{"id":263062,"date":"2025-11-14T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263062\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:39:07","slug":"man-utd-told-to-ditch-pursuit-of-three-stars-to-sign-one-player-they-need-as-transfer-plan-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263062\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd told to ditch pursuit of three stars to sign &#8216;one player they need&#8217; as &#8216;transfer plan&#8217; emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man Utd have been told to end their pursuit of other midfielders and sign Conor Gallagher in January as he\u2019s the one player \u201cthey need\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils spent over \u00a3200m on new players over the summer transfer window with Bryan Mbeumo, Benjamin Sesko, Matheus Cunha, Senne Lammens and Diego Leon all joining.<\/p>\n<p>But it was seen as huge oversight by many supporters and former players that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd<\/a> didn\u2019t bring in a new midfielder, although they did make several enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Man Utd have been heavily linked with a trio of Premier League midfielders in Brighton\u2019s Carlos Baleba, Nottingham Forest\u2019s Elliot Anderson and Crystal Palace\u2019s Adam Wharton.<\/p>\n<p>However, former Man Utd defender Parker reckons they should sign former Chelsea midfielder Gallagher from Atletico Madrid in January.<\/p>\n<p>When discussing Man Utd\u2019s hunt for a new midfielder, Parker said in an interview with\u00a0UtdDistrict: \u201cI think you can\u2019t rush it, you can\u2019t just go and get a big clump of players.<\/p>\n<p>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/mood-rankings-premier-league-liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League mood rankings as Liverpool drop a full 15 places!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re looking to take it forward slowly and you want to do something, you have to have something in the back end that you look to build on, you look to build on with that person coming in on loan, or you see you get someone on loan who does well, you get that calibre of player to come in, get it cemented in, then Conor [Gallagher] is the one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the one player I think they need. One player who plays a lot of football, doesn\u2019t get injured often, and is willing to play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve watched him many a time when he was at Palace and when he was at Chelsea and every time you see him grimacing, the lad wants to play games of football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he doesn\u2019t play, it\u2019s a good reason. Even if he\u2019s had a knock, he wants to play football. And I know that if he comes to Manchester United, that would be the cherry on the top.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-willing-offer-casemiro-new-contract-2026-proposed-salary-cut-revealed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd \u2018willing\u2019 to offer Casemiro new contract beyond 2026 as proposed salary cut revealed<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-transfer-appealing-gallagher-atletico-madrid-january\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd transfer is \u2018appealing\u2019 to England international as Red Devils prepare January move<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-keane-tuchel-england-rashford-start-newcastle-gordon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keane tells Tuchel that Man Utd man should start for England over Newcastle star<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Football Insider insist that Man Utd also have a \u2018transfer plan\u2019 for January if Sesko\u2019s recent injury ends up being more serious than they thought.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sources-man-united-make-january-transfer-plan-amid-serious-injury-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journalist Callum O\u2019Connell told Football Insider<\/a>: \u201cYeah, this is the big thing. They\u2019re waiting to find out the full extent of the injury sustained by Sesko in that draw with Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnited have claimed they do not think it\u2019s a serious injury, but he\u2019s been sent for further tests to get a clear prognosis of how long he might be out for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is a long-term injury, it obviously does affect United\u2019s transfer plans for January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore this injury, it wasn\u2019t a priority to bring in an attacker because they spent heavily in the summer to bring in attacking reinforcements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo decisions made from United just yet. They want to wait to see how serious this injury is first.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man Utd have been told to end their pursuit of other midfielders and sign Conor Gallagher in January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[45794,218,348,349,50,108709,221,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-263062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-conor-gallagher","tag-football","tag-home-page","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-paul-parker","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}