But hopes of a marquee signing up front in the summer must be tempered by the sober reality of PSR restrictions — the same restrictions which prompted United chiefs to enter the January window with a strategy of being open to offers for almost all players, including Garnacho and academy graduate Kobbie Mainoo.
Wastefulness in front of goal has been a scourge on United’s sorry season, and Tottenham away was the latest in a long line of matches in which the Red Devils lacked calm in the final third at the crucial moment.
In the aftermath of Sunday’s limp 1-0 defeat at Tottenham, Ruben Amorim said Manchester United need to stop thinking about the bigger picture and start thinking about their next game.
United will cross that bridge when they come to it, with regards navigating that market, but work must still be done in the meantime to make the players already at the club more clinical with the presentable chances they are already creating.
Defensive errors are still an uncomfortably common occurrence, the weight of cross-field passes is often misjudged, and the manager had to name eight teenagers with zero Premier League minutes between them on his bench, owing to an injury crisis that has spawned almost overnight.
