Why would anyone even join manure? Manchester is a shithole, you don't want to live or have your family there.
And Sporting is unbeaten in 10 or so games. Pretty sure there will be better openings too.
The interesting thing is that despite what some may say, the English clubs don't really know their ass from their elbow either and are playing it day by day too.
People said Laporta had no strategy but in reality it is just that Spanish football doesn't have the money the English game does to blow over bad decisions quickly.
Take for example Man UTD and Man City right now.
Man United could have this summer gone for Amorim with Hugo Viana (yes that Viana, the greatest flop in EPL history Viana). Instead they get the Newcastle SD and then give Hag an extra few months delaying the inevitable.
Then we have City who sign Viana as SD for the summer (yes that Viana, the greatest flop in EPL history Viana), probably hoping to have a gentlemans agreement for Amorim to smoothly move in when Pep steps aside. Well we are seeing how that went.