A lingering inability to fill a giant hole at the team’s heart sums up the club under the Glazers as inertia, muddle and lethargy goes on
, the opening shot in a takeover saga that has begun to resemble a piece of interminably slow-burn Norwegian minimalist cinema, a takeover with everything except an actual takeover-style event at its centre.
, billed at the time as a midfield replacement for Paul Scholes and the only new player to arrive during that vital summer.by signing Mesut Özil It is at least a blueprint the club have stuck to in the years since. Fellaini had been available cheaper earlier in the window, but ended up being bundled in through the saloon doors at a panic-buy price, the football equivalent of petrol station flowers on Valentine’s Day.
Anthony Martial made his 300th appearance, three years on from his last interception in a first-team game
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