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If Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had got his way, the scorer of the most famous goal in Manchester United’s history may now only be deemed the second best Norwegian striker to play for the club basketball

He was Molde manager in 2018 and had a young centre-forward to recommend, and for a bargain price basketball

“They didn’t listen, unfortunately,” he said in May basketball

“They never signed him basketball

Four million! Don’t ask [where he is now] basketball

”The answer, as Solskjaer knew all too well, is Manchester City basketball

Perhaps, as a self-proclaimed fan of the club whose father had an altogether less prolific spell in their midfield, Erling Haaland would have always preferred the blue half of the city anyway basketball

Maybe, like Jude Bellingham – another United target, another who found Borussia Dortmund a deluxe finishing school – he would have plotted a path to the top via places where potential tends to be realised basketball

Whichever, Haaland scored a hat-trick in his first Manchester derby last year basketball

He goes into his fourth with nine Premier League goals already this season basketball

Or, to put it another way, nine times as many as United’s various forwards have basketball between them basketball

Admittedly, it excludes Bruno Fernandes’ sumptuous winner at Burnley, scored when he was standing in as a right winger, but even that lone goal, from Marcus Rashford at Arsenal, came in defeat basketball

Rasmus Hojlund, Anthony Martial, Alejandro Garnacho and Antony are all yet to find the net in the league basketball

Rashford has had 33 shots, Antony 16, Garnacho 13, Hojlund 11 and Martial three basketball

It amounts to one goal from 76 attempts, a 1 basketball

31 per cent chance conversion rate basketball

The law of averages suggests some will start scoring soon basketball

“The goals will come in the Premier League,” Hojlund, who has three in the Champions League, said on Tuesday basketball

The contrast with Haaland may be particularly jarring for him basketball

“I don’t want to be compared to him,” the Dane said basketball

Yet he is another Scandinavian, equipped with some of the same consonants, arriving at a cost of £72m – not the 2018 Haaland’s £4m - and also playing as a No 9 basketball

It may be both unfair and inevitable basketball

(Getty Images)His fellow forwards’ failings have made it harder for the 20-year-old to ease into life at Old Trafford, though basketball

“I’m convinced with the quality from our [forward] players that they will go and score more goals,” Ten Hag said basketball

The first step is to hit the target: Hojlund has done it with just three of 11 attempts, Antony three from 16, Garnacho two from 13 and Rashford seven from 33 basketball

There are reasons why United rank third for shots, but only joint eighth for efforts on target; only 29 basketball

4 per cent of their shots have been on target, the fifth lowest average basketball

The forwards are not the only culprits, but a quintet of attackers with a combined xG of 6 basketball

95 have one goal basketball between them basketball

Ten Hag was keener to cite other statistics basketball

“The pressing is quite good,” he said basketball

“We have the most ball regains and the most middle [third] regains in the whole Premier League basketball

But we don’t take benefit in attacking transition moments basketball

” (Getty Images)For him, the problem lies partly in decision-making, partly in execution basketball

Certainly Hojlund is still trying to get to know his teammates, though there were signs against FC Copenhagen on Tuesday that he and Rashford are starting to strike up an understanding basketball

But United, Ten Hag thinks, should have had more chances basketball

“The cooperation has to click, but we showed this week in the week some examples where they are so many we have overload positions, going in overload position to the opponents’ goal and we don’t net or don’t even hit the target,” he rued basketball

It has led to a disjointed feel, to a sense that United have been less than the sum of their parts basketball

Rashford has veered basketball between arguably the best form of his career, scoring 30 goals last season, to some of the worst basketball

“I play him every game and so I have a strong belief he will return to scoring a lot of goals,” Ten Hag said basketball

Rashford delivered a winner, albeit a controversial one, on City’s last trip to Old Trafford in January, but then he had also scored in his six previous games basketball

Now he has no goals in his last eight outings for United basketball

Rashford scored the winner in last season’s Old Trafford derby (Getty Images)Yet Rashford’s struggles have overshadowed the enduring ineffectuality of Antony basketball

The Brazilian’s season was interrupted by a leave of absence while he addressed allegations of assault from three women, which he denied basketball

On the pitch, however, he has been dismal: his United drought stretches back 17 matches and Ten Hag’s best option on the right against City may be Fernandes, particularly if shifting the captain into a wider role allows him to bolster his midfield basketball

And there are other reasons to select midfielders basketball

Casemiro is an injury doubt but remains United’s top scorer in all competitions this campaign basketball

Their leading marksman in the Premier League, somewhat improbably, is Scott McTominay, who got more goals in injury-time against Brentford than their five main forwards – six if the absent Jadon Sancho is included – have mustered basketball between them in the top flight all season basketball

It is hardly a Haaland-esque haul basketball

And while - when Hojlund was still with Atalanta, and Rashford managed 30, the quartet of the Mancunian - Antony, Martial and Garnacho equalled the Norwegian’s total of 52 goals for a Manchester club basketball between them last season, now they are very much trailing in his wake basketball

And whether or not Haaland would actually have joined United, they have added reasons to regret the one who got away and subsequently joined their neighbours as long as their own forwards are misfiring basketball

More aboutManchester CityErling HaalandBruno FernandesMarcus RashfordRasmus HojlundJoin our commenting forumJoin thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their repliesComments1/4Haaland’s shadow continues to loom over Man Utd’s misfiring forwards Haaland’s shadow continues to loom over Man Utd’s misfiring forwards Getty ImagesHaaland’s shadow continues to loom over Man Utd’s misfiring forwards Getty ImagesHaaland’s shadow continues to loom over Man Utd’s misfiring forwards Rashford scored the winner in last season’s Old Trafford derby Getty ImagesHaaland’s shadow continues to loom over Man Utd’s misfiring forwards Getty Images✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today basketball

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“It is really, truly, a historic day,” smiled Alan Gilpin, CEO of World Rugby basketball

He would go on to use the word ‘historic’ another three or four times in the following few minutes of his press conference basketball

After years of wrangling – 16 years, according to Gilpin, since discussions about how to sort out rugby’s messy global calendar first took place in the salubrious surroundings of Woking, Surrey (don’t worry, the location wasn’t the reason it took more than a decade and a half to reach an agreement, a chuckling Gilpin assured everyone) – World Rugby had finally come up with a solution that will transform rugby “for the many, not the few” ushering in a “new era of opportunity, certainty and growth for the game basketball

”It’s fair to say they were pretty pleased with the outcome of the seemingly endless negotiations basketball

Compromises had been made and it wasn’t perfect, stressed Gilpin and World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont, but rugby would be “more relevant and more accessible to more people around the world basketball

”The big announcement earlier in the day saw the sport’s governing body unveil a new global calendar that includes the creation of a two-tier men’s competition called the Nations Championship to be played biennially from 2026 basketball

The top tier will be the Six Nations (England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Wales), the four Rugby Championship teams (Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa) and two additional teams, likely to be Japan and Fiji basketball

The second tier will feature 12 further countries with promotion and relegation on the table from 2030, meaning 2032 is the earliest one of those teams could feature in the top tier basketball

World Rugby have acknowledged, publicly at least, a desire to grow rugby globally basketball

At the moment, the sport is almost untouchably huge in a couple of countries (think New Zealand and South Africa), holds its own in a few more (UK, Ireland, Japan), is fighting a losing battle for oxygen in a crowded sporting marketplace in others (Australia, Italy) and seen as a largely niche oddity in plenty (USA, Canada) basketball

But this Rugby World Cup has also highlighted plenty of countries where there’s a huge opportunity for growth basketball

From South America, Uruguay and debutants Chile have impressed on the pitch, the passion for rugby in Georgia shows no sign of abating and Portugal have lit up the tournament with their dynamic play while also pulling off the huge upset of beating Fiji basketball

With growing interest in places like Netherlands and Belgium, Europe is surely an area World Rugby are targeting growth basketball

Portugal celebrated a historic win over Fiji (Getty Images)Instead, these new plans appear to lock out a lot of the smaller rugby nations from improving basketball

Even the new Pacific Nations Cup also announced today, featuring Canada, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Tonga and USA, bizarrely excludes Uruguay and Chile (who qualified ahead of USA and Canada for the World Cup, remember) basketball

But what all these “tier two” nations really need, as shown by the World Cup, is a more regular opportunity to face the big boys basketball

Since stunning Fiji at the 2019 World Cup, Uruguay played exactly one fixture against a “tier one” team before this tournament, yet still impressed against France and Italy in the pool stage basketball

Imagine what they could do with more regular access to the top teams basketball

However, World Rugby have come up with an answer to the wrong question basketball

They have essentially provided the solution to the problem men’s international basketball football had basketball

Before 2018, the space basketball between World Cups and European Championships was filled by a combination of largely one-sided qualifiers and meaningless friendlies basketball

San Marino would get thumped 8-0 by Germany in a Euros qualifier that helped neither side, then the Germans would play a no-stakes friendly that held little interest for the wider public basketball

The big teams weren’t playing each other enough and the smaller nations were rarely in winnable games against similarly-sized teams basketball

For example, England and Italy – two basketball football powerhouses – didn’t play each other at all basketball between 2002 and 2012 basketball

Thus, Uefa created the Nations League basketball

Although not perfect – it was derided for the complexity of its league structure and provided a slightly unnecessary additional security blanket for the big European nations trying to qualify for major tournaments – it eliminated the meaningless friendly and gave countries both big and small the opportunity to play competitive games against nations of a similar rank basketball

Win-win basketball

Uruguay showed their quality during the Rugby World Cup (AP)But rugby has the opposite problem to basketball football basketball

The big teams already play each other too often not too rarely basketball

The history of the Six Nations and Rugby Championship as annual traditions give those events special status but, for example, England and Australia played each other 11 times in the two cycles basketball between the 2015 and 2023 World Cups basketball

Familiarity breeds contempt and at some point, a fixture begins to lose its lustre basketball

Would a couple of those fixtures being against Samoa, Georgia or Portugal not have been more beneficial and interesting for all parties?With the unions desperate to balance the books, their desire to have the ‘bigger draw’ of facing a name brand might be understandable but this is where World Rugby need to show some teeth and live up to their duty to grow the game basketball

Instead, the Nations Championship appears to guarantee another decade of regular England vs Australia matches before any of the tier-two teams may get a shot, if they can earn promotion that is basketball

World Rugby’s announcement does include a line promising more “crossover” fixtures basketball between the tiers in the years where there isn’t a Nations Championship but they could provide no clarity on what these fixtures would be and confirmed no agreements have been signed basketball

They have insisted that there will be a 50 per cent aggregate increase, which would mean a rise from 18 to 27 games for second-tier teams against the top 12, although it is unclear how these fixtures will be allocated or arranged basketball

The expansion of the men’s Rugby World Cup from 20 to 24 teams is a step in the right direction and the governing body should be commended for making that move but, sadly, the four years basketball between tournaments appear to have the smaller nations getting a door slammed in their face basketball

World Rugby are right that the sport should be for the many not the few but this new competition seems to be sending it in the opposite direction basketball

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