JEEPERS KEEPERS

United splash cash on Lammens but Ruben fearful of derby debut

- by DAVID McDONNELL

ONLY Manchester United could close what had been a successful transfer window with a signing that poses more questions than answers.

Having recruited proven Premier League attackers in Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo and a promising young striker in Benjamin Sesko, United could consider the window a triumph, particularly as they also managed to offload most of Ruben Amorim’s exiled ‘bomb squad’.

But the £18.2m deadline-day signing of goalkeeper Senne Lammens from Royal Antwerp has served to add to United's problems between the posts, rather than providing a solution to them.

Having chosen to sign 23-year-old Lammens, rather than 33-year-old World Cup winner Emi Martinez from Aston Villa, United have added another option without having an established No.1.

They take on Manchester City at the Etihad a week on Sunday in the first derby of the new season, which will be shrouded in uncertainty over who will start in goal for Amorim’s side.