Darren Bent claims Man Utd transfer flop would ‘look better’ at Arsenal | Football

Darren Bent has steered he would ‘take’ a Manchester United switch flop at Arsenal and says he would ‘look higher’ beneath Mikel Arteta.

Joshua Zirkzee has endured a depressing spell at Outdated Trafford following his £36.5m transfer from Atalanta final summer season.

Zirkzee impressed in his remaining season in Serie A and had begun to begin taking part in for the Netherlands when Erik ten Hag introduced him to Manchester United.

The 23-year-old loved a promising begin to his Crimson Devils profession, scoring on his Premier League debut in a slender win over Fulham.

Nevertheless, Zirkzee has solely scored two league targets since then, with a number of pundits suggesting he’s not on the stage required to play for Manchester United.

Zirzkee was even linked with a transfer away from Outdated Trafford in the course of the January switch window, with golf equipment in Italy mentioned to be taken with his companies regardless of a barren interval in Manchester.

Ex-England striker Bent seems to consider Zirzkee is struggling as a result of chaos and wide-ranging points at Manchester United and says he would seem like a special participant at title-chasing Arsenal.

‘Arsenal would possibly attempt to signal Rasmus [Hojlund]!’ Bent joked on talkSPORT after complaining concerning the lack of forwards on the Gunners.

Presenter Andy Goldstein, a Manchester United fan, responded: ‘I’d provide you with Zirzkee as effectively.’

Bent then mentioned: ‘I’d take him. He would look higher in our workforce than yours. In our system… he would look higher in our system than yours.’

Final month, Netherlands worldwide Zirzkee was brutally labelled ‘one of many worst gamers to put on the Manchester United shirt’ by ex-Premier League midfielder Jamie O’Hara.

‘Joshua Zirkzee is among the worst gamers I’ve ever seen in a Manchester United shirt,’ he instructed Grosvenor Sport. ‘It’s unbelievable that he’s taking part in for them. He’s an absolute imposter!’

Zirzkee performed the whole thing of United’s conflict with Everton on the weekend as Ruben Amorim’s facet battled again from 2-0 all the way down to safe a degree.

Manchester United will count on to win all three on Wednesday evening when relegation-battlers Ipswich City go to the Theatre of Desires.

Revealing his prediction for the match, former Premier League striker Chris Sutton instructed BBC Sport: ‘United drew at Ipswich in November, in Ruben Amorim’s first sport in cost.

‘Three months on, Ipswich will head to Outdated Trafford pondering they’ve a good likelihood of beating them. No-one fears United in the mean time.

‘You simply have no idea which United facet goes to show up and, within the first half towards Everton on Saturday, they had been completely woeful.

‘United do deserve some credit score for the way in which they fought again from 2-0 down to attract 2-2 at Goodison Park – however I’m not satisfied by them in any respect.

‘Ipswich ended up dropping 4-1 to Tottenham on the weekend however they created a ridiculous quantity of probabilities in that sport, and they’re going to get alternatives right here too as a result of Liam Delap is such a handful.

‘A win for the Tractor Boys could be enormous, particularly now the hole to fourth-bottom Wolves has grown to 5 factors, however regardless of United’s many issues I simply have a sense Amorim will get a win, one way or the other.’

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