Paul Scholes names two £100 million players who would have been ‘easy’ for Man United to sign

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Paul Scholes has named two players Manchester United should have signed in the summer and says it was ‘easy’ for them.

Erik ten Hag has received criticism for the signings that have been made at Old Trafford this summer with hardly any of them justifying the outlay Manchester United spent on them.

Mason Mount joined the club from Chelsea for £55 million but the English midfielder has suffered two muscular injuries this season and has been out for almost half of the campaign.

Andre Onana has began to look better in goal for the Red Devils but has made costly errors in the Champions League. Rasmus Hojlund may well be the most exciting, and promising, signing of the lot.

Scholes names two players United needed

Former United midfielder Paul Scholes, speaking on TNT Sports, has named two players the Red Devils could have brought in over the summer which would have elevated them to title challengers.

“I think there were probably a couple of big mistakes in the summer,” he began. “I think the recruitment at Manchester United this year in the summer was the easiest it could ever have been. You think the likes of Harry Kane – £100million probably you get him. He’d have come here.

“The other one was Declan Rice – £100m. You’re buying proper known quality, the right characters, they know about this club, they know the country, they’re quality, quality players. I thought it was so easy.”

Whether it would have been as ‘easy’ as Scholes suggested to sign these two Englishmen remains to be seen but the midfielder is right, United made some strange decisions in the market.

Scholes’ optimistic approach

Signing one £100 million player in Harry Kane would have been hard enough but for the Red Devils to have been able to sign another player in the 9 digits in Declan Rice would have been almost impossible.

Some major sales would have been needed or a new ownership structure in place, which never looked like it would be the case.

These signings would have elevated the Red Devils to a different level but the harsh reality is that the money to make these signings possible was not there.