It’s the silly season and thus it’s time for some Manchester United transfer talk. The January transfer window finally saw some real news yesterday with the sale of midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin to Everton.
As we chronicled last week, it could be a very boring January transfer window at Manchester United. There might not actually be any new players coming, only members of the roster outgoing. Now we have these quotes from United Manager Jose Mourinho, told to Sport TV:
“I think that in this winter market we will only sell and not buy — it is my feeling,” Mourinho said.
“Let’s build pounds to attack the market next summer as we did this. We hired four players from the first level and we knew they could help.”
Thus the talk that defender Victor Lindelof could be brought over, and he would be the only transfer buy this winter, seems unfounded. There were reports that United had agreed to a deal for the Benfica man, but now it that narrative seems unlikely. Mourinho is basically saying that anything is really going to happen between now and the end of the month, and that United will be saving their money for the summer.
That’s been the pattern recently. Last year, United bought no one in January. In 2015, they only brought over back-up goalkeeper Victor Valdes, which really isn’t much.
They did have the blockbuster of all blockbuster summer transfer windows though in 2016. The four player class was the most expensive summer transfer window of all time, as the Red Devils broke the world individual transfer fee record for the first time in club history. They had broken the British record 12 different times entering the summer.
This was however, the first time that they had broken the global record.
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