Erik ten Hag will need several note pads to jot down the problems he must solve as Manchester United manager and many of them involve him footing astonishing financial bills. A busy summer awaits for the Dutchman yet - as he continues to put his own plans in place - most of those issues could and should have been avoided.
Hindsight, as they say, is a wonderful thing. Right at the top of his lengthy shopping list is (finally) finding a solution to long-standing and well-documented issues in central midfield - something United would have addressed even if they had not opted for a direction change in the dugout and upstairs.
However, with speculation mounting over a 50-50 decision at centre-back, between Jurrien Timber and Pau Torres from Villarreal, that is not the only area which Ten Hag must patch up when his predecessors made such big-money and high-profile recent investment; old cracks have appeared through the thinly-layered paper.
