Manchester United‘s season of woe offered little comfort for supporters but it has provided plenty of fuel for the rumour mill ahead of the summer transfer window, as the club looks towards an expensive rebuild to fix their troubles.
United have been linked with as many as 60 different players already ahead of this window, as particular problem areas like their defence and centre-midfield have been targetted by manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, while goalkeepers and strikers are also on the watchlist given the potential departures of David de Gea and Romelu Lukaku.
From Ajax’s Matthijs de Ligt to Leicester’s Youri Tielemans, via Atletico’s Antoine Griezmann and even Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, all sorts of conceivable and far less conceivable transfers have been mooted in the gossip columns.
The Independent has delved a little deeper into these stories and can exclusively reveal that most of them are nonsense, but in amongst the noise are inevitably some snippets of truth.
Here we rank each transfer rumour with an unjustifiably specific percentage-chance of happening.
Take a look through the gallery above to find out how each rumour rates.
