Ruben Amorim and Erik ten Hag are saying similar things about Man United player who should be unsellable

For a statistic that tells the story of Manchester United's goalscoring problems, consider this: not a single player in this squad scores at a rate of one in three games or better for the club.

Or this one: Bruno Fernandes and Marcus Rashford have scored 62% of the 353 goals for United in the current squad. And the sixth-highest scorer for United still on their books currently plays for Chelsea.

There is no way of sugar-coating it. This team doesn't score anywhere close to enough goals, and as much as Ruben Amorim talks of unlocking improvement in the current players rather than turning to the transfer market to solve those issues, it feels inevitable that the chequebook will have to come to the rescue sooner rather than later.

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Who is there to take on the goalscoring burden? At least one player in this squad should score 0.5 goals a game, or one every two appearances. Currently, only three players average more than 0.3 goals a game and none are above the 0.333 ratio that would signal one in three.

Alejandro Garnacho and Rasmus Hojlund have the biggest ceilings for that improvement, but both remain raw in the final third. Garnacho has 22 goals in 105 games for the club, and Hojlund has 18 in 56. Both of those records should improve under Amorim.

Fernandes is pretty blameless, given his role as an attacking midfielder. Not only does he have 83 goals in 251 games, as well as 73 assists, but his scoring ratio is the best in this squad. He is the most creative player in the squad and the most likely to put those chances away.

Then there is Rashford. With 136 goals,