The WhatsApp reply from a contact who had worked with Sergio Reguilon read, "Reguilonhmm". Manchester United are also not entirely convinced.
They have recruited a left-back on loan who can be dumped back at Tottenham in January. Marc Cucurella was the preferred choice.
Cucurella was discounted as he had played in Chelsea's League Cup second round tie and, given United's insistence on a break clause, Chelsea did not want to be saddled with a player they could not transfer to a third club midway through the season.
Reguilon became the first Tottenham player to transfer to United in exactly 15 years since Dimitar Berbatov, a club-record addition on deadline day in 2008.
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