If it appeared Manchester United were cutting it fine with the announcement of Manuel Ugarte, Erik ten Hag did not appear unsettled.
On Friday evening, the United manager was dining with his son, Nigel, at Cibo in Hale, one of the three Italian restaurants he frequents in the village.
Scott McTominay is now living a more authentic dolce vita lifestyle in Naples. The hold-up to the announcement of McTominay's move was described as "mundane".
It was related to scanners on a fax machine. A United player's 11th-hour move did not malfunction through faulty technology, as it did for David de Gea through Real Madrid's faulty technology in 2015.
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