Man Utd legend Peter Schmeichel reckons the Red Devils could have saved \u00a373m by keeping Rasmus Hojlund and not signing Benjamin Sesko over the summer.<\/p>\n
The Red Devils were well beaten by arch-rivals Man City on Sunday with the defeat moving them down to 14th in the early Premier League table<\/a>.<\/p>\n Only four Premier League sides scored fewer goals than Man Utd<\/a> last season with Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee scoring just seven league goals between them.<\/p>\n That saw Man Utd invest around \u00a3200m on Bryan Mbeumo, Matheus Cunha and Sesko with Hojlund heading out on loan to Napoli for the season.<\/p>\n And, while Sesko \u2013 who signed from RB Leipzig in the summer for \u00a373m \u2013 has struggled, Hojlund scored in his first start for the Italian side as they beat Fiorentina 3-1 in Serie A on Saturday.<\/p>\n Former Man Utd goalkeeper Schmeichel thinks the Red Devils \u201cdidn\u2019t need\u201d to sign Sesko as they already had a striker to develop, while INEOS could have strengthened the midfield instead.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Only Potter keeps Amorim off the top of the Premier League sack race<\/a><\/p>\n After watching the Man Utd lose 3-0 to Man City on Sunday, Schmeichel told Premier League Productions: \u201cIn terms of players being brought in, Cunha for instance, I think in the three games he\u2019s played \u2013 he came out very early in the game against\u00a0Burnley\u00a0\u2013 yes, I\u2019ve seen things that can happen in the future, something we can build on.<\/p>\n \u201cBryan Mbeumo, the same thing, yes, it\u2019s really good. That\u2019s kind of progress in terms of how the team is going to be developed.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the moment I don\u2019t see it. The issue is, it was so clear all of last season, has not been addressed.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, we didn\u2019t score enough goals so they bought players in who can score goals but they spent the money on the third one \u2013 it\u2019s nothing personal against Sesko \u2013 but we didn\u2019t need the third striker, we needed a centre midfield player who can control that bit of the pitch, and we needed a goalkeeper.<\/p>\n \u201cThose were the issues we were struggling with last season and it\u2019s not been addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE MANCHESTER UNITED COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 Schmeichel continued: \u201cIt\u2019s nothing personal against him, I just don\u2019t understand why we had to sign a third striker, or a third person up there.<\/p>\n \u201cRasmus Hojlund\u00a0has been suffering, he\u2019s been suffocated by the team, never had any service, nothing. And now we\u2019ve signed Cunha and Mbeumo, players who will put the striker in.<\/p>\n \u201cPlayed for\u00a0Napoli, after 13 minutes he makes a run that he\u2019s made him and time again, the ball came to him and he scored.<\/p>\n \u201cNow, you have a young kid who has all that experience, has been through all that, taken all that criticism, fans love him because he\u2019s a fighter, he\u2019s got\u00a0Manchester United\u00a0over him. I don\u2019t get that, why that swap has happened.\u201d<\/p>\n Former Man Utd midfielder Owen Hargreaves reckons the Red Devils should have signed Ollie Watkins from Aston Villa, as he would have been ready to hit the ground running.<\/p>\n Hargreaves added: \u201cYou get Hojlund, who I think is going to be a really good striker, but there\u2019s a lot of pressure, we\u2019ve seen it with Marcus [Rashford] and [Anthony] Martial. They were too young to be dealing with that on their own.<\/p>\n \u201cThen you have that experience with Hojlund where it\u2019s so difficult he has to leave on loan, then you go and buy the same age player in Sesko.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re going to do it, they\u2019ve got Cunha and Mbeumo, ready-made\u00a0Premier League\u00a0players, but then you get a striker who is 22 and not proven at this level.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019ve already done that in that window why wouldn\u2019t you go and get another one,\u00a0Ollie Watkins\u00a0or someone of that ilk who is ready. 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