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Erik ten Hag was asked about Greenwood at a press conference shortly after the announcement in February but would not go beyond the club statement.

Indeed, Villans boss Unai Emery is happy to spend a club-record fee to land him. There are no guarantees City will sell, while this season has been a blip and it might seem likely, he could still be in Pep Guardiola’s plans.

And Parker doesn’t see the Man Utd midfielder as leadership material with the former left-back insisting he finds Fernandes a “very frustrating player”.

The defender reached the byline and squared the ball for Jesus to tap into an empty net.

That wasn’t evident in the first half, as Gabriel Jesus scored his fourth goal in three games in the seventh minute – regularly showing his impact now he’s back from injury. That was followed up by a Martin Odegaard strike three minutes later.

However, earlier in the week, . The price of the signing was weighed up with the need to improve a number of positions and it was decided going through with the pursuit was the wrong choice.

As such, Arsenal already knew they needed to win to extend the lead again. That was easier said than done, though, despite them going two goals up within the first 10 minutes.

It was a great response to Thursday’s chaotic and costly 2-2 draw against Sevilla, which saw Lisandro Martinez ruled out for the rest of the season and Raphael Varane the next few weeks.

As with both of those wins, today’s game saw United take the upper hand in the first half, Antony following in on a saved Anthony Martial strike to take the lead.

Arsenal did take a punt, though, snapping him up from the South Yorkshire side for £24million. He quickly became the Gunners’ no.1, taking that spot from Bernd Leno.