Jesse Lingard ‘made to wait for new lucrative Manchester United contract’

Mourinho was, of course, spurned in favour of David Moyes, who failed to last a full year at Old Trafford, with many suggesting that United made a grave mistake by overlooking the Chelsea boss.

Bastian Schweinsteiger was on that balcony in Munich five years ago and he can imagine himself doing the same in Manchester. The only way you can play against such a defensive, organised team is the way we do it.

Lingard’s strike eased the growing frustration around Old Trafford and Juan Mata added a late penalty to seal a win that took United to within a point of Premier League co-leaders Manchester City, Arsenal and Leicester City.

Jesse Lingard’s first senior Manchester United goal in Saturday’s 2-0 Premier League win over West Bromwich Albion has given the winger the confidence and belief that he can become a regular fixture in the first team. “That’s why you look for solutions and one of those was to bring Jesse into the team”, said van Gaal, who turned down loan requests for Lingard in the close season.

“I think we are doing great defensively”, the Spaniard told MUTV.

“I recognise what the supporters at Manchester United are saying”, Schweinsteiger began, as per the Independent, “but football is not only about attack”. Instead I’ll give you a summary from a Man United website, and they don’t seem to put much faith in this rumour either.

“But they also have to analyse the game”.

A recent study by the CIES Football Observatory revealed that United now boast the fourth-youngest squad in England’s top flight, with their average age of 26.35 bettered by just Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool and Newcastle. They also only managed two shots on goal, neither of which would force David de Gea into action. “I am convinced it will happen”, he said, according to The Guardian. “I think my girlfriend has recorded it so I will watch it again later”.

One player still waiting on a first call from England is impressive central defender Axel Tuanzebe, who was on the bench at Crystal Palace and grew up in Rochdale after being born in DR Congo. I saw Bayern draw 0-0 recently at Frankfurt because Frankfurt were defending with a lot of players.