‘People may scoff’ – Dwight Yorke calls for Man Utd to ‘poach’ one ‘nasty’ player from Liverpool

Dwight Yorke has called on Manchester United to do something which hasn’t happened since 1938 – sign a player directly from Liverpool.

In the Premier League era, only two men have represented both of the northwestern arch-rivals (Paul Ince and Michael Owen), and neither of those was a direct transfer between the two most successful clubs in English football.

However, with the Old Trafford outfit on the cusp of hiring Ruben Amorim as their new manager – a few months on from the Sporting...