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Manchester United striker Romelu Lukaku. (AFP)
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic celebrates scoring Manchester United’s winner in the 3-2 victory over Southampton in the EFL Cup final at Wembley. Photograph: McNulty/JMP/Rex/Shutterstock
Zlatan Ibrahimovic Is not the New Cantona but Buys José Mourinho Time
Catching Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s fine, bloody-minded match-winning turn for Manchester United in the EFL Cup final it was hard not to reach back in time for comparisons. Rewind to the early 1990s and English football’s restless north-western superpower needed fresh...Caption:
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has hastened the end of Wayne Rooney’s Manchester United career by scoring 24 goals and counting in a role the former England captain was unable to make work. Photograph: Dan Mullan/Getty Images
How Manchester United Became the Zlatan Ibrahimovic Show
f all the friends of Wayne Rooney quoted anonymously in the media are to be believed, the striker has not been making much of a secret of the fact that he is unhappy with his present position in the pecking order at Manchester United. It is not difficult to see why....Caption:
Hitting the ground running (clockwise from top left): Allan Simonsen, Hernán Crespo, Sergio Agüero, Ángel Di Maria and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Composite: PA Images; Action Images; Reuters; Man Utd via Getty Images; AP
English Football’s Overseas Arrivals Who Began with a Gabriel Jesus-Style Bang
Gabriel Jesus’s stellar start for Manchester City has dislodged Sergio Agüero from Pep Guardiola’s side. The 19-year-old Brazilian, a £27m signing from Palmeiras last month, scored on his full Premier League debut – at West Ham United – and twice in the following...Caption:
From left to right: Alexander Isak of AIK, Juventus’s Moise Kean, Gabriel Jesus, who is leaving Palmeiras, and Liverpool’s Ben Woodburn Composite: Ombrello/Getty Images, NurPhoto/Getty Images, Reuters, Rex/Shutterstock