{"id":623952,"date":"2023-05-28T15:49:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T19:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=623952"},"modified":"2023-05-30T04:40:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T08:40:25","slug":"wout-weghorst-manchester-united-absolutely-disgraceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/05\/28\/wout-weghorst-manchester-united-absolutely-disgraceful\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Absolutely Disgraceful&#8217;: Wout Weghorst&#8217;s Season Has Not Been Good Enough; He&#8217;s Now Set to Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On-loan <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/05\/27\/manchester-united-harry-kane-rice-mount\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> player Wout Weghorst has not had the fairytale move to Old Trafford that he would have dreamed of when he joined on a temporary deal in January. The striker has failed to score a single league goal for the Red Devils since signing over four months ago, and now, 17 Premier League appearances later, he is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/man-united-transfer-news-weghorst-26848940\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expected<\/a> to return to his parent club Burnley.<\/p>\n<h2>Wout Weghorst&#8217;s Manchester United Spell Labeled &#8216;Absolutely Disgraceful; He&#8217;s Now Set to Leave<\/h2>\n<h3>Wout Weghorst: A Budget Acquisition Who Failed to Impress<\/h3>\n<p>Weghorst was signed on loan in January as a low-risk, low-cost potential replacement for Cristiano Ronaldo who had left the club in November 2022, but after the last league game of the season, his spell at Old Trafford has been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UtdEIIis\/status\/1662872184258273282?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">labeled &#8220;absolutely disgraceful&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While his style of play isn&#8217;t exactly the same as clinical finishers like Harry Kane, the Dutch international was still expected by fans to come in and contribute to United&#8217;s goal tally in the second half of the season. Indeed, there was much excitement surrounding his height when he joined: standing at 6&#8217;6&#8221; Weghorst seemed to promise a focal point in the centre of United&#8217;s attack that had been missing for a number of years. However, despite being over six inches taller than the average Premier League player (5&#8217;11.9&#8221;), Weghorst has an aerial duel success rate of just 41%.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has also looked sloppy and slow on the ball, and when opportunities in front of goal have presented themselves, he has failed to capitalise.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"HmoxmxkzT05YW01uoAhe_Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1258252044\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'HmoxmxkzT05YW01uoAhe_Q',sig:'8UNSFOlNLWjwYVoFTVi4KEmU7KI-d_R38Chx40KlMzI=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1258252044',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This was exemplified by a golden opportunity in the dying minutes of United&#8217;s season on Sunday as Facundo Pellistri sliced through Fulham&#8217;s midfield on the counterattack, allowing Jadon Sancho to deliver a pinpoint cross to Weghorst at the far post, but the striker was unable to bury the chance.<\/p>\n<p>Now set to leave Old Trafford, Weghorst&#8217;s most positive moment in a red shirt will remain his assist in the Carabou Cup final, and while he will be fondly remembered for his, for want of a better word, vibes, fans will ultimately be happy for the Manchester side to move on, hopefully to more accomplished strikers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/05\/27\/manchester-united-newcastle-kim-min-jae\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United Will Meet Kim Min-jae Asking Price<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On-loan Manchester United player Wout Weghorst has not had the fairytale move to Old Trafford that he would have dreamed of when he joined on a temporary deal in January. The striker has failed to score a single league goal for the Red Devils since signing over four months ago, and now, 17 Premier League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3312,"featured_media":623955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[3122],"class_list":["post-623952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","tag-wout-weghorst"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}