A Pre-Season Frenzy Begins…
In a flurry that could rival a stampede of wild Mancunian squirrels, Manchester United players embarked on their annual migration back to Carrington on Monday! Just five weeks after gallivanting across Malaysia and Hong Kong, our beloved Red Devils are flexing those football muscles for the 2025/26 season. With five friendly battles warming them up for a Premier League smackdown against Arsenal on August 17, it’s like the gang’s first day back at school — except the schoolyard battles involve more goalposts and fewer wedgies!
Making a grand entrance worthy of Hollywood, Matheus Cunha and Diego Leon sashayed through the Carrington gates. Meanwhile, players who’ve been globe-trotting with their national armies (read: international duty), are fashionably late until Thursday. Will Coach Ruben Amorim finally have his dream team back together? As the clouds gather for a pre-season showdown with Leeds United in Sweden, the MEN Sport detachment pinned hopes on six warriors with something to prove this season — and no, it’s not that Onana will moonlight as a magician. Yet.
Speaking of wizards, Casemiro is playing the cryptic game of “will he or won’t he stay?!” like a soap opera star awaiting a contract renewal. With his European feats shrouded in twinkling accolades, his domestic footy efforts have been more snail than cheetah. A bag of chips without salt, they said. Meanwhile, Zirkzee, Mount, and that fellow Rasmus Hojlund — who never had a full United preseason under his belt — might want to conjure some career magic. Otherwise, the transfer rumor cauldron is stirring and there’s talk of new United sorcerers to swoop in! Stay tuned, dear readers, for the comic chaos of the Red Devils’ pre-season dreams and schemes unfolds!
