Manchester United's best ever XI ... The first forward 💥 | OneFootball

With the football on hold at the moment, we’ve been thinking about who gets in Manchester United’s all-time XI.

Yesterday we completed our midfield. Today we’re choosing the first of our front three.

Here are the nominees …

3rd – Dennis Viollet

As you will be reminded in the coming days, United have had some incredible strikers over the years.

But only Dennis Viollet managed 32 league goals in a single season.

And it’s all the more remarkable considering he did it in the 1959/60 season, the year after surviving the Munich air disaster.

He might just be United’s more underrated player of all-time.

2nd – Mark Hughes

Hughes enjoyed two spells at United. After coming through the youth system he spent six years at the club before leaving to join Barcelona in 1986.

When he returned in 1988 (having also spent time on loan at Bayern Munich) he was a much more lethal striker than when he left, and he helped the club to two Premier League titles, three FA Cups, the League Cup and also scored twice in 1991 European Cup Winners Cup final.

He netted 163 goals in all, and many of them were spectacular.

And the winner is … Wayne Rooney

It had to be him.

Rooney was the hottest prospect in English football when United bought him from Everton as a teenager in 2004.

A hat-trick on his debut set the tone and for the next 13 years, it was nothing but net for the Liverpudlian as he went on to become the club’s all-time leading goalscorer with 253 goals in 559 games.

Those goals helped United to five Premier League titles, three League Cups, one FA Cup, the Champions League and the Europa League.

And one goal in particular has gone down as one of the greatest in Premier League history …

Here’s how the team is looking so far …

GK: Peter Schmeichel RB: Gary Neville LB: Denis Irwin CB: Gary Pallister CB: Rio Ferdinand CM: Bobby Charlton CM: George Best CM: Ryan Giggs FW: Wayne Rooney

Check back tomorrow when we will be choosing the second forward!