'Man Utd would have hoped to have done business earlier' - Stone

BBC Sport's chief football news reporter Simon Stone was a guest on the latest episode of The Devils' Advocate podcast from BBC Sounds.

He debated the club's transfer business and was asked if Ruben Amorim and Man Utd got what they wanted from the summer window.

Simon said: "No. I don't. They've targeted attacking players and they knew after that, it was how much could they raise.

"There's some culpability for the fact they couldn't get these deals done until late in the window. Garnacho in particular. It's a weird one.

"I think they got as much as they could get for him, but he's worth more than that. The way they had gone about that meant that his value went down.

"Chelsea played the situation. They waited. They knew that Garnacho only wanted to go to one club. They've got their man for far less than you'd normally expect.

"They would have hoped to have done business earlier and that would have created a situation where they could have maybe addressed the goalkeeping situation or the central midfield situation in a calmer way. They haven't been able to do that."

Simon was speaking on the latest episode of The Devils' Advocate by BBC Sounds