4) United need to sign a defender
Although United have two clean sheets in their first two games, it looks pretty clear from how they’ve played overall that they will need to sign a world class centre-back in the final weeks of the transfer window. Playing like this all season long, Van Gaal’s side will have some bad defeats when they come up against better opposition, and there’s not enough to suggest from what we’ve seen so far that Daley Blind can be the solution in that position. A Nicolas Otamendi is needed, or a John Stones, or almost anyone.