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Carlo Ancelotti may have just handed Manchester United a transfer boost with the Real Madrid boss insisting that there will be no new centre-half at the Santiago Bernabeu during the January transfer window. Many of the defenders reportedly on Manchester United’s radar have also been linked pretty heavily with Real Madrid of late. See Giorgio Scalvini, Antonio Silva of Benfica and, most specifically, Sporting Lisbon’s Goncalo Inacio. So when David Alaba become the second Los Blancos centre-back to tear his ACL – joining Eder Militao on the sidelines – it looked as if Man United’s January had ju…

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