When coach Jose Mourinho and Man United Vice President Ed Woodward completed their shopping list in the summer of 2017, they agreed this would be a difficult transfer period.
The reason comes from the Premier League's 8.3 billion-pund TV copyright package divided equally among 20 teams and the emergence of new owners of many teams in Europe.
A month after the end of the 2016-17 season, this assessment has proven its correctness. Look at Man United's efforts to find a new defensive midfielder.
They have expressed interest in Eric Dier, willing to meet the transfer fee and double the 23-year-old midfielder's salary. Tottenham are in the process of building a new home stadium that could cost them 800 million pounds but it is not easy to lose Eric Dier.
Moreover, in an interview with France Football magazine in March, Coach Mourinho said that Man United may never buy any Tottenham player or any team in the top 6 of the Premier League last season.
Nemanja Matic is expected to be Man United's next target in the defensive midfield position. However, Chelsea are only willing to sell the Serbian if they succeed in the deal with Tiemoue Bakayoko from Monaco. If there is Matic, Coach Mourinho will have a player he understands well who has won 2 Premier League titles in the last 3 seasons.
Man United will gather again on July 8. In the plan to recruit 4 new players before the above time of Coach Mourinho, Man United has only bought Victor Lindelof from Benfica. They have actually started negotiating the deal in December last year and are likely to complete it in January.
Ed Woodward and his associates are now facing more opponents in the transfer market than they have ever. Many teams with stronger financial potential than before have made Man United's opponents in this year's summer market not stop at Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Chelsea...
Everton are not a candidate for the championship but have spent nearly 30 million pounds to have goalkeeper Jordan Pickford from Sunderland and more than 25 million pounds to striker Davy Klaassen from Ajax Amsterdam.
AC Milan and Inter Milan have new Chinese owners. Inter Milan rejected Man United's £50 million offer to Ivan Perisic despite struggling to comply with financial fair play.
In early February this year, coach Mourinho said that he did not want Ed Woodward to pursue "unfeasible" goals. In addition to the above cases, Man United in the past was said to have contacted Sergio Ramos or Neymar and a series of other players but all of them failed.
Individuals, representatives, and officials of the teams all see the "insaneness" of the current transfer market. Even Man United, a team with strong financial potential, is not out of this trend.
That is probably one of the reasons why Man United is trying to bring Juventus head coach - Javier ribalta to the Old Trafford team. The reputation of this Spanish man is expected to improve the transfer of the "Red Devils".
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