Manchester United always knew it was impossible to address all the shortcomings in Ruben Amorim’s squad in one transfer window.<\/p>\n
There were initial soundings around Aston Villa’s World Cup-winning goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez early in the summer but that didn’t go anywhere and since then, United have maintained their focus on attacking positions.<\/p>\n
Heading into the summer few expected the club to make three big-money signings without selling anyone significant. But now they have managed it, they do need to look at off-loading \u2013 and have essentially decided at present, any available finance will be directed at addressing the central midfield situation, not a new goalkeeper.<\/p>\n
That situation is interesting anyway. Andre Onana is expected to be fit for Sunday’s Premier League opener against Arsenal but his deputy Altay Bayindir has not made a move as anticipated after he was left out of the Europa League final starting line-up.<\/p>\n
Veteran Tom Heaton has signed a one-year contract, so Amorim has experienced cover, while 21-year-old Radek Vitek and 19-year-old Elyh Harrison are very highly rated at Old Trafford and have just started loan spells at Bristol City and Shrewsbury respectively.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, sources deny speculation that Chelsea could look at signing Donnarumma this summer.<\/p>\n
That’s despite brief interest in AC Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan in June with Chelsea insistent that they will go into next season with Robert Sanchez as the number one option – as well as Filip Jorgensen as a capable back-up able to provide serious competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United always knew it was impossible to address all the shortcomings in Ruben Amorim’s squad in one…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-142693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115022148954177484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}