Rojo likely to return to United when his loan deal expires
Estudiantes manager Leandro Desabato thinks defender Marcos Rojo is likely to return to United this summer.
Rojo has been at his hometown club since January, and after injury issues restricted him to just one appearance in Argentina before football was suspended, the 30-year-old was hoping to stay for longer than initially agreed.
“We have to wait, but Rojo is likely to leave,” Desa bato told Radio Late 931, via SportWitness. “The loan is due, and if Manchester do not want to continue loaning, it’s understandable.”
United lead the race to sign Kai Havertz - report
Bayer Leverkusen forward Kai Havertz could join United this summer and Ed Woodward’s imminent £50million bid puts the club at the front of the line, according to The Sun.
The 20-year-old is one of the most exciting young talents across Europe and has been very impressive for Leverkusen since the Bundesliga got back underway, scoring the winner in a 1-0 victory over Freiburg on Friday.
MEN Sport understands that United will continue their pursuit of high-profile signings this summer despite the financial difficulties facing the sport, but that Jack Grealish is Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s number one priority for the playmaker role and Jadon Sancho is their number one right-wing target.
Scholes explains why United didn’t win more Champions Leagues under Ferguson
Paul Scholes has offered an explanation for why Sir Alex Ferguson didn’t win more than his two Champions Leagues while manager, in 1999 and 2008.
Scholes thinks the competition was particularly strong in the 2000s, with Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona team, and the Galacticos of Real Madrid several years earlier, presenting too big a challenge for Ferguson’s United.
“We were quite unlucky really. In any other era we might have won four, five, or six European Cups,” he said on the A Goal In One Podcast. “But the teams that were about... you look at Guardiola’s Barcelona team – Jesus, how good were they?!
“They’re without doubt the best team I’ve played against. They’re one of the best teams that’s ever been.”
United lost to Guardiola’s Barcelona in two finals, in 2009 and 2011, but Scholes’ argument wasn’t only about the years his team came close to lifting the trophy.
“If I go a bit further back and think of the Real Madrid side that we played against,” he said. “We got absolutely battered in the Bernabeu one year. 3-1 it was in the first game but what a team that was. It’s not far away from that Barcelona team.”
