Paul Ince says Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will be 'seriously regretting' letting Romelu Lukaku leave Man United after main striker Marcus Rashford suffered injury setback and failure to sign Erling Haaland was 'embarrassing'
* Marcus Rashford will be sidelined for three months after suffering back injury
* Striker had supplied 19 goals for Man United this season and was top scorer
* His absence will leave United thin in attack for the remainder of the season
* It came after they allowed Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez to leave in summer
* United failed to replace them and missed out on signing Erling Haaland
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will be 'seriously regretting' his failure to replace Romelu Lukaku last summer now that Marcus Rashford is injured, according to Paul Ince.
United's attack has been severely blunted now that their 19-goal leading scorer Rashford is set to be sidelined for three months with a back injury.
It has only served to highlight the lack of forward planning at Old Trafford last summer when they sold Lukaku to Inter Milan and also allowed Alexis Sanchez to leave on loan.
Rashford's absence leaves Ole Gunnar Solskjaer light on reliable attacking options. United allowed Romelu Lukaku to join Inter Milan last summer and didn't replace him. Former United midfielder Paul Ince believes Solskjaer will 'seriously regret' losing Lukaku
Now the burden will fall on Anthony Martial and 18-year-old Mason Greenwood as United try and shake off the inconsistency that has plagued their season.
'If Ole wasn't already regretting letting Romelu Lukaku go, he seriously will be now,' former United midfielder Ince told Paddy Power.
'I'll be the first to admit that I had a go at him at times, and he can't retain the ball, but you do get 20-25 goals a season from him.
'United let him go without replacing him and now they're paying the price. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but, really, Ole should never have let him go.'
Solskjaer hinted that he may have to dip into the transfer market during the closing days of this month's window to try and make up the shortfall of goals now Rashford is injured.
United failed in their pursuit of the Norwegian wonderkid Erling Braut Haaland, who opted to sign for Borussia Dortmund, something Ince has described as 'embarrassing.'
'A new signing in January has become a must,' he said. 'It's not that they need to - they absolutely have to.
'It kind of makes Erling Braut Haaland even more embarrassing and a pain in the arse than it already was, especially after we saw his debut hat-trick [against Augsburg on Saturday].
'Because if they don't sign someone, who's going to get you goals?
'We saw the sitter that Anthony Martial missed against Liverpool. It's simply not good enough. He should be burying that, if that had fallen to Rashford I'm confident that would've been a goal.
United lost out to Borussia Dortmund in the race to sign Erling Braut Haaland this month. Haaland took home the matchball on his Dortmund debut after scoring a treble in Augsburg
'With Rashford out, you can't trust Martial will make up those goals. Mason Greenwood is great, but he's young, untried and untested. You can't put that level of pressure on such a great player.'
United continue their attempt to finish in the Premier League top four with a home fixture against Burnley on Wednesday night. They are currently five points behind fourth-place Chelsea.
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- menjual Lukaku tanpa mencari pengganti
- meminjam Sanchez tanpa klausula recall
- inceran Haaland lepas, debut cetak hattrick
mumpung bursa transfer Januari masih belum tutup langsung pinjam Piatek & beli Fernandes