Shocking, Manchester United’s owners blocked these 5 top signings in 2018

Manchester United’s struggle to reach the top of the Premier League would have turned controversial in the last few hours, once it has been known that some of the current football superstars in European football could have been signed by the Red Devils, which could have granted them to be a really successful and dominant team at the present.

According to an interview given by the Manchester United legend Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to the English site The Athletic, the club bosses would have prevented him from making five massive signings worth €500 million when he was coaching the club in 2018, including topstars and ending spending the money on Harry Maguire, Bruno Fernandes or Jadon Sancho instead.

In this sense, Solskjaer suggested to The Athletic that Declan Rice and Harry Kane were high up on his shortlist, but he “couldn’t buy the players mentioned to the club”. In addition, he suggested that Erling Haaland, who he already knew from his stage at Molde, would have been proposed to the Manchester United owners. "Erling Haaland, before he made his Salzburg debut. Declan Rice, who wouldn’t have cost what he did in the summer”, revealed Solskjaer.

He discussed with the club about Bellingham and Caicedo

Solskjaer confessed he would have requested the signing of Jude Bellingham and Moises Caicedo, who would not have cost the same they did this summer. We wanted Jude Bellingham badly and we discussed Moises Caicedo, but we felt we needed players ready for there and then, and the club didn’t have the budget with the financial constraints from Covid-19, there was no bottomless pit”, confessed the Norwegian coach.