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Published 15:46 25 Jun 2016 BST
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And, according to Manchester Evening News, the reason that United missed out on Sanches is an absolutely ludicrous one.
The report claims that the club did not want to sign Sanches before Louis van Gaal was officially sacked because the Dutchman was known to have no interest in that particular player.
By signing the Portugal international while van Gaal was still in his role as United manager, it would have undermined his position and essentially confirmed the intention to sack him, which the club did not want to do.
So United dawdled, unwilling to sign a player that their current manager didn't want despite the knowledge that they'd have a new manager, who was an admirer of Sanches, in place in a matter of days.
They wanted to make Sanches wait until Mourinho was appointed and, in the meantime, the prodigious talent was snapped up by Bayern Munich.
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