MANCHESTER UTD

MANAGER: JOSE MOURINHO

LOOKING in from the outside, you don’t need to be a genius to realise this summer has not gone as they would have wanted. A word of warning, though, to anyone who feels they are in trouble: never write off a Jose Mourinho team. When all the players are back, look at the depth of their squad. Tell me how a team with Paul Pogba in midfield and Romelu Lukaku up front won’t win loads of matches? Pogba is someone I’m very keen on watching over the next 12 months. He should come back from the World Cup full of confidence and I want to see him stamp his authority on the biggest games, like he did in April’s Manchester derby. If United add a central defender, they have the quality to push City all the way. I can’t talk about United, though, without mentioning their signing of goalkeeper Lee Grant. It has gone under the radar but it makes so much sense and I’d expect before long that he will be David de Gea’s No2. He is different class and he deserves to be at a club that will be expecting to challenge for honours.

HOW WILL THEY FARE?

NO chance of losing their top-four place and don’t rule out a title push.

MAJOR INS

Fred (Shakhtar Donetsk, £52m, left) Diogo Dalot (Porto, £17.4m) Lee Grant (Stoke, £1.5m

MAJOR OUTS

Daley Blind (Ajax, £18m) Sam Johnstone (West Brom, £5m) Michael Carrick (retired)