Manchester United are getting more help from Chelsea to win the Premier League

Man Utd have already benefited from having Nemanja Matic and Chelsea could help them improve again next year.

The buzzword among Manchester United staff before the summer transfer window was the market would be ‘crazy’ and Jose Mourinho later opined clubs were ‘paying too much’ and creating a ‘very strange and out of control market’. That was before the £198million Neymar deal.

Europe has not known a hyperinflation like it since the Weimar Republic at the start of the 1920s. Mourinho later conceded the market was ‘crazy’ and lauded United’s executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward for clinching the club’s deals before Neymar prompted Gerard Pique to reconsider the timing of his tweets in the future.

Woodward addressed the summer spending in United’s quarterly conference call on Thursday and insisted the transfer market does not have ‘major issues’. It is not the first time he and Mourinho have had a slight difference of opinion after United voted against the proposal to close the window earlier; something Mourinho is in favour of despite acknowledging the caveats.

United operated savvier than the majority of their rivals during the three months between seasons, having worked on deals for Victor Lindelof and Nemanja Matic before the window officially opened. They capitalised on Chelsea’s dithering over Romelu Lukaku as ruthlessly as the Belgian finishes in front of goal.