Team needs: 3 more moves Manchester United should make in the transfer window

Signing a midfielder is Jose Mourinho's last order of business on the transfer market this summer, and that man is probably Paul Pogba. After securing the services of Eric Bailly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Mourinho has effectively reinforced every outfield position.

The Portuguese manager told reporters Friday that United's "fundamental market is 75 percent done," but there's still work to do.

Here are three things the Red Devils should consider before the Aug. 31 deadline.

Buy Pogba at all costs

Louis van Gaal's United was a bore to watch, and it didn't help that his team preferred to recycle possession and make easy horizontal passes over playing actual forward-thinking football. There was zero creativity in the midfield. Far too slow and careless with the ball, Michael Carrick cannot be asked to play as a holding midfielder. And as things stand - with Bastian Schweinsteiger's health an issue, Morgan Schneiderlin's future up in the air, and Ander Herrera yet to fully adapt to the Premier League - United doesn't have a dominant box-to-box midfielder that can break a match open.

That's why Pogba's such a worthy pursuit. In the past two years, United has demonstrated that money is no object, and while United's facing a reported £100-million bill to buy back a player it once had, the virtues of such a deal far exceed any embarrassment.

An excellent dribbler with the confidence to take a shot from anywhere on the pitch, Pogba can take matches by storm and change the tempo on the go. He would transform United's look completely.

Sign another full-back

When United suffered a rash of injuries last season, the full-back position took one of the biggest hits. Both starters, Matteo Darmian and Luke Shaw, missed time with problems, and Van Gaal had to rely on the versatility of Timothy Fosu-Mensah to alleviate the blow.

Darmian didn't disappoint when he did play, but there were times when he looked shaken, unable to handle the pressures of the Premier League.

Mourinho should consider a move for an established full-back who understands the Premier League and could offer some healthy competition. Daryl Janmaat has been linked with several European clubs since Newcastle's relegation, and he could follow Georginio Wijnaldum and Papiss Cisse out of the St James' Park door.

Potential targets: Daryl Janmaat (Newcastle), Seamus Coleman (Everton)

Keep future in mind

Mourinho's track record with youth players came under fire as he accepted the United job - so much so that he showed a list of his graduates to assembled journalists at his maiden press conference.

Signing Ibrahimovic gave the impression that Marcus Rashford would receive fewer minutes on the pitch, and that may be true. But Mourinho now has a chance to prove everyone wrong, and he loves to do that.

There's plenty of youth in United's system to keep the Portuguese busy, including Jesse Lingard, Adnan Januzaj, Fosu-Mensah, and Cameron Borthwick-Jackson.

If Mourinho's all about winning now - which always seems to be the case wherever he goes - then he has to make sure these players get a fair shot. If there's no room, they must go out on loan. He cannot afford to give up on them or root them to the bench just because they're not immediate solutions, and he cannot allow them a chance to leave the club completely in the same way Kevin De Bruyne left Chelsea.

United's traditions involve gambles on youth, one of the main reasons why the Red Devils produced Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes. It cannot stop now.

Potential loanees: Adnan Januzaj, Jesse Lingard, Marcus Rashford