Manchester United fans are a bit down after the January transfer window came and went by with just one established player arriving alongside an exciting youngster.
Man Utd managed to offload more players, chief among them Marcus Rashford, so the hope was that the freed up wages would open up the door for incoming transfers.
However, as Mathys Tel joined Spurs, Leon Bailey’s interest went nowhere, Joao Felix went to Milan and more such moves, United were silent spectators on a frustrating deadline day.
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To lift that doom and gloom, Fabrizio Romano has dropped an exciting transfer update for Man Utd that promises bright hope for the future.
Fabrizio Romano’s Man Utd transfer update
United’s January window was a tale of cost-cutting, pleading poverty, and prioritising what they needed the most because they couldn’t get much.
It is why Ayden Heaven is being promoted as a first-team signing, although that may come to fruition after Lisandro Martinez’s injury update.
Left wing-back can be called a hole filled after Patrick Dorgu’s arrival but it would be unfair to mark a 20-year-old signed from Lecce as the saviour of the club.
Throughout, United sources kept insisting they won’t be panicked into making a stop-gap signing so that the summer budget remains unaffected.
Now, Romano has lent credence to that claim with an exciting update while speaking on his YouTube channel.
He said: “For Man Utd, we said that the only big signing is Patrick Dorgu. Ayden Heaven and Diego Leon joined for the future.
“It’s just the beginning because then in the summer, Man Utd will change many things. For now, Patrick Dorgu is the face of this transfer market for United.”
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United wanting to stick with their plan and saving their budget for a more open summer window is the right thing to do but the fans can be questioned when they are in doubt.
The fanbase has been burned many times by the board not backing the manager at the time of urgent need and this Man Utd squad does look in urgent need of rebuilding.
The one solace, if it can be even called that, is that United have nothing to play for in the league and they’ve been doing well in Europe with a small core group of players.
In any case, United need to prove in the summer that their quiet winter window wasn’t a case of kicking the can down the road.
Romano appears to say that that’s exactly the plan right now.
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