Manchester United hope to soon be welcoming the first signing of the Ineos era at Old Trafford. After a quiet January in which departures rather than arrivals were the order of the day and after Everton turned down the Red Devils’ opening offer for Jarrad Branthwaite, a long awaited breakthrough could be on the cards at last. And the identity of the man who becomes the first through the door at Old Trafford since Sir Jim Ratcliffe took control at Old Trafford looks increasingly likely to be not Branthwaite but instead Joshua Zirkzee. As Manchester United and Everton remain poles apart in their…