Manchester United are trying to build the ultimate team, not put together a Harlem Globetrotters-type collection of showy individuals, director of football Jason Wilcox has declared.
The most famous example of that kind of recruitment strategy in football saw Real Madrid sign Luís Figo, Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo Nazário and David Beckham in four successive summers from 2000 to 2003, known as the Galácticos era. Six years later, Los Blancos embarked upon Galácticos 2.0 by breaking the transfer world record twice in one summer to sign Kaká and Cristiano Ronaldo.
