Arsenal and Chelsea may have accidentally increased Manchester United's summer transfer budget if recent reports are to be believed
Arsenal and Chelsea have inadvertently boosted Manchester United's summer transfer budget according to recent reports.
That kind of outlay resulted in United boosting Erik ten Hag's transfer kitty for the summer window, according to De Telegraaf journalist Marcel van der Kraan. Speaking about the Red Devils' pursuit of Atalanta frontman Rasmus Hojlund, Van der Kraan told Sky Sports: "There's been a lack of financial support in the way of, 'can Manchester United raise enough cash to give in to the demands of Atalanta?'
"At the beginning of the summer, the budget wasn't clear. In the middle of the summer, he was told, 'look, we might not be able to do everything you want.'
"And then there came a point where rivals Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, everybody was buying top players. This was the moment when the board and directors realised, 'We have to act.'
"There was a meeting where Ten Hag was told, 'Okay, we must spend a bit more, go for your targets, but we can't go as high as other clubs'."
Ten Hag's side have spent more than £100million to sign Mason Mount from Chelsea and Andre Onana from Inter Milan, with the aforementioned Hojlund being targeted as the club's marquee centre-forward signing.
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