It has been claimed that striker Wout Weghorst has had a greater impact at Manchester United this season than Cristiano Ronaldo.
Three months have passed since Ronaldo's infamous departure from the Manchester team, but his time at the club continues to generate discussions.
United are winless in their last three Premier League games and have failed to score a single goal during that period, raising questions about their centre-forward Weghorst, who has only registered two goals and two assists since arriving on loan as Ronaldo's replacement in the January transfer window.
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With the Dutch marksman having now played as many games as Ronaldo (19 matches) did for the club this season before his abrupt departure in November, Red Devils legend turned pundit Gary Neville has insisted that Weghorst has been a bigger feature for Erik ten Hag's side than the Portuguese superstar.
"Since Sunday that seems to have been a moment, he has played basically every moment since coming in," Neville said on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football.
"I called him a placeholder because United didn't invest in a striker United would want.
"This experiment has to stop, Weghorst has to come out, it can no longer go on, the reason he continues to play and why Ronaldo is no longer at the club, you see his 19 starts against Ronaldo's 19 starts.
"Weghorst has 12 wins, four draws, three defeats, he has only scored two goals but the team has scored 37 goals, with Ronaldo it was 19 starts, they won three less games, drawn three, lost four more with him in the team, he scored 11 but the team itself only scored 23, they are massive differences.
"It is the strangeness of football is having a player who isn't good enough to be a Manchester United forward but has brought more profit to the team. I believe he (Ronaldo) is the greatest player of all time."
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