When a club's scouting department is poor, the club will always try to hijack other clubs' primary targets, only to be rejected or offer more money to convince the player to join. Chelsea has been going through the same thing for the last five years: our scouting department is ineffective, and we always end up with players we didn't want. Clubs with good scouting have completed transfers since the start of the season, whereas clubs with poor scouting are still active in the market.
Chelsea has some good players from Chelsea Academy and I think they are doing good job from scout team to staffs in their academy. They helped to grow up some talented players who now are elgible in Chelsea squad already.
With United, they are doing worse job. They have very little youth players who are home-grown in their squad. And their sciut team are bad to find good players for the club on transfer market.
Joe Felix is not what they need right now; they need a proper DM and a proper CB because Maguire and the rest are bad
They just want to waste money again if they buy a player at very expensive cost but don't have clear plan on how to use him. Felix is a good player but I fail to see how he is good for Manchester United with tactics they have now with Ten Hag. In addition, it is hard to convince Felix to leave Atletico and join United. With Atletico, he has chance to play in Champions League and compete for La Liga title. With United, he will not have it.