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RASMUS HOJLUND

(Atalanta to Manchester United)

1 As a tall, powerful, deceptively quick Scandinavian striker with a powerful left foot arriving in Manchester, the similarities between Hojlund and Erling Haaland are obvious and inevitable, and will probably be made regularly as the season goes on.

Indeed, the comparisons go even further: after making his debut in his home country, Hojlund also moved to Austria, where he sufficiently impressed for Sturm Graz to earn a move to Atalanta last summer. The Dane does not have the same off-the-scale scoring numbers

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