He is a great striker, but he will be 36 in October and this is a very bad injury to get in your prime, never mind in your prime, I can think of many players who were never the same after a cruciate ligament tear. Arteta for one.
Well, it’s unlikely he’ll ever start for Manchester United again, true.
I suspect he’ll use this as the reason to head to either China or the USA. Even post-surgery he’d be a star either place.
It’s sad, in a way, because he spent this year proving quite successfully that a) he’s still a beast, and b) United are in real bad shape because, without him, they’d be mid-table.