United's farce of failing to land to talent is not going to be suddenly solved by Jim

SUPPORTERS of a few elite clubs are probably in the same boat, but if and when a Manchester United fan watches the current England team, he or she must wonder.

- ANDY DUNN

Wonder how come established stellar talent that has been recently on the market has not ended up at Old Trafford.

The three arguably outstanding performers in England's 3-1 win over Italy at Wembley on Tuesday switched clubs in the summer - Harry Kane to Bayern Munich, Jude Bellingham to Real Madrid and Declan Rice to Arsenal.

At some stage, each of them might have been mentioned in the same sentence as Manchester United, but no one within the game - and very few looking in from the outside believed any of them would end up playing for Erik ten Hag.

As a teenager, Bellingham had snubbed United, who, bizarrely, never seemed an option for Kane, while Rice never considered Old Trafford as a possible destination.