Wout Weghorst

The 'Man Utd players driving cars' goldmine is yet to be fully excavated but the biggest possible Old Trafford news comes from a club-record signing boost.

He has also worn it for several years on the international stage, meaning it is clearly a preference of his.’ The bloke has been wearing his ‘dream’ shirt number for less than half of his professional career. There might not be many more games left for Weghorst, whose Man Utd loan runs to the end of the season with no option to make it permanent. Brentford are seven points behind with two games in hand. But at one stage we are told that while Antony ‘can regularly be seen driving in and out of training at Carrington in the striking sports car,’ he is ‘currently without it and may have to make other arrangements’. Brighton are seven points behind with three games in hand. Newcastle are four points behind Spurs with two games in hand. And they really ought to know. Osimhen wore 18 at Wolfsburg, 45 with Charleroi and 16, 12 and 7 during his time at Lille, as well as 13 and 21 for Nigeria. Did they mock him over the price of his car? ‘Man Utd star Antony’s £337,000 Lamborghini Aventador taken away in back of recovery truck,’ reads one headline to a story which collapses under the sheer weight of non-information. Did they call him a Scouse b*stard?