Daniel James brilliant opener in Manchester United s 1-1 draw at Southampton continued a stunning start to life in the Premier League for the Wales youngster.
James capped an opening weekend thumping of Chelsea and was also on target in last weekend s 2-1 loss to Crystal Palace.
Three goals in his first four United appearances places the 21-year-old in some elite company but being prolific in your opening games for the club does not necessary mean long-term success.
Here are the other Red Devils who got off to a flyer in the Premier League era.
3 Daniel James has scored three goals in his four Premier League games for Manchester United; he only scored three in his final 22 Championship appearances for previous club Swansea City. Step-up.
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Jurgen Klopp named Fabinho, Jordan Henderson and Naby Keita as Liverpool s midfield triumvirate for Sunday s crunch Premier League clash against Chelsea at Anfield.
The return of Andrew Robertson, who missed the 2-0 win over Porto through suspension, in place of James Milner at left-back presented a selection quandry further afield and Klopp has opted for the same three-man unit that impressed in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.
Joel Matip steps in for Dejan Lovren alongside Virgil van Dijk in the only other change for the Reds.
The centre-back pairing will confront Eden Hazard as a false nine, with Maurizio Sarri leaving both Olivier Giroud and Gonzalo Higuain on Chelsea s bench.
Callum Hudson-Odoi rested from last week s 1-0 victor…
Manchester City attacker David Silva is set for a timely comeback for his side as they approach crunch fixtures against Stoke City in the Premier League before welcoming Real Madrid for the first leg of their Champions League semi-final.
Manager Manuel Pellegrini said Silva had come on well in training and should be involved against Stoke, adding that he hoped the Spaniard s injury problems were behind him.
Silva has missed the last three Premier League games with an ankle problem that has bugged him for the majority of the season, though Pellegrini said there was no ligament or muscle damage.
It was not a problem of ligament or muscle, it was a hard kick that he could never recover 100 per cent from, he said
I hope, with the last treatment, that he is …
Neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo will play in the Champions League final for the first time since 2013, but Mario Balotelli does not believe they should be criticised.
Messi and Barcelona were beaten by Liverpool in a remarkable semi-final second leg on Tuesday, following Ronaldo s Juventus, beaten by Ajax in the last eight, out of the competition.
With Liverpool facing either Ajax or Tottenham in the final, the two stars considered among the greatest players of all time will be missing from European football s showpiece.
This last happened when Bayern Munich defeated Borussia Dortmund at Wembley in 2013.
But Marseille striker Balotelli claims any criticism of the pair for their teams failures is nonsense , describing Messi as an alien and Ronal…
Gabriel Jesus starred with a goal and an assist on his first Premier League start as Manchester City romped to a 4-0 victory at West Ham.
Pep Guardiola made two bold selection decisions in leaving Claudio Bravo and Sergio Aguero on the substitutes bench and was rewarded with only a second top-flight victory in five attempts.
Kevin De Bruyne put City ahead with his fourth league goal of the season having been set up by Jesus.
David Silva swiftly doubled the visitors lead with his second goal of the league campaign and Jesus struck himself before the break.
Yaya Toure added gloss to the scoreline with a second-half penalty, the midfielder s fourth strike for City since Boxing Day.
Guardiola s side had thumped West Ham 5-0 in the FA Cup last month an…
AC Milan are interested in signing Benoit Badiashile from Chelsea in the January transfer window, according to . The report has claimed that former Serie A and UEFA Champions League winners Milan are keen on getting a deal done in the middle of the season.
Badiashile has been on the books of Chelsea since January 2023 when he joined from AS Monaco. The 22-year-old defender has failed to make a huge impact at the London club and is not guaranteed a place in the starting lineup. The youngster has made 11 appearances in the Premier League so far in his career, scoring one goal in the process.
Chelsea are 10th in the Premier League table at the moment with 16 points from 12 matches, 10 points behind London rivals and fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur. Meanwhile, Milan current…
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, a deal has been struck between Marseille and Roma for the transfer of Kevin Strootman. The 28-year-old s future has been up in the air for quite some time now, but it finally seems as if we re closing in on the end of this saga. The report suggests that the fee is believed to be €25 million, with an extra €3 million in add-ons. The deal is said to be made official at some point in the next 48 hours as we move closer towards the summer transfer window deadline for clubs across Europe.
Strootman, who has been an international player for The Netherlands since 2011, first joined Roma back in 2013 when he made the jump from PSV Eindhoven. Across the last five years, he s become one of the most efficient midfielders in world football, with h…
Manchester United great Ryan Giggs does not believe the club s post-Alex Ferguson decline was inevitable, instead claiming their recruitment was not good enough under successor David Moyes.
United have gone three seasons without Premier League silverware since Ferguson guided the club to their 20th title in 2012-13 his final term at Old Trafford.
Moyes and Louis van Gaal have come and gone in Manchester, and Jose Mourinho is now tasked with getting them back on track as Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool and Chelsea continue to challenge for top honours.
However, former assistant boss Giggs who left the club after losing out to Mourinho for the manager role feels it all went wrong after Moyes replaced Ferguson in May 2013.
Giggs felt the trans…
Andrej Kramaric s VAR-assisted penalty snatched a late 1-1 draw for Croatia against France to deny Les Bleus a first win of the new Nations League campaign.
Adrien Rabiot s strike shortly after the break looked to have fired the visitors to victory in Group A1, in what was a rematch of the Russia 2018 World Cup final won by France.
But the hosts were able to take a share of the spoils in Split with the aid of VAR. Referee Marco Guida s decision to award a penalty for Jonathan Clauss clumsy challenge on Kramaric was initially kiboshed by the linesman s flag but a review showed Luka Sucic had been onside when receiving Mislav Orsic s pass in the build-up.
Kramaric duly converted with seven minutes remaining at Stadion Poljud to inject a degree of late drama into a …
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Simply looking to finish off the job and extend on their Champions League qualifying adventure, Panathinaikos will welcome SC Dnipro to the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium on Tuesday evening.
Panathinaikos
Starting with the hosts, left disappointed last season after enduring a stuttering end to the 2022/23 campaign, some were wondering if Panathinaikos would show any signs of a summer hangover. However, despite failing to win any of their final four Greek Super League appearances back in May, the Greens have bounced back in an eye-catching fashion. Suffering just a single defeat from their seven pre-season friendly showdowns this summer, Ivan Jovanovic’s men certainly laid down a real Champions League marker when they opened their quali…