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      Man Utd in Erling Haaland transfer blow as Dortmund chief Zorc claims he will STAY at club even without Champions League

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      MANCHESTER UNITED’S hopes of signing Erling Haaland this summer have been hit after Borussia Dortmund’s sporting director Michael Zorc insisted their star man will stay.Just hours after United’s humiliating European Super League about-turn, they have been handed another hammer blow.
      Borussia Dortmund are confident Erling Haaland will stay at the clubCredit: Getty

      Dortmund chief Michael Zorc says that the 20-year-old striker won’t be moving anywhere – even if the Germans miss out on Champions League qualification.
      Speaking to Sky Germany, Zorc said: “We made a clear statement about the Haaland cause.
      “The decision will not be made without Borussia Dortmund. No matter where we end up, Erling will continue to play for us.”
      The Norwegian international has been in stunning form this season, scoring 35 goals in 37 games in all competitions for Dortmund.
      His agent, the controversial Mino Raiola, even embarked on a world tour to meet prospective clubs interested in the free-scoring sensation.
      Real Madrid and Barcelona were visited, with the likes of Manchester United and Liverpool also targeted.
      But the latest statement from Zorc appears to confirm the striker is going nowhere.
      And whether United would be able to pay in excess of £100million for Haaland is another thing.
      The Red Devils, along with Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal and Tottenham, purchased around £8m in equity stakes in the European Super League before its sensational collapse.
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      Borussia Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc has rubbished talks of Haaland leavingCredit: Getty

      The ‘Big Six’ are now unlikely to be able to reclaim the £8m up-front payment AND are set to face monster fines.
      It’s believed the English clubs will be hit in the pocket rather than be punished via points deductions or exclusion.
      On top of that, Man Utd were just one club to see their share price plummet amid the controversy.
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      Man Utd star Brandon Williams posts picture of LIVERPOOL’S trophy parade to celebrate European Super League collapse

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      BRANDON WILLIAMS bid a hasty retreat after accidentally revelling in the European Super League’s end with a post of Liverpool celebrations.Fans were quick to point out that the Manchester United defender had focused his thanks on his club’s bitter rivals.

      An Instagram post of Liverpool’s 2005 Champions League bus parade went online to his one million followers on Tuesday night.
      It was captioned: “To you all 👏🏼 Everyone is equal⚽️.”
      It did not take long for 20-year-old Williams to swap out the picture for one of his own fans.
      And an image of United fans cheering on the streets was put up with a similar caption, which now emphasised that ‘we are ALL equal’.
      An Instagram follower of Williams’ wrote: “That’s the right pic👏❤️.”
      One Reds fan added: “Brandon Williams sharing Liverpool’s parade will never not be funny.”

      While a United supporter commented: “How’s Brandon Williams accidentally gone and posted the Liverpool bus for his IG post.”
      And another onlooker joked: “Context: Brandon Williams is a Liverpool fan and his idol is Neco Williams.”
      United and Liverpool fans came together in their disdain for the failed ESL project as soon as it was announced.
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      Brandon Williams hastily deleted his Liverpool appreciation postCredit: Getty

      Both clubs quit the project late on Tuesday following pressure from supporters, players and senior football figures.
      In total, six Premier League clubs had signed up to the controversial plot but all left within 48 hours of it being announced.
      Following further exits from Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid on Wednesday, project chief and Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli confirmed the ESL had been binned.
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      Furious fans flock to Man Utd, Chelsea and Prem Big Six stadiums for second day of protests over European Super League

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      PLANS to create a new European Super League involving only the game’s richest clubs led to a second day of furious fan protests.Premier League teams involved in the proposals have faced a huge backlash from their own faithful.
      Thierry Henry’s statue held a card asking for ‘our Arsenal back’ on TuesdayCredit: EPA
      Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium was adorned with a ‘Shame on you’ placardCredit: Getty
      On Tuesday, a number of supporters turned up on their club’s doorstep to demand they backtrack from the controversial plot.
      Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal and Liverpool have signed up to the ESL alongside three Spanish and three Italian teams.
      The proposals will take clubs out of the Champions League and into a new closed-shop setup, where teams qualify regardless of their performance.
      Uefa, Fifa, the UK Government and the Premier League are among the bodies to threaten the plotters with significant punishment, including throwing them out of this year’s competitions.
      While European football’s governing body and 14 other top-flight English clubs met on Tuesday, protests continued.
      Outside Liverpool’s home of Anfield, banners reading ‘FSG OUT’ and ‘SUPER GREED’ were hung up to condemn the club’s owners.
      A bouquet of flowers was left at Anfield with the message ‘RIP LFC’Credit: Reuters
      A banner at Liverpool called for owners FSG to leave the clubCredit: PA
      A Manchester United fan turned up at Old Trafford with an ‘RIP The Working Class’ messageCredit: PA
      Another supporter appeared at Chelsea to condemn his club’s plan to join the ESLCredit: Rex
      The Reds’ home will no longer feature fan banners across the empty seats after supporters’ groups demanded they be removed.
      Blues fans are set to appear en masse outside their home to demonstrate before Tuesday’s clash with Brighton, echoing Monday’s display before Leeds’ draw with Liverpool.
      Due to the coronavirus pandemic, supporters have been largely unable to make their feelings known in person with games played behind closed doors.
      The statue of Thierry Henry at Emirates Stadium was handed a cardboard message that read: “Give us our Arsenal back.”
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      Another banner put up at Old Trafford condemned the projectCredit: PA
      Another Anfield flag declared ‘RIP’ for the clubCredit: PA
      One Liverpool banner attacked the club’s American ownersCredit: Getty
      On Monday, fans turned up at Leeds’ draw with Liverpool to slate the ESLCredit: Getty Images – Getty

      At Old Trafford, Manchester United fans put up a banner stating: “We adored you and you sold our souls. RIP MUFC 1878-2021.”
      One placard attached to the gates at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium simply read ‘Shame on you’ alongside two club scarves.
      The protests were not limited to England with a message from Barcelona fans posted onto the Camp Nou.
      Their statement read: “FCB is our life, not your toy. Super League, NO.”
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      Man Utd verdict: Quality of Pogba and Rashford to much for Burnley – but Red Devils too happy to sleepwalk through games

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      MANCHESTER UNITED can count themselves lucky at finally finding a way to put Burnley away at home.It took a massive deflection to prevent Sean Dyche’s team making it five matches in a row without losing at Old Trafford.
      Mason Greenwood hit a late winner to secure the three pointsCredit: Getty
      Manchester United pulled to within eight points of the Premier League summitCredit: Reuters
      Mason Greenwood will be credited with United’s first two goals, but his second effort probably wouldn’t have troubled Bailey Peacock-Farrell if it hadn’t taken a wicked bounce off the inside of Jack Cork’s leg.
      The third goal from Edinson Cavani put an undeserved gloss on the result, with Burnley hopelessly exposed after throwing everyone forward in search of an equaliser.
      But if United are to put any pressure on City – who are now ‘only’ eight points ahead with six games to go – they will probably have to win ugly from time to time.
      It would also help if they were not guilty of sleep-walking through the first-half so often.
      They were guilty of it again here, with United offering precious little threat early on, despite the fact that Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba both seemed to be capable of causing the Clarets plenty of problems.
      Maybe Ole Gunnar Solskjaer should deliver the half-time rollickings that seem to pay dividends so often before kick off instead!
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      Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had Greenwood, and a deflection, to thank for the winnerCredit: Reuters
      Burnley were only minutes away from extending their Old Trafford formCredit: Mark Robinson – The Sun

      United were handed a reminder of the threat Burnley pose after just 15 seconds, with Chris Wood heading into the empty net with Dean Henderson stranded in no man’s land.
      VAR’s decision that Wood was fractionally offside prompted a huge sigh of relief. If that ‘goal’ had stood, there could easily have been a different outcome.
      But Greenwood’s coolness in front of goal, and his uncanny ability to buy room by cutting in from the right before shifting the ball onto that deadly left foot, are potent weapons.
      Maybe, just maybe, there is a sting to come in the title battle after all.
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      Man Utd 3 Burnley 1: Greenwood brace rescues Red Devils and sends Solskjaer’s men eight points behind City in title race

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      MASON GREENWOOD struck twice in the second-half to keep Manchester United’s faint title hopes flickering.The Red Devils looked set to drop points at home against Burnley for a fifth straight season when James Tarkowski headed them level early in the second-half.
      Mason Greenwood was the hero for Manchester United on SundayCredit: Reuters
      The striker scored twice to make it four goals in three Premier League gamesCredit: Times Newspapers Ltd
      But just six minutes from time Greenwood collected a pass from Paul Pogba and his shot was deflected off Jack Cork before beating Bailey Peacock-Farrell.
      This win cuts City’s lead at the top to eight points with six games apiece remaining – and while it remains possible United are clearly not for chucking in the towel.
      As seems to be the case most weeks, the Red Devils began slowly.
      After just ten seconds, Chris Wood beat Dean Henderson to a cross from the right by Matt Lowton and his header dropped into the unguarded net.
      Fortunately for the England hopeful, his blushes were spared by the linesman’s flag and VAR showed the Kiwi was narrowly off.
      United had their chances too with Paul Pogba heading wide and Bruno Fernandes just off target with a curling shot.
      But as has been the case too often this season, United were lacklustre in the first-half.
      And for a Burnley side who were unbeaten in their last four visits to Old trafford, there was little to worry about.
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      James Tarkowski rose highest to put Burnley on level termsCredit: AFP
      Greenwood and Marcus Rashford teamed up for United’s openerCredit: AFP
      At the break Solskjaer threw on Edinson Cavani to replace an ineffective Fred and straight away things started to happen.
      Rashford left Lowton floundering with a cheeky nutmeg on the left and then squared a ball into the box.
      Fernandes cleverly dummied it and there was Greenwood arriving at the back-post to score his third goal in three league matches.
      It was a brilliant goal from the home side but their lead lasted only two minutes – and the equaliser was as straightforward as they come.
      Ashley Westwood swung over a corner from the left and James Tarkowski got ahead of Harry Maguire to nod home his first goal of the season.

      That was the 1000th goal conceded by United since the start of the Premier League in 1992 – making them the 11th club to do so.
      Both sides had chances to win it from there but Burnley – whose relegation fight had been boosted by Arsenal’s late equaliser against Fulham – were determined to hang on.
      But United got the bit of luck they needed with Cork’s deflection – meaning City cannot start popping the champagne corks just yet.
      There was even time for a third goal which slightly flattered United – Cavani tapping in a low cross from fellow sub Donny van de Beek.
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      Paul Pogba ‘wants £500,000-a-week contract’ to stay at Man Utd with Real Madrid, PSG and Juventus waiting in wings

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      WORLD CUP winner Paul Pogba is reportedly demanding £500,000-a-week to stay at Manchester United.The French star, 28, is currently under contract until June 2022.
      Paul Pogba is reportedly demanding a new deal worth £500k-a-week, according to the Daily StarCredit: EPA
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      And his agent, Mino Raiola is said to have told senior members of the United hierarchy his client will sign a deal, but ONLY if it’s worth a staggering half a million per week, according to the Daily Star.
      Should United agree to Pogba’s demands, it would make him the highest paid player in the club’s history.
      The Daily Star also claim that PSG, Real Madrid and Juventus have all been informed how much it would cost to secure his signature.
      Incredibly, with image rights included to that base wage Pogba could net somewhere in the region of £800,000-a-week.
      Pogba and Raiola are aware that his next move will probably be the last lucrative deal he is likely to be offered.
      The Red Devils signed the midfielder for a club-record fee of £90million in 2016.
      But during his time with the Premier League giants he is yet to win a league title, with only EFL Cup and the Europa League winners’ medals to his name.
      This season, Pogba was slow out the traps as he struggled for form earlier in the campaign.
      However, since the turn of the year his performances have improved – and he recently captained the team in the quarter-final Europa League win over Granada.
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      And manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer could thank former United star Darren Fletcher for his upturn in fortunes.
      The ex-Scotland international was brought into the senior side’s coaching set-up back in January to lend his experience to United’s current crop of midfielders.
      As The Sun reported, Fletcher has helped the Frenchman improve the defensive side of his game.
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      Mason Greenwood thriving after striking relationship with ‘top example’ Edinson Cavani, reveals Man Utd boss Solskjaer

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      MASON GREENWOOD will look back and realise that this season marked his coming of age in more ways than one.The striker’s campaign began with public humiliation when he and Phil Foden were sent home from Iceland by England boss Gareth Southgate for breaching Covid protocols.
      Mason Greenwood has benefited from the guidance of Edinson CavaniCredit: Getty
      The pair have drummed up a striking relationship, says Ole Gunnar SolskjaerCredit: PA
      They invited two models into their Reykjavik hotel room having made their Three Lions debut last September.
      Up until that point Greenwood, 19, looked every bit the budding superstar — just like his partner in crime from the other side of Manchester.
      Yet while Foden, 20, went on to prove he truly is a prodigy with City and has since scored an England double, ironically against Iceland, Greenwood’s career went into the freezer.
      The teenager scored 18 goals in his breakthrough season but was clearly hit hard by that England shame. He managed just four goals in 38 appearance for the Red Devils after being told to pack his bags by Southgate.
      In many of those games he looked a shadow of the two-footed attacker who terrified defenders.
      While Foden flourished it appeared that the weight of that misguided hotel invite got to Greenwood and he has not been in a Southgate squad since.
      Last month he even found himself back with England’s Under-21s before being forced to withdraw with injury.
      But thanks to the help of veteran Edinson Cavani he has emerged into the light with three goals in his last five games.

      He scored and had an assist in the 3-1 win over Tottenham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is delighted to see the change in him.
      The Old Trafford boss said: “He has come through that difficult patch as a stronger person and a better player.”
      Uruguayan Cavani may well quit the club at the end of the season when his one-year deal ends but the 34-year-old will leave having had a major influence on Greenwood’s development.
      If anyone has helped the Bradford-born striker battle through his problems it is the ex-Paris Saint-Germain star.
      Solskjaer added: “Playing with Edinson Cavani has been a top example for him.
      “Edi leads by example even though the language barrier has made it a bit difficult.
      “But Mason and Edi have struck up a very good relationship. I can see that Edi appreciates Mason’s talent, his hunger and his willingness to learn.
      “And in Cavani, he is learning from one of the very best.
      Solskjaer has praised Greenwood’s form since breaking into the first-teamCredit: Getty
      “It’s like when I speak about having Sir Alex Ferguson as a manager. If I couldn’t learn from him then there was no point in going into management.
      “If Mason, Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial can’t learn off Edinson then they can’t learn from anyone. He is a very good example to every single one of them.”
      Greenwood has been raved about by United insiders as a natural-born striker ever since he joined the club as a six-year-old.
      But Solskjaer goes into Sunday’s visit of Burnley determined that even if Cavani does leave United Greenwood will not be rushed into the role as main striker.
      He insisted: “Maybe in the future he can play as a central striker, but I still think that’s a few years away.
      “Being a centre-forward in the Premier League is probably the hardest position to play.
      “At the moment, I think Mason is more suited to playing that wide role, dropping into pockets, finding space and running in behind.
      “I don’t want him with his back to goal and having two centre-backs up his backside.
      Mason isn’t just a natural finisher — he’s a natural footballer. He is so smooth and he’s matured so much this season.Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

      “I think we have found a good way to develop him and he might end up as a No 9.
      “Mason isn’t just a natural finisher — he’s a natural footballer. He is so smooth and he’s matured so much this season.
      “You can see his body has developed and he’s getting stronger. His consistency is getting better and he will start scoring more goals, that’s for sure.
      “I have been really impressed and happy with his development this season.”
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