Cristiano Ronaldo is celebrating his 37th birthday, Cavani has just turned 35 on Valentine's Day, and at least one of The two United strikers has decided to leave this summer, and may even leave both, with Ralph Lonnick confirming the team needs a young centre-forward next season.
Cavani's departure from the team at the end of the season is already a certainty, and the only thing that has not yet been clear is his next home. Italian transfer expert Fabrizio Romano confirmed that Cavani must be free to transfer, and his first choice is La Liga, and he will only return to South America to play in Argentina or Brazil if he cannot stay in the five major european leagues.
Romano said: "Cavani is expected to leave United on a free basis in June and his priority is to try to play in La Liga. Spain could be his next stop, but Cavani still needs to make a decision in the coming months. River Plate is not currently one of Cavani's future options."
Manchester United boss Ronnick, like former Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has suggested that United try to sign Erlin Haaland. However, whether or not the €75 million gold clause in the Norwegian Shenfeng and Borussia Dortmund contracts, Manchester United are not his favourites, but Manchester City and Real Madrid. The high-intensity pace and crazy schedule of the Premier League mean that It is difficult for United to rely on the veteran to play the world. Recently, the Red Devils have played 8 games in 26 days, with Cavani and C Ronaldo missing empty opportunities in the games against Burnley and Southampton respectively, and the fickle British media can only keep swinging. Away to Burnley, when Edgar Cavani's header in front of goal was saved, the Sun said that Manchester United missed Ronaldo; and after Ronaldo's goal against the Saints was blocked, the Manchester Evening News said that Cavani should be used...
There is no doubt that United need a young and efficient top scorer, martial, Rashford and Mason Greenwood are not qualified, and the only promising Aoki is due to scandal, and whether he can return to the field is still unknown.
'It's clear that a young striker is needed. Lonnick said: "Edinson (Edinson's) contract expired this summer and the club needs the best centre-forward. It's obvious, and I think everybody knows that." United tried to sign Haaland from Red Bull Salzburg in December 2019, when then-manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer personally travelled to Austria with club executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, but the Red Devils tried to exclude their agent Mino Rayola from the deal, eventually pulling Haaland to join Dort for a transfer fee of 20 million euros. United have also been accused of refusing to agree to the existence of a buyout clause and a secondary transfer split in the contract.
The move has left United riddled with ridicule, with the 21-year-old Haaland scoring 80 goals in 79 games at Borussia Dortmund and the Hornets making a fortune no matter which club he moves to. In addition to Manchester City and Real Madrid, bayern Munich are also interested in Haaland as Polish striker Lewandowski approaches the final year of his contract, and even the shy Barca are also paying attention.
United have scored just 17 goals in 13 games under Ronnick and have scored more than one goal in just three of their games. In back-to-back 1-1 matches against Medlesborg, Burnley and Southampton, players squandered scoring opportunities at a huge cost.
With Haaland's words out of the question, as another centre-forward, Vlahovic, who has been widely rumored in the past, has joined Juventus in January, United's current new signing options for other young centre-forwards are not obvious, and the club forfeited the opportunity to bring in River Plate "new Aguero" Julian Alvarez in January, who was signed by Manchester City.
The shooter who recently had a scandal with the Red Devils was Alexander Isak of Real Sociedad in La Liga. According to the Daily Mail, United are very concerned about the 22-year-old who has scored eight goals in 27 games this season. During the winter transfer, Arsenal were rumored to be interested in Isaac, but were unwilling to pay his £75 million to break the contract, and eventually failed.
Inter's Argentine international Lautaro Martinez and Bayer Leverkusen's European Cup top scorer Patrick Hick have also been named by the British media Manchester Evening News, and the two are currently 24 and 26 years old, respectively, and also belong to the category of young goalscorers.
Portugal's A Bola newspaper said Manchester United scouts examined Benfica's game and witnessed Uruguay's 22-year-old goalscorer Darwin Nunez score his 18th league goal of the season and his 21st goal in all competitions, firmly occupying the top spot in the top scorers list.
In the history of the Premier League, from Andy Cole and York to Van Nistelroy, Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo, to Berbatov and Van Persie, United have never lacked super goalscorers. However, since his retirement in 2013, no one in Manchester United has scored 20 goals in the Premier League in a single season in the past 10 years! The shooter closest to this number is the veteran Ibrahimovic. In the 2016/17 season, Ibrahimovic scored 17 goals in 28 rounds, but unfortunately the Europa League was seriously injured, resulting in him not being able to achieve 20 goals in the Premier League.
Lukaku has since scored 16 goals, Marcus Rashford and Martial have scored 17, and midfielder Bruno Fernandez has also scored 18 through a sharp penalty shootout, but none of them have broken the 20-goal mark. Who will be the next United goalscorer to achieve this? This season is probably out of the game, the current Red Devils' Premier League top scorer C Ronaldo has only 8 goals, and it is too difficult to score 12 goals in the remaining 14 rounds.
Cristiano Ronaldo can fight for 20 goals in all competitions (currently 14 goals), and the goal of 20 goals in the league can only wait for next season, by him or Manchester United's new forward signings to launch another attack.