Manchester United have another transfer task after signing Erik ten Hag's priorities

"What's happening" the right-hand sidebar on Twitter wonders. More often than not, nothing's happening with the names that are 'trending'.

John Murtough's name regularly crops up there at this time of the year and you hope for his family's sake they do not have a peek. Murtough copped abuse in Manchester city centre last summer and one pities those whose well-being hinges on transfers.

Murtough is more than two years in as the Manchester United football director and there's a feeling he has got his feet under the table now. He conducts himself quietly and diligently and his whereabouts is only captured through leaks by overseas clubs.

Murtough has been in Lombardy to discuss Andre Onana, Rasmus Hojlund and Mason Greenwood. As picturesque as nearby Lake Como is, any holiday Murtough embarks on will be in October or November.

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United are actively attempting to sign a new No.1 and No.9. They have their '8' in Mason Mount, the new number seven. There is tentative optimism that Erik ten Hag will have an XI he is completely content with against Wolves on August 14.

Buy Onana and Hojlund and six of United's starting XI will have been bought during the Dutchman's tenure. The full-backs signed long-term contracts last season, Marcus Rashford is likely to follow, Bruno Fernandes is the de facto captain and Raphael Varane's aura brightened in his second season after dimming in the first.

But Ten Hag has repeatedly stressed United cannot depend on 11 players. In his penultimate pre-match press conference of the season, he emphasised the calibre of United's squad depth also had to be addressed in the transfer window.

Ideally, Ten Hag would add a second forward as