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The Premier League giants spent a little over £36m to bring Zirkzee to Old Trafford over the summer but the 23-year-old has endured an underwhelming start to his United career.
Zirkzee scored a late winner on his Manchester United debut in the Premier League opener against Fulham but has not found the back of the net since that goal in mid-August.
Perhaps his lack of goals should not come as a surprise as Zirkzee was hardly prolific at his former club Bologna, scoring 14 goals in 58 appearances for the Serie A side.
Zirkzee will hope to revive his United career under incoming boss Amorim – who arrives at Old Trafford on Monday – but ex-Arsenal and England striker Wright struggles to see where he fits in.
‘Do you know something? When I look at the strikers at Manchester United, I look at [Rasmus] Hojlund and Zirkzee,’ he said on the Wrighty’s House podcast.
‘Going forward, as a United player to take the club to the level they need to be – top-four, Champions League, title challengers – I can’t see in any formation Zirkzee making it from what I’ve seen so far.
‘I can see it with Hojlund, he looks like a future player with better players around him. He gives me the impression that if he gets in and around the box and he gets chances, he can go hot.
‘I don’t see the same with Zirkzee. I look at him and his movement, I don’t see anything in his game that makes me think, “okay, there he is, I see what he can do”.
‘I see that in Hojlund and some of the others. I can see them easily levelling up but I feel for Zirkzee.
‘United still need a striker. Whether they turn Marcus [Rashford] into that or they get a top striker in, they need one, to go alongside Hojlund and maybe for Hojlund to be the back-up.
‘I’m trying to think of Ruben Amorim coming in and who he’s going to play. Zirkzee will need to go through some …
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