There were a couple of moments in the first-half of last night’s game against West Ham which summed up Rasmus Hojlund.
In the first, he showed strength, speed and aggression to get himself into a shooting position and smashed a shot against the outside of the post.
The second was far easier but he ballooned the effort over the bar, much to the frustration of head coach Ruben Amorim.
With rumours around Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins in particular refusing to die down, United face a stark choice.
Do they risk heading into the meat of the season with Hojlund as their number one striker, knowing Joshua Zirkzee and 18-year-old Chido Obi are the back ups if Bryan Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha are used as number 10s?
Or, do they head back into the transfer market and try to prise Watkins out of Villa – or Jean Philippe Mateta from Crystal Palace, although the chatter around him is nowhere near as strong – or abandon their policy of recruiting from the Premier League to get someone else?
There is certainly something about Hojlund – probably not £72m-worth, which is what United paid for him – but it is easy to see him scoring goals on a regular basis if he was fully confident.
But can Amorim afford to wait?
