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Ralf Rangnick was warned he took on the impossible job when he succeeded Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as Manchester United’s interim coach until the end of the season. But with the club’s surprising reluctance to make any signings in the January transfer window, his task has arguably become even tougher.

United’s lack of business was not for the want of trying, at least on Rangnick’s part. He held transfer meetings with his superiors, laid out his plans to secure targets and publicly told the board where they needed to strengthen, identifying Erling Haaland and Jude Bellingham as his priority signings.

Instead, the German coach was rewarded by losing two useful squad players — Anthony Martial and Donny van de Beek — on loan without adequate replacements coming in to replace them.

The tactician can have no real complaints with regards to those departures, after sending the message that any want-away player at the club can leave if they are not committed.

Those comments were pointed at Martial and after a brief fallout with the Frenchman, he was given the green light to join Sevilla. Van de Beek then sealed a deadline-day move to Everton in a bid to get more first-team football.

It could have easily been three departures had Jesse Lingard’s exit not been blocked by the