{"id":227190,"date":"2025-10-15T19:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/227190\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:07:07","slug":"manchester-united-rasmus-hojlund-to-star-like-scott-mctominay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/227190\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United: Rasmus Hojlund to star like Scott McTominay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scott McTominay showed Manchester United what they had wrongly discarded last season and his new Napoli team-mate Rasmus Hojlund will follow suit this campaign, according to ex-goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old has scored four goals in six games for the Serie A leaders since his summer loan switch, which includes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/czxyxlp5pxzo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clause to make the deal permanent.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That tally is the same as the number of Premier League goals he managed for United in the previous campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McTominay moved in the same direction 12 months earlier, with his title-winning form in Italy earning the Scotland midfielder Serie A&#8217;s player of the year award and a Ballon d&#8217;Or nomination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Schmeichel, who won five Premier League titles at Old Trafford, remains bewildered by the decision to sell McTominay and questions the wisdom of parting with his fellow Dane Hojlund and replacing him with Benjamin Sesko.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At United you&#8217;ve got a head coach [Ruben Amorim], then you had a director of football [Dan Ashworth], a technical director or whatever Jason Wilcox&#8217;s title is, and you&#8217;ve got a head of recruitment [Christopher Vivell], who is very powerful,&#8221; he told BBC podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0m8hpcv\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacked in the Morning.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve got a lot of people deciding on who is coming in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For instance, the signing of Benjamin Sesko was a little bit weird to me because we have Rasmus Hojlund, who has been starved of service for two years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You only have to see what he&#8217;s doing at Napoli with Kevin de Bruyne and Scott McTominay to play with &#8211; he&#8217;s scoring goals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve consistently said this for two-and-a-half years &#8211; Rasmus Hojlund will be a 25-goal-a-year striker for Manchester United, but he needs service. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We let him go on the stats that he scored very little goals last season and bring Sesko in at the time we bring in Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbuemo, who would give Hojlund first-class service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You spend \u00a370m-plus on Sesko, when we don&#8217;t have the number six we should have, and there&#8217;s the goalkeeping position as well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This season alone we&#8217;ve conceded nine goals from goalkeeping errors. When I played, when Edwin van der Sar played, when David de Gea played, the brief was win 10 points a season, you don&#8217;t give points away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Why did we bring someone in that we didn&#8217;t need? Because the head of recruitment comes from Leipzig [also Sesko&#8217;s former club] and he&#8217;s got to make a mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I played, the manager [Sir Alex Ferguson] was in charge. He said &#8216;him in and him out&#8217;. Now it&#8217;s different people with different agendas that decide. 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