Get the latest United updates, transfer news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Manchester United bragged they scouted 804 right-backs in their process that ended with the signing of Aaron Wan-Bissaka.
Scouts first clapped eyes on Alex Telles at Galatasaray in 2014 and United started monitoring Amad in 2016. However watertight United's scouting network is, some are bound to slip through the net.
In 2015, they invested £58million in Anthony Martial while Leicester bought N'Golo Kante from Caen for £6m. A year later, Paul Pogba returned for a world record £89m and Chelsea spent £35m to prise Kante from Leicester.
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