(Reuters) – Manchester United must sign two “trendy” strikers who will deliver actual high quality to the attacking positions when new supervisor Erik ten Hag begins his squad rebuild, interim boss Ralf Rangnick stated.
Rangnick will step down on the finish of the season and the brand new Austria supervisor, who will stay at Old Trafford in a consultancy function, stated discovering somebody to share the scoring burden with Cristiano Ronaldo will probably be one in every of Ten Hag’s high duties.
United are sixth within the Premier League and have scored 57 targets within the marketing campaign, 27 fewer than leaders Manchester City.
Portuguese ahead Ronaldo has scored 24 targets from 38 video games in all competitions, together with 18 within the league.
“Cristiano is not a central striker or doesn’t wish to play in that place,” Rangnick stated. “It’s apparent the membership wants not less than two new strikers who give this workforce extra high quality and extra choices. I would not even name it wingers.
“Two strikers and trendy strikers, that don’t essentially must be wingers. If you look into worldwide soccer, there aren’t many high groups who nonetheless play with two strikers. Most play with both three strikers or a false 9.”
Rangnick pointed to the depth of expertise at title contenders Manchester City and Liverpool.
“If you take a look at Liverpool and Manchester City … they’ve of their squad 5 – 6 top-class strikers,” Rangnick stated.
“Gabriel Jesus, till 4 weeks in the past, hardly performed (for City). Now he is enjoying once more commonly. You take a look at the variety of gamers they’ve and in case you ask me is he enjoying as central striker or winger? Is Jack Grealish a winger or striker?
“They’re all strikers and might play in numerous positions. They can even change, they will rotate.
“Those sorts of gamers, we do not have that many.”
(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
