If Graeme Souness and Harry Redknapp can sign impact strikers in January then Manchester United can

At least Ruben Amorim has promised Manchester United will "try to do something". Goals win games and United do not have a goalscorer. They have won two games in nine and scored 11.

The long-term fix to supplant Rasmus Hojlund will almost certainly not arrive until the summer. Hence why United are being linked with Randal Kolo Muani, scorer of two goals for Paris Saint-Germain this term. This is half as many as Joshua Zirkzee.

Ironically, it was between Hojlund and Muani when United pondered their marquee striker signing in 2023. PSG also bid for Hojlund. A cynic would suggest Hojlund's switch to the SEG International agency that represents Erik ten Hag possibly swung it.

Muani was a better goalscorer than Hojlund with 26 goals in 50 games for Eintracht Frankfurt. That 2022-23 season in Germany now looks like an anomaly. Muani managed 11 goals for PSG last term and has started twice this season.

PSG found a willing taker in United for Manuel Ugarte but they should not push their luck. The elite clubs United once competed with now view them as gullible addicts, like a croupier seeing a hopeless gambler staggering around the casino floor and about to reach his table.

United helped finance Real Madrid's midfield rebuild by coughing up £60million for Casemiro and they were the first to peer through the Bayern Munich shop window and take a defender whose career had been in gradual decline over five years. It is little wonder Muani and Nuno Mendes, also of PSG, have been linked with United.

It has been suggested United could have Muani on loan without anyone leaving. Ie. PSG would finance the majority of his salary as they are that keen to offload him. That ought to be a deterrent.

Muani was considered in the past so cannot be