The good news for Mike Phelan is that he now has 14 fit senior professionals from which to select a starting XI. The bad news is that Hull City have still to sign a first-team player this summer and making it three league wins out of three will be tested by José Mourinho’s Manchester United on Saturday evening.
It is sure to be an evocative occasion for Hull’s caretaker-manager, who spent almost 20 years as a player, coach and, finally, Sir Alex Ferguson’s assistant at Old Trafford, and Steve Bruce’s successor knows his chances of securing the job on a permanent basis have been enhanced by impressive wins at home to Leicester City and away at Swansea, but he is desperate to strengthen a ridiculously skinny squad.
Continue reading...Football | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2bp7HcB