Di Maria is a world class player but surely the problem isn't in attack? You can attack as much as you want but when you have a double pivot of Fletcher and Cleverley in front of a defence containing random kids like Keane and Blackett you'll always be have a brittle core. If they get Khedira too that'll go some way to solving that problem though. The jury is out on Rojo and I'm not convinced Herrera is mobile enough to be a holding midfielder by himself.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I also think the rumoured £48-60m (depending on your source!) fee is a little steep for a wantaway player and surely the £38m Sanchez/Ozil fees are more of a benchmark? Also can't see where you'd put Di Maria in a 3-5-2 (though maybe at No. 10 with Mata making way?) which suggests to me you're going to see 3-4-3 but then that only leaves one spot in your forward line for Rooney/Mata, and that's out of position on the left. Either way, I'm assuming with Mata in the form he is in it will be him being benched, and that means a smurfton of cash will have been spent on a sub. Intriguing though.