Manchester United are taking risks to transform the team in the transfer window

June Gloom was coined by Californians for the cloudy weather in the sixth month of the year and it now appears to have been adopted by Manchester United supporters.

The last time United went through June without a single signing was in 2010 and they had already given Chris Smalling and Javier Hernandez tours of Old Trafford that year. Even in the infamous summer of 2013, Guillermo Varela was paraded on a late Friday afternoon by the then-United chief operating officer Michael Bolingbroke.

The response to the ill-fated David Moyes error was reasonably swift. Louis van Gaal signed off deals for Ander Herrera and Luke Shaw before July and nixed an expected move for Toni Kroos.

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Five of Van Gaal’s 13 signings were players he had already managed and the incumbent Dutch United manager favours familiarity. Frenkie de Jong, Jurrien Timber and Antony all played under Erik ten Hag at Ajax and it was at the storied Dutch club that Christian Eriksen turned heads before leaving for Tottenham at the age of 21. Eriksen trained with Ajax last season prior to joining Brentford.

For now, the goodwill is with Ten Hag. He is weeks into one of the most scrutinised managerial jobs in sport and the target of United supporters in transfer windows is always the board and never the manager. Ten Hag is holed up in remote and bucolic Mere, rather than the selfie-magnet Lowry Hotel, where there is a Championship golf course and a nearby National Trust to maintain his headspace.

Figures at United estimate they have been linked with over 90 players this summer. It is such a silly season one Italian website erroneously reported the length of Alejandro Garnacho's contract by two years. Murtough receives