The rebuild is 6-8 players in reality, not all of these will be British but I would expect Grealish or Maddison to be one of the incomings in the summer, Maybe Max Aarons also.
The players don’t have to be British, they just need to hit the ground running. We’ve made a bid for King this morning who isn’t British but knows the PL well. I’m sure we’ll have a go at a few Wolves players in the summer as well.
It’s more about the adaptability and mentality of the players we’re after and that’s what clubs pay big money for. At those prices we won’t sign 6 players in one window but it’s better to get 3 right than 6 wrong.
I don't give a feck about nationality really but we do agree that
a- the rebuild is indeed massive. 6-8 players are going to be expensive
b- The players in the EPL tend to be ridiculously overpriced. I mean we spent 80m on a slow CB and 50m on a fullback with 1 full EPL season experience under his belt and whose not very good in attacking. That's 130m on 2 defenders whose nowhere near to WC.
And I repeat I don't think its really about nationality. Its about whether the manager knows them enough to give the go ahead. All players who were really close to sign wit United were
a- England based (AWB, Maguire, James)
b- Ole had previously coached (King and Haaland)
c- are known by everyone (Dybala)
Bruno was a first. However what did Ole said about him? “
We have been tracking Bruno for many months and everyone here has been tremendously impressed with all his attributes and what he will bring to this team.". So we did scouted him for many months.