Casemiro is a very good footballer. He has won five Champions League titles and has been, with Luka Modriu0107 and Toni Kroos, part of one of the greatest midfields football has ever known. He may turn out to be a very effective signing for Manchester United; certainly the club has needed a high-class holding midfielder for years. And yet such is the level of chaos into which the club has slipped that his signing seems only to emphasize the lack of the club’s planning.
With United, it feels, every decision cuts across the previous one the club made.