Manchester United finally got a boost to replace the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo to Al Nassr. Much was said about who could stay with the attack front and little by little, he was heading towards the possibility of signing Wout Weghorst, a striker from the Netherlands who was in Besiktas. This will be the Dutchman’s second experience of a very Premier League biotype for strikers in the English tournament.
After the World Cup that had created uncertainty with two goals against Argentina and taking the game to the definition from the penalty spot, the rumor that Wout Weghorst brought Manchester United closer came true on Thursday, January 12. An Andá pa ‘Allá bobo that can be changed to Andá pa’ England again after his time at Burnley.
With Marcus Rashford unleashed on his return to the Premier League, Manchester United did not trust only the English striker and wanted to look for a cheap alternative on the market. He found it in Wout Weghorst, a 30-year-old Dutch attacker who had experience in the World Cup with the Netherlands. On loan, still owned by English Burnley, the club put up 3.5 million pounds to take Weghorst from an excellent time at Turkish side Besiktas where he scored nine goals in 18 games played, a huge difference to what he had done in Premier with two goals in 20 games with Burnley.
Wout Weghorst is expected to move from Turkey to England on Thursday 12 January. Beyond his two goals against Argentina, Weghorst, with a past at German Wolfsburg, earned recognition for the words of Lionel Messi. That phrase that the world used, “What are you looking at, goofy, go over there” and that still goes viral when he arrives in England.
But not everyone liked the signing of Manchester United. The Dutchman, compatriot of Wout Weghorst, Wesley Sneijder was the protagonist in criticizing the signing and calling it a joke. The biotype of a tall and stocky striker is seen a lot in the Premier League and that was the theme that Sneijder put, “there are 300 strikers like him in the Premier League. It must be a joke, it can’t be true.” It is worth mentioning that Weghorst had already been in the English league, going unnoticed with Burnley.
