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Why clubs want players like Lingard, not Arthur, in January

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Spare a thought for Jesse Lingard. The former Manchester United midfielder is still without a club more than six months after leaving Nottingham Forest as a free agent, and his efforts to tempt a new team into signing him -- posting videos of energetic work-outs in the gym -- was brutally mocked by another former United star, Paul Scholes, in a searing Instagram comment this week.