{"id":455667,"date":"2023-08-20T02:58:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T22:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455667"},"modified":"2023-08-20T02:58:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T22:58:37","slug":"ten-hag-after-the-spurs-defeat-thats-why-we-signed-a-striker","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ten-hag-after-the-spurs-defeat-thats-why-we-signed-a-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Hag after the Spurs\u2019 defeat: \u201cThat\u2019s why we signed a striker\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erik ten Hag shared that it is &#8220;obvious&#8221; why the Red Devils inked a forward during the summer transfer window after his team failed to score against Tottenham as Spurs beat them 2-0; in the Premier League opener, Manchester United scored only 1 goal.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils wanted to ink Harry Kane, but he preferred to join the Bundesliga and inked with Bayern Munich. Ultimately, ten Hag\u2019s side chose to sign for 81 million dollars \u00a0Rasmus H\u00f8jlund from Atalanta as the Red Devils can pay another 10 million dollars in add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe these players, in the past campaign, can also net goals. It&#8217;s also obvious why we signed a forward,&#8221; The Man. United&#8217;s manager shared after the match against Tottenham today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If everything goes according to plan, Marital will be at 100% soon, H\u00f8jlund also is coming, so we will have more players who can score goals. The players on the pitch must also score goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Under Erik ten Hag, Man Utd have lost a PL away game against every other top 9 team from 22\/23:<\/p>\n<p>\u25c9 4-0 v Brentford<br \/>\n\u25c9 6-3 v Man City<br \/>\n\u25c9 3-1 v Aston Villa<br \/>\n\u25c9 3-2 v Arsenal<br \/>\n\u25c9 7-0 v Liverpool<br \/>\n\u25c9 2-0 v Newcastle<br \/>\n\u25ce 2-2 v Spurs<br \/>\n\u25c9 1-0 v Brighton<br \/>\n\u25c9 2-0 v Spurs<\/p>\n<p>30-8 on aggregate. \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8coUdfR226\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8coUdfR226<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Squawka (@Squawka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka\/status\/1692966884268753404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik ten Hag shared that it is &#8220;obvious&#8221; why the Red Devils inked a forward during the summer transfer window after his team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":455668,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17534,16789,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17559,17886,8457],"acf":{"announce":"The Manchester United boss was frustrated with his team\u2019s effort in the attack.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455667"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455667"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}