Erik ten Hag’s first summer at Manchester United was always billed as a rebuild job, following on from a truly disastrous campaign.
United had barely scraped into Europe, their experiment with Ralf Rangnick failed, their most expensive signing was about to leave, and practically every position was in need of some new additions. In fact, Rangnick summed it up when he suggested United would need 10 new signings in the transfer window.
Of course, that was always going to be easier said than done. While there’s no doubt United need something of an overhaul, it was always unlikely Ten Hag would make that amount of signings.
