{"id":651,"date":"2025-07-26T19:37:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2025\/07\/26\/dominic-solanke-doubts-manchester-uniteds-top-four-prospects-for-2025-26\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T20:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:00:50","slug":"dominic-solanke-doubts-manchester-uniteds-top-four-prospects-for-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2025\/07\/26\/dominic-solanke-doubts-manchester-uniteds-top-four-prospects-for-2025-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Solanke Doubts Manchester United&#8217;s Top Four Prospects for 2025\u201326"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur striker Dominic Solanke has expressed skepticism over Manchester United\u2019s chances of securing a top-four finish in the Premier League for the 2025\u201326 season. Speaking on DA4P\u2019s YouTube channel, Solanke provided his predictions for the teams likely to qualify for the Champions League spots.<\/p>\n<p>Solanke confidently included Tottenham first in his top-four forecast, followed by Liverpool and Manchester City. When questioned about Manchester United&#8217;s potential to challenge for a Champions League position next term, Solanke simply replied, \u201cnah,\u201d instead opting to include Arsenal as a contender.<\/p>\n<p>This blunt verdict reflects the ongoing struggles faced by the Red Devils, who endured a difficult previous season. While Solanke\u2019s confidence in Tottenham\u2019s qualification might raise some eyebrows\u2014given their 17th-place finish last season\u2014his assessment of Manchester United aligns with widespread doubts about their immediate recovery under Ruben Amorim&#8217;s management.<\/p>\n<p>Solanke&#8217;s straightforward response underlines the challenges ahead for Manchester United, suggesting the club faces another challenging campaign outside Europe\u2019s elite competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Solanke predicts Manchester United will miss out on the Premier League top four in 2025\u201326.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,175,238,179,187],"tags":[288,180],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-liverpool","category-manchester-city","category-manchester-united","category-tottenham-hotspur","tag-dominic-solanke","tag-player-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}