Manchester United are set to commence their League/EFL/Carabao Cup campaign with a visit to Luton Town FC. Ahead of the cup clash, all the talk surrounding United pertains to their moribund summer transfer window, and just how depleted the squad looked in a shocking home less to Crystal Palace on Saturday.

United got their Premier League season started off on the wrong foot, and the shockingly disastrous showing against Palace has people questioning the overall talent and depth of the roster.

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Luke Shaw, Manchester United’s first choice left back and the team’s player of the season two years ago, has called on his club to reinforce the roster. He joined manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in lamenting the lack of squad depth after a very surprising home loss to Crystal Palace yesterday.

“We have a very good group, but personally I think we need more players to strengthen the squad,” Shaw said. “It can give us a boost. When you look around at how other teams are strengthening their teams, then we must also do it to keep up with the others.”

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You couldn’t have asked for a worse start to the Premier League season, if you’re a Mancheser United supporter. Crystal Palace, the biggest underdogs of the entire second weekend slate of action, came into Old Trafford and put in a complete, end-to-end, dominant performance.

They won 3-1 in a match that saw them in total control nearly all the way. Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer admitted after the match that his side is really short-handed right now. It’s clear, given what he said and what we all saw today that this club must strengthen in the last couple weeks of the summer transfer window.

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Up to 11 players are a doubt for Manchester United in their season opener on Saturday against Crystal Palace. There are of course different degrees as to how likely each of these players are to miss out on the curtain raiser, and we only have one confirmed absentee.

How manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer lines up his first team will be intriguing though, to say the least. One can expect Donny van de Beek, the team’s only signing this summer, to get a starting assignment.

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Typically, the start of the new season brings optimism, especially so when your last completed season displayed a significant amount of forward progress. Not so much with Manchester United, as they have had a summer that’s seen lots of off-the-pitch issues, some struggles with COVID-19 and an abysmal transfer window.

“The difference in the way Chelsea have done their business compared to say my team Man United, there is no noise, there’s nothing going on,” said club legend and current pundit Rio Ferdinand said.

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Five days until the 20/21 Premier League season kicks off for Manchester United have still only signed one player this entire summer transfer window. So what is the major malfunction here?

Apparently, focusing too much on Jadon Sancho, to go ultimately nowhere in that pursuit, has really hindered their transfer business. Today we look at two more winger targets, fallback options with Sancho not happening. Well, it turns out that one of those players is now no longer “an option.”

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“Spend a mil no sweat, water my lawn with Moet,” Dr. Dre famously rapped in his late ’90s rap single “Been There, Done That.” When talking big money, and I mean huge money, citing hip-hop lyrics is always in order.

Today saw Forbes release their list of the ten highest paid footballers in the world, and as you would expect, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were one and two. Manchester United were one of three clubs to land two players in the top ten (Paris Saint-Germain and FC Barcelona were the other two). Midfielder Paul Pogba placed sixth and Goalkeeper David de Gea tenth.
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Five days until the 20/21 Premier League season kicks off for Manchester United have still only signed one player this entire summer transfer window. So what’s the issue here? Apparently, the fruitless pursuit of Jadon Sancho has been a major obstacle to getting other transfer business done.

It’s like United put all their eggs in one basket, so where do we go from here? Now we look at fall back options for right sided attacking players. Gareth Bale to Man United? That’s an oldy but goody, a song we’ve heard many times before, and it’s back again now.

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We still have six days to go until Manchester United commence their 20/21 season, kicking it off against Crystal Palace. It’s still very quiet on the transfer front, so today we’ll cover some MUFC news items that encompass a wide array of different topics, instead of transfer market talk.

We’ll start in with Mason Greenwood, who once again is seeing his lifestyle habits putting him in situations where he receives a heavy amount of public criticism. This time the youngster is being called out for a video showing him inhaling gas from a balloon.

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