deliberation Jean is simply a precise bully player, by the way.
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“But he’s a precise bully subordinate astatine Crystal Palace. I was a precise bully subordinate astatine Watford. Going to the levels of these large clubs is wholly different.
“The lone happening that plays into his favour is they benignant of play a akin enactment with Palace astatine the moment, wherever he’s the pb 1 done the middle.
“But I would reason that Palace’s No. 10s are amended than what Manchester United person got currently.
“So I deliberation he’s going done a bully vein of signifier due to the fact that Palace are successful a bully moment. No-one was saying they should person signed him successful pre-season.”
Deeney, who scored 47 Premier League goals for Watford, went connected to explicate that helium inactive thinks United request to bring successful a centre-forward, suggesting it could assistance amended the endowment that is already there.
He added: “You bring successful idiosyncratic to amended them. I deliberation Zirkzee is much of a ten, much than a striker.
“At Bologna, helium was a 10 and connected the left. People effort and unit him into the position.
“I deliberation you spell and get a due No.9 and you let Hojlund to larn disconnected that No.9. Maybe idiosyncratic that’s five, six years older.
“There’s a subordinate determination successful Hojlund. I inactive deliberation the aforesaid with Darwin Nunez. They’re some large squad players that tally astir and bash each the bully stuff, they conscionable don’t score.
“I deliberation they request to enactment connected that and beryllium a spot much selfish arsenic opposed to team-oriented, past they’ll get the goals.”
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