5 things Manchester United should do to close the gap on Manchester City 

#3 Bring in two midfielders

Jorginho has had a wonderful season at the heart of Napoli's midfield

With Michael Carrick retiring at the end of the season and potentially one of Marouane Fellaini and Ander Herrera moving on to pastures new, United need to recruit two top quality midfielders to bolster their squad.

One player, they should be weighing up the option to bring in is Lazio’s Sergej Milinkovic-Savic. The combative, destructive midfielder has been a revelation this season and has been a major part of his team’s battle for a Champions League-qualifying position.

Milinkovic-Savic would be more of a box-to-box midfielder, sitting alongside Nemanja Matić and Paul Pogba. Why Mourinho will especially like him is because he stands at 1.92 metres, a quality that the Portuguese boss values highly in his midfield.

Another player that the Red Devils will be looking at for a like-for-like replacement for Carrick is Napoli’s Jorginho. The Brazilian-born Italy international will be on the shortlist of major clubs in Europe this summer, but the attraction of sitting at the base of United’s midfield might be the strongest pull.

In all competitions, Jorginho has recorded an 89 percent pass completion rate in over 2,000 minutes of football this season. That is a quite staggering amount.

While he is typically a defensive midfielder, he is not adverse to moving forward and threading through balls in behind the opposition’s defence, as he done so many times this season.

United need to act efficiently in securing the midfielders and will have their targets. There could be a big change this summer in terms of personnel, so the board will want to make sure these players hit the ground running and get a good pre-season.