'Not in that bracket' - Dwight Yorke gives verdict on Manchester United striker issues
Dwight Yorke insists it is 'not fair' for Manchester United to pin their goalscoring hopes on summer signing Rasmus Hojlund.
United signed Hojlund from Atalanta in a £72million deal, following their failure to find an agreement with Tottenham Hotspur for prime target Harry Kane. The Danish international missed the first month of the season with a back injury but has been Erik ten Hag's first-choice No.9 since.
Despite an encouraging Champions League campaign - he netted five goals in six appearances - Hojlund is yet to score in the Premier League and has been partly to blame for his side's continued woes in front of goal. United have just 18 goals from 17 league games, which is only one more than the likes of Nottingham Forest and Luton Town.
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"I don't want to go too much into it, but you've got an unknown striker that wasn't on the radar," Yorke told AceOdds. "I'd never heard of him until he came to United. So I'm a little bit precarious about it.
"He may have all the potential, but you can't ask a 20-year-old to come into United and take charge. I think in the years to come, maybe he will develop into that type, but for him to carry the baton forward he has got a long way [to go].
"He's still learning the game. He's not in that bracket of exceptional strikers and players. He is a very good player, but he's not in that exceptional Haaland type of mould, he's way behind. So to pin that down on one individual, that's not fair on him. He still has a lot of development to do."
Hojlund's only genuine competitor for the No.9 role at United is Anthony Martial, and unlike the Danish international, he
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