Youri Tielemans can pass Old Trafford audition for Manchester United summer transfer

Leicester have won the Premier League title and the FA Cup over the last decade. Manchester United have won the FA Cup, Europa League and League Cup throughout that same period. Leicester have outdone United considering the club's resources.

That's hardly the statement it used to be. United are a shell of the club of yesteryear and they are staring at the possibility of playing Europa League football again next season after a campaign that couldn't end soon enough. Leicester have underachieved this season but they still beat United 4-2 in October. That defeat at the King Power Stadium was the start of the end for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

United have a point to prove in the reverse fixture at Old Trafford on Saturday evening. United's summer business promised a challenge for the Premier League title before all the wheels came off at Leicester. Their biggest weaknesses were addressed with the signings of Jadon Sancho and Raphael Varane, however, there was still a feeling that it was far from the perfect window.

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That was almost sacrilege to suggest after the return of Cristian Ronaldo - it was the fairytale return on deadline day - but United's midfield was unbalanced last season and yet they did nothing about it. The same problems threatened to return and they did.

Paul Pogba, Fred, Scott McTominay, Bruno Fernandes, Donny van de Beek and Nemanja Matic were United's midfield options for the season and Solskjaer lost his job just months into the campaign. The jury was officially out on the club's midfield personnel and It was already clear what their next transfer priority would be: they needed to urgently sign a world-class defensive