Marc Skinner called for more investment in experienced players from Manchester United in order for his team to push on, after they succumbed to two late Bayern Munich goals and were knocked out in the Women’s Champions League quarter-finals despite a spirited, second-leg performance.
Skinner’s team led on the night for 70 minutes after Melvine Malard’s opener but Bayern built up a heavy spell of pressure in the second half and eventually found a way through United’s dogged resistance. Glódís Viggósdóttir’s header from a corner and Linda Dallmann’s sweetly struck half-volley gave the runaway Bundesliga leaders a 5-3 aggregate victory.
The game came on the same day that the Football Association revealed that six Women’s Super League clubs spent more on agents fees than United in the year to February 2026, after the Guardian reported that United’s wage bill last season was only half that of their rivals Arsenal. Asked about those numbers and what is needed for United to kick on, Skinner said: “We need to design the squad with that depth of experience in order to go to that stage, if that’s what we want to do.
“When we have eight players out currently, we just couldn’t compete enough in that second half. If we’d had them, I honestly think we could have gone through tonight, that’s how well we played in the first half.”
