Due to the effect of the Corona-virus pandemic on the world economy, the Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will not seek huge funds for transfers this summer crisis but is keen for the club to hold down Paul Pogba to a long-term contract.

“There’s got to be realism,” Solskjaer said. “I think the whole world has changed, both financially and the perception that we’ve got on values.

United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward has said that it will not be “business as usual” in the transfer market and said during football’s shutdown from COVID-19 that “speculation around transfers of individual players for hundreds of millions of pounds this summer seems to ignore the realities that face the sport”.

The form of the clubs men returning to action since last month has also suggested United does not need to spend millions in the upcoming window.

The emergence of teenager Mason Greenwood – who has scored three times in his last two games – has helped quieten speculation over a move for Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho.

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