If United wait until the summer, they risk missing out. Other teams, both in the Premier League and in Europe, will have Champions League football to use as bait.
But that is unlikely to be the case at Old Trafford. They’ve struggled domestically and winning the Europa League, at present, seems beyond the club’s young squad.
Now is very much the time to strike and the Solskjaer needs United owners to do what they rarely do in January – release funds.
Sancho isn’t the only player money should be used to buy.
Haaland found the net for Red Bull Salzburg yet again this season, scoring his 27th of the campaign as his side battered Genk 4-1.
He’s absolutely blockbuster. A goal machine, one who seems to have the physical traits required to be a hit in the rigorous Premier League.