Swansea City 0-4 Manchester United; 5 Talking Points, Premier League 2017-18

2. Swansea need to at least try and replace Jack Cork and Gylfi Sigurdsson

Can Mesa replace the Swans' departed Icelandic Viking warrior?

Jack Cork left to Burnley and Gylfi Sigurdsson left to Everton and took with them the spine of the spunky Welsh outfit. Without the quality on the ball that Cork and Sigurdsson provided, Swansea's default plan of seeing off the opposition before trying to sneak in a couple looks like falling on its face. Roque Mesa is the solid addition to the squad, but his best work happens deeper in the park, and with time running out in the transfer window they need to do some seriously good business with the windfall that the Icelandic midfielder, especially, left while on his way out.

They had a couple of sniffs of goal today - Jordan Ayew's audacious chip springs to mind - and his and Tammy Abraham's pace troubled a solid United defence at times, but they desperately missed the hulking presence of Fernando Llorente up front and they need their Basque talisman to shake off his niggles and get back to 100% as soon as possible.

While it's hard for anyone to stop Manchester United when they step on the gas like that - Clement will also be concerned at how open his team looked the moment he loosened the strings a little.

A bit of encouragement, though? His vastly inferior on paper Swans stood toe-for-toe with their fancied opponents in their 3-5-2 formation... that's probably the way forward for the Welsh side this season.