Manchester United’s poor start to the season has already laid bare the shortcomings of their summer transfer business.
There’s currently no evidence that any of the players signed by the Red Devils are not good enough, but the fact that none of them play as a central midfielder is a real problem.
With seven points from six matches United are currently 14th in the Premier League, and the gaping hole in the middle of the park is partly to blame.
Yarmoliuk interest
United’s summer transfer policy involved making signings from English top-flight clubs, with Bryan Mbeumo arriving from Brentford and Matheus Cunha from Wolverhampton Wanderers.
The club were also said to be sniffing around the division looking for new midfielders, with Brighton and Hove Albion’s Carlos Baleba and Crystal Palace’s Adam Wharton understood to be top targets.
Interest in these two youngsters remains, and reports broke last month that Brentford’s Yehor Yarmoliuk is also under consideration.
A journalist from his native Ukraine claimed that the Red Devils hold “very serious interest” in the 21-year-old.
Race hotting up
A fresh report from CaughtOffside claims that while United and long-term admirers Tottenham Hotspur are “showing the strongest interest” in the player, other clubs are now circling.
Aston Villa, Borussia Dortmund and Napoli are named, and it is implied that they are not the only new contenders for the midfielder.
The report suggests that Spurs may have the edge in the race due to manager Thomas Frank’s relationship with his previous club, but it’s worth remembering that this made no difference at all when the clubs went head to head for Mbeumo earlier this year.
CaughtOffside cite a source which claims that “United are likely to put Yarmoliuk on their list alongside the likes of Adam Wharton for next summer”. The same source indicates that Frank will do everything he can to move Spurs to the front of the queue.
Yarmoliuk is tipped as “one to watch” in the summer transfer window and has already made his presence felt against United having assisted one of the goals in last weekend’s disappointing 3-1 defeat at Brentford.
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Joe Ponting
Joe has spent more than half his life writing about football and all of it following United. As a child he told a doctor his name was ‘Paul Scholes’, but could never pick a pass like him no matter how much he tried.
