“It just shows how f****** massive the club is.”

Sanchez is due to return to United at the end of the season and, on Tuesday, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer backed him to succeed.

“Alexis will come back in the summer and will prove us all wrongm,” he said.

Now, they’re hoping that Fernandes will prove himself to be worth the investment having spent the entire month chasing his signature.

On Tuesday, they finally made the breakthrough in negotiations that they’d been hoping for.