Facundo Pellistri is obvious solution to £200million Manchester United dilemma

Manchester United have spent over £200million on four right wingers in the last three years, yet it is the cheapest of them all who could finally bring them the solution they crave in that position.

Facundo Pellistri is the only one of United's right wingers who starts regularly at international level, with his latest exploits for Uruguay coming at a time when both Jadon Sancho and Antony were overlooked by their respective nations.

While the 21-year-old was helping his side beat world champions Argentina this week, Antony was playing for a makeshift U21 side in a secret friendly against Hull City. Sancho remains frozen out and is likely to leave the club in January.

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There is no position that epitomises United's lack of long-term planning and reactionary transfer approach quite like the right side of attack.

Sancho was the top target under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, but the club refused to meet Borussia Dortmund's enormous £108m valuation of the player. With time running out in the transfer window, they accelerated plans to sign both Pellistri and Amad on deadline day for a combined £46m.

They were both highly-rated teenage talents but their hopes of ever making it at United were dashed the following summer when United finally landed Sancho for just £73m instead. Then it quickly turned out that he was much better on the left than the right.

Solskjaer was sacked, and the arrival of Erik ten Hag brought with it a clean slate and the opportunity to start again with another signing on the right wing. They hesitatingly made a move for Antony and eventually caved into a whopping