Manchester United have just 13 days left to get their business done in the summer transfer window and that time pressure is beginning to show.
United have so far signed three players: Tyrell Malacia, Christian Eriksen and Lisandro Martinez. Eriksen was a free transfer and Martinez is a former player of Erik ten Hag at Ajax. And yet, those three deals have taken up the vast majority of the summer transfer window – all 83 days of it. The rest has apparently been spent chasing Ten Hag’s number one priority target Frenkie de Jong, who remains a Barcelona player.
New chief executive Richard Arnold started the summer down a local pub, where he insisted to disgruntled fans that, after years of Ed Woodward, this summer was going to be different. "Money is not a consideration on who we want,” Arnold said. “The manager wants him [De Jong] and they have actually done the work. He's a great player. Is it 100 or 200 [million]? I don't know. Get who you f***ing want. Do you want me buying the players? Does that not ring a bell?"
