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GREEK WONDERKID: KOSTAS MOUZAKITIS NAMED KEY MAN UTD WINTER TARGET

Manchester United is ready to challenge Real Madrid for Olympiacos' £30M wonderkid Kostas Mouzakitis, but manager Ruben Amorim may prefer the Premier League experience of Elliot Anderson.

Greek Wonderkid: Kostas Mouzakitis Named Key Man Utd Winter Target
Experience vs. Youth: Mouzakitis or Anderson for Man Utd Midfield

Football Insider reports that Manchester United is ready to challenge Real Madrid for Olympiacos midfielder Kostas Mouzakitis.

Next year, the Red Devils will probably try to add to their midfield, and Mouzakitis' great progress at Olympiacos has made him a possible target.

Football Insider says the 18-year-old is definitely on the Red Devils' radar as the winter transfer window approaches.

Olympiacos wants at least £30 million for him if he is sold mid-season, but United might not be willing to pay that much.

Mouzakitis had a big breakout season with Olympiacos last year, scoring 2 goals and assisting 5 in 38 games. He has kept up his good work this season, with a couple of assists in 17 games.

Besides his goals, the young player has been great at winning duels and helping out on defence. He recently played very well against Real Madrid in the Champions League, winning 6 duels and recovering the ball 6 times in a 4-3 loss.

Mouzakitis has the potential to become a top central midfielder. It will be interesting to see if the Red Devils increase their interest in the Greek player when the transfer window opens again next month.

United wants a good number 6 to add strength and control to the middle of the field. Casemiro is not as good as he used to be and has had trouble keeping up his work rate for the whole game, and has been taken out.

The Red Devils have Mouzakitis on their winter wish list, but manager Ruben Amorim might prefer a holding midfielder with Premier League experience who can quickly make a difference in the second half of the season.

Nottingham Forest’s Elliot Anderson is one of their top targets. The Englishman has been a standout player in the centre of the field for Forest and has made almost 200 defensive plays this season.

Some think that Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis might be convinced to sell him for £80 million, but a deal could depend on payments spread out over time and a big-name player leaving, which seems unlikely right now. United may have to wait until the summer to improve their midfield with a big signing.

EX-CAPTAIN NEVILLE CLAIMS SUBSTITUTIONS MADE MANCHESTER UNITED "WORSE" AGAINST WOLVES

Gary Neville slams Ruben Amorim’s "weird" substitutions and tactical shifts after Manchester United's 1-1 draw with bottom-side Wolves.

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Was the halftime substitution a tactical error or an injury?

Gary Neville said that the performance of Manchester United in their match against winless Wolves was ‘the baddest of the bad.’

United would have moved fourth in the league with a win at Old Trafford last night, although Wolves, who had two points in 18 games before kickoff, ended their record of 11 straight losses with a 1-1 draw.

Amorim’s team had been knocked out of the Carabao Cup by a League Two team, Grimsby, in August, but Neville was convinced that United had hit rock bottom in a game that could have been even more one-sided were it not for two important saves by Senne Lammens.

“That was the baddest of the bad," the former United captain declared on the Gary Neville podcast.

“They weren’t just booed off at the final whistle. The fans waited in the stadium to continue to boo them. They’ve gone backwards.”

United had won at Newcastle 1-0 on Boxing Day, despite being plagued by an injury list that already lacked skipper Bruno Fernandes, Harry Maguire, and Matthijs de Ligt, as well as three players on African Cup of Nations duty.

But they remained flat right from the first whistle, and the header by Ladislav Krejci just before the half bottled Joshua Zirkzee's deflected shot.

Amorim’s formation choice of 3-4-3 was brought into focus once more as the Portuguese opted to go back to his preferred tactic of four at the back against Newcastle.

“This isn’t right. I’ve watched enough of United over the last five or six weeks to know what looks right and what isn’t right,” Neville had declared 20 minutes into his commentary on Sky Sports.

“Because, when I see that we go back (to three at the back) after five minutes tonight, I’m thinking, no, Ruben, why have you done that?

"The manager has to look at that and think, I got that wrong. I complicated it."

However, Amorim decided to substitute Zirkzee at halftime and brought on an 18-year-old Jack Fletcher, who made his third appearance at the senior level.

Regarding substitutions made by Amorim, Neville further added, “They made Manchester United worse. Every single substitution was ridiculous.”

‘If Zirkzee was injured, and it was a tactical substitution, that was a very poor one.’ But Zirkzee isn't Eric Cantona, not by a long shot, and he had to get out there for physicality, for presence, for experience.”

SEE LISANDRO MARTINEZ’S FURIOUS REACTION AFTER MAN UTD’S SHOCK WOLVES DRAW

Lisandro Martinez demands more after Man Utd’s 1-1 draw with bottom-placed Wolves. United ended 2025 sixth in the Premier League.

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Martinez slams United’s tactical mistakes

Stand-in captain Lisandro Martinez was mad that Manchester United dropped points against Wolves, who are at the bottom of the league.

United came into the last game of 2025 after a good win against Newcastle on Boxing Day and were expected to easily beat Wolves.

Joshua Zirkzee scored first for United, but they didn't take their chances. Ladislav Krejci's header tied the game for Wolves, 1-1.

It was only their third point in 19 games, and it stopped their 11-game losing streak. United fans booed at the end of the game.

When Martinez was asked if it felt like a disappointing point, he said, 100 percent.

We are very disappointed. We can't keep drawing or losing points at home. We have to win.

We want to be at the top, competing with the best.

We can't drop points in games like this. We just have to accept it and be hungry for the next game.

Martinez was captain again because Bruno Fernandes is still recovering from an injury.

When United coach Ruben Amorim was asked about injured players for the game against Leeds on Sunday, he didn't give much away. Leeds are really wanting to beat United for the first time since 2010.

Martinez said to MUTV, You can either make excuses, or you can be strong and say, 'We're dropping points, so we need to go for the next one and show what we can do.'

We need to work together and do the easy things to get the three points.

United is in sixth place in the league at the end of 2025, only two points behind Liverpool for the last Champions League spot. Liverpool has a game in hand.

They could be in a better position if they had been better in both boxes. Leeds has been playing well lately, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin doing great up front.

Martinez added, It's about us. I don't like to think about other teams.

I'm thinking about what we can do to get better as a team every day, and we have to learn from this game.

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