The Manchester United Chronicle
Market17 Aug 2026
Manchester United spend $85.2M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $85.2M has been paid because Jules Koundé is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Market17 Aug 2026
Alex Meret arrives at Manchester United in a $19.0M statement of intent
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Manchester United have paid $19.0M for Alex Meret, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Manchester United walk away from Eli Junior Kroupi
$27.2M was the most the club would pay and Bournemouth were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
AC Milan tell Manchester United: Mike Maignan is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jules Koundé gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jules Koundé has just signed for Manchester United, and for once the answer mattered.
Market17 Aug 2026
Manchester United say no — this time
The offer from Bayer Leverkusen for Amad was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Manchester United
Bruno Fernandes was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Manchester United
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Manchester United spend $85.2M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $85.2M for Jules Koundé, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Jonathan Miller joins the Manchester United first team
- Boardroom Manchester United sign off a bigger ground
- Squad The formation has left Marcus Thuram behind