{"id":57350,"date":"2024-11-05T06:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T06:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-berbatov-labels-two-players-embarrassing-names-striker-man-utd-should-sign\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T06:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T06:04:52","slug":"epl-berbatov-labels-two-players-embarrassing-names-striker-man-utd-should-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-berbatov-labels-two-players-embarrassing-names-striker-man-utd-should-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Berbatov labels two players embarrassing, names striker Man Utd should sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Manchester United attacker, Dimitar Berbatov has labelled strikers, Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee \u2019embarrassing\u2019 after their barren goalscoring start to the new season.<\/p>\n<p>Hojlund has scored just two goals in ten matches since returning from injury in September, while Zirkzee has failed to score a goal since scoring against Fulham on his debut.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Sky Sports, Berbatov also urged the Red Devils to sign Sporting CP striker Viktor Gyokeres, adding that he has a special connection with new Man United manager Ruben Amorim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy Viktor Gyokeres, he is scoring goals for the run right now,\u201d Berbatov said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think there is a special connection with the coach, so maybe we are probably going to see him in a United shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cFrom what he is showing right now, I think yes [I would welcome his signing].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur strikers [ Hojlund and Zirkzee] at the moment are not producing and scoring goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are 18th in the league [for goals scored so far this season] which is embarrassing for a statue of a club like United. So this is a position that I would like to see improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Berbatov labels two players embarrassing, names striker Man Utd should sign<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester United attacker, Dimitar Berbatov has labelled strikers, Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee \u2019embarrassing\u2019 after their barren goalscoring start&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5923,194,1305,15,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-berbatov","category-epl","category-man-utd","category-news","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}