Manchester United have already been told where true blame lies for Wout Weghorst transfer

Wout Weghorst's move to Manchester United in January raised almost as many eyebrows among supporters as Cristiano Ronaldo's controversial Piers Morgan interview.

It was a left-field decision which screamed of a club trying to solve an unforeseen problem on the cheap. Weghorst failed to do the business for Burnley in the Premier League so the chances were he would not do it under Erik ten Hag either.

So this proved but it was certainly not for a lack of effort. The Dutchman's commitment to the cause cannot be questioned and the look of pure elation on his face when United won the Carabao Cup will not be forgotten.

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However, for the Reds to push towards the title conversation they need a goalscoring centre forward and sadly Weghorst is not that guy. MEN Sport understands United will not be signing the 30-year-old permanently and this is the right decision.

When dishing out blame for the Weghorst transfer though, it should lie solely with one group and that is not Ten Hag nor the Dutch international. The United board left the club at a disadvantage in January when they insisted Ten Hag looked for a temporary solution.

Gary Neville put it best in April when discussing the target man on Sky Sports. "He was badly let down in January, Erik ten Hag, if you look at it because that Ronaldo interview that was done with Piers Morgan I think was done in November and he was always going to leave at the start of the World Cup, so he left at the start of the World Cup," he explained.

"Manchester United then had six weeks before the transfer window began and they made a conscious decision not to give Erik ten Hag the money, because they haven’t got the money. They made a conscious decision to