The Reds have still not paraded either, while City announced Kalvin Phillips yesterday morning on top of Erling Haaland.
Liverpool? Their major incomings and outgoings came and went before July.
City and Liverpool are United's rivals only in the historic sense these days and they operate in such unrecognisable ballparks to the Reds they might as well be in a different sport.
United's regression is so acute there is another parallel with the reset summer of 2019 now a star player wants out, via his agent's mouthpiece.
What started as a tactic to exert pressure on the Reds to accelerate their recruitment plans has now become far graver. The Sunday Times usually sets the news agenda for the forthcoming week with insight into a chaotic No.10.
Those at Downing Street would sympathise with United as they cannot seem to go a month without their own fire to douse.
The Reds thought they had quietened the Ronaldo rumblings, but they are powerless to quell his agent Jorge Mendes.
Mendes was responsible for the BBC story about Jose Mourinho's imminent appointment that marred United's FA Cup final win in 2016 and Inspector Clouseau could have deduced the source of the news on Saturday that Ronaldo wanted out.
This story is from the July 05, 2022 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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