Manchester United prepared to battle Liverpool for Bayer Leverkusen’s Kai Havertz

Kai Havertz

An underwhelming 1-1 draw away to Club Brugge in the Europa League last night underlined Manchester United’s need for fresh inspiration.

Anthony Martial was on the scoresheet to cancel out Emmanuel Bonaventure’s opener but Jesse Lingard once more toiled on his 200th appearance for the club.

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Sean Cole
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Sean Cole is a freelance journalist. He has written for FourFourTwo, BBC Sport and When Saturday Comes among others. A Birmingham City supporter and staunch Nikola Zigic advocate, he once scored a hat-trick at St. Andrew’s (in a half-time game). He also has far too many football shirts and spends far too much time reading the Wikipedia pages of obscure players.