With 10 days remaining in June, Manchester United have still not bought or sold anyone. Liverpool, the benchmark for market manoeuvrings, have already concluded their business for incomings and are about to shift their sole significant outgoing in Sadio Mane.
United are not the only top-six Premier League club yet to strengthen their squad but after a "f-----g nightmare" of a season, in the words of chief executive Richard Arnold, their squad rebuild is not so much operating at a glacial pace as the glacier has not started to drift.
With no Champions League football to offer and no trophy since 2017, the club's pull in the market is low and they are restricted to more specific profiles to target.
