Manchester United are famously a club who don't start playing well until the second half of the season. But as we approach the New Year, it is going to take something truly special for the Red Devils to successfully defend their Premier League title. The English champions are a giant ten points adrift of league leaders Arsenal, while even a spot in the top four, and with it, Champions League football next season, looks iffy. They said there would be a period of transition at Old Trafford when the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson retired, to be replaced by David Moyes, but even his successor wouldn't have feared things would be this rough. A poor pre-season campaign was swiftly followed by a dire period of inactivity in the summer transfer window and a worst ever start to a Premier League season for the Reds. Eighth in the table, evidently, Moyes is going to have to splash the cash in the New Year and overhaul his squad of flops if he is to have even the remotest of hopes in salvaging his maiden season in charge. And here, we take a look at 5 January Signings To Get United Back Into The Title Race.
Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.
