New signings?

Will United sign the Dortmund crock Ilkay Gundogan?

History says no. Ever since Uwe Rossler's granddad and his mates bombed Old Trafford to rubble no German player has ever made a first team appearance for United. (That includes Ron-Robert Zeigler.)

So "preparing to pay over the odds" for a football crock doesn't have a ring of truth to me, no matter the quality of the player.

The other comments emanating from Old Trafford make me laugh.
"we are monitoring " such and such.
"we are preparing a bid"
"we are considering"
"we have arrangements for the summer transfer window"

Doesn't anybody, at Old Trafford, think that all these puerile comments should have been made before the 1st. of January? WE ARE NOW 11 DAYS INTO THE TRANSFER WINDOW, HOW ABOUT SOME ACTION!!

Time for Another Dave (played by David Moyes) to look in a mirror and see what we see. He talks the talk but he can't walk the walk!

As for major signings in the winter window, I don't think this is in the Glazer armoury. They want to buy players when they are trying to sell season tickets in the summer, investing to accumulate. Winter signings earn nothing for the Glazers, quite the opposite.