Manchester United went into this transfer window desperately wanting to sign a right winger, specifically Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho, but despite pursuing the England international for months, the 20-year-old remained in Germany.
Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would surely have also wanted a center back to plug a hole in a leaky defense but on the final day of the this year’s window, no player arrived who could play alongside either Harry Maguire, Victor Lindelof or Eric Bailly, none of whom have been particularly convincing three matches into a new Premier League season.
But the worry among United fans is that Cavani could equally be another Radamel Falcao, a striker who had a history of injury problems and arrived on loan on deadline day in 2014.
But the flurry of deals on Monday have led many to ask why the signings weren’t completed weeks, or even months earlier, if they were indeed the players United wanted the most.
Can United’s new signings help the club not only close the 30-point gap which was between Solskjaer’s men and last season’s EPL champion Liverpool, but also steer clear off the teams that were in their rearguard last term?
